The story of an 80-year-old housewife   In 2013, I started feeling nauseous with a feeling of heaviness in my chest, and ever since then, I vomited whenever I ate and started losing weight.

The story of a 75-year-old Japanese housewife   In the evening on the 1st of September, 2013 when I decided to rest for an hour after a walk, I suddenly felt an acute pain as if my insides were being stirred with red-hot tongs.

The story of an 88-year-old Japanese male   “I had suffered from stomach problems for almost a quarter of a century and had to be taken to the hospital by an ambulance three times due to gastric and duodenal ulcer.