Heartburn is a common and miserable problem for many people. If your one of the millions of people who suffer from chronic heartburn, you may feel like you're searching for cures for heartburn in a sea of medical treatments that only seem to relieve your problem temporarily. Many of my patients have expressed frustration with visiting their doctor for this problem only to be prescribed pill after pill which may work for a while but if they ever stop taking the pill the problem comes right back. The purpose of this article is to discuss why medication is only a temporary fix, and where you can find permanent cures for heartburn.
It has been said that knowledge is power. To understand why medication never provides permanent cures for heartburn it helps to understand the role of your stomach and the real mechanism behind heartburn pain. Your stomach is uniquely designed to produce acid. By supplying the means to eliminate acid from the stomach environment, medical science implies that the cause of heartburn is to much acid. In many cases this isn't true.
The acid is not the problem. It's the fact that the acid leaves the stomach that is the problem. Since heartburn medications do nothing to change why the acid leaves the stomach they never provide permanent cures for heartburn pain. Heartburn is never the result of to little medication in the body!
As strange as it may seem, frequently the real cause of heartburn pain is actually too little acid in the stomach. How is that so? When you have too little acid, digestion in the stomach occurs slowly and inefficiently. This slow inefficient process produces gas, which in turn increases pressure in the stomach, which then forces the stomach contents up into the esophagus. This is the real cause of heartburn.
The success of a commonly successful home remedy for heartburn supports this idea. The single most common home remedy for heartburn in to take some apple cider vinegar before each meal. Vinegar in all its forms is acidic, but in almost all cases it is very helpful. One might ask the question then, 'why would adding acid to an over acid environment help symptoms of over acidity unless the environment wasn't really over acid to begin with? The truth is, it wouldn't.
Contrary to what your doctor may tell you it is entirely possible and even easy to end heartburn pain easily and without medication. To learn how to make your next meal a pain free one, visit us on the web at http://www.squidoo.com/curesforheartburn.
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