No More Heartburn: The Safe, Effective Way to Prevent and Heal Chronic Gastrointestinal Disorders

by Sherry Rogers

Overview

An update of the classic guide to curing your heartburn and other digestive ailments using diet and natural remedies, without debilitating over-the-counter or prescription drugs that can make your conditions worsen. Dr. Sherry Rogers has included new material on the connection between a healthy gut to brain health, building up a powerful immune system that can make you "Corona-proof", boosting your metabolism, and healing diseases normally treated with conventional Western medicine.

CURE HEARTBURN AND INDIGESTION FOR GOOD—WITHOUT DRUGS!

DID YOU KNOW:

A silently damaged gut can stall healing of all other diseases

Popular antacids and prescription acid blockers actually aggravate your condition, while promoting deterioration or development of other diseases

The gut controls over half of the disease-fighting immune system

In this remarkable book, Sherry A. Rogers, M.D., a leading expert in drug-free gastrointestinal therapy, explains how you can pinpoint the causes of your stomach distress and offers easy-to-follow advice for creating an effective, personalized program for achieving and maintaining total gastrointestinal health.

The cutting-edge methods detailed here return your body to its natural state of health—without the risks and side effects of prescription drugs and traditional therapies that merely mask symptoms. Sample menus of tasty, easy-to-prepare meals, clear, explanatory charts and tables, and an extensive list of gastrointestinal health resources make this vital reading for anyone suffering the chronic agony of heartburn.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780806541273
Publisher:	Kensington
Publication date:	06/29/2021
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	515,887
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Sherry A. Rogers, M.D. is an internationally recognized expert in environmental medicine and the author of more than a dozen books, including No More Heartburn: The Safe, Effective Way to Prevent and Heal Chronic Gastrointestinal Disorders and Detoxify or Die. Certified by both the American Board of Environmental Medicine and the American Board of Family Practice, she is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition as well as the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. In more than five decades of medical practice, Dr. Rogers has published over 22 scientific papers, contributed to textbooks, served the Academy Board of Directors, and lectured in six countries throughout the world.

Table of Contents

Foreword, 2021 xi

Introduction xvii

Chapter 1 How Standard Medical Treatments Guarantee That the Sick Will Get Sicker, Quicker 1

You Are Not Alone 1

"You'll Just Have to Learn to Live with It" 2

Medications Turn Off the Gut's Only Means of Communication 3

"My doctor Said, 'Mylanta'" 6

The Tagamet Tragedy 8

The Prilosec/Prevacid Scam 10

Propulcid, Cytotec, Actigall, Carafate, and Over-the-Counter Medications 12

Now Let's Find the Cause before the Sick Get Any Sicker, Quicker 15

The Dangers of Drugs Fall on Deaf Ears 16

Most Drugs Thwart Natural Function 16

Chapter 2 You Are What You Ate 19

Pain: The Body's Main Communication Mode 19

Cutting Out the C-R-A-P (Cigarettes, Coffee, Refined Sugars, Alcohol, Aspirin, Pop, and Processed Foods) 20

Getting Over a Coffee Addiction 21

What Drives You to Eat the Wrong Foods? 23

Vanadium to the Sugar Craver's Rescue 24

The Chromium Cycle of Sugar Cravings 25

The Hyperacidity Myth 25

First Steps for Improving Your Digestion 26

Processed Foods Hide Potent Triggers of Inflammation 28

Myth: There Is Safety in Low-Fat Foods 28

Monosodium Glutamate (MSG): Toxin at the Table 31

Food Additives: What You See Isn't Necessarily What You Get 32

Another Toxin at the Table: the Not-So-Sweet NutraSweet 34

What about Saccharin? 36

The Dangers of Unseen Additives: The Great Medical Mimics 37

Are You Aware of the Cereal Killer in Your Pantry? 39

Food Allergies Cause Gut Reactions 40

Figuring Out Your Food Allergies 42

The Diagnostic Diet 43

The Three Musketeers: Macronutrients 46

Are You Eating a Rainbow Each Day? 47

It May Not Be What You Are Eating, But What's Eating You 48

In a Nutshell 49

Chapter 3 Curing the Most Commonly Missed Cause of Gut Disease 51

Candida: The Great Masquerader 51

The Many Causes of Candida Outbreak 52

Undiagnosed, It Mimics Any Symptom 52

Begin with a Suspicion or Diagnosis 53

Caveats 53

Your Anti-Candida Program to Beat the Yeast 54

Candida-Killing Diet 55

When Can I Eat My Favorites Again? 68

Recipes 69

Getting More Garlic 77

How to Get More Healing Veggies into the Diet 78

Beyond the Diet 78

"What If I Just Ignore This 'Harmless' Yeast?" 79

Start with a Cleaner Gut and Fewer Organisms 79

Probiotics 80

Nonprescription Yeast Fighters 81

Prescription Yeast Fighters 84

The Candida Program Reviewed 85

"What If I'm Not Better?" 86

Staying Well 86

In a Nutshell 87

Chapter 4 Bugs: The Good, the Bad, and the Deadly 89

Helicobacter pylori: The Common Bug that Causes Ulcers and Stomach Cancer 89

H. pylori Is Everywhere 90

A Cause of Slow, Mysterious Decline and Death 90

How the Sick Get Sicker, Quicker, with Approved Drugs 92

Treatment of H. pylori: The Drugstore Cure That Is Ignored 93

DGL Protocol: The Nonprescription Stomach Healer 95

Testing for H. pylori 97

Candida and H. pylori Are Just the Tip of the Iceberg 97

Intestinal Dysbiosis: The Other Bad Bugs 98

Nonprescription Gut Bug Killers 99

The Good Bugs: Probiotics 101

In a Nutshell 104

Chapter 5 Leaky Gut Syndrome 105

Healing from the Inside Out 105

How Food Allergies Are Born 105

Bugs, Drugs, Food, and Mood Precipitate Symptoms 107

The Leaky Gut Causes a Cascade of Untreatable Symptoms 108

Common Scenario for Leaky Gut Syndrome 110

The 8-R Outline: How to Test and Treat 111

The Best Test for the Leaky Gut 113

The Curse of Constipation 114

Healing the Leaky Gut 116

Peeling Back the Layers of Causes 119

Hold Those Nutrients 120

Beyond the Leaky Gut: Total Load 121

In a Nutshell 123

Chapter 6 Finding the Best Treatment for You, or Fixing What's Broken 125

Gut-Level Medicine 125

Treatments for GI Conditions 126

Mouth Sores, Canker Sores, Mouth Ulcers 128

Halitosis 129

Nausea and Vomiting 130

Hiatus Hernia, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), Acid Heartburn, Reflux Esophagitis 131

Gastritis, Heartburn, Esophagitis, Nonulcer Dyspepsia (NUD), Dyspepsia, Acid Indigestion 132

Achalasia 133

Ulcer, Peptic Ulcer, Duodenal Ulcer, Gastric Ulcer 134

Gallbladder Disease 135

Abdominal Pain, Gas, Cramps, Diarrhea, Indigestion, IBS, IBD 137

Constipation 139

Hemorrhoids 141

Diverticulitis 142

Crohn's Disease, Blood and Mucus Colitis, Ulcerative Colitis, Regional Enteritis, Regional Ileitis 142

Candida, Intestinal Dysbiosis, Parasites 147

Cancer 148

A Quick Summary of Treatments 148

If This Is Overwhelming … 148

The Rest of the Protocols 152

Chapter 7 Sorting Through the Mountain of Causes 169

Caveat: The Less Likely Causes 169

General Guidelines 170

Pinning Down the Causes 171

Nutrient Deficiencies Keep Folks from Healing 180

Simplifying the Solutions 196

A New You 197

Healing from the Inside Out 199

References 201

Books and Services Sherry A. Rogers, M.D. 221

Metric Conversion Charts 233

Index 237