If You Need to Poop Right After Eating, Here’s Why
But in your body, ingesting and excreting are intrinsically linked—opposite ends of a single GI tract. And putting food in ...
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What To Know About Stress and Acid Reflux
Stress and anxiety aren't a direct underlying cause of acid reflux, but they can trigger symptoms. Research has shown that high stress levels can negatively affect gastrointestinal (GI ...
Baylor College of Medicine3 年
Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
GERD is short for gastroesophageal reflux disease. It is a chronic disease where the contents of the stomach, particularly acid, reflux into the esophagus. The acid, through various mechanisms, ...
Nature6 年
Figure 2 - Gastroesophageal reflux disease initiates a vicious cycle of increasing ...
LES, lower esophageal sphincter. (Source: AGA teaching unit 7, Neurogastroenterology and Motility: Upper GI Tract, slide 34., used with permission. Copyright American ...
Nature5 年
Figure 9 - Gastroesophageal reflux detected by combined multichannel intraluminal impedance ...
Impedance-detected reflux episodes during which the intraesophageal pH drops from above to below 4.0 are considered acid (a), whereas impedance-detected reflux episodes during which the ...