Everyone knows what heartburn feels like: that sharp, stinging, burning pain running up your esophagus and radiating into your chest. It’s enough to make anyone reach for the Tums. 

But some people are especially familiar with that pain (often due to acid reflux or GERD), and they’re not sure what they can do about it.

A lot of chronic sufferers just stock up on Tums; others jump straight to prescription medication. Both strategies have major shortcomings. The former is a Band-Aid, the latter is a chemical commitment, and neither is really able to resolve the causes of heartburn (especially not Tums).

But in between, there’s an entire category of remedies that most people skip (if only because they’re unaware), and that’s the gap this guide is meant to fill. The term “natural remedies” is broad and therefore a bit vague, but “scientific solutions” would also work in this case. The general, unifying idea is that heartburn is caused by certain factors (chemical, physical, biological) and can therefore be un-caused in many cases simply by adjusting the factors under your control.