Something interesting: once acid escapes from the stomach into the esophagus, pepsin also escapes and lodges in your esophagus. It activates on foods lower tha

Something interesting: once acid escapes from the stomach into the esophagus, pepsin also escapes and lodges in your esophagus. It activates on foods lower than pH 5, thus digesting in your esophagus. Since it is an enzyme, it is reusable. I've been following the diet in the Acid Watcher Diet book, which keeps you on foods with a pH level higher than 5, for this reason and others. It has helped a lot, and I don't use a PPI, but I'll still often use an H2 blocker. A claim of the book is that you'll start healing and won't need to follow the diet so aggressively after a while. I believe that this applies to me too.