Over the course of several decades, I have seen hundreds of patients with ‘heart’ problems that, in fact, were not heart problems at all. Most of these turned out to be cases of simple indigestion, causing strong sensations of pain in the chest and stomach. Their stomachs were usually hard and swollen, filled with pockets of gas exerting great pressure on the diaphragm and heart. Trapped gas and ‘heart burn’ more often than not lead to the false alarm of a heart condition. Other patients, however, did have serious heart trouble, in addition to suffering chronic indigestion, or, as I see it, because of it.