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there’s a lot of people who have a

deficiency of stomach acid that creates

all sorts of issues there’s a really

simple test that you can do to figure

out if you potentially don’t have enough

acid in your stomach I’m going to show

you that in fact I’m going to show you

three different tests okay the test is

called Riddler gastric acid reflux Point

test and so since your stomach is kind

of right up underneath the lower part of

the sternum and kind of going a little

bit down below that what you can do is

you take your breastbone okay the bottom

of your breast bone where it ends okay

there’s a little piece of cartilage

there and you go one inch below that

okay and then you go one inch to the

left

and you’ll hit your rib cage right at

that point that is the location where

you press into the rib cage and just see

if it’s tender if it is overly sensitive

it could mean that you have a deficiency

of hydrochloric acid there’s two other

tests one is a baking soda test you get

some regular baking soda in the morning

on an empty stomach and you take a

fourth of a teaspoon in a glass of water

like eight ounces dissolve it drink it

down Okay now what’s going to happen if

you don’t have enough of this

hydrochloric acid in your stomach is

you’ll start burping okay so if you

start burping within one to five minutes

then chances are you don’t have enough

acid because baking soda is alkaline

it’s going to start neutralizing the

acids but if you have enough acid you

won’t have this burping and then the

third test you can do is just to take

some betaine hydrochloride which is the

kind of the antidote or remedy for low

stomach acid and then with a meal take

one one before right before you eat

something chew the food go take another

one and then what you do is you’d keep

adding a little bit more of this betaine

hydrochloride with each meal okay so

what’s going to happen is if you have

enough stomach acid okay and you drink

this

it’s going to cause you to burp within

one to five minutes okay so if you’re

burping that means you have enough

stomach acid okay if you don’t burp that

means you probably don’t have enough

acid so those are the three tests that

you can do to kind of figure out if you

have low stomach acid beyond the

symptoms of low stomach acid which I

want to get into and the symptoms would

be like indigestion would be number one

gas bloating

acid reflux gerd anything that kind of

reflux into the esophagus would usually

mean low stomach acid but relating to

this topic I’m going to talk about

another thing that’s extremely common

um as we get older it’s called atrophic

gastritis and this condition is like in

50 percent of the population over the

age of 55 or a version of it okay

because sometimes it could be

asymptomatic and you might not even know

you have it but because it’s so common

you should be aware of it so here are

the symptoms

you start getting atrophy of the lining

of your stomach so your stomach actually

starts to shrink now the cells in the

stomach also start to shrink and those

cells make hydrochloric acid so guess

what you’re going to get you’re going to

get lowered amount of hydrochloric acid

so this is one of the big reasons why we

start losing our stomach acid as we get

older just because the cells start to

shrink okay and

a certain percent I’d say 10 of people

who have atropic gastritis have it

because of an autoimmune disease okay so

that’s another aspect to this so there’s

chronic inflammation involved with this

and so we have low hydrochloric acid but

you have to also realize that the same

cells that make hydrochloric acid also

make something else called the intrinsic

factor and what’s that that’s this

protein that gets released by those

cells travels down to the small

intestine and connects up with your B12

to allow for absorption and if you don’t

have enough intrinsic factor you’re

going to be deficient in b 12. which

you’re going to notice fatigue anemia

neurological problems

lowered cognitive function

and there’s a lot of other symptoms that

can occur from a B12 deficiency you’re

also going to be low on folate now as

I’ve been doing deep dives into DNA boy

across the board

so many people cannot absorb B12 and

folate okay so those are just two

nutrients that a lot of people need more

of also without the stomach acid the

person’s not going to be able to absorb

iron too well so they’re going to be

anemic from an iron angle so we have

anemia from B12 an anemia from Iron so

you’re going to be kind of lethargic

kind of tired dragging loss of energy

you also will lose the taste for red

meat the tolerance of eating meat maybe

you can have a little bit but too much

just does not digest That’s a classic

indication that you need more

hydrochloric acid

if you’re not digesting protein okay

especially red meat that can show up in

a loss of muscle a loss of amino acids

which can lead to a lot of other issues

and so this is what we see when people

get older there’s a loss of muscle and

so this lack of hydrochloric acid is a

huge connection to that because of

what’s happening to the stomach and like

I said before other symptoms would be

indigestion gas bloating and I also

mentioned cognitive decline

also brittle nails okay or weak nails

and that’s probably due because a lack

of collagen as well as iron you might

also experience restless legs in women

you’ll see thinning hair you might

experience acid reflux or and this might

be a new one for you alkaline reflex

wait a second what is alkaline reflux

well a good portion of the time when

they evaluated this reflux material they

found that it’s not just pure

hydrochloric acid it’s many times mixed

with bile salts being regurgitated from

lower in the small intestine up into the

stomach bile salts Are alkaline okay so

you’re going to get this alkaline reflex

but

bile salts are very

irritating to your esophagus they act as

like a detergent they can kind of start

dissolving things so we have this

combination of like acid that’s

dissolving the esophagus that can come

up through the throat and then we have

the enzyme pepsin which is a very

powerful protein enzyme start breaking

down the protein of your esophagus and

then we have this detergent that can you

know bile that can irritate the

esophagus as well you can imagine you

can have all sorts of corrosive or

almost like the the esophagus and even

the larynx can be starting to be highly

irritated creating kind of a chronic

cough and soreness in the throat

Etc so it could be a major problem now

another common symptom would be muscle

cramps or muscle twitching why because

it’s not just iron that doesn’t get

absorbed with an alkaline stomach you

have the other minerals like potassium

magnesium rosacea is another symptom

like the red cheeks of low hydrochloric

acid and you see that a lot in probably

women more than men but men can have it

as well that would be a perfect reason

to take some something to support that

stomach acid or should I say a clue that

you need stomach acid another common

symptom would be chronic halitosis bad

breath okay because if you’re not

digesting you’re getting a lot of

undigested material and that can create

fermentation in the wrong place and that

can lead to a problem with your breath

what is the actual cause of this

atrophic gastritis one primary cause is

this H pylori my microbe right and I

have done videos on this and so that’s

one cause but here’s the thing that

microbe stays in remission if you have

enough acid in the stomach

so anything that lowers

the hydrochloric acid in your stomach

can kind of bring on this H pylori like

junk Foods or even taking antacids or an

antibiotic and so if it is a h pylori

problem there’s a really good natural

remedy it’s called sulforaphane it’s in

broccoli Sprouts or a broccoli micro

greens it’s also in cabbage cabbage

juice so the sulforaphane Apparently can

put this microbe back in remission and

so if you have just low hydrochloric

acid then betaine hydrochloride is an

answer to start taking to help fix these

this problem

but

many times the lining of the stomach is

inflamed so if you take betaine

hydrochloride it can irritate it so what

you’re going to have to do is fix

the inflammatory condition before you

start to acidify the stomach and that

could take

some months so how do you do that one

way is to start consuming certain things

like cabbage juice or wheatgrass juice

powder with some water can actually help

soothe and help heal the stomach lining

because the chlorophyll content but

you’re just going to have to start

eating healthy with

zinc zinc is going to help heal that as

well and so you want to do that over a

period of time until the inflammation

goes down a good probiotic would be

important too and the way that you know

that you have inflammation in the

stomach or even an ulcer is when you

take this patane hydrochloride or even

apple cider vinegar things get worse

okay you get this burning sensation

so that’s just one point about that but

I will say taking B12 and folate would

be important if you have this problem

because your body is probably not

generating this intrinsic factor so

you’re probably deficient and so you

need to take something

in the right form and I’m talking about

the the right form of B12 in in folate

and the right form would be

methylcobolamine

and methylfolate both of those together

and you probably have more energy if you

do that but I wanted to just bring up

these different tests that you can do to

determine this low stomach acid it’s a

really common problem and for more

information on what’s really causing

this low HCL and some additional

Solutions

I put up this video right here check it

out