This category is covering Laryngopharyngeal Reflux or LPR for short. It is a form of acid reflux that can affect the throat, sinuses and more.
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 …
Cricopharyngeal spasm is a sustained, involuntary tightening of the cricopharyngeus — the ring of muscle that forms your upper esophageal sphincter, sitting right at the base of your throat. It feels like a lump, a band, or a hand squeezing your neck. It typically eases when you eat or …
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If you’re buying an alkaline water pitcher or filter for reflux, the number that decides whether it’s worth it is pH 8.8. That’s the level at which alkaline water has been shown to deactivate pepsin, the enzyme behind throat-based reflux — and plenty of pitchers don’t reliably get there, …
If you have reflux and you’re buying pH test strips, here’s the single most useful thing to know before you spend a penny: the strips are far more valuable for testing what goes into you — your water, coffee, juice and other drinks — than for testing your saliva …