Your Stomach
- A Very Widespread Problem
- A Medical Mistake?
- We Need Stomach Acid
- Stomach Acid Declines with Age
- What Really Causes Heartburn
- What Else Might Cause Acid to Back Up Into the Throat?
- Why Antacids Might Make the Situation Worse
- Why Do Antacids Appear to Help—at Least Temporarily?
- What Is Really Happening?
- Doesn’t Everybody “Know” that Antacids are the Stomach Medicine of Choice?
- What Drug Companies Actually Say
- Don’t Many Doctors Agree with the Drug Companies?
- Doesn’t the Government Support the Use of Antacids?
- Why Antacids May Be Bad for Your Bones
- So Acidity in the Stomach and Acidity in the Rest of the Body are Two Separate Issues?
- Other Medical Conditions Associated with Low Stomach Acid
- Antacids and Stomach Ulcers
- Additional Medical Conditions that Might Be Indirectly Linked to Low Stomach Acid
- Side Effects of Prescription-Strength Antacids
- The Case against Antacids
- The Alternative Approach to Stomach Problems
- Finding an “Integrative” Doctor Who May Be More Open to Alternative Approaches
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