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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9550520/

This exercise fixed it for me. I was diagnosed with GERD last year, I already had it for 2-3 years before that, but it got worse last year. I got ppis for a couple of months and when I finished all of them it came back worse. Fortunately I found this article, and I started doing the exercise daily morning after I woke up(and still do it). I can now eat tomatoes, food with mint, spicy food etc etc :) I have shared my experience with others and it helped them too

Edit - Changed the link, had posted something else by mistake

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Since reading the above HN comments, I have lost ten pounds and (mostly) stopped drinking carbonated beverages. My GERD is vastly reduced.

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I don't see anything about carbonated beverages in those comments? I've had good results with some of the exercises mentioned there, but since then have been in a rut unable to make it stop (my only symptom of GERD is a small persistent cough, which sucks more than it sounds like). I drink a lot of sparkling water though. Do I need to give that up too?

Carbonated beverages expand once swallowed, not helpful if your LES is relaxed.

>I drink a lot of sparkling water though. Do I need to give that up too?

That helped more (for me) than the minimal weightloss, so far.

Thanks for this, will add it to the experiment queue while I work on losing the slight dad bod I have going on.

How did you implement this? I can't figure out what these instructions in the article mean: "Exercises of dry swallowing in the bridge posture lasted for 4 weeks and were performed ten times per day (Fig. 2). The exercise was performed with 10-s intervals between swallows."

Does this mean that total number of daily dry swallows in bridge position was 10 or 10 times 10 (100)?

You get in the bridge position. And then swallow, wait 10 seconds, and swallow again. So total of 10 times, I'm not sure if I could have kept up with it if I had to swallow 100 times :)

Thanks for this - it looks interesting, I'm planning on giving it a try for my low level reflux that's been bothering me for over a decade (but always had other health issues that seemed higher priorities to try to address).

That looks interesting, and can't hurt. So you do 1 set of 10 reps (swallows) a day in the morning? I'm surprised that just swallowing 10 times can provoke any sort of physiological change...

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