Should You Be Supplementing With Hydrochloric Acid? If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Life has been quite crazy and stressful for me for as long as I can remember. Stress, stress, stress! How I have learned to cope and deal with the stress in my life has dramatically shifted, yet still the demands and pressures keep coming. In spite of taking radical steps to heal my body over the past several years through diet and lifestyle, I still have some remaining health issues lingering. Thankfully, all the major stuff has gone by the wayside. All the annoying peripheral stuff, like gas, bloating, major constipation, sinus migraines, chronic sinus infections, eczema, seasonal allergies, acid reflux, depression, lack of energy, dark circles under my eyes, bad PMS, low back pain, chronic joint pain all on my right side, asthma, really dry itchy skin, inflammation of my gums related to sinus issues, regular headaches, feelings of insecurity, sensitivity to cold, mental sluggishness, severe pain during ovulation (mittleschwertz), extremely raw gut/insides, seasonal sadness in the winter, lots of colds and I am sure I could go on. All that stuff doesn’t bother me anymore for the most part. Thank God! I have come a long way and overall, I feel great! However, that said, I still have some lingering issues and I plan to share them with you. My Experience. This past December, I had my health assessed by a functional examination. The functional examination is part of what I am learning in the course I am taking through the Nutritional Therapy Association. I am so grateful to have this ability under my belt, or should I say in my tool belt of healing knowledge and practice. What I learned then was several things, but for now I’ll share the primary one; my small intestines were a wreck! I knew this all on my own before getting the evaluation done. I’d sit on my couch in the afternoon studying and feel my lower ribs with some agitation and pressure. If I pressed into those ribs I felt like a spark of electricity type feeling. I was very perplexed as to what was going on at that time, but now I know more. I also have been able to drastically reduce that discomfort. So three months later my small intestines are getting better, but they still need some work. So, in order to address the issues going on in my small intestines, it was imperative to look . What I realized is that I had been eating a lot of protein, though not more than I should, but more than I had in past since I was a carb- aholic. But essentially, in the past couple of years I had ramped up the protein in my diet, which helped me in other ways a ton. I also was lifting weights and eating lots of protein snacks etc. However, what I hadn’t realized is how that might impact me since I had hypo- chlorhydria (low stomach acid). The truth is, most of us have low stomach acid, there are so many reasons this is the case, and stress is one of those reasons. Siemens Rail Automation Siemens Rail Automation purchases additional Kinesix software for their work in train control management. It has many different names.So I stopped (I know now I wasn’t taking NEAR enough). Going back in time a little, I used to have a hard time tolerating beef. I could only eat it once every few days. If I tried to eat it 2 days in a row, my body revolted. So, I tried a little experiment for about 2 months a few years ago, and I drank raw apple cider vinegar before every meal. Just about a tablespoon or so, and this helped immensely. I could tolerate beef on a more regular basis after that trial, and I still occasionally supplemented with the vinegar, though not consistently. Fast forward to this past December, I took a little test to see if my body was producing enough of it’s own hydrochloric acid and discovered it indeed was not. So, that became my quest and it still is, to teach my body how to make it’s own hydrochloric acid again. If I can digest my proteins properly, they won’t putrefy and make more work for my small intestines and the rest of my digestive system. Having enough HCL is my first line of defense against pathogenic micro- organisms. I suspect I have had low stomach acid for a LONG time – this has left me subject to a whole host of problems as I mentioned above. It’s amazing how many of our health ailments are linked to our gut health. So to give you an idea, the functional points for my small intestine went from 8’s, 9’s & 1. I wasn’t even all that consistent with taking my hydrochloric acid. When we lingual neuro tested my points came all the way down! That means it’s very likely all I needed all along was proper hydrochloric acid to get my small intestines back on track. Hydrochloric acid is not something anyone should need to have to take for life, but it sure is a crucial aid in getting your body back on track. I plan to always have some around just in case and test myself often to make sure my body is properly and adequately producing enough HCL. There is more to this picture than I am sharing here, but I wanted to focus and emphasize the importance of supplemental HCL, since it’s not really feasible to get in food form. Raw Apple Cider can certainly help, as can herbal bitters,but therapeutically HCL is required. Other things like enzymes are needed as well, but it’s so easy to get that from a good diet loaded with probiotic/enzymatic rich foods. The Roles of Stomach Acid. Stomach acid essentially sterlizes our food. It’s our first line of defense against pathogens coming in to the stomach. It will kill bacteria/microbes/pathogens/yeast that come in and try to colonize in the intestines. These germs are destroyed on contact as our food is mixed with stomach acid. Stomach acid begins digesting our proteins. Namely the enzyme pepsin in our stomach juices. Minerals are pulled for absorption by our stomach acid. Without enough stomach acid we cannot assimilate the minerals from our food. Stomach acid also stimulates the pancreas to secrete enzymes and bicarbonate. When the food is the proper p. H moving out of the stomach it will signal the pancreas to secrete it’s juices. If the p. H is not appropriate this can cause damage to the wall of the small intestines. Rate them 0 for never, 1 for minor or rarely, 2 for moderate or weekly and 3 for severe or daily. Further Signs & Symptoms That Relate To Issues in the Upper GIBelching or gas within one hour after eatingheartburn or acid refluxbloating within one hour after eating,a vegan dietbad breathloss of taste for meatsweat has a strong odorstomach upset by taking vitaminssense of excess fullness after mealsfeel like skipping breakfastfeel better if you don’t eatsleepy after mealsfingernails chip, peel or break easilyanemia unresponsive to ironstomach pains or cramps diarrhea (chronic)diarrhea shortly after mealsblack or tarry colored stoolsundigested food in stool. Though these are not the only possible symptoms or signs that show you are not adequate in either stomach acid or pancreatic enzymes, they are the most commonly understood signs. A score of 3- 9 indicates a low priority, but you likely need some stomach acid and probably digestive enzymes. A score of 1. 0- 1. I am going to teach you a million things (well maybe not a million, but a lot) in this course. Please do not try to implement everything all at once. Don’t even try to do more than a couple of new things while you are taking this class. Because you didn’t get to where you are overnight and you’re not going to heal overnight either. It will be important to take your time working on things little by little. One key piece will be finding a dietary game plan that will work to further your healing. Add to that some basic supplements starting in the northern most parts of digestion and tackle that first. Most of us will need some time to see the benefits happen. Heartburn & GERDHeartburn occurs when acid from the stomach irritates the tissue that lines the esophagus. Since acid does not belong in the esophagus it is very irritating, it is not made to handle the acid. The stomach however, is lined to deal with the extremely acid environment. The stomach is an acid producing machine. The acid in the stomach is secreted at about 0. Acid reflux can be caused by many things including obesity, smoking, eating fried foods (fast foods), coffee, alcohol, and carbonated beverages. I've gotten a lot of requests to write this post. Matt Stone's e-book, Diet Recovery really helped me, and I wanted to share my experience with you all. Craving peanut butter? Read on to discover the "why" behind your cravings and steps you can take to deal with them. The common demoninator for a diet that works for celiac is removing foods that you personally react to and healing the gut. For some removing starches like SCD or. These foods or conditions end up causing acid reflux by increasing pressure in the abdomen and this causes the gastric contents to be forced up into the esophagus. This can irritate the esophageal sphincter and cause there to be a decrease in muscle tone. Frequent or chronic heartburn may have a structural piece to it. Hiatal hernias are associated with frequent or chronic heartburn. Not chewing thoroughly, eating excessive amounts in a given meal, or overcooking our meats puts a strain on us in this area. Gluten, casein in pasteurized dairy products, and heavily processed soy can also lead to issues. Our diet, how we eat (not in a relaxed state), stress, and anxiety can contribute to lack of HCl production as well . How well we chew, and the quality of our proteins as well as consuming some raw and not always well done or reheated etc. High carbohydrate diets are all too common today, and actually contribute to acid deficiency. This is why I really like a Paleo/GAPS dietary template. Pauli is a former chef/caterer and she became a client of Nora Gedgaudas (one of my nutrition heroes – who also attended the Nutritional Therapy association and wrote one of my favorite books; . I highly recommend this book! Dietary game plans are a great starting point for anyone wanting to heal. Then you can take it further as needed by removing other common allergens, such as eggs, gluten cross contamination foods, nightshades, and maybe even high oxalate foods, or FODMAPS – depending on your specific health situation. There are those that may be hyper acidic, but it is VERY rare. This can be ruled out by a Heidelberg capsule test and may not necessarily mean that someone is always hyper secreting acid. The majority of Americans today produce too little stomach acid.
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