The Ulcer and the Unbelieved Truth

For decades, doctors told patients with stomach ulcers the same thing: reduce your stress, change your diet, learn to relax. Millions of people rearranged their entire lives around a lie they believed was medical fact. They quit jobs, avoided foods they loved, and swallowed antacids by the fistful — yet the ulcers kept returning. Then in 1982, two Australian researchers, Barry Marshall and Robin Warren, discovered something stunning.…