How drinking an acid helps reduce acid in your stomach is perplexing.

GI reflux issues can be debilitating and idiosyncratic.

If you have no idea what is causing it, you might want to try a probiotic. I was dismissive of them to start with (how could you possibly know if you have an "imbalance" in your gut fauna? we don't even know what is in there).

All I can say is that it (apparently) worked for me (assuming it didn't just happen by itself). We are slowly finding evidence that probiotics supplements can have significant effects on overall physiology.

I am not so sure about clinical evidence for apple cider.

I knocked out almost all of my acid reflux problems by sleeping on my left side.

gmol, I am taking aspergillus.

I don't really know what it is. My diet has changed drastically since I moved to Korea and I often don't know what I'm eating.

I think I need to stay away from fried foods, though.

GMO is not hybridization, it's changing organisms on a molecular level by splicing them with other species, which is much different than cultivating through hybrids. You can't plant celery with tomatoes and expect them to combine. Or plant an eggplant with a dead mouse and let it absorb those cells.

GMO is a completely different territory which is very intertwined with chemical insecticides; hybrids can be done organically without that chemical dependency.

Different, but not obviously bad.

I find the profound thing about GMO is that it hasn't been nearly as successful as one might have imagined.

Sure corn, soy and tomatoes (I can't think of anything else off the top of my head). Googling shows me that we are just starting to see some people to try selling GM apples.

All of our wheat and cereals are not GM. There have been a few ventures that were hyped to no end and failed fantastically (golden "vitamin A" rice). We are still eating the same staple crops for the last few thousand years (with just a little bit of trading between old world and new).

And it's pretty easy to do things like make recombinant strains of yeast, yet we aren't passing around cool transgenic yeast strains that do crazy things like express thaumatin to make bread super sweet, and weird tasting beer. We mostly stick to easy stuff like putting GFP in anything we can to make it "glow green" (which it doesn't really).

Traditional hybridization has been responsible for far more manifested physical diversity in our plants that GM ever will be.

Viruses have been making GM humans forever now and we turned out okay. Geneticists recently learned that the so-called "junk DNA" in our genes is actually the operating system, and the control genes can be a way down the chain from the gene it controls. The true work of designer life can finally begin.