Low Carb Can Cure Reflux Disease

" Heartburn – caused by reflux disease – is super common, millions of people suffer from it. Many people take medication for it every single day to reduce the symptoms. What if many of these people could cure the disease with a dietary change?

An earlier small study tested a LCHF diet on a few people with this problem, and they got significantly better. Even the pH in their esophagus improved, so it was not just placebo.

Now another, slightly larger, study has tested this idea again. Not only does it find that carbohydrates, sugar and the glycemic load of the diet was associated with reflux disease. They also test what happens when the participants go on a lower carb diet. The result?

Big improvements

Incredibly enough, it seems like all the women in the study were able to get off their reflux (GERD) medications… "

See the chart ... and all other relevant links on Diet Doctor site, see link below
Scroll up for main article - but - it's also interesting to read the comments too!

https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb-can-cure-reflux-disease#comments


All the best Jan

Oh yes, I suffered from this for years. I even got scoped once in case I had helicobacter. They found "gastritis" but had no idea why, I took famotidine for years.

I was disappointed as hell that it didn't get better on low carb - UNTIL I gave up wheat. Also far from uncommon.

chris c said " UNTIL I gave up wheat. Also far from uncommon. "

Yes, reading around the many blogs, and reading others personal experiences, low carb can and does help but so too the dropping of wheat, as some who commented on the original Diet Doctor article stated.

Diet Doctor article here https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb-can-cure-reflux-disease#comments

However, the full article " Dietary carbohydrate intake, insulin resistance and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: a pilot study in European- and African-American obese women" can be found here:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/apt.13784/full

All the best Jan

Thanks for the link, downloaded to read later.