The Relationship Between Heartburn And Chocolate One of the reason you may be having difficulties with heartburn is because of your love for chocolate. Apparently chocolate is one of the strongest, most common producers of heartburn. Weve heard nothing but praise for chocolate. How it acts as a remedy for stress, can change a persons mood from bad to good, and generally help lift us out of our depression and disappointments. But, unfortunately, chocolate has a large amount of Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that is responsible for regulating our emotions, moods, appetites, and even sleep. Its also guilty of causing the muscle between the esophagus and the stomach to relax. That muscle is called the lower esophageal sphincter or LES for short. Its job is to prevents acid from the stomach from going into the esophagus and causing it pain. The esophagus is not designed to have stomach acid touching it. The reason why there is a relationship between heartburn and chocolate is because chocolate has theobromine and serotonin in it. Theobromine is an alkalnoid found in the cacao plant and is a major component of chocolate. But unfortunately it also affects the lower esophageal sphincter by relaxing it which allows stomach acid to touch the esophagus and burn it. If you know that you react to eating chocolate by having bad heartburn, you know what needs to be done: eliminate it from your diet. But, for most of us, that is a bit too much to ask. We love our chocolate, it is one of great life pleasures. Fortunately, doctors are humans too, so Dr. Wei Ming Sun from the University Of Michigan Department Of Internal Medicine and his team conducted a study about the effect of chocolate on the LES. They did not find anything they did not expect: chocolate is really a powerful heartburn trigger. But, they found that, if taken with Granisetron, a common nausea remedy, the effects of chocolate and heartburn are much reduced. Not an ideal solution, but the solution nevertheless. There are a few other studies that are shedding doubt on the traditional thinking that the best way to prevent heartburn is by eliminating foods that trigger heartburn flare-ups. Some of them, like Dr. Laura Gertson, gastroenterologist and director of Stanfords Esophageal and Small Bowel Disorder Center, came to the conclusion that the prevailing wisdom is wrong: staying away from trigger foods does not help against heartburn and we can eat whatever we want. The study was published in the May issue of the magazine Archives of Internal Medicine. Although we like to hear such news about heartburn, and we would like nothing better than to indulge in as much chocolate as we want, we have good reason to doubt such findings. We know better from our everyday life. We know that we pay for eating chocolate with bad heartburn, and that the only way to continue indulging is to do it in very small amounts. Archille W Hebert IV writes about many different aspects of heartburn as well ways to overcome it. To learn the best way to end your heartburn naturally, visit stoptheheartburn/heartburn-no-more-review
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:08:57 +0000
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