[PixelForg]

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9550520/

This exercise fixed it for me. I was diagnosed with GERD last year, I already had it for 2-3 years before that, but it got worse last year. I got ppis for a couple of months and when I finished all of them it came back worse. Fortunately I found this article, and I started doing the exercise daily morning after I woke up(and still do it). I can now eat tomatoes, food with mint, spicy food etc etc :) I have shared my experience with others and it helped them too

Edit - Changed the link, had posted something else by mistake

[ProllyInfamous]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42528399

Since reading the above HN comments, I have lost ten pounds and (mostly) stopped drinking carbonated beverages. My GERD is vastly reduced.

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[grep_name]

I don't see anything about carbonated beverages in those comments? I've had good results with some of the exercises mentioned there, but since then have been in a rut unable to make it stop (my only symptom of GERD is a small persistent cough, which sucks more than it sounds like). I drink a lot of sparkling water though. Do I need to give that up too?

[an_aparallel]

Carbonated beverages expand once swallowed, not helpful if your LES is relaxed.

[ProllyInfamous]

>I drink a lot of sparkling water though. Do I need to give that up too?

That helped more (for me) than the minimal weightloss, so far.

[mattgreenrocks]

Thanks for this, will add it to the experiment queue while I work on losing the slight dad bod I have going on.

[vjk800]

How did you implement this? I can't figure out what these instructions in the article mean: "Exercises of dry swallowing in the bridge posture lasted for 4 weeks and were performed ten times per day (Fig. 2). The exercise was performed with 10-s intervals between swallows."

Does this mean that total number of daily dry swallows in bridge position was 10 or 10 times 10 (100)?

[PixelForg]

You get in the bridge position. And then swallow, wait 10 seconds, and swallow again. So total of 10 times, I'm not sure if I could have kept up with it if I had to swallow 100 times :)

[jrgoff]

Thanks for this - it looks interesting, I'm planning on giving it a try for my low level reflux that's been bothering me for over a decade (but always had other health issues that seemed higher priorities to try to address).

[rendaw]

That looks interesting, and can't hurt. So you do 1 set of 10 reps (swallows) a day in the morning? I'm surprised that just swallowing 10 times can provoke any sort of physiological change...