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without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey everyone, welcome back. This is

Dr. Ruchel. Let's discuss hydrochloric acid supplementation. If this can help you,

symptoms that indicate you might want to trial hydrochloric acid,

and then what is a simple protocol you can use to determine if this is something HCL

that your system needs to function at its best.

Okay, well, let's start with a little overview of digestive physiology.

Digestion doesn't technically start in your gut, even in your mouth.

It actually starts when you first see or even smell food, what's known as the cephalic phase of digestion.

But then we quickly go into the stomach stomach and this is where things start to get

pretty interesting. Physiology, I mean, the body is just so amazing. So stomach acid does a number

of things. This HCL hydrochloric acid that your stomach makes, you can also supplement with this

as betane HCL, but the acidic nature of the stomach

will actually ionize minerals, give them a charge, so that they can be better absorbed. So this is

where calcium, magnesium, iron, start to get a charge, and ionization, allowing them to later be

absorbed.

Also, vitamin B12 is typically attached or bound to animal protein,

and the acid is needed to decouple or cleave the B12 off of the protein so you can later absorb it.

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