It’s putting the cart before the horse. Obesity screws up the gut, because of the massive carbohydrate intake. When scientists want to grow Bacteria in a Petri dish, they feed it Sugar. Same thing in the gut. The “bad” bugs love carbs and sugar and dominate.
Put the damn fork down, reduce food intake to barely at or above the basal metabolic rate and the body will do what it was created or adapted to do - burn through the carbs, then starts on the fat, and thus lose the excess poundage. Starve the little bastards out. Everybody wants to take a pill or some quick and easy fix.
“Acid Reflux” is another good un. Left unchecked, it will erode the esophagus. But it doesn’t ordinarily require a pill. Oftentimes People eat so much goddamn food it starts backing up while asleep it isn’t any more complicated than that. “What could it be!?”
My Dr. told told me that Diet & Exercise would cure my Erectile Dysfunction.
If I could only get my wife to Diet & Exercise! 😁