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found this article on reddit last year and have been trying this freqently. There are a lot of other exercises ( including some yoga ones) on youtube.

Nothing seems to have made any difference for me so far, unfortunately .

I also had upper endoscopy, barium swallow and other tests but none of those found anything at all. PPIs and such don't do anything. I've tried other 'home remdies' like apple cider vinegar, drinking alkaline water, not eating ( or eating ) certain types of food. no help :/.

I am otherwise healthy with 'normal' bmi and workout almost everday and stay active.

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You can contact me here https://davidt.co.uk for more information but I went through similar issues for 8 years. Taking Betaine HCL and digestive enzymes before each meal has not only completely eradicated all digestive problems but also massively helped my mindset as a result. Essentially some people have chronically low stomach acid and stimulating more with Betaine HCL helps increase the amount of acid, the acidity of the acid and as a result actually closes the LES. When there's enough acid and acidity, the LES closes. If there's not enough it stays loose. This is why PPIs are awful in the long run. It seems like it solves it in the short term but wears off after a while. It also causes all sorts of issues further down the line like IBS and malabsorption of vitamins etc.

Did you try cutting out 'enriched' flour? That seems to be a major trigger of heartburn for me and I do a lot better without it.

Genuinely curious, what is it usually "enriched" with?

Vitamin B1,2,3,6,12, Iron, Zinc Oxide, A, Folic Acid, D3 etc, but I don't know if it's a function of what they add, remove or simply other ingredients that usually accompany enriched flour, like preservatives.

Raw or whole foods are a few orders of magnitude more gentle on my stomach than foods that are engineered to be shelf stable for months at room temp in the pantry.

> preservatives.

A whole other chapter of filth, those.-

We are, mostly, unwittingly poisoning ourselves for the purposes of keeping a given food-industrial supply chain going.-

Thought you were going to say "kettle" of filth there for a second

Which also works, I guess

intresting. we mainly eat rice but i do eat bread once a week. I will try to cut it out .

So sorry. It must be really flummoxing. Could it be some sort of (mis) "trained" muscle reflex or action, where the involved sphicter has gone rogue, somehow, leading to badly cordinated physiological response?

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