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Are you stressed or under pressure? Probably this regimen will prolong your life and healthspan but might be not warrented to evade GERD if you are stressed, b
by JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago
Are you stressed or under pressure?
Probably this regimen will prolong your life and healthspan but might be not warrented to evade GERD if you are stressed, because de-stressing alone would get you there without having to give up a variety of foods.
It is also my theory that if doctors are right and the #1 cause of GERD is smoking (and I have no reason to believe that isn' true) then 1800-1980 everybody had GERD but people being less stressed and hyperaware of their health didn't notice it as much.
- meristohm 3y agoYou make an important point about stress and its effects. Yes, I am under a lot of stress, and working myself out from under that is an ongoing challenge. Another commenter in this thread suggested histamine intolerance, and when I asked my doctor about it they said yes it's possible (though rare) and that my symptoms can also be caused by stress and anxiety. While I get to the root of it (possibly some adverse childhood experiences), I've made positive changes, including: -Prioritizing sleep and acting on that to get enough -replacing morning coffee with a tap-cold shower, now a daily habit to stay in until I feel the internal response rush of warmth, and not much longer beyond that- no need to actually cool myself down so much, that I know of (I'm not training for significant cold exposure). -getting outside for regular walks -journaling as a brain dump, and then burning the writing -eating a high-fiber, low-added-sugar diet, mostly fresh plants (I'd include sprouts there, and I've since increased the proportion to about $5/week over the initial $3, wrongly calculated as $0.61) -and being okay with doing nothing else except breathing, just because, and as an intervention if I'm having a troublesome emotional response