Get to the Truth About The Real Causes Of Heartburn

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Get to the Truth About The Real Causes Of Heartburn

Notwithstanding the many popular texts that point to aspects of lifestyle and eating particular foods, the real underlying reasons for heartburn encompass a larger selection of factors with genetic, lifestyle and dietary elements. Just like other chronic illnesses, heartburn is a result of overlapping and multiple causes.

If heartburn happens twice per week or more frequently, a graver medical condition known as acid reflux disease may exist. This is also known as GERD (Gastro Esophageal Reflux Disease). Even healthy people may experience heartburn up to once per week. Heartburn is the name for the sensation of burning or searing around the chest or throat. This frequently manifests itself after a meal.

GERD comes about because of two physiological problems: the first is excess acidity in the stomach; and the second is a weakened sphincter (LES, Lower Esophageal Sphincter) which no longer acts properly to block off the stomach from the esophagus. Normally, the LES only opens to let food and drink flow into the intestinal system and should not let gastric juices escape backwards. Nevertheless, in reflux situations, the LES is debilitated and stomach contents can reflux or splash back to the esophagus, corroding the lining and causing the feeling of pain.

As referred to above, several linked elements lead to a weakened LES or too concentrated a level of digestive acidity. Amongst these factors we find:

1. Characteristics that are inherited genetically.

2. Lifestyles, where stress from lack of sleep, emotional pressure or excess of work provoke problems, as does smoking. This plays havoc with the digestion, attacks the immune system and favors Candida multiplication, which then contributes to acid reflux disease.

3. Candida infections. Candida is normally present anyway in the human body, including the intestinal and genital areas. In usual circumstances, Candida is balanced by beneficial bacteria and does not harm the body. But under certain conditions Candida microbes grow rapidly and spread. These microbes can then ferment and reflux stomach contents back into the esophagus, where inflammation and damage to the esophageal lining then take place.

4. Diet patterns, as in the regular and frequent eating of foods that provoke acid production, such as chocolates, peppermint, tomatoes and citrus fruits. Also, eating foods that are fatty or spicy and that weaken the LES, or foods that are hard to digest, can worsen acid reflux.

Whereas conventional medicine only acts at a superficial level and is only concerned with the symptoms, a holistic, all-natural solution attacks the fundamental reasons to provide the only real secure and workable remedy for acid refluxes. To cut out heartburn and prevent its recurrence, the root causes must be addressed and this is what the holistic approach does.

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Jeff Martin is a certified nutritionist and author of the #1 best-selling e-book, Heartburn No More . For Further Information: Acid Reflux

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