A plant-based diet has some of the best research behind it of any dietary approach to reflux — and in one study it matched proton pump inhibitors head to head. In 184 patients with laryngopharyngeal reflux, a 90–95% plant-based Mediterranean-style diet with alkaline water produced at least as much …
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Wheat can absolutely trigger reflux symptoms — but for most people, gluten isn’t the part doing it. There are two very different situations here, and confusing them is why so many people cut out bread, feel a bit better, and then spend years unsure whether they actually needed to. …
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A low FODMAP diet can genuinely help acid reflux — but only for a specific group of people, and not for the reason most articles claim. It doesn’t lower the acidity of your food. It reduces the amount of gas fermenting in your gut, and gas pressure is one …
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Diabetes raises your risk of reflux by around 60% — a meta-analysis of nine studies covering 9,067 people with reflux and 81,968 controls found an odds ratio of 1.61. But the more useful finding is how directly and immediately blood sugar itself is involved. In a controlled study using …
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Reflux after a gastric sleeve is common, it’s anatomical rather than dietary, and it’s the single biggest long-term trade-off of the operation. The numbers are clear. Across 46 studies covering 10,718 patients, de novo reflux — new reflux in people who didn’t have it before — occurred in 23%. …
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Reflux after gallbladder removal is real, common enough to be worth taking seriously, and almost universally explained the wrong way. The standard account is bile reflux: without a gallbladder, bile drips continuously into the duodenum instead of arriving in timed boluses, so it washes back into the stomach and …
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