If you want to find out what actually sets off your reflux, a 30-day symptom diary is the single most useful thing you can do — more useful, honestly, than any generic “foods to avoid” list. Here’s the method in one line: for 30 days, log what you eat …
The short version: long-term proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) — omeprazole, lansoprazole, esomeprazole and the rest — can lower your levels of five nutrients in particular: vitamin B12, magnesium, iron, calcium and zinc. They do it through one shared mechanism — by suppressing stomach acid, which your gut needs to …
Short answer: a homemade alginate raft can work in principle — the chemistry isn’t complicated — but getting it to match Gaviscon Advance is much harder than it looks, and for most people it isn’t worth the effort. A real raft needs three things happening at once: sodium alginate …
Short answer: yes, fungal overgrowth in the gut can contribute to reflux, including the throat-based silent reflux (LPR) many of us struggle with — but it’s an indirect player, not the main event, and it’s badly oversold online. SIFO (small intestinal fungal overgrowth) means too many fungal organisms, usually …
Most people who fail to come off a PPI fail for the same reason: they stop too fast, get hit by rebound acid two weeks later, and conclude they needed the drug after all. The rebound is real, it’s predictable, and it passes — but only if you know …
PPI Taper Schedule: A Week-by-Week Plan to Come Off Read More
Of all the long-term PPI safety concerns, this is the one with the best evidence behind it. It’s also the only one confirmed by a large randomized trial: over three years, people taking pantoprazole had significantly more enteric infections than those on placebo. Every other outcome that trial measured …
PPIs and Infection Risk: C. diff, Pneumonia and SIBO Read More