Part IAll About Gerd and How to Diagnose and Treat It -- 7 -- 1 What Is GERD and Who Suffers from It? -- 9 -- 2 What's Causing My Heartburn? -- 28 -- 3 How Your Physician Comes to a Diagnosis -- 43 -- 4 Finding Medications That Work -- 56 -- 5 Alternative Medicines and Treatments That May Help -- 75 -- Part II Other Illnesses Affecting or Similar to Gerd -- 95 -- 6 Peptic Ulcers -- 97 -- 7 Hiatal Hernia -- 111 -- Part III Special Situations and Problems -- 119 -- 8 When Surgery Is Needed to Heal Your Acid Reflux -- 121 -- 9 Pregnancy and Acid Reflux -- 128 -- 10 Heartburn in Infants and Children -- 140 -- 11 How Acid Reflux Affects the Elderly -- 159 -- Part IV Lifestyle Changes That Work -- 171 -- 12 You Are What You Eat -- 173 -- 13 You Are What You Sleep -- 187 -- 14 What You Weigh Matters -- 198 -- 15 Unstress Yourself -- 215 -- 16 Two Key Lifestyle Changes to Make -- 226 -- 17 What the Future Holds -- 229 -- Appendix A When Your Doctor Doesn't Understand -- 234 -- Mistakes Doctors Sometimes Make -- 235 -- Classic Mistakes Some Patients Make -- 237 -- If You Think Your Doctor Is Wrong -- 241 -- Finding Another Physician -- 241 -- Appendix C Medications and GERD -- 246.