Your stomach : what is really making you miserable and what to do about it /
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| Language: | English |
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Mount Jackson, VA :
Praktikos Books,
c2009.
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| Series: | Praktikos health series.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.