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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We're eating foreign stuff all the time.

We rely on the stomach and the juices to make it safe.

So the acid is there to protect us.

When we're getting acid reflux, actually it's not because you've got too much acid, it's because you're refluxing it.

It's going back up into the gullet.

the esophagus.

But omeprazole put an end to that.

The problem with omeprazole, two problems.

First is that the list of problems accruing from long-term omeprazole use is beginning to grow and is serious.

cancers, dementias, all sorts of things are beginning to be downstream problems associated with long-term omeprazole use.

But the other thing is, is that once you're on it, it's really difficult to come off it and you get a famous rebound effect.

So you come off the omeprazole and wow, you get much more trouble.

So the only thing to do is take more omeprazole and people find it really hard to come off it.

So you have to do a lot of hard work to wean people off and do it in sorts of different ways.

So what do we do instead?

Well, one simple thing to do, and anyone can do this, and you don't need to go very far, is to use what we call the raft principle.

So there are some plants that have got a lot of mucus in them, mucilage.

The classic example from North America is silvery elm.

It's a sort of powder that looks like you make poly filler to fill a crack with, you know, it's a white powder.

When it's mixed with water, it forms this paste, this mucus stuff.

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