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Heartburn

Heartburn is also know as gastric reflux disease. Current treatment revolves around using acid-suppressing drugs, to decrease stomach acid production. Common acid suppressing drugs include the proton pump inhibitors such as Nexium, Protonix, and Prevacid. Proton pump inhibitors are the second most popular drug type, and accounted for 93 million prescriptions last year. By suppressing stomach acid the underlying problem is not being addressed.

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Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

Irritable Bowel Syndrome or I.B.S. is a syndrome, which means that it encompasses a whole array of symptoms that cannot otherwise be described. If you have digestive complaints, involving the abdomen, the bowel, the esophagus, gas/bloating, belching, have digestive “attacks”, and it can not be attached to any other diagnosis then you are given the label IBS.

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Ulcerative Colitis / Crohns Disease

These conditions fall under the category of inflammatory bowel disease and are usually a more serious diagnosis than IBS. These two conditions have different presentations and symptoms associated with them. The item they have in common is the fact that the conventional medical system has absolutely no success with halting or reversing the damage caused by these conditions. At best conventional treatment offers medications to offset the symptoms and slow down disease progression.

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