This week Dr. Jack and Mary tackle a growing health problem for more and more Americans. It's actually problems, because our medical system's drug-addled approach has created numerous, chronic conditions that are slowly killing their patients.
We're talking about Heartburn.
In some ways, our body's first warning that we are probably eating garbage, heartburn has been a large-scale health problem for as long as we've had industrialized food production. Not to say there weren't serious reflux problems more than 100 years ago, but it wasn't impacting nearly everyone 100 years ago the way it seems to today.
But if you think the solution is to suppress acid production in your stomach, you need to listen to this very serious correction in your thinking.
People are taking drugs meant to be taken for weeks to an address isolated event, and they are taking them for their entire adult lives. Are you one of them?
