How Symptoms of GERD are Dramatically Diminished with Aerobic Exercise
Proper digestion requires the whole body to work.
I have Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, GERD. It’s sometimes called, “silent heartburn”. I once suggested that GERD may actually save my life.
I have had a persistent cough since at least 2006. I’ve tried everything I could think of to get rid of it. I have been to many doctors seeking a cure for it. And for most of those years, I didn’t even know I had GERD. I only knew that I had a persistent cough that would not respond to any medication or anything that I had tried before.
Then I happened upon a book called, “The Acid Watcher Diet”. As I read that book, I could only think, “Yeah, that’s me. That’s me, too.” And though the good doctor who wrote that book gives a very detailed analysis of the dietary changes required to get healthy again, there was one thing that he missed.
Exercise.
Maybe that’s not his field of study or medical practice. But I had noticed something months ago. I noticed that I got some relief from GERD by rebounding on a trampoline. That made me cough some. It made me burp some. I might have farted once or twice in a session, but rebounding on a trampoline made everything move. I noticed that I coughed much less after a…
