Acid Reflux: Why it's Worse at Night

If your acid reflux is worst at night - waking up with acid coming up, chest pressure, throat burning, or palpitations - you are not imagining it.➡️ Book a Consultation: https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/Root Cause Medical Clinic | Clearwater, FL | Functional Medicine | Telehealth AvailableNighttime is mechanically the hardest time for a sliding hiatal hernia, and most patients have never had anyone explain whyIn this video I'm walking you through exactly why your hiatal hernia behaves differently at night - and for each reason, a practical tip you can start using tonight.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔍  WHAT YOU'LL LEARN━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━→ Why lying flat eliminates the mechanical advantage you have during the day - and how to get it back→ How eating close to bedtime compounds overnight instability→ Which side you sleep on and why it matters more than you think→ Why you wake up at 2–3 AM even when you were careful about dinner→ Why the morning cortisol surge causes your worst symptoms before you've eaten anything━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🩺  WORK WITH DR. VIKKI━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━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→ Why Your Hiatal Hernia Is Causing Your Anxiety→ 5 Everyday Habits That Make Your Hiatal Hernia Worse━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━👩‍⚕️  ABOUT DR. VIKKI━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Dr. Vikki Petersen is a Doctor of Chiropractic and Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner with 40 years of clinical experience specializing in gut health, hiatal hernia syndrome, GERD, and the root causes of digestive symptoms. She is the founder of Root Cause Medical Clinic, offering telemedicine consultations nationwide.🌐 Root Cause Medical Clinic | Clearwater, FL | Functional Medicine | Telehealth Available Nationwide⚕️Medical Disclaimer: This video is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult your physician or a qualified health provider with any questions about your health. Views expressed are based on Dr. Petersen's clinical experience and current scientific understanding as of the publication date. Individual results may vary.