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Glutamine

Post author By Dr. Dave DeLapp
Post date December 21, 2024

I have found that digestive issues and back pain are the most common reasons patients seek medical care. However, what most people and doctors don’t know is that each of these can and do create the other. For example, a patient’s reflux can cause a sharp stabbing pain in their mid back, and another patient’s […]

Tags activator, aloe vera, auto-immune disease, chemotherapy, Glutamine, glycine, gut healer, gut pain, immune cells, ivy, leaky gut, mucosa, radiation, reflux, somato visceral reflex, starvation, taurine, tylenol

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Hiatal Hernia

Post author By Dr. Dave DeLapp
Post date September 19, 2021

One of the common conditions I encounter among my patients is the hiatal hernia. Patients often refer to it by the most common symptom it produces, reflux, or heartburn. Both terms are descriptively correct. Stomach contents flow backward up into the esophagus food tube from the mouth. Since the stomach fluids are usually very […]

Tags acid stomach, chronic stress, cocktail straw, diaphragm spasm, esophagus, GERD, hiatal hernia, phrenic nerve, reflux, sympathetic nerves, vagus nerve