As we age we produce less acid and acid is needed to digest food and PPI's quit working and remove more acid thus you don't digest your food properly and the stomach muscle opens thus causing reflux. Meds make things much worse.

I just found out from my natural path you need to add acid in to make your stomach muscle close. What the doctors tell people is counterproductive.

Try a natural HCL (hyrdocloric acid). I was told you need aleast 1500 mgs a day. This will help your symptoms.
Along with a good probiotic and digestive enzyme.

Also go to a chiropractor and they can adjust the hiatel hernia and lower it with maneuvers they do.

Yes natural care is more expensive but they help you and actually treat your symptoms rather than masking with another med.


Best to you!

Bragg apple cider vinegar is good to to balance our PH and acid in our body.

Hi summerai I agree with you but I don't know if I can do it. Do you have to have the hiatus hernia sorted out first? I may be getting an op for it then I hope I can eventually eat normally. Im worried that it may never get back to normal. I can't even stop the meds as I had a massive acid reflux before when I did it. I wish I could get off the meds and my stomach would just go back to normal. How many sessions do you have to have with the chiropractor? Have you had this? Ive tried Chinese medicine and acupunture but that didn't work. My doctors are no help as they haven't found out whats causing the gastritis. Do you think that could be the reflux? Im sick of suffering and taking painkillers.

Where do you get Apple cider vinegar from? I have heard of it. What digestive enzymes do you think will help? I know theres a few different ones. Thanks

Apple Cider Vinegar from 'Bragg's' can be found at some regular grocery stores but you can definitely find them at real supplement shops. Not GNC, that is a junk vitamin store. Stick to the non-chain ones.

The apple cider vinegar was a life saver for me! I would be on a PPI if it was up to the gastro. I said screw it. I am not trying to work against my body but WITH IT. Most of us need MORE acid to balance it out. Some docs lie and say 'well you have too much acid'. Most of the time that is not the case.

I think it definitely depends on who you talk to and that is the super scary part. I have posed that question about your body needing more acid and using the apple cider vinegar method to about 30 different doctors (at a convention), including a couple gastrointestinal doctors and my surgeon who MAY be doing my GERD surgery if I go through with it...and out of all of them only 2 said they feel that is true. My surgeon said that that is by far the biggest myth about GERD and that the truth is that your body makes as much acid as everyone else but that it's from the LES (lower esophigial sphincter, think I got that right anyway) not being able to close anymore and allowing the acid to push up that makes it seem like you have more acid. She said "Why do people believe they need more to create more acid to control the acid problem that they are having, especially when they say the problems that they mostly have are the burning and pressure under the breast bone area, which is exactly what is caused from acid being allowed to be pushed up too far? Does that make any sense?" Again, that is just one person's opinion.

I have also heard from half the people I have talked to on these sites that apples are really bad, yet they are on every safe food list I have been able to locate on the internet. I honestly don't know what to believe anymore...it is so very frustrating!

Hi Mystary I think same as you. The acid levels should be normal and our stomachs as we were born with to function normally. Im on a PPI fpr the gastritis and reflux and I hate it. I don't think medicines are good for us anyway. However Im in a great deal of pain from the gastritis. I couldn't take Apple cider vinegar anyway as it would annoy that. I think that once the LES is faulty it needs fixing to stop acid coming up into the oesophaghus. Ive been told that I don't have excess acid coming up,it must all be the gastritis. Its just that I do have a hiatus hernia and I do get some reflux. Its two different things. IOts very frustrating not being able to get rid of the pain. It will settle down for a day then it comes back and its really bad,like today. Where do you get apple cider vinegar from anyway? Ive never seen it. I just wish my stomach problem had never started in the first place. I had a very good stomach before I took Naproxen tablets. I can't turn the clock back though.

I hear alot about this apple cider vinegar..how much do we take? And when is the best time to take?

Hi Ive seen the Apple cider vinegar in a supermarket. Its in a big bottle. I don't think I will try it though as it will proberly burn the gastritis. Im in enough pain but maybe its good if its just GERD I don't know. Also there seems to be a lot of Manuka honey about in health shops. That is suposed to be good. Im taking Aloe vera but it isnt doing much up to now. Im os tired of having pain.

Hey my name is Paige im 16 & i've suffered from GERD since i was in 6th grade..i suggest going to a specialist...mine put me on a antidepressant for chronic pain & its really helping just make sure you can live with the side effects

I get my Braggs raw apple cider vinigar from Whole Foods $5.99 for 32 ozs. I find it works well. I have precancerous esophagus caused by GERD also a hiatal hernia. I refuse to take the pills prescribes too many side effects and bad for u in the long run. I am very nervous about my condition.