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Posted 6/22/2017 8:18 PM (GMT 0)
Hi, everybody! This is my first post and I hope you will like it… I have been researching quite different health problem from GERD for years, unfortunately without success until now. By the way, as a byproduct, I have come to the point to understand the GERD disorder, you guys are dealing with. My own father almost died at the age of 37 on GERD. He cut all the food he registered as GERD inducing, so in the end he consumed only boiled potatoes. It caused losing all the minerals and vitamins from his body, so he nearly passed away. Fortunately, with the help of his friend, the pharmacist, he survived and lived to the age of 81.

According to my positive knowledge, GERD has nothing to do with the food you are eating. The disorder is caused by the incorrect functioning of autonomous nervous system, which does not generate signal strong enough to shut the entrance valve of your stomach. In the same manner, it does not provide strong enough signal to shut the exit valve of the bladder, causing the incontinency in women, which frequently goes hand in hand with GERD. The reason for developing GERD is “body manipulation” whereby it denotes any physical activity of your body. Even prolonged standing on one spot, without doing anything, represents some kind of body manipulation. It is a long story…

How can GERD be fought against!? Also through body manipulation! Here is one of them, so you can test it. When you have reflux, in a standing or sitting position, put your arms horizontally in front of you, with the palms facing down. Fold the fingers into fists, then bend the fists towards down until you feel the pain in the upper part of your forearms. If necessary, repeat several times in succession. It eliminates reflux feeling at once.

Kind regards!
Kodaska
Posted 7/1/2017 10:22 AM (GMT 0)
Has anyone tested the proposed manipulation? Is it possible that nobody has had a success with it...? I have applied it only couple of times, but my wife suffers from reflux and uses it often, with good results. Would be glad to get a response, even if negative...

Kodaska
Posted 7/3/2017 11:22 PM (GMT 0)
Interesting post, kodaska.

Do you have GERD yourself?

The arms out in front and making a fist seems to me, on trying it, like a variation on Valsalva maneuver, although not as powerful. I use Valsalva when my vagus nerve is triggering my heart to beat too fast.

If you look up cardioesophgeal reflex (not reflux), you will find several scientific studies on the relationship, via the vagus nerve, between the heart and the stomach and esophagus.

I agree that for most people food has not much to do with GERD, unless you happen to have specific food intolerances that trigger an allergic-type of reaction. But a few of us do have this condition.

Unfortunately for me, no maneuvering or food avoidance will repair my weak LES. I eventually did have to have the surgery, although I successfully avoided it for years until I was in a wreck that caused my stomach to be pushed into my chest, and the resulting surgery fixed the LES. However, the chemical intolerance remains and still causes tachycardia if I'm not careful with foods.
Posted 7/4/2017 5:44 AM (GMT 0)
Alcie, thanks for responding! It made me feel less alone…

I was trying to understand why people do not respond. The first idea with such posts, bringing something new, is that someone is trying to make a joke from other peoples’ misery. The very next idea is that someone is again trying to play a smart guy, what is also not welcome. There is also the possibility that people, when they read something that is opposing their experience or views, are not ready to accept it. The sentence about the food not being so essential for GERD may have been such one trigger.

I must admit that I personally do not have much problems with GERD. My problems are, like yours Alcie, cardiac arrhythmias, ranging from PVCs to Atrial Fibrillation. They are the reason that I have spent thousands of hours analyzing posts on all possible forums. With the time, the pattern has begun to emerge. For all our troubles, fellow sufferers, responsible is dysautonomia, meaning disturbance in functioning of autonomous nervous system. All the functions of our body, which we do not have to take care about, and there are many of them, are precisely guided by the regulation centers of autonomous nervous system. A certain percentage of people, maybe somewhere up to 10%, are prone to developing dysautonomias. Yes, it is hereditary! My father had problems with it, I have problems with it and my son will most probably have them too.

What causes dysautonomia? It is caused in electro-mechanical way, meaning that it can be induced purely by stress (electrically), purely by physical activity (mechanically, through body manipulations) or as any combination of the two. The variety of triggers and the variety of symptom combinations is huge and perplexing. When we add the fact, that classical medicine does not allow alternative approaches very easily, the result is poor treatment of all dysautonomia patients.

Yes, Alcie, Valsalva maneuver is a typical example of body manipulations. So glad that you have mentioned it! It originates from a couple hundred of years ago and demonstrates that body manipulations are the right way to treat dysautonomias. Chiropractors would be the right place to seek help, under condition that they have adequate knowledge, but I am afraid that they don’t. If they did, it would already be a wide known fact.

Sorry for being so long!

Regards!!!
Kodaska
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