Simon Mills

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1,403 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard 26 Dec

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So some of the meals we buy that are Asian are a bit too fatty.

But if you make it yourself at home, which means learning how to cook, but you can eat very cheaply.

Well, I suppose I didn't mention much about the omeprazole because that... I've never heard of this before.

Omeprazole?

Yeah, I've never heard of it.

They are increasingly a minority.

Omeprazole is the most widely prescribed drug in this country, and I believe in the US also, and it's for acid reflux.

It's what the Americans call GERD.

and what we call gourd because we spell oesophagus differently.

So we spell oesophagus with an O-E and Americans spell it with an E. So it's either GERD or gourd depending on which country you're in.

And that means gastroesophageal reflux disease, gourd.

And acid reflux is a real issue with a lot of people.

And they find that when they go to a doctor, the doctor will routinely prescribe Omeprazole or something like it.

And Gord is actually diagnosed as a condition which is made better by Omeprazole.

I mean, it's literally, it's a disease that is diagnosed by the treatment.

And what omeprazole does is it shuts down the acid production in the stomach so you don't get as much damage by reflux.

The problem is that the acid's doing a job.

It's sterilizing your food, which is important, isn't it?

It's also helping to break it down so that it becomes not an immune threat.

If you have a blood transfusion or something in the wrong blood, you get a problem.

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