Re: Re: signs of low stomach acid?

October 20, 2004

Suz

Try enzymes, or lacto-fermented beverages. Your digestion has conditioned itself

to rid your body of food it can not absorb.If you don't have any of that, lots

of fresh lemon or lime juice. Eat smaller meals to start training your stomach

and digestion to work again.

Just a thought

[ ] Re: signs of low stomach acid?

hi all!

hey robin you're not alone - i belch frequently

- protein, starch, vegetables, it doesn't seem to matter, i belch

with all of it!

what is the doseage per HCl tablet that you are taking? i have one

that is country life brand, 2 tablets = betaine hydrochloride 600 mg,

with pepsin.

it helps me with digestion, and seems to help reduce the occurrence

of i.b.s.(yay!), although i'm still dealing with that problem.

warning: graphic detail ahead! -- sometimes food comes through me so

fast it doesn't even have time to discolor. like, if i eat chopped

watercress in my beef & vegetable soup in the morning, and have a

difficult time digesting, then the bright green watercress will have

passed through me within an hour of eating it, along with lots of

liquid. i can't even imagine how it gets through all the internal

pipes so quickly! i have only taken 1 or 2 HCl tabs with each meal.

haven't felt any burning. i will increase my dose slowly and see if

it helps even more.

thanks ~ suz

> Some people take 10 HCL with a meal. I take 5. I keep watching for

a

> burning sensation which will indicate a need to cut back but so far

> it hasn't happened and it has been over 6 months since I have

started

> taking it a this higher amount. Maybe someday...... In the mean

time

> HCL is really helping me digest my foods and I am very grateful

it's

> available.

October 20, 2004

Hi , Suz and everybody!

I take Gastric Aid, 6 capsules per meal. They are 675 mg. of hydrochloric

acid. So far so good. And speaking of stools :-) my favorite subject it

would seem, sine I started the HCl with meals my stools are now firm and

dense but soft and not floating. Still a bit of mucus but I think it's from

inflammation and is going away. I have high hopes that this will work for

me. I'm also taking my vitamin C, B vitamins and magnesium and/or calcium

with the acid because acid is supposed to help those particular vitamins &

minerals absorb (as I think I mentioned here before.)

Things are looking up!

Also, an interesting note for the women here -- it's strange that my

digestive symptoms seem to be worse around hormonal times. I'm 52 and

thought I was in menopause (for the past year,) but lo and behold an honest

to goodness menstrual period is happening (!) I'm ready for the sky to open

up next and swallow me whole. What's goin' on! I am assuming (hope hope!)

that it is a sign of returning health?

~Robin

Ps. thanks for the info about enzymes: I was taking them right before meals

but now I'm taking them right after the meal...

October 20, 2004

Have you noticed the closer you make your food to the environment of the stomach

going in, the better it is going out?..

I drink Kombucha tea. I have it before, or after my meals, and especially with

items that have little enzymes or foods that have not been properly prepared. I

have noticed that the sour taste is very similar to stomach acid that I have

previously burped up in the past. Now I know that does not sound appetizing but

to me it taste like it but not with the acute burning sensation of acid reflux.

The old commerical years ago advertizing Dannon yogurt where a village of people

lived to over hundred years old,> They said it was impart due to eating

yogurt.(Dannon wanted to infer it was their yogurt,but that's another story) .

Anyway yogurt is fermented or cultured milk rich in enzymes ,which makes it