What My Doctor Wouldn't Tell Me About Chronic Heartburn

And How I Fixed My Acid Reflux (For Good!)

By: RICHARD DANIELS

After years of misunderstanding my digestive issues, I finally got to the root problem.

• Here's What I Learned

I had gone through life assuming that heartburn was caused by having too much stomach acid.

But what I didn't understand was that we actually all have a valve called our "Lower Esophageal Sphincter" that acts as a doorway between our esophagus and our stomach. When active digestion is occurring, this door is supposed to remain shut (which keeps stomach contents contained regardless of how much acid you have). This was the actual root cause of my heartburn.

In my research I learned the primary reason why your lower esophageal sphincter fails to close completely.

Poor digestion. Let me explain:

When you are properly digesting foods, your body secretes acid and breaks down the foods quickly before moving everything along to your small intestine.

But if your body is not properly secreting stomach acid during digestion, then your Lower Esophageal Sphincter cannot detect that active digestion is occurring. If you have low stomach acid levels (or are blocking acid production), then your body doesn't know to close your lower esophageal sphincter when it's trying to digest. And this can allow stomach contents to splash up into your esophagus.

This is the cause of chronic heartburn for millions of people!

So how do you solve this?

I decided to enlist the help of a naturopathic doctor and a gastroenterologist to figure out what the best solution would be. They both pointed me in the same direction: Betaine HCl. HCl actually mimics how your body naturally breaks down food.

However not all HCl is created equally. There is huge variance in quality, and they also stressed the need to combine it with Pepsin. Pepsin is a critical digestion enzyme that helps break down proteins that many heartburn sufferers commonly have trouble digesting.

This is when I found a product called Reflux Inhibitor, made by Terra Health Essentials. Both of my doctors recommended it, and it had a 4.8 star rating on Faceboook, plus nearly all 5-star ratings on Amazon. It contained all of the high-quality natural ingredients that I needed.

So how well did it work?

After literally 2 days, I could already feel that my digestion had improved back to the way that it was when I was a kid. I had honestly forgot what it felt like not to walk around bloated I think.

And alongside this improved digestion, low and behold, my heartburn slowly improved day in and day out.

I remember this one day when I had a conscious thought about how I hadn't had any heartburn in 3 days! That was it, I was over the hump and never looked back!