Heartburn: why it happens and what you can do

ZOE Science & Nutrition

ZOE

Nutrition, Science, Health & Fitness, Education

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🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The acid in your stomach is so powerful it can dissolve metal. Luckily, your stomach is fine-tuned to deal with its acidic fluid, but the rest of your body isn’t quite as hardy. So, if acid escapes from your stomach and reaches your esophagus, it can cause a painful sensation in the chest — this is heartburn. It isn’t rare, with more than 1 billion people suffering from it globally. In today’s short episode of ZOE Science & Nutrition, Jonathan and Will ask: Why do we get heartburn, and what’s the best way to deal with it? Follow ZOE on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zoe/ Download our FREE guide — Top 10 Tips to Live Healthier: https://zoe.com/freeguide Studies referenced in the episode: ‘Prevalence and clinical spectrum of gastroesophageal reflux: a population-based study in Olmsted County, Minnesota’ from Gastroenterology here ‘Proton-pump inhibitors and risk of fractures: an update meta-analysis’ from Osteoporos Int. here ‘Proton pump inhibitors alter the composition of the gut microbiota’ from BMJ here This podcast was produced by Fascinate Productions.

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0:00.0	On a late spring afternoon, 30 years ago, a young scientist worked on his computer at King's
0:07.2	College London.
0:08.5	He was studying tests carried out on pairs of identical twins.
0:12.5	Filling his computer screen results from skin biopsies, fecal samples and blood work,
0:18.7	all attempting to answer the age-old question of nature versus nurture.
0:25.0	25 years later, the scientist set off on his bike to give a lecture.
0:29.7	His work from all those years ago had become world famous.
0:34.3	He demonstrated many ways our genes controlled our destiny and many more ways that we are
0:39.0	free from the genetic constraints of our birth.
0:42.4	Most importantly for this story, he'd proven that we all respond differently when we eat
0:46.9	food, even in the case of identical twins.
0:50.9	He gave a lot of lectures, but this one would be different, and encounter that day would
0:55.6	change his life and the lives of many others who would go on to live healthier lives as a result.
1:03.2	That scientist was Professor Tim Specter, and this encounter was with me and my co-founder
1:08.4	George.
1:10.2	That was the day that Zoe was born.
1:12.6	What followed was the world's largest nutrition science study to realise the vision of personalised
1:17.0	nutrition to improve the health of millions.
1:21.7	A lot has happened since then.
1:23.4	From the gut microbiome to menopause, our studies have made groundbreaking discoveries
1:28.1	about our body's relationship to food.
1:31.3	Based on what we learned, we developed and launched the Zoe Personalised Nutrition
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