February 16, 2011
Burning of the Throat
Feeling a burning sensation in your throat could mean a couple different things. Regardless of the cause, feeling burning in your throat is very painful and unbearable. One of the main reasons that people experience burning of the throat is because of heartburn. Heartburn is a primary symptom of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and acid reflux. Having heartburn does not absolutely indicate that you have GERD, but it is a very common sign. Frequent heartburn is probably a more accurate sign that you have GERD.
Acid reflux and GERD is caused when the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) is not working exactly as designed. The LES is a muscle that is circular that wraps around the bottom base of the esophagus. This muscle is supposed to let food into the stomach. If a LES is not working correctly, this can fail to stop acid in the stomach from getting into the esophagus. Stomach acid is caustic because this is what is used to digest the food we eat. Foods cannot fully decompose and go through the digestive process without gastric acids. This is the only way that food can become beneficial to our bodies. Without stomach acid, we could not utilize the nutrients found in food.
Stomach acid’s corrosive nature works well in the stomach because the stomach is built for that kind of exposure. The esophagus however, is not. The esophagus is not prepared to handle contact with stomach acid because it is more sensitive to the substance. Acid in the esophagus and throat is uncomfortable. The acid causes swelling, bruising and inflammation, creating a burning feeling that is annoying, uncomfortable and inconvenient. Stomach acid in your throat will make your breath smell and have a sour or bitter taste.
In addition to the burning sensation of the throat, heartburn has other symptoms. Chest pain, sore throat, hoarseness and chronic cough are a few. People that suffer from burning of the throat probably suffer from burning in the chest too. The stomach acid that burns the throat also burns the esophagus, which is located in the chest cavity. This location makes the chest feel soreness.
Considering that the burning pain you feel may be as a result of acid reflux disease or GERD, to relieve yourself of this sensation, there are some things that you can do. Try to drink as much water as possible. Water will help to dilute and weaken the acid. To prevent heartburn from occurring, eat less fattening foods and meals without caffeine, alcohol and garlic. Consuming smaller meals will decrease acid creation in the stomach. Figure out which food causes you to have heartburn, the main symptom of acid reflux. Try not to eat these foods too much. Digesting aloe juice, papaya and ginger are also ways to keep acid reflux at bay so that the burning sensation will not occur.
If you are experiencing burning of the throat and want to find out about how you can treat and prevent this, review The Reflux Remedy Report today.
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February 15, 2011
Treatment of Heartburn
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The conventional treatment of simple heartburn is only changing the symptoms but leaving the cause of heartburn unchecked, un addressed and unhealed.
There seems to be a battle over whether you should be allowed to heal yourself naturally as an alternative to being regulated by prescriptive allopathic care.
You want to be more than symptoms free . . . you want to be beyond ever having heartburn again, right?
So why start taking even over-the-counter (OTC) drugs? You already know OTC drugs are the gateway to stronger prescriptive drugs.
Heartburn is a mega billion dollar business, take my word for it.
Why is that you might ask? Should the news get out, then you?d know ?little old heartburn is a gateway health problem.?
It leads to worse things than just a case of heartburn.
Typically the treatment of heartburn requires you taking prescriptive strength antacid blocker or Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs) and surgery for the rest of your live . . . as you were a member of the Old Boys Club or something.
The conventional treatment of heartburn means following a protocol of drugs.
It’s ironic because the cure for heartburn and the rest of it is most likely nutritional.
Why chose to even look down the chemical pathway of medicine when you first haven?t even embraced natural healing alternatives . . . time-tested scientifically verified natural healing alternatives.
The treatment of heartburn is a step down from healing naturally. You first must address the cause of your heartburn or acid indigestion by replenishing your cells with whole food sourced nutrition.
Eat lots of it all day long.
Raw food can help prevent you from ever thinking you might need treatment for heartburn.
You need to have an epiphany, a metanoia or a brilliant stroke of insight. Realize your own self health revolution by learning to nurture the natural cure for heartburn.
Treating heartburn as a gateway disease puts the risk of ignoring your heartburn in perspective doesn’t it?
Follow the natural pathway to the root of your heartburn as an alternative treatment and you’ll see your heartburn go away once and for all.
You were born to heal,
Todd M. Faass
Health Advocate
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Feeling a burning sensation in the chest is alarming! You may panic because this feeling can be very painful and sharp. Depending on your tolerance for pain, burning in the chest can be incapacitating. It is possible that the burning you feel is derived from heartburn. Heartburn can create a radiating pain in your chest region that may be unbearable for you. Heartburn is a symptom of acid reflux and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and is caused when the stomach acid goes into the esophagus by way of a weak lower esophageal sphincter. Heartburn that occurs more than twice per week is used to diagnose acid reflux and GERD.
Heartburn is what causes a burning feeling in the chest. Due to the acid that has entered the esophagus, the esophagus can’t help but be damaged. The acidity of the gastric acid is too high for the esophagus to handle and defend against. An esophagus is not capable of resisting the damage induced by gastric acid, unlike the stomach. When the acid comes into contact with the esophagus, the lining of the esophagus becomes bruised and irritated. This irritation can cause you to feel like you are burning up on the inside.
Since the esophagus is positioned in the torso, adjacent to the breast bone, this occurrence can be referred to as heartburn or burning in the chest. The intense feeling is enough to make you weak. When you lie down, lift heavy items or bend over after a heavy meal, the burning feeling can escalate. Eating and drinking while you feel the burning sensation may worsen the pain level.
Burning of the chest could mean that you are having a cardiovascular problem. You may think that you are having a heart attack. Symptoms of a heart attack and heartburn can be extremely similar so you should always err on the side of caution. Don’t assume that you are having one problem over the other. Contact a medical professional if you feel severe burning in the chest. A heart attack can be fatal so always seek appropriate help.
Other symptoms of heartburn are burning of the throat, hoarseness, chest pain, chronic coughing, difficulty swallowing and a bitter taste in the mouth. Holistic remedies for heartburn are having aloe juice, drinking water, eating papaya and ginger root. If these remedies don’t stop the burning in your chest, try changing your habits. Quit smoking and drink limited amounts of alcohol. Eat healthier meals with lots of vegetables. Exercise and maintain a healthy weight to prevent obesity and diabetes, both causes of acid reflux and heartburn. Eating lighter meals can reduce acid production and reflux. Make sure that you understand which foods cause your body to react. Review your eating habits to ascertain the foods that are making you reflux and have heartburn.
If you have questions or are looking for more information about the causes and treatments for the burning feeling in your chest, read The Reflux Remedy Report today.
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February 14, 2011
Natural Heartburn Remedy
The natural heartburn remedy your looking for is not in a pill or is it to be found in any medication.
The natural remedy for your heartburn involves you making a commitment to some lifestyle modifications.
First to remedy this acid indigestion issue called heartburn . . . you must start eliminating known and unknown sugars from your diet. Specifically all refined sugars and especially anything which contains high fructose corn sugar.
High fructose corn syrup is a well stage marketing lie and unfortunately it took a while for the evidence to get onto the main stream media, but the science is in.
Not only will eliminating these empty calories help you naturally remedy your heartburn, it will also help naturally remedy any obesity issues you may be dealing with . . . which in turn helps prevent diabetes and heart disease as well as reduce risk of cancer.
Guess you could say heartburn increases risk of cancer too, especially throat cancer.
So technically by using a natural remedy for your heartburn you may also be curing cancer.
It really is amazing how many natural remedies for heartburn and other health issues that there are and yet, billions of dollars are spent selling drugs directly to consumers . . . drugs that carry known and unknown health risks and some that even make the original health problem worse . . . like antacids.
Take for instance heartburn. If treated conventionally, the cause remains festering eventually into chronic acid indigestion, then on to stronger drugs, which create acid rebound, then onto GERD and possibly throat cancer.
All that suffering simply because you weren’t told about the natural remedy for heartburn.
Next natural remedy for heartburn is to eliminate bad fats and trans fatty acids (hydrogenated oils). Eating fried foods can depletes nutrients and even cause more inflammation by increasing white blood cell (an auto-immune response)
The third natural remedy for heartburn is to reduce your dietary levels of animal protein down below 10%, this will also help reduce your risks for other degenerative diseases also triggered by inflammation and nutritional deficiencies.
Last natural remedy for heartburn I can add today is to reduce eating refined flour of all types.
You were born to heal,
Todd M. Faass
Health Advocate
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