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Stop Suffering From Heartburn
What You Need to Know About this Painful, Persistent Condition
Heartburn. The scientific name for this problem is Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease (GERD). Whatever it’s called, it is a painful condition, at times incredibly painful. Also, it is common, affecting most people at least occasionally.
To deal with heartburn, you need to know what it is, what causes it, and what you can do to prevent it in a safe, natural and efficient manner.
What Exactly is Heartburn?
You may have experienced heartburn. A sharp, red-hot pain that races through your chest all the way up to your throat.
If you have experienced heartburn, you’re not alone. Regrettably, GERD is a condition that strikes most adults at various times. GERD is caused by acid reflux. This problem begins when the layers of muscle that guide food into your stomach relax and go to sleep on duty.
These layers of muscle are called the lower esophageal sphincter, or LES.
When your LES goes “AWOL,” it allows half-digested food and stomach acid to creep back up into your esophagus, into your chest, and all the way up to your throat.
The problem with the usual methods of treating GERD is this: over-the-counter and pharmaceutical heartburn remedies attack the symptoms, NOT THE CAUSE! This treatment may help in the short term. But it will not solve the problem since it doesn’t strike and root out the cause of your heartburn.
Also, these medications are overused and abused, to put it mildly. Last year, Americans filled an estimated 170 million acid-blocking prescriptions. That’s correct. 170 million!
Worse, the most common medication for heartburn, proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) should not be used for more than 14 consecutive days, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). But for some sufferers of painful heartburn, this warning is entirely ignored, due to the intense pain that they are dealing with.
The Dangers of Heartburn Medications
Are folks who abuse acid-blocking medicines at risk of dangerous side effects? Yes. Here is a list of what overuse of PPIs can cause:
Brain fog and impaired cognitive function. PPIs can boost your risk of dementia by more than 40 percent
Increased risk of kidney problems
Imbalance in your digestive system, which can result in an impaired immune system
Added risk of severe cardiovascular problems by as much as 21 percent
Increased risk of Clostridium difficile (C. diff) infection. A recent Mayo Clinic study has concluded that proton pump inhibitors can increase your risk of this nightmare condition by a humongous 50 percent! For those over the age of 65, this is an even more severe threat – possibly life-threatening
A deadly form of diarrhea. Those supposedly harmless OTC heartburn relievers like Nexium (of the obnoxious “purple pill” commercial fame), Prilosec and Prevacid have been linked to this growing diarrhea menace by a recent study. And PPIs can also cause Irritable Bowel Disease.
