Have you ever had heart burn? Most of us have at one time or another, but most of us also took a tums or some other antacid to treat it, right? Acid reflux is an extremely common health problem, affecting as many as 50 percent of Americans, and like back pain almost everyone has experienced it at some point or another. Some other terms used for this condition are gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) or peptic ulcer disease, but they are all essentially the same, just having