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Acid Attacks After Meals? Acid Pocket Explained
After meals do you feel burning, pressure, chest tightness, heart palpitations or even anxiety?
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Your acid pocket could be to blame. What is it?
The acid pocket is a layer eof highly acidic stomach "juice" that floats just above the meal you just ate. It sits at the very top of your stomach.
If you have too much pressure in your belly squeezing your stomach, the pocket can get pushed upwards past your anti-reflux barriers located in the bottom of your esophagus, your diaphragm (crura) and a ligement under…
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