Dropping Acid: The Reflux Diet Cookbook & Cure

Good product.

I found out about this book as I was searching desperately online due to symptoms that are basically reflux coming into my sinuses and causing daily pain. This book is more aimed at those who have LPR (acid comes up to the throat) but most of it applied to me as well (I just wished she had mentioned acid coming into the sinuses as a possibility explicitly...). I followed the induction diet very strictly for around 3-4 weeks and then less strictly (occasional meal out etc. during the Christmas period) for another 4 weeks or so and then I have been less strict again (following the diet for breakfast, lunch and snacks, but having more 'normal' dinners sometimes) for the past month. I have to say, the improvement from doing the induction diet was well worth the initial torture. I never ate particularly unhealthily, am not overweight, don't smoke or drink, but I had the usual in an office environment...two coffees per day and a bit of chocolate/cake/biscuit depending on what was on offer. I followed the diet (easiest part was changing main meals, hardest part was the lack of caffeine and my one or two a day habit of something sweet) and after day 10 of being very strict on the induction diet, my symptoms basically disappeared. After about 2 weeks, I didn't miss anything I used to have, other than the odd bit of cheese! I mostly had (and mostly still have) porridge for breakfast, banana for a snack, salad for lunch (just different salad leaves and either cucumber/chicken/tuna/carrot added), melon or plain/salted popcorn as a snack, fish and rice/chicken and rice/fish and kale/potatoes for dinner. I only drink water (cold or hot, but always plain) and maximum one coffee a day. After 4 years of pain, lots of drugs and tests, it only took 10 days of eating 'clean' and my body started to fix itself. I can't stick to the induction version of the diet permanently (and it's not designed that way - it's an induction, after all) but I am still finding my way through what other things I can eat without causing damage. I have just started a proper food diary and hope it will help. Now...as to the book itself, there is conflicting information in it (I only realised when I got to the end and there is a list of food pH levels that I probably could have been including things like avocado, white onion, etc.) and there's a fair bit of scaremongering about cancer (and I believe it's a possibility but clearly I have bought the book and am doing something about it already - I also didn't have a bad diet or lifestyle to begin with so it feels like I'm being blamed somehow) and the recipes are not doable for me (I need a dinner I can make in 15 minutes, and is cheap - they all seemed to be expensive and time-consuming even if some sounded very nice, I just don't live in that ideal world with plenty of time on my hands and money to spend on fancy ingredients so I mostly stuck with plain rice and plain fish etc for speed and simplicity). Overall though, it's worth a read just to get a better overview than you do from blogs etc. online, and for more information on what you should and shouldn't eat.

I have this and her other book and the 2 books from Acid Watcher (Johnathan Aviv). I have chronic GERD. I have always been a healthy eater and I have a healthy GI and active lifestyle but I still have very bad GERD (started in my teens) and a very bothersome hiatal hernia. Both Kauffman and Aviv offer the best ways forward to managing this problem without PPi's. Some of the information is contradictory but it's pretty solid for the most part and very informative and the best part is that they promote a holistic manageable way to help. Neither a private gastroenterologist (prescribed PPIs) nor a pricey dietician (kept the focus on gut health!) were able to help me the way Kaufmann and Aviv have helped. Both have websites and you tube videos for extra info. I use these books for reliable hguidance and inspirational recipe ideas.

No doubt if you are completely at a loss with what to do you with your gastritis/reflux this is certainly a good starting point. The aching symptoms of gastritis should disappear if you stick to roughly a diet like this. However I think there is way too much concentration of the ph of the food ingested rather than the effect it has on gastric acid secretion. Milk is of course suggested but the protein content and calcium are shown to increase gastric acid secretion in the hours after ingestion thus raising stomach ph levels and thereby you drink more milk and go round in circles of gastritis/reflux. In addition to this they say to avoid coffee but one cup a day is ok of you put it with milk? Christ anyone with gastritis knows the horrors coffee causes, latte or not. Also this book recommends a relatively high protein intake which I have found to not be so helpful. The main topic of the book is pepsin which is used to digest protein and sticks to eosphogus when relfluxed. Pepsin is reactivated by acids, hence it suggests to not eat anything with a ph under 4 or 5 (depending on severity). However in other to digest protein one needs to excrete pepsinogen (precursor to pepsin) and if you ingest a meal of meat and potatoes thats a lot of gastric acid and pepsin floating around with the potential to break through the LES if its weak. Then there are the recipes which aren't up to much. What is strange is that they seem to contain quite a few of the banned ingredients in "small amounts". Quite a bit of which is pan fried food. Let google be thy friend on the recipe front me thinks. There is not one mention of gelatinous bone broth which is the most helpful thing for the digestive system. As I said this book is a good starting point but poor value for money. The "science" is so dumbed down and short that is makes you question how stupid doctors think people are. They repeat the list of allowed food three times in such a short book just to bulk it up. But the fact that this book is flawed and these are the leading experts makes you question the medical profession as a whole. The enormity of people who suffer at the hands of incompetent and arrogant doctors is repulsive. The whole system needs to be overhauled. Because I feel that the authors/publishers are overcharging immensely for this book I have no problem giving a synopsis here: No beverages but chamomile tea and plain water No fruit but bananas and melons Very low fat Mainly starches (potatoes,wheat,rice etc) and vegetables (no cucumbers/peppermint) Some lean proteins - chicken mainly Avoid tomatoes, acidic fruits - particularly citrus, coffee, tea, sodas, spicy foods.

This book is brilliant for Acid Reflux/LPR sufferers (of which I am one). I am currently doing the 2 week 'Induction Reflux diet' from this book and that, along with drinking alkaline water, has really helped my symptoms. I advise you to buy a ph meter so you can test what you are eating/drinking. Dr Jamie Koufman also has an online blog which she refers to in the book. This book will never leave my kitchen! Also google Dr Koufman's research on alkaline water, which found that drinking water of ph 8.8 denatures pepsin and alleviates LPR symptoms. I have suffered with LPR for 12 years untreated and it's driven me to the brink and this book and Dr Koufman's research have given me hope and my quality of life back. Thank you Dr Koufman!

The book is great with loads of information that helps you to understand a lot better what's going on with you. I didn't get why people are complaining about recipes, as for me, it's clearly not a recipe book, but just guidance, so you can use the list of ingredients to cook whatever you want, after all, it was written by doctors, not chefs.

A very good book indeed, easy to read and understand. Normally when I read books such as these, I get bored due to the language and the way it is written. This book isn't nothing like that. For a medical book, it was a page turner. I enjoyed the way, the case files were injected throughout, the text, thus making the context interesting and relevant. Dr Jamie, clearly knows her subject and conveys it easily. Worth every penny spent. I am yet to use all the principles described in the book due, to being on similar diet before purchasing, but I certainly will be following the principles outlined in the book. Not given 5 stars simply because, I haven't read the entire book, but I have enjoyed the reading first few chapters and the recipes in the book (yet to try any though). A must read, highly recommended for anyone with coughing or choking symptoms. I have already recommended the book to friends and family.

A definitive description of what acid reflux is by a respected doctor. Having visited doctors all my life about symptoms and been given completely the wrong advice and useless medication I finally have the answer to all my queries. Usually identified by a tickly cough that just gets worse I discovered it is the enzyme that eats into your throat muscles and can develop into cancer. Fortunately thanks to reading this advice I have changed my diet and found the correct medication to manage it fully. I did not find the recipes helpful as they are in American language and the ingredients are not common in the UK. But I have developed my own recipes that work. I know if I use tomato ketchup I'm floored!

Seguendo i suggerimenti di questo libro ho risolto il mio fastidiosissimo problema di riflusso oltre ad avere scoperto una dieta equilibrata. Lo consiglio davvero a tutti quelli che desiderano smettere di prendere medicine più dannose del riflusso stesso!

I'm so glad I found this bible of a book for reflux disease. Jamie Koufman gives you a straightforward eat-this-but-not-that diet which, if followed, brings quick relief. My cough is nearly gone, my voice is almost restored and I've even lost weight. Definitely worth its weight in gold. Thumbs up! If you have reflux and don't yet have this book, get it. The diets in English are easy to read and understand with the color-coded lists - green for eat this, red for avoid. Thank you Jamie Koufman!

Don't let the glossy photographs of the recipes in this book fool you. Cleverly disguised as cookbook, this book is both sophisticated and scientific in presenting a groundbreaking view of and approach to a highly misunderstood and under-diagnosed condition--acid reflux. (Of course, it is also a terrific cookbook.) By teaming up with Master Chef, Mark Bauer, Drs. Koufman and Stern, present not only a persuasive treatise as to how, when and why the modern American diet is literally "eating us alive." This book is also a specific, dietary road map that can help those afflicted. Brilliant in structure, the book starts with what every patient wants to know, "How can you fix me, doc?" The "Cure" is then presented through the journey of discovery that these physician-scientists completed over many decades. This book is written with the patient, the layperson, in mind. The authors ably explain the complexities of how acid reflux from the stomach results in tissue damage and symptoms not only in the stomach and esophagus, but all up and down the airways, causing a variety of conditions one would not ordinarily associate with a "GI" disease. Asthma, sinusitis, vocal symptoms and chronic cough, to name but a few, all can be caused by acid reflux. Several important new discoveries are highlighted and tied together early on, making the case for following the dietary recommendations made less onerous with delicious appearing, albeit slightly sophisticated, recipes. The critical role of pepsin was discovered by Dr. Koufman; and it is unfortunately poorly understood by many physicians treating these patients. Knowing that it may be re-activated by acidic foods being put in the patients mouth, days after any reflux comes up from the stomach, is critical in understanding why reflux symptoms are increasing, reflux is affecting different areas of the body, is becoming more virulent (seen in the rising rate of esophageal cancer) and is fast becoming a national health hazard of the greatest proportion. Most interesting is the research that went into developing the historical perspective of how America's food and our society's eating habits have been transformed. Market forces appealed to our increasing preference for food and beverage variety. Legislation was created to protect our food supply as transcontinental shipping became more commonplace. Both have had unintended negative consequences which are hard to reverse. Simply telling the patients, no matter how much they might suffer, that they cannot eat this or that, just doesn't work. And that is where these physicians go beyond the science. They fill a much needed gap by laying out some basic food rules. Then they engage a master chef to create recipes that look, sound, and taste delicious. No more excuses for the foodie who doesn't want to give up taste for health. This is integrative medical care at its best! While some of these recipes seem daunting (and perhaps more time consuming that I might like), most can be tweaked and easily adapted for the less culinarily talented amongst us. The photographs alone, all taken by the authors, are enticing enough to want to make one try. So, for all you acid reflux sufferers - and for all you doctors who care for these sufferers - you will feel much better after reading and cooking with Dropping Acid--The Reflux Diet Cookbook and Cure. I certainly did!

Excellent book for regular or silent reflux suffers. Thorough information about the causes and repercussions of acid reflux, as well as explanations for which foods to eliminate or avoid and which foods are ok to eat. A variety of recipes that actually have flavour, considering the limitations of the foods still available eat. Beats the bland repertoire normally offered acid reflux sufferers. Written by a doctor specializing in this area, and recommended to me by an ear, nose and throat specialist. I couldn't ask for a more qualified recommendation and was not disappointed. The recommendations in this book combined with raising the head of the bed per the specialist, have helped me gain control over my silent reflux - This was prescribed to help heal the lesions in my throat.

Very good book as an induction to Jamie Koufman's Theory. I've been following the suggested diet and it has worked very well on me (less reflux symptoms). Really recommend it if you feel reflux is damaging your life style.