what, nexium and prilosec and has to watch the amount of wine he drinks and all that. his doctor said he does drink occasionally at least, moderately. so cutting down on alcohol for sure. he s a former smoker which is definitely correlated with acid reflux disease and got off of cigarettes with nicotine gum. what is reflux disease? it s actually not what people think. it s not that there s a lot of acid in the gi tract. it s that the sphincter gets loosened, especially if you re obese, especially if you drink a lot of coffee, which we love here on the program. if you drink a lot of capitalco eat a lot of fatty foods or fried foods, that can increase your risk. on the other hand, if you drink a lot of water, if you exercise a lot, if you drink a lot of water, if you lose weight, you decrease the problem with acid reflux.
through the narrow tube called the esophagus. there is a sphincter and it blocks the food that comes back up. there are a number of things that can relax it and make it happen. this goes on over time. we had a segment a couple weeks ago, i don t know if you remember, 78% increase in the risk of throat cancer and uh sov jeel cancer if you have reflux. 78%. the treatment was go ahead and take your anti-acid because it can reduce it and take care of it. the way it presents is like chest pain. doctors have a problem distinguishing between heart attack and reflux or gurd. you want to make sure to see your doctor. last year i had a chronic cough and everybody said maybe he is tired and exhausted, but reflux can cause chronic cough. a good friend gave me some antacid and it helped.
you re eating non-acidic foods. the goal is to treat it with food to stay away from medication. drink lots of water. one of the things with water is that if you re drinking more water, maybe you re drinking less of the bad drinks like the sodas and the coffee that just aaggravate it. we love coffee on the show. we talk about the great benefits of coffee many times, but when it comes to reflux, it can be a problem. patti ann: chicken with the skin is the worse for you. brown rice fills you up and it s neutral. the biggest ticket in this whole thing is the fatty food. it relaxes the actual sphincter and the acid can go up. chocolate has all of that. it has caffeine, cocoa, fat, so you want to stay away from it. one of the reasons why i became a surgeon is to tell the patient
he? bill is somebody who he knows how to get some attention sometimes with various takes. i think this is one of those times. bill i think is a very, very smart political analyst. on this one i think he s misreading it. so the new york times article yesterday suggesting the republicans may not be doing as well as once expected. what s your take on that story? that s the big political story. no. i would say this, it s morning joe so i can say this. it s sphincter tightening time. i m not exactly sure what you mean by saying you can say that on morning joe. i think that s the first time that word has been used. i want to be able to set the bar. meaning this. it s october. for the last two months, the challengers, in this case the republicans, had basically owned the districts. they re the one that is have been there every day, going to every rotary club dinner, every pancake flipping thing.
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