Secondary Acid Reflux Symptoms Eliminated Using This Technique

Acid reflux doesn’t only cause the horrendous stomach, chest, and throat pain that are all too familiar.

We may not even think of other symptoms associated with acid reflux, but they’re just as serious.

And a new study just published in The World Chinese Journal of Digestology reveals a simple and even enjoyable solution for these secondary effects of acid reflux.

These researchers noticed that people with acid reflux tend to have very negative emotions about their condition, partly because of their misunderstanding of acid reflux itself, and partly because of the psychological pressure of trying to manage it.

Since negative emotions have a destructive effect on sleep quality, these scientists decided to investigate whether mindfulness stress-reduction therapy could improve the psychological status and sleep quality of elderly patients with acid reflux.

They recruited 120 patients who sought treatment for acid reflux at a hospital between May and October 2020. They were divided into two groups: 60 participants received the standard treatment while the other 60 received the standard treatment combined with mindfulness stress-reduction therapy.

The routine medical care involved medication, health education, information on acid reflux, a prescribed diet, sports care, and psychological treatment.

The mindfulness therapy was given in five 30-minute sessions every two days over a period of 10 days.

Before and after the 10-day treatment period, the researchers asked the participants to complete the Depression-Anxiety-Stress scale, the Mood State Scale, and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality scale to examine their depression, anxiety, stress levels, negative emotions, and sleep quality.

While both groups experienced some improvement on all of these measurement instruments, the mindfulness therapy group displayed much greater improvement.

The greatest difference between the two groups was observed for stress and anxiety, proving that mindfulness was effective at reducing both.

It made no difference regarding energy, fatigue, ego, anger, or panic.

Both groups experienced improvements in sleep quality, sleep duration, sleep efficiency, and daytime function, along with reduced sleep disorders and lower use of hypnotic drugs, The improvement was much larger in the mindfulness therapy group than in the control group.

But if you suffer from acid reflux, your main objective is obviously to get rid of the condition itself. And you can do that in five minutes using the simple home remedy explained here (but hurry—because you’ll also learn just how life-threatening acid reflux really is)…