If you suffer from heartburn or acid reflux, you know the uncomfortable pain it causes. These are foods that help reduce that discomfort without relying on medication.

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), also known as gastro oesophageal reflux disease, is more than just the occasional heartburn—it’s a chronic condition where stomach acid keeps flowing back into ...

Most people associate excess stomach acid with heartburn, but experts say the earliest warning sign is often bloating. When ...

One of the most immediate consequences of eating late is acid reflux. This condition occurs when stomach acid flows back into your esophagus, causing discomfort and that burning sensation in your ...

Heartburn and acid reflux can be related to one another, but they are not the same thing. Acid reflux can cause heartburn. This happens when stomach acid irritates the ring of muscle, or sphincter, at ...

Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

That gnawing pain in your stomach might be more than just ordinary indigestion. Medical experts warn that stomach ulcers, painful sores that develop in the stomach lining, require proper medical ...

In the stomach, so-called parietal cells are responsible for acid production. They react not only to the body's own messenger molecules, but also to bitter-tasting food constituents such as caffeine.

Illustration by Jared Bartman / The Atlantic. Source: Alamy. It survives, for example, by producing “copious amounts” of an enzyme that neutralizes stomach acid, Richard Peek, a gastroenterologist at ...

Got a gut feeling something’s off? You could be right — and the culprit isn’t necessarily Taco Tuesday. “When your gut microbiome is off, think of it like a garden,” gut health expert, author and ...