5 Things Making Your Hiatal Hernia Worse

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If you have a hiatal hernia and you're still suffering despite medication and diet changes, something you're doing every single day may be making it worse. Book a Consultation: https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ These aren't unusual triggers. They're completely ordinary habits that nobody has told you are a problem - because most doctors aren't looking at this mechanically. In this video I'm walking you through 5 everyday habits that are directly aggravating your hiatal hernia - and what to do instead. Root Cause Medical Clinic | Clearwater, FL | Telemedicine available nationwide | https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ → Why grazing and snacking disrupts your gut's natural cleaning cycle (MMC) → What happens to your hiatal hernia every time you strain on the toilet → Why sparkling water may be causing more damage than you think → How tight clothing and sucking in your stomach restricts your diaphragm → How to tell if chronic stress is mechanically aggravating your hernia daily ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Root Cause Medical Clinic sees patients nationwide via telemedicine. → Schedule a consultation: https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 RELATED VIDEOS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ → 5 Signs Your Hiatal Hernia Is Getting Worse: https://youtu.be/wER9WM9jToY → Hiatal Hernia ATTACK Feels Like This: https://youtu.be/zVzSVNyDLkY → GERD, Silent Reflux, or Hiatal Hernia - What's Actually Causing Your Symptoms?: https://youtu.be/MNA8lNkJuEI ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👩‍⚕️ ABOUT DR. VIKKI ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Dr. Vikki is a Doctor of Chiropractic and Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner with 40 years in practice. She specializes in gut health, hiatal hernia syndrome, hormones, and GERD — finding and fixing root causes, not managing symptoms. ⚠️ This content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult a qualified healthcare provider for your individual situation.

5 Myths of Hiatal Hernia

Struggling with hiatal hernia and not getting real answers? Book a consultation: https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ [https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/] Root Cause Medical Clinic | Clearwater, FL | Functional Medicine | Telehealth Available If you've been told surgery is your only option — or that you'll be on PPIs forever — there are some things you need to know first. In this video, Dr. Vikki Petersen breaks down 5 of the most common hiatal hernia myths and sets the record straight with research-backed facts. THE 5 HIATAL HERNIA MYTHS: ❌ MYTH #1: Surgery is a permanent fix Nearly 1 in 4 patients require PPI medication again within a few years. Up to 50% experience complications including difficulty swallowing, bloating, and inability to burp or vomit. ❌ MYTH #2: PPIs are safe to take long-term PPIs are only approved for 2 weeks at a time. Long-term use is linked to increased risk of heart attack, stroke, osteoporosis, dementia, stomach cancer, and a weakened microbiome. ❌ MYTH #3: Acid reflux always causes heartburn 50% of reflux is completely silent. It may show up as chronic cough, hoarseness, or trouble swallowing — and some reflux is caused by too little acid or bile, making PPIs completely ineffective. ❌ MYTH #4: Endoscopy is the gold standard for diagnosis Endoscopy misses the most common type of hiatal hernia nearly 48% of the time. Manometry and impedance pH monitoring are far more accurate — but rarely used. ❌ MYTH #5: You have to be overweight to have hiatal hernia Weight alone isn't the issue — visceral fat is. A person can be a normal weight and still have dangerous levels of visceral fat driving abdominal pressure and symptoms. ABOUT DR. VIKKI: Dr. Vikki Petersen is a functional medicine doctor and founder of Root Cause Medical Clinic. She specializes in gut health, digestive disorders, and identifying the root cause of chronic symptoms rather than managing them indefinitely with medication. ───────────────────────────────────────── Disclaimer: Educational content reviewed by licensed medical staff. This content is provided for informational and educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. It is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the guidance of your physician or other qualified healthcare provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or treatment plan. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay seeking it because of something you have read or heard here. The information shared reflects clinical experience and current scientific research at the time of publication. Individual results may vary, and no guarantees of specific outcomes are made. This content does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. #HiatalHernia #HiatalHerniaMyths #PPIRisks #AcidReflux #FunctionalMedicine #RootCauseMedical #DrVikkiPetersen #GutHealth #RefluxRelief #DigestiveHealth #HiatalHerniaSyndrome #SilentReflux

9. maj 202621 min

5 Things Making Your Hiatal Hernia Worse

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