gastroesophageal reflux disease

And so I went to the Western medical allopathic doctors and they basically said, oh, well, you must have gut stuff.

You must have GERD.

But I knew that that wasn't cutting it for me, that diagnosis, mainly because the medication didn't work and the anxiety just kept on coming.

So I eventually ended up seeing my first therapist and you know, I really started a long journey with somatic psychology because, you know, this throat area became the center of my attention for maybe 12 years.

But she says the kids do.

For people who have some stomach issues or GERD, white chocolate sits much better than dark chocolate.

You can eat 19 handfuls of white chocolate and you don't get the, oh, my chest is burning like you do with brown chocolate.

Speaking of, I slept on the couch last night because of the GERD.

I had it really bad the night before.

Acid reflux.

Bad choices.

Speaking of GERD or whatever you talk, I'm assuming it would be really bad for that.

I do love this suggestion.

This came in from Jason.

Get into bed.

And I've told you, I have these GERD attacks.

Yes.

Wow.

Well, when you first messaged me once about a GERD attack, it said herd attack.

And I was like, what? What the fuck is a herd attack?

Feels like a herd attack.

You're going to be the person that helps us in a crisis to know, oh, Nobody wants you in the room because you're a weirdo now, a reactive weirdo, right? It's really hard to describe just how horrible it is to lose your life inch by inch, but it's very scary.

And so, yeah, I mean, I had chronic Lyme, advanced chronic Lyme, Hashimoto's, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, tinnitus, SIBO, GERD.

you know i don't know it's like a dozen other things it doesn't even really matter now because um you know when you have this full-blown autoimmune flare wherever it decides to hang out in the body like mcas wasn't even a diagnosis back then right you know muscle activation syndrome wasn't even a thing and certainly you know i had it but like does it even matter once you you know reverse it get your life back so it's interesting

i remember you saying at what point do you would hold your pee because you didn't want to go to the bathroom because going to the bathroom was that much work.

Hey, my back hurts.

What can I get for that? Hey, my leg hurts or I have flat feet or I have plantar fasciitis, whatever, GERD, whatever the heck it is.

What can I get for that? You know, what are the different levels? Okay, cool.

Well, let's go over it.

Master conditionalist.

I really wanted to touch on this one, man.

Because this can help a lot of folks out who have questions about, you know, their back, their GERD, whatever the heck it might be.

So You go down here and it kind of tells you everything.

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Well, gastroesophageal reflux, GORD, is common, reported by 5% to 10% of our population as a daily occurrence.

15 to 20% as a weekly event, and experienced by 25 to 40% monthly.

It occurs when gastric content flows up into the esophagus across the lower esophageal sphincter, initiating a burning sensation that is felt rising behind the breastbone, and at times is associated with an acidic taste in the mouth.

You've got the H. pylori.

infection, that if that doesn't get rid of, like if you don't get rid of that infection, you can be at risk for GERD, gastric cancer, a whole bunch of other things.

So a lot of times people, doctors don't really look at, you know, underlying causes of illnesses.

So I think that that's unfortunate because a lot of people just take medication, they take pills, they don't know what's really causing it.