***Cure your GERD, with natural suppliments, D-Limonene & whole body health (not Rx meds or surgury)

I wrote a similar thread in the past, and it was locked. Funny. And to bad, since many need help with their GERD. I wrote this to share with you what works, as it permanently worked for me.

Unless you have a "mechanical" problem like Hiatal Hernia, GERD does not just happen overnight. Your issues build up in time untill GERD is the reasult from acid "burning" your LES valve, rendering its correct operation useless. The trick is to get the LES to heal, break the reflux "cycle", then acid wont "relux" past it. In this process, you need to identify possible causes (below) to identify why this started. But once it starts, just correcting the problem wont always heal the damaged LES, but other supplements/products ect, D-Limonene will start to heal the LES in the first week. I'm not kidding. Goggle it.

There are people with chronic illnesses, of which GERD can be a symptom as well. People with chonic illness have no choice but to learn about whole body health- something that is severily lacking in most discussions on this forum, as I've read them for years. D-limonene is one product many of you have never heard of, and it HEALS the LES valve, then your reflux STOPS.

**Before someone thinks of locking this thread, (like it happened before) I'm from the Lyme Disease forum here and have fully cured my GERD years ago with several natural approches after trying all of the GERD meds (that made it worse) out 8 years ago.** Just adding some pointers here that helped me, and it can help you too. Not selling anything- I have over 2000 posts on Healing Well, just not on the GERD forum.

So.....taking GERD meds for life is not the answer. If you only believe in Prescription Rx then you wont be interested in further reading, unless you like learning and open your mind beyond what western medicine Drs preach.

I realize many of you are not into holistic health (some are though) and suddenly came down with GERD symptoms, so you never dove into holistic health, BUT that is what can help when Rx medicine does not.

GERD is about gut health. Heard of leaky gut? Your regular Dr wont believe in it, but your immune system starts in the gut. If your gut has physical issues-it needs reparing- info all over the web on this topic.

Cutting out all the crap food for a while and adding back with an elimination diet will help show what your gut cant tolerate- like cows milk, corn, gluten ect- food sensitivities might be one of them.

Gut Candida- candida is in the fungus /yeast family and can proliferate in the gut - causeing GERD. Bloat after carbs , bread, sweets- thats Candida and bloating is not normal. There are natural remedies to cure this. But there are also Rx for this which actually is effective. Nystatin and Diflucan. Some Rx's do work.

Thyroid- low T3 levels will cause gut "slowing"- gerd is the result many times. Fact. Rx T3 is best for this. Some people dont covert T4 thyroid into T3 properly. Thyroid can be comlicated, tsh testing is useless you need freet3 and free t4 thyroid hormones tested and at least half way up into the range. bottom of ranges is still low..

There are natural remedies for all of the above- but I cant explain thiem all in this post, its a learning process.

The natural product I previously mentioned that will heal the LES in under one month is called D-limonene (thats the natural chemical enzyme name) , about $10 for one month depending on brand. not many brands though.. its a citrus enzyme that becomes alkalizing once in your gut, has digestive lining healing properties, and supposedly kills candida and H-pylori. Many with gerd on the lyme forum and many other more natural healing forums use this and it works.

After all the gerd Rx's failed me the drs said I needed the les surgery or i'd get throat cancer. I had to sleep in a chair, or drowned in acid!

Surgery?-Nope, I fixed it years ago after a few years of total suffering. It sucked, and is the only reason why I bothered to come over here from the lyme healing well forum to post this use full info. For $10 its worth a try.

Post Edited (astroman) : 11/30/2016 9:25:54 PM (GMT-7)

People I know who tried it have success. Its just not widely known- well..........yet.

Big pharma is good for some things, but a big fail in this area, otherwise this forum wouldn't even be here!

All the PPI's and H2's made me worse- could not digest properly.

Big pharma cant make money on natural products, thus conventional Drs will not know this stuff.

I have known people on PPI's for 10 years, its not good for you. Some Natural-Path Drs do know about this, but your visit will be $150 out of your pocket at a minimum, since insurance only covers conventional western medicine (their obviously in bed together to take our money, not cure us). Sad fact.

I have had Hashimoto for almost 20 years. Again this is an area wear most conventional MD's fail (not shocking).

You CANNOT diagnose or treat hypothyroid with just a TSH test, but it saves money at the cost of the patients health LOL.

TSH is just a signal from the pituitary gland telling the thyroid how much hormone to produce, prob is, TSH test is not very accurate.

The actual thyroid hormone levels need to be tested, both: free T4 and free T3.

Now most Drs dont test free T3, they should!!!! As some people get older the storage hormone T4 does not convert as well as it once did to T3. Low T3 can result in a slowed digestive tract, (in turn GERD too) thyroid gurus know this, its on the web and its true. But if Drs dont test for it, how would you know?

And Drs dont test for it because most Drs only prescribe T4 thyroid med (assuming you convert well enough to T3). So if they do test the actual hormones, it usually only T4.

The freeT3 and free T4 ranges are very wide. All cells use these hormones as food. Such that you can be at the bottom of the ranges and still have hypo symptoms. This is another fact ignored by Drs, but known on any good thyroid forum. Top third of ranges is best. TSH is opposite- its not a hormone, its a signal, but this goes the opposite direction- high is hypo- bad. In most people TSH higher than 2 is hypo. The range is wrong for most of the public. The old range says hypo is after 5, wrong, its lower. BUT, remember, the T3/T4 levels are most important, not TSH.

People with long time thyroid issues who decide to educate themselves eventually find this out and change Drs. And they might find out thru trial and error, that they need T3 too, in the form of cytomel or natural that contains both T4 and T3 like Armour pig thyroid. Yes LOL its from pigs thyroid. But it works better for many "thyroidians".

Bottom line, low t3 can also be responsible for reflux, and constipation (or whatever the fancy acronym is for it). T3 levels are more responsibe for muscle health and digestive acid and bile production VS T4 levels - everything needed for digestion.

Endochronologists nor gastro Drs are aware of this. Maybe very few? Modern medicine does not correct things, it covers issues/symptoms with "Rx bandaids". That how Drs are trained. Its called medicine, not "healing" for a reason. PPIs are just temporary bandaids that cause harm in the long run.

Health care is a joke today. They can save your life in ER, but are almost clueless with chronic issues that effect our daily lives. Information sharing internet is changing our health for good.

Post Edited (astroman) : 11/21/2016 9:09:45 AM (GMT-7)

livejoy can you tell me how you're feeling now compared to the rebound after PPis? how long did it last for? my story is very similar to yours

Thanks so much for posting this! I'm also into holistic and natural approach, although I do use medical drugs when in emergency. Great post as I also heard about this D-Limonine / DGL as well before. I hope we all can get well.

Tommyc said...
Why does a healing well site ban threads that talks about things that help people? I rarely come here anymore because of that. My gerd is completely gone, drug free.

Because, unfortunately, some stubborn people strongly oppose / dont believe natural supplements can work. Aspirin is from the white willow tree. Many modern medicines derived as synthetic copies of natural herbs / supplements, just more powerful.