Listen. Heartburn has nothing to do with the heart. You knew that already, didn’t you? It should be called food tube burn. Or five-alarm fire in food tube. Call the food tube firemen for this conflagration. Yikes!
Who among us has not had an occasional bout, and I stress the word occasional, with heartburn? In most cases a simple antacid will solve the problem and we can get on with our lives. An occasional heartburn attack does not slow us down too much.
However, for many people heartburn is a daily occurrence, day after day, week after week, ad infinitum. For those who suffer from gastroesophageal reflux disease or GERD, the heartburn cycle is a perpetual battle against the adverse and extremely painful effect of heartburn.
GERD is a disease where the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) is compromised and cannot do its job properly. It acts as a guard to let food into the stomach from the food tube (esophagus), but slams the door shut so nothing can escape back up into the food tube. This is the reflux, a flowing backward of gastric acids and powerful enzymes back up the food tube where they do not belong.

While the stomach is protected from […]

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