The Health Detective Podcast by Functional Diagnostic Nutrition

E549 - 5 Years of Acid Reflux & Stomach Pain, Gone: The Root Cause Her Doctors Kept Missing

Published: June 18, 2026

Duration: 30:54

If you have lived with acid reflux, heartburn, bloating, or stomach pain that will not go away, even after PPIs, elimination diets, and round after round of doctor visits, this conversation is for you.

For over five years, Jessica Washington cycled through the ER, a PPI, a SIBO label, and increasingly restrictive diets, with no real answers. Her H. pylori test even came back negative, something that happens far more often than most people are told. Everything changed when she ran functional labs with a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition practitioner and finally saw what was driving her symptoms.<...