Unlike the confectionary (or candy) gum on any convenience store shelf, functional gum is chewing gum that contains active ingredients to help certain conditions – currently ranging from fatigue, nicotine cravings, and dry mouth to reflux!
What seems like such a simple and insignificant activity has proven to be an essential tool for providing relief from acid reflux and stress.
Dr. Franco is an accomplished physician with a long career distinguished by renowned research, global teaching, speaking and collaboration, and a thriving medical practice at Massachusetts Eye and
As a physician, my patients with reflux never kept me up at night. It seemed like everyone had it (at least 1 in 5 US adults do), and
Gastric Reflux is really straightforward: it is the retrograde movement of gastric contents into the esophagus or throat. This simple definition belies the complicated reality of reflux for
