Dr. Jonathan Aviv is the Clinical Director of the Voice and Swallowing Center™‚ a division of ENT and Allergy Associates, LLP (ENTA) and author of the health and wellness book designed for non-medical professionals called "The Acid Watcher Diet: A 28-Day Reflux Prevention and Healing Program". He comes to the practice from Columbia University‚ where he served as Professor of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery‚ Director‚ Division of Laryngology and Medical Director‚ Voice and Swallowing Center at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Among his many substantive credentials‚ he is the inventor and developer of the endoscopic air-pulse laryngeal sensory testing technology known as FEESST (Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing with Sensory Testing) and a pioneer in the use of unsedated upper endoscopy known as Transnasal Esophagoscopy (TNE). He is a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and completed both internship in General Surgery and residency in Otolaryngology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and then added a Fellowship at Mount Sinai in Microvascular Head and Neck Reconstruction.
MD: Columbia University
Internship in Surgery: Mount Sinai Medical Center
Residency: Mount Sinai Medical Center
Fellowship in Microvascular Head and Neck Reconstruction: Mount Sinai Medical Center
American Board of Otolaryngology
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So the acid watcher diet has two phases. A healing phase for 28 days, you try and eat foods above pH five, and something called the maintenance phase, which you continue thereafter. And that’s foods...
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To work out if you have reflux, answer the following question. This is called the reflux symptom index. Within the last month, how did the following problems affect you? You rate it from zero to...
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Very acidic foods, that is, foods less than pH four, can activate an enzyme that’s normally in the stomach called pepsin. Pepsin breaks down protein in an acidic environment. The stomach is very acidic. Pepsin...
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People often use the terms acid reflux, heartburn, and GERD interchangeably, but actually they’re distinct conditions. This is how we differentiate these things. Acid reflux. A muscle called the lower esophageal sphincter connects the esophagus...
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“This all comes from an injury to a nerve called the vagus nerve. VAGUS, not like Las Vegas, but VAGUS VAGUS. When the vagus gets injured, you have a certain series of symptoms. The vagus...
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One of the most common causes of bloating is onion and garlic, whether it’s cooked or not. And the reason is, onion and garlic are part of something called the FODMAP. FODMAP. And onion and...
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With the acid watcher diet, we use a food-based approach (instead of medication) to treat acid reflux disease. In the acid watcher diet, we divide the treatment plan into two phases. Phase one is what...
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Treatment for vocal cord dysfunction is comprehensive and carried out by an ear nose and throat specialist and a speech language pathologist. There are many ways to treat vocal fold dysfunction. I prefer a two-pronged...
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Patients with vocal cord dysfunction complaint of severe long-term cough, occasional changes in vocal quality, and increased breathing difficulty. There are a handful of things that trigger this constellation of symptoms. Number one: talking, shouting,...
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Treatment of vocal cord dysfunction may take as little as two or three sessions of respiratory retraining, or it could take several months. Generally, the treatment is highly successful and results in a vastly improved...
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