Digestion, acid reflux, constipation, elimination: Your #1 Key to Health
Do you have a bowel movement for every meal you eat? Anything less is constipation, which leads to low energy and illness. Do you get heart-burn or acid reflux? Don’t ever use an anti-acid product – they make it worse. And, even if you are eliminating properly, it doesn’t mean you are absorbing the nutrients from your food.
If you only took one supplement daily, it should be HCL. I find it important for anyone over 25 and crucial for anyone over 40, for so many reasons. Next would be Digest.
As we age, the stomach’s ability to produce enough hydrochloric acid & the small intestine’s ability to produce enough digestive enzymes to digest the food is on a steady decline. By the time we’re 70, they’re producing 10% of what they produced when we were 20. That causes 3 problems:
1) We’re not getting the nutrition and energy from the food because much of it is not getting digested. This can cause fatigue, illness and also weight gain because the body is always asking for more.
2) The undigested food will rot as it moves through the digestive system. Some of this rotting food will get reabsorbed and pollute the body as toxins, raising risk of illness. Plus the body will have to work harder to deal with the toxins, so it’s a double whammy energy wise leading to more fatigue.
3) The rotting food is a perfect breeding ground for all sorts of infestation…bacteria, yeast, parasites.
The right dose of HCL and Digest for your age and weight will properly digest the food in the stomach, so you can absorb the nutrients. HCL will also kill any bacteria that happens to come in with the food itself, so it doesn’t have a chance to start populating in your intestines.
It’s also the instant remedy for acid reflux, which happens due to a lack of HCL, leading to rotting food which causes lactic acid and the acid reflux. Taking anti-acid drugs is actually the worst thing you can do because it further suppresses the HCL production, making you even worse down the road. Like most drugs, it’s treating the symptom but ignoring the cause, even contributing to the cause.
Perhaps as important, taking HCL Activator with HCL will remethylate your cells. We sacrifice a third of our life span by eating cooked food without HCL (to understand why, read my HCL web page below). By remethylating the cells we regain that lost life. The methyl groups also protect us from disease, because without them, the junk cancer and viral genes get expressed more easily. This is why so many in old age are suffering so greatly. The HCL Detox Kit can prevent this and vastly raise the quality of life.
The reason HCL declines with age is that we are eating a cooked food diet when our bodies were engineered for a raw food diet. HCL was meant to be an anti-infective agent for the whole body and to be used for digestion sparingly. But cooking the food destroys the natural enzymes in the food to help it digest itself. Plus, our soil has become so deficient that even raw foods don’t have adequate enzymes and require some HCL & Digest.
I can’t emphasize enough what a mistake it is to overlook your body’s need for HCL and what a gift and huge benefit it will be for you.
There are 4 crucial daily products for everyone over 20 or 30 years old:
- Premier HCL (formerly Betaine HCL) and HCL Activator – so your food can be digested in the stomach. By age 30, your stomach is not producing enough hydrochloric acid to adequately break down your food and it starts to rot. This creates a breeding ground for micro-organisms plus you don’t get the nutrients and the body is starving and continuously asking for more.
Heartburn and acid reflux are actually caused by a lack of HCL. Without enough HCL, the food rots and produces lactic acid which can cause the acid reflux. Anti-acids actually make the condition worse. HCL addresses the cause by helping to digest the meal properly.
Without adequate digestion, you can sacrifice up to a third of your life-span, because you use up your cells methyl groups much faster. At 70 years old, you produce only 10% of the HCL you produced at 20. Most of the elderly are starving to death, getting disease and suffering. The HCL can remethylate the cell and reclaim both the quality and quantity of your life-span.
For children and most teenagers, the Pink Salt below should be adequate to support HCL production.
- Digest – helps your food get digested once it reaches the small intestines, plus it helps the HCL work better. Crucial to use with any cooked food meal, although we recommend with every meal other than fruit or vegetable juice. It also has the ability to go into the blood stream to help digest previously undigested material.
- Pink Salt – helps with the production of HCL in the stomach. Also supports the adrenal glands and is excellent source of trace minerals and electrolytes.
The 4 products above are the best place to start and often solve most digestive problems themselves. Sometimes some additional help is necessary:
- GastroVen (formerly Stomach Complex) – for those who find the Premier HCL irritating, they may need to repair the stomach first (I only find this about 5% of the time). Helps repair the stomach lining even with severely irritated stomach and ulcers, so you can take the HCL. If this is the case, check to see if there is an interference field (an old scar, surgery, trauma, broken bone) from the nose to the pubic bone that may be reflexing to the stomach and weakening it. That area will need to be mud packed to help the stomach recover. See our Medi-Body Pack for instructions.
- Galactan – excellent help for constipation, bloating and sticky bowel movements. It also helps to rebuild the lining of the intestinal walls. Very soft, gentle fiber.
- Premier Psyllium Fiber – also great for constipation and divirticulitis (pockets of waste). A bit more aggressive than the Galactan, acts like a broom to sweep the intestines.
- Probiotic Caps and/or MicroBiome – 40% of a bowel movement is intestinal flora and for most people much of that has been wiped out by antibiotics. Two month’s use of 4 per day can help replenish and vastly improve digestion and elimination.
- Digestase SP – use with Digest to reduce intestinal gas, bloating & food reactivity, better digest sugars, carbs & protein, and fight bio-films (where bacteria & parasites hide).
- AloePro – soothes and helps the lining of digestive tract. Non-inflammatory, produces “feel good” effect. Drink as much as you can afford!
- Noni – for severe, chronic constipation, when nothing else works (which is rare because the products above usually work). Also good for depression/mood support.
- Green Tea-ND – additional support for the stomach, especially for kids (who don’t need HCL). Also, the most powerful antioxidant, DNA protection and protection from radiation damage.
- There are even more choices in our Digestion & Intestinal Supplement By Type category.
Bernard Jenson, a famous natural health doctor, who lived a long life last century, used to say, “Take care of your stomach for the first 50 years and it will take care of you for the next 50 years.” We say take care of your stomach and body your entire life – and live with extraordinary health, with the energy and passion to love life and make a difference.
Digest
Plant enzyme formula - full spectrum digestive support for fats, carbohydrates, proteins and dairy
Digestase SP
Digestive enzymes for sugars, carbs & protein - reduce gas, food reactivity & biofilms (where bacteria & parasites hide)
Probiotic Caps - 30 Vcaps
Incomparable 12-strain, beneficial bacteria - intestinal & immune support