"A creamy treat cured my heartburn!"

Prescription meds couldn’t help Patricia Wyatt’s painful nightly GERD attacks...but then a simple snack changed everything!

- Alexandra Pollock

Patricia Wyatt woke up in the middle of the night, her throat and chest burning. I feel like I’m choking! she coughed, staggering to her medicine cabinet. For the retired educator, this wasn’t her first woken-out-of-sleep coughing attack—in fact, Patricia had been struggling with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) for years, and had a variety of over-the-counter and prescription inhibitors on hand.

A diagnosis of a hiatal hernia had brought GERD into her life, and she’d suffered from almost nightly attacks. More troubling still, Patricia had begun to see warnings about how protonpump inhibitor (PPI) medication, which she took to reduce the acid in her stomach, might increase her risk of heart disease or stomach cancer. I can’t take that chance!