Put Down the Pepcid. Step Away From the Tums.

The mainstream medical approach to treating heartburn and GERD involves taking acid suppressing drugs for as long as symptoms are present. Unfortunately, not only do these drugs fail to address the underlying cause of heartburn and GERD, they actually make it worse!

What Everybody Ought to Know (But Doesn’t) About Heartburn & GERD

If you ask the average Joe on the street what causes heartburn, he’ll tell you “too much stomach acid.” So, when I explain to patients that GERD is almost always caused by not having enough stomach acid, rather than too much, they are initially doubtful. “If that’s true,” they say, “then why do my antacid drugs provide relief?”