As a co-founder and creator of Good Bru I want to let those suffering from acid reflux know that it is possible to defeat it. Good Bru is about total health and wellness on several levels, but the subject of GERD is particularly near and dear to the Good Bru story. For many years I suffered from severe GERD.  Food would get trapped for hours and I couldn’t sleep at night or even think about eating a meal without having my 32oz mug of water nearby. Then there was the time I nearly had to call emergency services because a piece of broccoli was lodged in my throat.  I was only in my earlier 40s and this had to change! Through better food choices and regular use of organic prebiotic fiber and probiotics it did! I beat acid reflux! Now GERD is a thing of the past.  In fact, I sometimes stand amazed and grateful that I can eat normally. I’m still careful of a few things because GERD leaves wounds like any other injury. The circumstances that GERD originates from varies from person to person but ultimately GERD results when the body’s protective healing mechanisms have been overwhelmed and the gut lining isn’t healing itself at a pace fast enough to stay protective. When this happens the microbiome shifts to one that favors the damaged environment.  Pictures of an acid reflux plagued upper digestive tract look like skin scraped by asphalt.  If an external wound is protected from germs it can heal but we can’t bandage our insides so we need to create an environment in the stomach that promotes the natural "bandage" that is our endothelial cells and gut mucosa.  Soluble fiber and probiotics fight back the H. pylori and other bad microbes, giving the gut a chance to heal.  The good news is significant improvements can happen pretty fast (weeks) with long-term healing continuing over months and years of healthy habits and aligning one’s diet with their genetics.  One unfortunate thing is that many probiotics and soluble fibers on the market are not high quality, are expensive and inconvenient to take.  Also, I can speak from experience saying that many “triggers” are only marginally at fault.  Meaning that once a person gets a quality soluble fiber and probiotic into their regular diet the gut lining can do its protective job and the “triggers” don’t matter so much.  An example for me is that I still minimize raw tomatoes but at the same time I don’t have an issue when I eat a few.  Raw tomatoes used to be gasoline in my stomach!  Anyhow, Good Bru was made to help people have healthier guts and we hope it can help you. ††