I’ve lived with laryngopharyngeal reflux — silent reflux, LPR, the throat-based kind — for about twelve years now. This isn’t a “here’s my six-step protocol” piece; I’ve written that story elsewhere. This is the long view: what genuinely got my LPR under control over more than a decade, what …
It’s one of the most common things readers tell me: “My acid reflux almost disappears when I’m abroad — why?” It’s a real pattern, and it isn’t in your head. But there’s no single magic in the water. What changes when you travel is a whole cluster of things …
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 …