Why Stomach Acid Is Good for You: Natural Relief from Heartburn, Indigestion, Reflux and GERD Author: Jonathan Wright | Language: English | ISBN:
0871319314 | Format: EPUB
Why Stomach Acid Is Good for You: Natural Relief from Heartburn, Indigestion, Reflux and GERD Description
About the Author
Jonathan Wright, MD and Lane Lenard PhD
- Paperback: 285 pages
- Publisher: M. Evans & Company (August 20, 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0871319314
- ISBN-13: 978-0871319319
- Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
A new remedy came on the market promising 14 days of heartburn relief. I rushed to the drugstore the day it hit the shelves. As advertised, I had 14 days of blissful remission.
My suffering relieved, I relived the days when heartburn was impossible. There was a time I could gulp jalapeno peppers like candy. I could eat a double order of Nick's Famous Coney Island Dogs piled with onions, washed down with a (small) pitcher of beer. I laughed at heartburn.
When the 14 days ended, the heartburn returned with a vengeance, worse than ever. Warning labels proscribed continued use of the remedy. There has to be a better way, I concluded, and started researching heartburn online. This book turned up among the search results.
Following the book's advice, I swallowed a spoonful of fresh lemon juice to combat an attack of heartburn. The lemon juice caused some alarming turmoil in my stomach, but the heartburn subsided. I had some lemons on hand, so I squeezed them into glass bottles of drinking water. I put the juice of half a lemon in each quart bottle.
For the next few months, I drank lemon-spiked water. The heartburn abated from day one. I didn't need to take the acid tablets the book recommends.
I am a beer and coffee lover, so there were occasional flareups. I might forget to take the onions out of my gyro. I fought these flareups with chewable papaya enzyme tablets, which work better than any antacid.
My shopping habits changed. Instead of buying antacids in jumbo bottles, I bought lemons by the 5-pound bag. I squeezed one or two lemons a day into my drinking water.
Eventually, water didn't taste right without lemon. I ended my lemon water addiction. In 3 years, the heartburn has not returned.
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