Little Harbour · an hour ago
I’ve gone up to two tea bags. Seems to make a difference for me.
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Acid reflux…
Stop guessing.
You’ve tried the pillow, the ginger, the smaller dinners, the thing your friend swears by. There’s always one more thing to try. And you still don’t know what works best for you. Gurgli finds what really works for you, from people going through what you’re going through.
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Gurgli opens in November.
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Everyone tells you what to try.
Nobody helps you find out what works.
Wedge pillow ?
Apple cider vinegar ?
Less coffee ?
Smaller dinners ?
Ginger tea ?
Probiotics ?
Nothing after 7pm ?
Slippery elm ?
Cut out tomatoes ?
Chew more slowly ?
That £40 powder ?
Alkaline water ?
Chamomile ?
Lose half a stone ?
DGL capsules ?
The thread with four hundred replies
Everyone in it is certain. None of them agree. You close it knowing exactly as much as when you opened it.
‘Some people find’
The internet is full of what worked for someone. It has never once told you what worked for someone going through what you’re going through.
Somebody is always selling
Behind most of the advice is a bottle, a powder, a tea, a course or a commission. Behind Gurgli, nothing but the truth. Nobody pays us to promote anything.
‘Twenty-five years of reflux. Twenty-five years of guessing. So I built Gurgli.’
Chris Denison, founder
How Gurgli works
Twenty of you. Same symptoms. Testing one method. Together.
You are one of a group of twenty people, all with matching Gurgli Reflux Profiles. Same triggers, same habits, same list of things already tried, same kind of days. Each group, we call a bubble. In your bubble, you all try one method, take a minute each day to say how it went, the rest of your bubble right there with you. When your bubble closes, your own result comes to you first, and stays yours. Only the bubble’s overall result, what the twenty of you found together, goes out to the whole Gurgli community.
You’re anonymous from the moment you join.
In your bubble you go by your Gurgli identity, a name you choose when you join. That’s all anyone ever sees. Your real name stays on your own screens, your notes stay yours, and the results go out as your group, never as you.
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Matched
On your Gurgli Reflux Profile. Same triggers, same habits, same things tried.
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One method
Everyone tests the same method, the same way, at the same time.
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A minute a day
Once a day, tell us how you’re doing. Then see how the rest of your bubble are getting on.
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Said out loud
When your bubble closes, you’ll see the results in plain English.
In a bubble
It begins in a bubble.
Everything that helps your acid reflux starts here. You and nineteen other members of the Gurgli community, with matching Gurgli Reflux Profiles, testing one method together. You won’t know anyone in your bubble, and it won’t matter: everyone here is living exactly what you’re living, and after the same thing you are. Better days, and something that works. Something you can trust. So, you’re all in it together. Your check-ins, your bubble, and when it closes, your own result, yours alone. This is what it looks like from inside a bubble. In the worked example below, the ginger tea bubble.
Your minute a day
Two questions and a note if you want one. Nothing is pre-filled. Your answer is yours.
20:14
GurgliDay 18 of 84
Go to your bubble
Hi Sam, welcome back to the ginger tea bubble.
What your bubble is saying
Nearly everyone’s keeping up with the tea. Eating out is when people forget. Set an alarm, says the bubble. A few say their evenings already feel easier. Others, nothing yet. Early days.
Running summary · updated an hour ago
How were your symptoms today?
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6
+none 010 worst
Did you have your ginger tea this evening?
Had itDidn’t
Note · optional
Check inSaves when both answers are in. Editable until midnight, then fixed.
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Your bubble, as it goes
What your bubble is saying, then the conversation underneath. Join in, or just read.
20:14
GurgliDay 18 of 84
Ginger tea before bed
Bubble statsBubble info
What your bubble is saying
Nearly everyone’s keeping up with the tea. Eating out is when people forget. Set an alarm, says the bubble. A few say their evenings already feel easier. Others, nothing yet. Early days.
The conversation · 6 new
Steady Wren · 26 minutes ago
Anyone else finding the weekends the hard bit? Dinner’s never at the same time.
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Quiet Heron · yesterday
Anyone else’s partner asking why the kitchen smells of ginger? Just me then.
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Steady Oak · yesterday
Missed Tuesday. Back on it. Alarm now set.
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Warm Tide · Monday
Steeping five minutes rather than two. Tastes like it means it.
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Even Keel · Monday
Week three for me. Keeping on.
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Say something…
The conversation, by topic
The routine is hardSettling
14 messages · 8 peopleNights, week by weekActive
23 messages · 10 peopleSmall winsQuiet
6 messages · 4 peopleSomething else on your mind? Start a new topic…
Nobody edits anyone’s words. Topics are never renamed or removed.
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Your result
The day your bubble closes: what happened to your symptoms, how sure we can be, and what to do next. Private to you.
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GurgliYour result
Your result
Ginger tea before bed · closed 28 September · private to you
What the bubble means for you
Your symptoms went from a 6 to a 4.
Your first week against your last fortnight.
You said: ‘Nights are calmer. Not perfect, but calmer.’
Was it the tea
9 of the 14 who finished improved too.
Better · 9No change · 4Worse · 1
How sure can we be
Not sureFairly sureVery sure
Very sure · very unlikely to be chance
Are you typical
2 of your 3 twins improved. You’re the rule, not the exception.
Twins: the three in this bubble whose Gurgli Reflux Profile sits closest to yours.
Why it missed, for the others
The 5 it didn’t help managed two to four cups a week. The 9 it helped managed five or more. Most of the missed cups fell on late nights and nights out: eating out was tapped on twice as many of those days.
What your 84 days showed
Bad days
Worst days: Fridays and Saturdays. On eight of your eleven bad days you’d tapped ‘ate out’.
Triggers, re-scored
Late meals: a bad day 9 times out of 11. Alcohol: no pattern in 84 days.
When it kicked in
Most who improved felt it by week 3. You felt it in week 5.
If you stop
People like you who stopped lost it within three weeks. People who kept one cup a night held on.
Tips from your bubble
From the conversation: 6 said dinner by seven helped, 4 set an evening tea alarm, 3 used two tea bags.
What to do now
Twenty of you went through this together. Twelve want to carry on. Say yes and you can still talk to them through Gurgli, any time, about anything.
Stay with your bubbleFor your GP
Your 84 days on one page: your symptoms, what you did, how often you kept it up, and what your bubble found.
Make the pageYour Gurgli Reflux Profile
Updated 28 September 2026, from the ginger tea bubble, 6 July to 28 September.
Shared with every member
The ginger tea bubble’s result, out to all of Gurgli.
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The information shared on Gurgli comes from community members sharing their personal experiences. It is not medical advice.
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GurgliResults
Ginger tea before bed
A bubble that finished on 28 September · a close match to your Gurgli Reflux Profile
What is it
One cup of ginger tea, an hour before bed, every night for twelve weeks.
Does it work
Nine of the fourteen who finished got better, on average from a 6 to a 4. Counting everyone who started, 9 of 20.
Better · 9No change · 4Worse · 1
Not sureFairly sureVery sure
Very sure · very unlikely to be chance
Is it me
The twenty were shaped like you: nights the worst of it, late meals a trigger, five or more things already tried. It helped the ones who managed five or more cups a week. 5 said calmer evenings, 3 said fewer night wakings.
What do I do
Start a solo run, and your profile is updated at the end.
Start a solo runWho was in it, how it was counted, who didn’t finish, corrections.
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Whether you were in the bubble or not
What the bubble discovered: every member gets that.
Your own result stays with you. What the bubble discovered goes to every member. You don’t need to be in a bubble to share in its discoveries. Every bubble ends the same way: its results go to every member. And if one looks like it might work for you, start a solo run, and your Gurgli Reflux Profile learns from that too.
Your community
Every method we test, matched to you.
Your truth, built from every bubble and every member’s solo runs. Personalised to your triggers, your habits and your history. Every method, matched to your Gurgli Reflux Profile.
- Methods that help members with a similar profile to yours.
- It updates every night. Come back and see what’s changed.
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GurgliYour community
Your community
This is the Gurgli community working. What twenty people found together goes out to every member. What members then find for themselves comes back to the community. Twenty finished the ginger tea bubble. 178 members have started a solo run because of it.
Closest to you
Based on the 47 members closest to your profile. Updated nightly.
Solo runs
We are proud that 84% of members share their solo runs with the Gurgli community.
Earlier meals · 14 of your 47 started, 11 finished
Better · 7No change · 3Worse · 1
Not sureFairly sureVery sure
more
Breathing exercises · 19 of your 47 started, 16 finished
Better · 9No change · 5Worse · 2
Not sureFairly sureVery sure
more
Solo run results are members’ own, and never mixed into a bubble’s numbers.
From the bubbles
Ginger tea before bed · finished September
9 of your 47 have started a solo run on it since · more
Earlier meals · finished June
14 of your 47 have started a solo run on it since · more
Breathing exercises · finished March
19 of your 47 have started a solo run on it since · more
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- You’re anonymous. A name you choose, results shared as a bubble, never as you.
If you’re on reflux medication
Gurgli fits around what you already do.
Most Gurgli members take some form of prescription medicine to help their reflux, and in some cases have done so for years. Gurgli bubbles only ever test non-prescription methods.
If you’re on reflux medication and want to reduce it or come off it, have that conversation with your GP.
You will be encouraged to know that NICE, the body that writes the guidance GPs follow, asks GPs to review long-term reflux medication every year and, where it’s right for you, to reduce it. So your conversation should be a welcome one.
Always consult your GP before making changes to your medication.
NICE clinical guideline CG184, dyspepsia and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, current guidance.
Who’s behind it
It started as my heartburn. It became everyone’s Gurgli.
I’m Chris. A few months ago it dawned on me that I’d been taking medication for my reflux for twenty-five years. That’s a quarter of a century! That realisation stopped me in my tracks.
So I did what anyone would. I began to look into coming off the medication. And the moment I typed the question, ‘how to come off reflux medication’, the internet lit up. A dozen methods here, a few powders there, a screenful of teas, programmes, exercises. Every one confident that it had the answer, and of course, every one available to buy.
I spent hours reading the comments. ‘Works for me.’ ‘Did it actually do anything for you?’ ‘Has anyone stuck with it long enough to know?’ Hundreds of people, all asking the same thing, and not one of them knew the answer.
That was the moment. Twenty-five years of my own confusion, a whole internet of people just as lost, and nobody, anywhere, actually knowing the truth.
Developing ideas into something that lives is what I have always done. So I built Gurgli, the thing that was missing from my life, and perhaps from the lives of others.
Bubbles begin November
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