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Had some questions about stomach acid and mineral absorption.

If outside of vinegar was the best thing to take, if you want to improve mineral absorption,

so I wanted to create a video just on this one topic, and yes, it can help you, but I need

to explain a couple little points about this.

So normally in your stomach you have a very, very acidic acid called hydrochloric acid.

The pH should be between 1 and 3, and I think about it, neutral is 7.

So every number that goes below 7, you go 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, is 10 times is acid.

So if we compare 6 to 7, 6 would be 10 times more acid.

5 would be 10 times more acid than 6, so it compounds.

So when you get down to these lower numbers, you have a very, very acidic acid, and this

is normal.

There's three main things that your stomach acid is supposed to do.

Number one, it's supposed to help you break down protein, okay?

So if you don't have the acid, you can't break down the protein, it starts to putrify,

you get undigested protein.

Number two, it helps kill pathogens from invading the body.

So if you eat food with some microbes, guess what?

That stomach is there to kill off the pathogens.

And if you can't kill them off, they can evade the body, and you can create all sorts

of infections in the colon.

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