On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:25 AM, jazzminrose26 <jazzmin26@gmail.com> wrote:
-- Does anyone have any experience, or know someone who has,combining an acid reflux diet with Fast 5?
Sincerely,
Jazzmin
My acid reflux got briefly WORSE on Fast 5. I did look into it, and it appears to be solved. I did two things:
1. Take konjac with meals. Konjac (aka Glucomannan) does really interesting things for the gut, basically normalizing the gut flora. Loads of studies. You can buy it as "PGX" in a tablet, or as "konjac flour". Take one pill, or 1/4 tsp. of konjac flour mixed with water, with your break-fast. Works wonders for any kind of digestion issue. It's been a food staple in Asia for some hundreds of years.
2. D-Limonene. This is a kind of odd thing ... someone discovered that taking one pill of D-limonene every other day for 20 days, would get rid of reflux for 6 months. But no one knows how or why it works. At any rate, it is not toxic or even a drug ... you can get some by eating a piece of orange or grapefruit peel. Or by it in pill form. I can say that it worked for me quite nicely.
As an addendum, it got me curious so I bought some limonene liquid. It is an amazing cleaner: you mix some with water and maybe a little detergent, and it kills aphids, cleans your floor, removes sticky labels, maybe kills fungi. But it is also used as a flavoring agent in foods: not something that is toxic.
Looking back, I think that some of my constant snacking might have had to do with reflux. When your stomach feels bad, a snack sometimes helps. Certainly brings down the acidity levels.
Heather Twist
http://eatingoffthefoodgrid.blogspot.com/
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