That Constant Throat Clearing Isn’t A Habit. It’s A Loop.
An antihistamine. A nasal spray. Omeprazole. Each one treated a guess, and nothing changed — so he filed it under ‘just a thing about me’ and stopped bringing it up.
Here’s the part nobody explained: every forceful clear slams the vocal cords together. Irritated tissue swells. Swollen tissue makes more mucus. So he clears again. He’s been feeding the loop for years thinking he was clearing it out.
And acid was never the whole story. A digestive enzyme called pepsin can travel up into the throat and stay there. Acid reducers lower acid — they don’t clear pepsin. That’s why a year on them changed nothing.
GR-9 works on the pepsin and gut side of that cycle. Two things break it: stop feeding the loop, and support what’s underneath it.