For those who suffer from acid reflux, burning, pain and discomfort are frequent companions.? However, they don’t have to be.? There’s a huge amount of natural remedies out there to try that are effective and won’t break your bank.? Often managing your diet is the easiest way to get your acid reflux under control.

There are various types of fruits, vegetables, meats, nuts, herbs and others that can help you manage acid reflux disease. These foods can help your body create an acidic balance, and keep acid from creeping into your esophagus.. Many fresh fruits are extremely helpful for people suffering from acid reflux problems. Among them, apples and bananas are very popular.? Additionally, consuming apple in other forms, like dried apples or apple juice can help too. Papaya is also said to have some acid fighting properties.? It contains a digestive enzyme that helps break down food, which prevents pressure from building up and overproduction of acids, which prevents heartburn pain.

Some of the vegetables that can help stem acid reflux include cabbage, peas, broccoli, green beans, baked potato, carrots and others. However, tomatoes, citrus vegetables and fruits like raw onions, cranberry juice and tomatoes can be problematic for people withacid reflux problems and should be consumed sparingly.

Dairy products such as ice creams, sour cheese, milk shakes and others are not good for people suffering from acid reflux disease. These products are hard to digest and cause the body to overproduce acid.? However, when consumed in moderation, products like fat free sour cream or cream cheese and dairy cheese can provide some relief.

Though there is a perception that most meats are bad for the patients suffering from acid reflux disease, there are several animal foods that can help cure relieve symptoms. These include skinless chicken breast, egg whites, fatless fishes, steak, ground beef and others.

Ginger is an herb that may prove helpful for acid reflux relief.? It has been used to relieve all types of stomach discomfort for centuries and heartburn is no exception.? It can be found candied, or in tea form and both are equally useful in neutralizing and eliminating stomach acid.? Chammomille tea is another herbal remedy some have found helpful.

Simple dietary changes can also help significantly relieve discomfort from acid reflux.? Things like eating smaller meals more frequently help to prevent the buildup of pressure and overproduction of acids.? Basically, smaller meals are easier to digest and are less likely to cause heartburn than that huge Thanksgiving feast.? Also, avoiding food two hours before you go to bed can prevent that night time burn.? Gravity helps your body keep stomach acids where they belong, and when you lay down to soon after eating, acids can meander out of the stomach.? Along those same lines, sleeping with an extra pillow under your head can help keep your head properly aligned above your stomach and give gravity just enough of an edge over your stomach acids.

For more natural remedies and dietary suggestions for resolving your acid reflux issues, visit www.RefluxRemedy.com today.

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Acid reflux is usually triggered from overeating. Frankly overeating is really bad for you anyway you look at it. Not only can your diet habits be responsible for triggering an acid reflux, according to scientific studies it will shorten your lifespan.

Correct diet, activity levels and natural attitude are a few of the common denominators to extraordinary health, other than quality of air and water, nothing determines your health more.

So in a way I guess you could say acid reflux is one of those symptoms that are warning you could be in danger of a premature death. It would be ridiculous to believe acid reflux is a cause of death, when actually acid reflux is a symptom you?re accelerating your aging process . . . acid reflux is only the symptom, that cause is your diet..

Take an example from the Okinawans; they really know how to live.

It just so happens that, Okinawa, Japan has the highest percentage of indigenous 100 year olds in the whole world. They also have 80% fewer heart attacks than people in the United States, 50% less incidence of colon cancer and less than 25% of the cases of ovarian, prostate and breast cancer.

Many Okinawans live to be super-centenarians, that is, they live 110 years of longer. Imagine being an octogenarian grandparent, which means having eight generations of grand kids.

If you enjoy your food like I do, you?ll love this once you give it a try: eat less more.

The key to curing your acid reflux issues is to eat less, don?t eat till your full and eat 4 to 7 times a day, oh yeah and drink naturally alkalized water in between meals.
A study of Okinawan longevity revealed that they eat 7 servings of vegetables and grains a day. Plus they eat 2 servings of ?fermented? soy, like tempeh or tofu, eat very little dairy and plenty of wild caught fish every week.

NOTE: Unfermented (green) soy can cause acid reflux symptoms because the soy allergens and other phytotoxins. Fermentation eliminates the phytotoxins that can trigger acid indigestion, heartburn or acid reflux.

If you can?t eat and live like a super centenarian islander, then at least try to spread your meals out further, eating less, but eating more often through the day.

Here are a few more tips: Try not to eat at least 3 hours before bedtime, eat your protein before your carbohydrates and focus on eating 80% raw fruits and vegetables . . . lightly steamed or grilled is acceptable.

You acid reflux is directly triggered from your diet and obviously is a symptom, or sign, you need to make some lifestyle modifications and starting with your diet is a sure bet.

You were born to heal,

Todd M. Faass?

Health Advocate

It’s a scientific reality that in America “at least” 15,000,000 people suffer from acid reflux and if half of them knew the benefits of raw yogurt there would be half as many suffering from acid reflux symptoms.

Yogurt qualifies as a new group of healing foods called “functional foods.”

Suggesting until now most Americans have been exposed to mostly “dysfunctional foods,” you could say.

Yogurt in itself isn’t a cure for acid reflux, however the whole group of “functional foods” is. Yogurt just represents a small fraction of the healing foods available to help remove the root cause of acid reflux, acid indigestion and heartburn.

Treating the symptoms of acid reflux is what created 15,000,000 Americans who constantly suffer from the symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux diseases.

I find it interesting and maybe you will too, that in these difficult times the only companies really making seemingly unlimited amounts of money , with exception of the petroleum sheiks, are the pharmaceutical corporations.

Sadly, government protected medicine ensures their? financial success despite of their blatant short comings and outright failure to cure anything these days . . . even simple heartburn.

Acid reflux can be cured by consuming yogurt rich with natural probiotics, which simply restore and help maintain the natural pH balance in your gut.

Yogurt is not the end all of acid indigestion, heartburn or gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), but it’s a foot marching in the right direction.

Many yogurts contain little if any beneficial micro-organisms such as probiotics.

In fact many of these so-called yogurts are so full of sugar,? additives and artificial sweeteners that they are nothing more than examples of supreme contradiction.

In fact the bad bacteria like Helicobacter pylori thrive off the acid pH environment sugar and undigested animal proteins helps create.

Beneficial micro-organisms naturally occur in raw yogurt, but because of the over pasteurization of dairy products in America, any probiotics you can find in these commercialized yogurt brands had to be added after the fact.

It’s just NOT the same.

There is no comparison to the benefits of eating raw sheep or goats’ milk products like kefir, cheese and yogurt, these are abundant in healthful flora building micro-organisms that will help optimize your gut pH and digestive health.

I mentioned sheep and goat yogurt products for two reasons.

1.?????? They are grass fed.

2.?????? Their protein is similar to human breast milk.

Both of these factors are responsible for a superior product higher in nutrition, probiotics and are easier to digest. Cow’s milk has a larger protein molecule made for growing baby heifers? remarkably fast. These larger protein molecules? are hard to digest and can cause allergic reactions and are also known to induce a more acidic pH in the gut because of the wasted, undigested animal protein.

The good bacteria and micro-organisms thrive in a more alkaline pH environment.

One of the causes of acid reflux is from an acidic pH level that produces harmful bacteria, killing off the good flora.

So yes, yogurt is great for acid reflux and combined with a high? protein plant-based diet, ample sunshine and a semi-active lifestyle you can overcome acid reflux, heartburn and gastroesophageal reflux diseases naturally, without getting deceived by ineffective and outright harmful pharmaceutical gimmicks .

You were born to heal,

Todd M. Faass?

Health Ecologist

Nothing is really as important as the health of your digestive system. So if you are suffering from acid reflux or post acid reflux symptoms you need to start there.

Reading articles like this are helpful and the more nutritionally literate you become the healthier you and those close to you will be.

Conventional medicine has its place, but because of greedy medical zealots, its practice has become more of a failed dysfunctional medicine than anything else. Plus conventional medicine is way over priced, the cost is beyond what most people can realistically ever afford?mostly due to its total ineffectiveness.

The good news is ?functional medical practitioners? understand the importance of natural balance between the gut and the brain. In fact they see your gut as ?the second brain.?

Post-acid reflux symptoms may be following you around like a dark shadow only because your health perspective is skewed by the negative influence of dysfunctional medicine.

I say that because too many people are unaware there are non-drug alternatives to health challenges and concerns like post-acid reflux symptoms.

Acid reflux and post-acid reflux symptoms are just that, symptoms and must be seen in their true light as post-acid reflux or acid reflux symptoms, NOT causes.

It is estimated that about 15,000,000 people in the US suffer from post-reflux symptoms due to gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). That?s a lot of people treating post-acid reflux symptoms isn?t it?

When?s the last time you even saw 15,000,000 people? Now picture them all suffering from post-acid reflux symptoms . . .NOT a pretty picture.

Obviously, you?re not the only person suffering from post-acid reflux symptoms or GERD issues and your certainly not the only victim of direct-to-consumer advertising pitching this dysfunctional medical perspective.

Truth is it doesn?t need to be that way at all.

Acid rebound is another word for post-acid reflux and acid rebound is a completely man-made invention. In other words your post-acid reflux is an adverse effect of treating acid reflux or GERD symptoms with dysfunctional medicine, rather than functional medicine.

Okay you say, then what exactly is functional medicine. Actually it?s NOT medicine, it?s better than medicine, it?s real science!

The real science of so-called functional medicine, simply addresses the root cause of pre and post-acid reflux symptoms.

By nurturing cell health using whole foods, which are abundant in plant-based proteins, minerals and nutritional cofactors the natural structural and functional balance of cellular integrity is sustained.

You should desire to have more control over your post-acid reflux symptoms or acid rebound than popping more pills can give you.

Treating the symptoms of post-acid reflux means you are most likely ignoring the-root-cause-of-the-root-cause of your post-acid reflux symptoms altogether.

It?s a fact that Proton pump inhibitors (PPI) create post-acid reflux symptoms. Post-acid reflux symptoms or acid rebound is worse than your original condition of just having occasional heartburn, acid reflux and acid indigestion, BECAUSE antacids and proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) more often than not, make acid reflux diseases worse- that?s a proven scientific fact.

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You were born to heal,

Todd M. Faass?

Health Ecologist