Posted on 10/19/2025 9:38:29 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods
"We're all victims now...of acid reflux disease..."
"Nobody in this audience really thinks obesity is a disease. Where do you think I caught this? Got to close to a fat person."
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Acid reflux - too many antibiotics that kill good gut bacteria.
I AGREE WITH YOU about the vicious cycle- indeed, Elaine Gottschall years ago wrote a book CALLED Break the Vicious Cycle in which she chronicled the SCD, the Specific Carbohydrate Diet ,not designed by her, but administered by her to her daughter, who suffered from Ulcerative Colitis, with significant results. Stress does play a significant role in exacerbating UC- it did for me early on. I have been dealing with this for 31 years, but I learned how to handle the stress- that’s 100% mental. I just changed how I deal with things on a day to day basis, PLUS, I’ve been extremely fortunate to have pretty good insurance. Believe me, that’s helped cut down on the stress, lol.
I don’t know whether you intended everyone who didn’t open the link to go off on acid reflux, but not opening the link seems increasingly to be the standard around here. And it’s a shame.
I don’t know how, because I have beaucoups of family in the South, but I had never heard this guy James Gregory before. But because of your link, I just watched several of his videos for most of an hour and laughed and laughed! Whatever you intended, thanks for the post!
Diet, lack of exercise, and stress.
Polio, tb are INFECTIOUS diseas.
Acid reflux is due to incompetence of the esophageal sphincter allowing stomach acid to go into esophagus, where it doesn’t belong(causes erosion of tissue and/”heartburn”. It’s a disease ...not all diseases are infectious in nature
I do agree that alcoholism and addiction are solvable through character, habit reform ..would use the term, “self induced chemical poisoning”. Obesity would be”overfeeding syndrome” or some kind of term like that
IMHO
Because they can be treated rather then people just dropping over dead.
When people have strokes we can actually treat them and, if done fast enough, can restore them to close to normal condition. This can happen several times.
Back a thousand years ago you got elf shot only once and you died.
I was on Prilosec for nearly 20 years, I quit using it. Started eating sauerkraut, cut back the bread and carbs, and it disappeared. Sometimes it comes back, usually after a Holiday meal. I will take a Prilosec for a day or two, and it goes away for months at a time. Shots of diluted vinegar, and pickle juice also helps, along with vegetable and protein diets. NO TO POTATOES, CHIPS, or cheap grocery store breads.
Yeah, those cheap grocery store breads. I can’t eat anything like those Pillsbury pop and serve things, crescent rolls and stuff you put in the oven.
Lots of interesting little recipes using those but forget it for me.
Best remedy for heartburn is half a teaspoon of baking soda and 4 oz water. Gets rid of it immediately. No kidding.
“Because they can be treated rather then people just dropping over dead.”
Diabetes
Cardiac myopathy
Hyperthyroidism
Multiple sclerosis
All diseases. None of them virulent.
No.
As I was telling a friend today, obesity, alcoholism, acid reflux and type 2 diabetes are, IMHO, not diseases, they are decisions. I say this as someone who struggles against one or more of the foregoing myself.
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