Re: Is this GERD? and a cure?

Gastro Esophogael Reflux Disorder, I may not be able to spell it but have suffered from it for years, complicated by hiatial hernia. The former a malfunction of the sphincter at the bottom of the esphogeus that allows digestive fluids into the esophogeus where they don't belong, and long term, this can lead to esophogael cancer. The latter allows part of the stomach to migrate into the area of the rupture, especially prominent when lying down to sleep, and made worse by lying down to sleep having eaten a decent sized meal less than a few hours prior.


Proton Pump Inhibitors - long-term mainstream poison solution to GERD and or chronic heartburn.

When I was first diagnosed with GERD, I was in my twenties, told very little about the diagnosis and given my age then probably would not have heeded good advice had they actually given it, but they shoved a long sheet of paper in my face that listed the foods known to sometimes, if the phase of the moon and other celestial bodies are just so, will exacerbate GERD; would have been much simpler had they given me the much shorter list of foods that are likely to not exacerbate the condition - basically limited to bread, water, but again depends on the aforementioned cosmic forces. I'm relating this in somewhat of a tounge-in-cheek manner, not because I'm not serious about this issue. I'm quite serious, but tongue-in-cheek has sort of been my experience with this affliction over the years; it's been flaky, unpredictable, and usually cyclic. Sometimes I can go for weeks, eating and drinking whatever I want, with no ill effects; other times it doesn't matter what types of foods and drinks I avoid, if I so much as think about a pizza and can of pop, I get heartburn. Also seems to be worse in the winter months than summer.......... what to do? For me, I suffered fairly regularly for many years until I learned the hard fact that lifestyle, diet, stress, all factor into this problem, so if I want to improve, this means I want to alter the choices I make.

In the last year alone I have experienced significant reduction in GERD related symptoms after I first began zapping. Interesting thing is, few zapper sellers even tout this as a benefit of zapping, but one mentions that zapping does help balance the body's PH, which certainly sounds like it could affect what many loosely refer to as "acid stomach". Also in the last year, I've significantly reduced consumption of alcohol, and chocolate, in the past few months I've given up soda pop, all three of which were on the aformentioned list, as well as tobacco and coffe, both of which are soon to be added to my "no more" list.

I'll know more about the effects of flushing on GERD as soon as I've had a chance to experience flushing over a longer term, but I am hopeful that flushing the liver will improve this situation even moreso than zapping has.