Why does eating sesame seeds cause heartburn?

If there are no food proteins for it to break down (as there are in the stomach), the activated pepsin will instead eat away at the throat and oesophagus, causing problems from inflammation and heartburn to Barrett’s oesophagus (a precursor to cancer) and possibly oesophageal cancer. read more

I would try to eat a meal and would get acid reflux so bad that I could no longer swallow. Sometimes the acid would just keep coming up my throat for hours and I would be totally wiped out after. This was at the beginning of the summer. read more