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This is another one of those fundamental topics, like my How to Prevent High Blood Pressure with Diet video (
I did do a video about esophageal cancer, though, on the extraordinary reversal of the kinds of precancerous changes that lead to the devastating condition with nothing but strawberries: Strawberries vs. Esophageal Cancer (
Since this video came out in 2015, I have a few more videos on GERD:
• Diet & Hiatal Hernia (
• Coffee & Mortality (
• Treating Reflux in Babies with Diet (
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