All About Acid Reflux & GERD | Ep 303

The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast

Erin Holt

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.9 • 759 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Erin explains how digestion works in the body and how dysfunction in any part of the process can lead to acid reflux & GERD. Learn how conventional medicine treatment can often mask the underlying root cause of GERD and potentially exacerbate the issue. Erin discusses the common foods and medications that contribute to reflux and simple ways to support yourself in your treatment journey.

Timestamps

(12:46) Conventional medicine: how PPIs long term can cause problems

(15:29) How functional medicine can sometimes miss the mark with GERD

(17:53) Digestion 101: Digestion as a north to south process

(21:58) Troubleshooting your own reflux root cause

(28:10) Signs & symptoms of low stomach acid

(32:57) How to support yourself with reflux & treatment strategies

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0:00.0	I'm Erin Holt, and this is the Functional Nutrition Podcast, where we lean into intuitive
0:07.2	functional medicine. We look at how diet, our environment, our emotions, and our beliefs
0:12.5	all affect our physical health. This podcast is your full-bodied, well-rounded resource.
0:18.7	I've got over a decade of clinical experience, and because of that,
0:22.2	I've got a major bone to pick with diet culture and the conventional health care model.
0:26.4	They're both failing so many of us. But functional medicine isn't the panacea that it's made
0:31.3	out to be either. We've got some work to do, and that's why creating a new model is my life's
0:37.0	work. I believe in the ripple
0:38.7	effect. So I founded the Functional Nutrition Academy, a school and mentorship for practitioners
0:43.5	who want to do the same. This show is for you if you're looking for new ways of thinking about
0:48.6	your health and you're ready to be an active participant in your own healing. Please keep in mind
0:53.6	this podcast is created for educational purposes only and should never
0:57.2	be used as a replacement for medical diagnosis or treatment.
1:00.7	I would love for you to follow the show, rate, review, and share because you never know
1:05.5	whose life you might change.
1:06.7	And of course, keep coming back for more.
1:13.6	Hello, my friends.
1:14.8	I am genuinely so happy to be here with you today.
1:18.7	Gratitude is on my mind in a major way.
1:23.0	Hopefully I don't start crying.
1:24.4	I just, I kind of felt the little pricks behind my eyeballs. And I'm like,
1:28.4	oh, am I going to, if I got to cry, am I going to do it? We are halfway through Manifest Your
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