Stop the heartburn, it is easy to remedy. First stop eating all the sugary foods and beverages you love to consume. Cut out all the sugars, the breads, the cookies and the candies, chocolate, coffee and all the sweet drinks, even the diet drinks. This will help you so much and then increase your consumption of veggies, plan on veggies for lunch and dinner. To help keep yourself from craving your sweets you want to make sure you eat a good quality protein with each meal, for breakfast a couple eggs and half an apple or maybe a good quality protein drink. For lunch an animal protein, either beef, pork, fish, egg, lamb and include a couple cups of a variety of veggies, either raw or lightly cooked, or consumed in a salad (the green leaf stuff) and put your veggies in the salad and then make sure your salad dressing has no sugar. Same for dinner, a protein and veggies. For midday snack try small handful of raw walnuts or and almonds, pecans..., maybe a hardboiled egg, little hummus with your fav veggie.
This is important for you to know- if you have heartburn you may need to increase your HCl, your digestive enzymes and probiotics. What to take can get complicated from the perspective of what to take and where to get the supplements you may require.
Tums are the wrong thing to take as it only creates lower stomach acid, you most likely need more. If hcl bothers your stomach then stop taking it and see your doctor. Remember not to drink fluids with your meals as you don't want to dilute stomach acid. Make sure you are not constipated. Drink more water during your day. Get in some good walking for exercise. Decrease your stress level, increase stress depletes stomach acid.
It may take several months to fully remedy your heartburn issue but you will probably feel better within a couple of weeks by just changing up your diet and lifestyle as I have detailed in this blog.
As always, before you embark on any new program for your digestion and heartburn pain, first check in with your doctor. It would also be a good idea to add in some probiotics to replace good bacteria in your colon. Eating a healthy diet of veggies, protein and a fruit every day and stopping the sugar/sweets and excess coffee will be the real magic bullet, remember to drink more water, stop the soft drinks and fruit drinks and the diet drinks.
Professor Yancy at Duke University enrolled 5 patients with severe GERD (acid reflux disease-essentially bad heartburn) in a study. The study involved simply a low carb diet (no sugar of any kind as I described above) and all 5 patients had their symptoms alleviated within a week.
By the way, obesity is an independent risk factor for GERD. Another factor to consider is sugar feeds the bad bacteria in our colon, they love the sweets and they multiply as you feed them.
Oh yes, let go the stress in your life, just let it go, it does you no good, it does not make you better, does not resolve any issue and does not improve any condition or situation. Until next time, Dr. Mark Doyle
This is important for you to know- if you have heartburn you may need to increase your HCl, your digestive enzymes and probiotics. What to take can get complicated from the perspective of what to take and where to get the supplements you may require.
Tums are the wrong thing to take as it only creates lower stomach acid, you most likely need more. If hcl bothers your stomach then stop taking it and see your doctor. Remember not to drink fluids with your meals as you don't want to dilute stomach acid. Make sure you are not constipated. Drink more water during your day. Get in some good walking for exercise. Decrease your stress level, increase stress depletes stomach acid.
It may take several months to fully remedy your heartburn issue but you will probably feel better within a couple of weeks by just changing up your diet and lifestyle as I have detailed in this blog.
As always, before you embark on any new program for your digestion and heartburn pain, first check in with your doctor. It would also be a good idea to add in some probiotics to replace good bacteria in your colon. Eating a healthy diet of veggies, protein and a fruit every day and stopping the sugar/sweets and excess coffee will be the real magic bullet, remember to drink more water, stop the soft drinks and fruit drinks and the diet drinks.
Professor Yancy at Duke University enrolled 5 patients with severe GERD (acid reflux disease-essentially bad heartburn) in a study. The study involved simply a low carb diet (no sugar of any kind as I described above) and all 5 patients had their symptoms alleviated within a week.
By the way, obesity is an independent risk factor for GERD. Another factor to consider is sugar feeds the bad bacteria in our colon, they love the sweets and they multiply as you feed them.
Oh yes, let go the stress in your life, just let it go, it does you no good, it does not make you better, does not resolve any issue and does not improve any condition or situation. Until next time, Dr. Mark Doyle
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