Have Acid Reflux? Start Here #shorts

What are the big factors? Dietary factors are huge. Fried foods, spicy foods, citrus foods, tomato based foods, processed foods, alcohol, caffeine, smoking, all drive reflux. If you're eating these foods, you might want to stop them and see if that has an impact. Although there may be other factors. Eating before bed for sure will cause reflux. Overeating, being overweight causes reflux. Stress, inhibits your digestion, your gut shuts down and things back up. Magnesium is really important. About 45% of Americans are low in magnesium or deficient or insufficient. We drink a lot of caffe, caffeine, alcohol, sugar, all deplete magnesium. And that is needed to relax the sphincter in the lower part of your stomach to let the food go down. Not enough magnesium in your body, it'll stay contracted and the food will come up. Food sensitivities, so people don't often realize, but it could be gluten, dairy, bacterial overgrowth, bad bugs growing in your gut, yeast growing in your gut. If you lost sugar, processed foods, basically you can get this bacterial overgrowth and that causes more problems.