Acid reflux disease is a symptom, not a disease. It is only a disease in the minds of those people who will profit most, prescribing drugs to treat these symptoms. When acids of digestion are inadequate, food ferments rather than digests causing the acid reflux symptoms. These drugs mop up the fermented acids (that are not digestive acids) treating the symptoms but are not treating the cause and are harmful. Many people get so sick they simply cannot continue to take them. Still others feel temporarily better, but their hampered digestion will result in more serious problems later on-like osteoporosis and heart disease.

Actually, the cure for acid reflux involves eating less, combining foods properly, treating a weakened hiatal hernia or sphincter with hands-on therapy, receiving chiropractic care, using digestive enzymes on a temporary basis, and eliminating gluten, sugar, soy, and dairy. Making these simple changes will most often resolve the problem. The startling fact about this whole money-making scheme is that for the majority of acid reflux patients, the problem is not too much acid but rather it is too little digestive acids.

Treat the cause of the problem and the “disease” will miraculously vanish.