So for a while now I’ve been stuck in a bad cycle of GI issues. From horrible acid reflux that’s causing esophagitis and damaging my body, and also a bad balance of my gut micro biome. I’ve been prescribed PPI’s but recently discontinued them because I don’t think they’re helping and also just making matters a lot worse. On top of that I need to get back on my antidepressants and I’m not willing to take a risk with the nasty interactions that may occur. Does anyone on here have advice on paleo? I’ve heard it can be very beneficial and even solve a lot of these problems. I already am taking garden of life mens probiotics, and not much of a difference has been noticed yet but I’m trying to stick to it. I suppose my question is, what is paleo? I’ve been trying to do my own research but am getting quite overwhelmed with how broad of a diet it seems to be. What should I be cutting out of my diet and what CAN I actually eat to follow this diet and maybe eventually solve these issues without having to take PPI’s which clearly seem to be a medication that doesn’t actually do much to solve the issue at hand. If anyone has advice on foods they eat for a paleo diet I would really appreciate some help.
About 20 years ago, I had severe daily reflux/GERD, not helped much by PPIs. It was miserable.
I adopted a strict gluten free diet, primarily Paleo, after experimenting with elimination of various categories of food.
In close to 20 years now, I haven’t had so much as a trace of reflux/GERD. It took a good part of a year to vanish.
In making the transition, weathering the rebound reflux caused by quitting the PPIs, and helping GI healing, I found that DGL (deglycyrrhizinated) licorice lozenges were extremely helpful, and I used them for about a year.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7348626/
The dietary change had dramatic results over time, completely eliminating every trace of the reflux problem. Prior to the diet change, I’d elevated the head of my bed about 4 inches relative to the foot of the bed, and I stopped eating after 6 pm, and those changes resulted in modest benefit, but the dietary change was much more dramatic.