Hello,
My name is Norm Robillard. This site is part of my effort to increase awareness and the research focus on holistic and dietary approaches to treat acid reflux, which most people who have it will agree, is a serious medical condition. New research into chronic acid reflux receives almost no attention in the medical research community outside of the development and testing of even more acid blocking proton pump inhibitor (PPI) drugs. This is not a big surprise. These drugs offer significant symptomatic relief so most medical treatment providers are quick to write the prescription and move on to the next patient.
The trouble is that these medicines have quite a few side effects and, even more worrisome, carry long term health risks like an increased chance of hip fracture. PPI drugs increase the risk of hip fractures in older adults by 260% for long-term, high dose users as reported in the Dec. 27 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. That is one extra person breaking a hip out of 336 elderly people taking high dose PPIs for more than one year. And people who already have osteoporosis may be at an even greater risk. Once an older person breaks a hip, they have a 25 % chance of dying in the next year do mostly to blood clots, pneumonia and other infections. To make matters worse, PPI drugs also increase your chance of getting pneumonia, presumably because they remove the acid barrier between the bacteria in your intestines and your lungs.
A New Approach for GERD
If there were no other way, I could see taking on some risk as the symptoms of chronic acid reflux can be miserable. I know because I suffered for many years with this condition. But, there is another way. I spent a year researching the root cause of acid reflux and have developed a science based theory and a glycemic-index based four stage diet plan that absolutely will attack the root cause of GERD and provide relief in just a couple of days. My book, Heartburn Cured, comes with a money back guarantee. If you are interested in reading more about my approach, just click on the one of the links for the book and you will be able to go the the HeartburnCured.com site where you may purchase the book.
