I’m wondering if taking sodium bicarbonate or eno fruit salt can help feel better after eating a cheese pizza.
I wonder if I’m the only one who thought the title was a euphemism
You might be lactose intolerant, in which case taking lactase enzyme pills immediately before eating may relieve your discomfort.
Depends on which part you’re having trouble digesting.
Personally, I feel pretty darn good after eating a pizza.
If you aren’t lactose intolerant, this is something I just recently learned: chew your food very well. I know, it sounds like a given, but our stomachs and intestines don’t have teeth or any effective way to grind our food down into tiny pieces. Even something that seems softer, like cheese pizza, is a lot of work to break down into digestible pieces past our mouths. To some extent I have caused myself needless suffering by underchewing my food.
Weird way to think about it “drink your food, chew your drinks” let your saliva work on the stuff too.
Even actual digestion, breaking down with enzymes, starts in the mouth. The more you chew, the more digestion has already started before it hits your poor overworked stomach. And pizza works the stomach hard!
Sodium bicarbonate will actually make digestion slower. It neutralizes some of your stomach acids. It is used if you have too much stomach acid (heartburn).
A bit of yoghurt or old real cheese may help, because of their bacteria, but only a bit, because a pizza is often a bit much for one person and maybe that’s part of the problem. So eating more couldmake it worse.
because a pizza is often a bit much for one person
Take note that this is only the case in the US, where portion sizes have grown to such insane proportions that one pizza does not equal one person anymore.
Piranha solution works good for that.
Lots of water, fibre and lactase
I use something called “Dairy digest complete” before eating any 🧀, because if I don’t I spend an hour holding on to the 🚽 in fear of taking off 🚀.
This would have been an emoticon ad-lib if you remove “taking off” and just leave the rocket.
I did an edit!
If I eat specifically before bed…
That’s the problem. You’d likely get heartburn after eating most foods if you eat just before going to bed. Don’t eat that close to bed time and it shouldn’t happen.
