Re: HCl dosage and bicarbonate

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> How much Betaine HCl is it possible to take in one setting without doing

damage to the lining of the stomach? I currently take 1500-3000mg.

+++Hi . Some people have taken even more HCl and it hasn't caused damage

to their stomach lining. That's why it is important to take it after meals as

instructed. Keep increasing the amount until you get heartburn which you can

easily settle by taking 1/4 tsp baking soda in water, and then take one less HCl

for meals after that.

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> Also, if the stomach has difficulty producing enough HCl is it possible that

it can not produce enough sodium bicarbonate? If it can't, should we be taking

Arm and Hammer baking soda after meals as well. If so,how much would be

recommendable?

+++It is possible, but you shouldn't take baking soda unless you have to, i.e.

when you get heartburn, since it is sodium which is diuretic and makes your body

lose water along with important minerals. There are other areas where the body

produces baking soda.

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> My heartburn after meals is something I would really like to solve in the next

little while but is causing me problems at the moment since I ran out of my HCl.

I had been taking Pharmax for brand (2-3 capsules after meals) for the last 6

months without any problems and was the only thing that settled my stomach.

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> Previous to this, a Lilies of the Desert - Herbal Stomach formula with aloe

vera juice and herbs did the trick (I can't remember if I took HCl at the time).

+++It is important you get more HCl ASAP OR consume 1/2 cup of sauerkraut

with every meal. Whenever you get heartburn eat some sauerkraut since it raises

stomach acid when it is too low and it lowers it if it is too high.

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> If I can not find a good remedy, I will have to go back on Nexium in the

interim which I hope I do not have to do.

+++I've helped many people get off drugs like Nexium by eating sauerkraut, which

takes at least 3 weeks, but you have to eat some every time your stomach hurts,

so you need to take a jar of it with you everywhere.

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> I heard that if your fingernails get soft, that that is a good indication that

you are not producing enough HCl. I know this sounds crazy, but my fingernails

do lose strength and become brittle sometimes - especially after eating a meal.

How can this be if the fingernails are just dead material without access to a

blood source?? Is their somesort of energy flow (Chi) in the body that affects

our hair and fingernails too? Strange.

+++Fingernails are not dead material, any more than hair or teeth are dead

material. They all have access to a blood supply through tiny capillaries.

However, toxins make all of the body's cell membranes rigid/stiff so that means

red blood cells too.

Under normal conditions, red blood cells carry oxygen throughout the body [along

with nutrients]; red blood cells must be flexible enough to squeeze down to

about one-seventh their normal size in order to travel into the body's tiny

capillaries. However toxins cause red blood cell walls to become more

rigid/stiff.

As a result, red blood cells have difficulty squeezing into the tiny

capillaries, and the transport of life-giving oxygen to all the tissues and

organs of the body are impaired. Deprived of sufficient oxygen, these tissues

and organs lose their ability to function.

See Toxins Cause Cell Membrane Defects for more information:

http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/cabout1.php

Mainly your fingernails get soft due to toxins and a lack of minerals, mainly

calcium and magnesium, so ensure you are taking the correct amounts of cal/mag

and 1.5 teaspoons of ocean sea salt per day, along with all of the other

supplements. Of course all nutrients work together.

All the best, Bee