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Exercise to Strengthen Esophageal Sphincter and Eliminate Gastric Reflux (2022)

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Re: Exercise to Strengthen Esophageal Sphincter and Eliminate Gastric Reflux (2022)

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found this article on reddit last year and have been trying this freqently. There are a lot of other exercises ( including some yoga ones) on youtube. Nothing seems to have made any difference for me so far, unfortunately . I also had upper endoscopy, barium swallow and other tests but none of those found anything at all. PPIs and such don't do anything. I've tried other 'home remdies' like apple cider vinegar, drink…

Did you try cutting out 'enriched' flour? That seems to be a major trigger of heartburn for me and I do a lot better without it.

intresting. we mainly eat rice but i do eat bread once a week. I will try to cut it out .

Re: Exercise to Strengthen Esophageal Sphincter and Eliminate Gastric Reflux (2022)

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Poking around, there's a subreddit[0] with users who seem to report varied results, and some discussion there of another study on swallowing in the bridge position[1]. Interesting stuff, thanks OP!

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/karrfalt/

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9550520/

Re: Exercise to Strengthen Esophageal Sphincter and Eliminate Gastric Reflux (2022)

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I used to get acid reflux, it was really noticeable while trying to sleep, but that changed after I drank some water (by accident) from inside a cave of a small island near Vanuatu. This led to the worst throat infection I've ever had, after treating it with antibiotics, I stopped having acid reflux altogether. It's been 5 years now without any acid reflux. However, I've now been diagnosed with eosinophilic esophagit…

I am diagnosed with EoE as a result of celiac disease. I've had a lot of success with Dupixent as a treatment--just wanted to put that out for HN should anyone be looking for new options.
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