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Welcome to The Voice Connection Sound Off; a forum for users of books like Raise Your Voice, Melody to Madness, The Ultimate Breathing Workout, and Unleash Your Creative Mindset, as well as a place for Vendera Vocal Academy members to interact.

This message board was created so that singers could come together and "sound off" to help support each other during vocal development and the creative process of unleashing the creative spark that occurs when writing and producing music. Currently, myself and vocal coaches Ben Valen, Ray West, and Ryan Wall are here to respond periodicially to your questions, with new vocal coaches coming soon. But, feel free to help each other too:)

This board is here for you to ask questions about my and my fellow coach's books, videos, and MP3 programs, as well as offer others help with our vocal techniques. You may also post videos of yourself and your band to share your music and ask for critiques.

Please refrain from negative comments, profanities, spamming, and inappropriate criticisms of vocal methodologies, vocal coaches, and singers. All negative posts will be deleted and subject to banning without question. I will not respond to negative posts, because, as Mark Twain once said, “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.” With that said, positive criticism is welcome because that is how you'll grow as a singer during the training process.


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Re: An update on my vocal health along with some questions.

Hi Jordy, take a tablespoon or half tablespoon of ACV into one cup of water, or even more if you want, 20- 15 minutes before each meal. and drink it rather with a straw. ACV helps stomach acid to digest food. there´s a lot of misinformation on GERD about too much stomach acid production, while the opposite has turned out to be the underlying issue. I know it´s hard to keep the right diet, first of all sugar candies are probably the worst thing to your cords (in my experience) because of mucus production. ACV helps with downregulating mucus production in intestinal walls. The worst thing about mucus is that once your intestinal walls start to produce excess mucus your sinuses gets activated in mucus production too. I drink ACV with lemon tea and honey, but sometimes my voice gets raspy if I have a session within 3 hour interval after drinking 2 cups of lemon tea. I dont think that taking enzymes is counterproductive while taking ACV. maybe I´m wrong, but I think it´s OK to take both. Are you sure your problem is really silent reflux? I thought so too, but it seems that I have some parasites, yeast or candida. Is your tounge white? if yes you may suffer from yeast overgrowth. I think many people think they suffer from silent nonacid reflux because they get excess mucus in throat, but the fact is that many times sinuses are guilty. And one study (in Mayo Clinic) found that 96 % of patients suffering from chronic sinusitis have fungi (yeast infection) in sinuses. I am astounded that many doctors don´t know that colone (intestines) are many times underlying issues for your sinus heath. I recently found that alcalic diet is bad for your colone leading to alcaline enviroment in your colone (producing a lot of gas) and yeast overgrowth. yeast overgrowth or candida overgrowth is responsible for food intolerancies and it cant be found through alergy test. Food intolerancy means mucus production and some vocal distress depending upon how much mucus gets in your throat. food sensitivity doesn´t invoke immunologic response strong enough to get into the bloodstream. ACV is good for killing yeast overgrowth and candida. by the way what enzymes do you take?, it might be helpfull for me. Good Luck :)

Re: An update on my vocal health along with some questions.

Yu can take apple cider vinegar before or after your meals in water or juice. I'm really into coconut oil right now. It's become my new favourite superfood. Try it!

"People suffering from acid reflux and ulcers have taken to adding about a tablespoonful of virgin coconut oil to their hot drinks like coffee or tea as coconut oil has been found to help relieve acid reflux as well as in the treatment of stomach ulcers."

http://www.usesfor.net/uses-for-coconut-oil.html

Re: An update on my vocal health along with some questions.

Hey thanks for the reply!

I could maybe have yeast affecting me, but I really propped up my bed and it seems to be working wonders, so I don't know if yeast has an effect at night (while reflux definitely does).

The pills I take are just Vitamin World's basic digestive enzymes. Supposedly Zypan is really good, but I can't buy it in stores in my area.