Marc,

Any chance you're a celiac?  (Gluten intolerant)  Have you ever completely
given up gluten-containing foods for any period of time?  Your symptoms
sound very familiar to me.  Now that I no longer eat gluten-containing
foods, my health has improved drastically, and I never have heartburn, acid
reflux, etc., like I used to.  I have no problem eating right before bed
now, whereas before it almost guaranteed problems.  I haven't gone to a
doctor for this, and so I am not officially diagnosed, but I have tested my
hypothesis a few times with predictable and painful results.

Feel free to contact me directly if you have questions.

John Pavao

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 But lately, I have assumed that my digestive tract is laying in sleep
with partially digested food from midnight feeding, which is fermenting
in unfortunate ways, and toxins are absorbed and spread through out the
body in an attempt to eliminate them from every route possible.