--- In gerdrefluxdisease@yahoogroups.com, "mybus99" <mybus99@y...>
wrote:
> i see where you limit your water intake. i did'nt think water had
anything to with reflux. if so, maybe that is why i still have
trouble. sometimes i drink up to 5 liters per day. any comments
thanks
> Perhaps I should have said controlled and not cured. We all will
have
> some level of heartburn even when we try to do everything right--we
> will foul up and eat too much, too spicy or too in combination.
> Now to your question. When the body is in the healthy digestive
> state, the stomach is in the receiving mode, producing acids to
> process the food we ingest. This higher level of acid triggers the
> closing of the sphincter controlled valve to prevent reflux of food
> and juices. My heartburn and GERD was caused by low volume of
acid,
> so when I introduce vinegar (white), it triggers the closing of
the valve.
>
> Your reaction to cider vinegar may not have had anything to do with
> GERD or heartburn, or your overall conditions resulting from the
> corrosive action of these two body actions may be so advanced that
> other approaches need performed before vinegar would help reverse
the
> control back to you. I can only attest to what I did to solve my
> problem and since anyone can obtain white vinegar from almost any
food
> store I thought it worth sharing. BUT, at the same time I changed
my
> night meal eating habits to milder foods, less water intake, no
> carbonated drinks ever, no other combatant medicines for acid, and
no
> food after 6 PM.
>
> After nine years of suffering, I now have control and have had for
> four months. I can travel without a bag of OTC medicines and large
> bottles of Rolaids. I still have to watch what I eat,
particularily
> at night meals.
> Jay
> --- In gerdrefluxdisease@yahoogroups.com, Ellie Gunter
> <elliegunter@y...> wrote:
> > Why or how does vinegar close the valve?
> > I took some apple cider vinegar one time, and it gave me such
> gastritis and stomach pains, that I lost 10 lb from not being able
to
> eat anything for a month.
> >
> >
> > mybus99 <mybus99@y...> wrote:
> >
> > I have been reading many of your messages and see you are
suffering
> > from many of the same pains and causes I once experienced when I
had
> > GERD and Heartburn. Let me suggest you increase the acid rather
than
> > decrease the stomach acid. Vinegar will close the spinster
valve at
> > the end of your esophagus and stop the resurge and fume and food
> > regurging. I know, it worked for me. Jay
> >
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