Posted on 05/29/2025 6:48:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
It sounds good but...
What about those of us without detachable toes?
Nope, 175 is what I weighed for years. 32-34 inch waist.
Then 34s became 36(what I am wearing now). 36s became 38s.
So, I have dropped a couple inches and need to lose a couple more.
FYI, I am not doing anything else other than fasting and normal work around the house. We do not eat after dinner on Sunday, all Monday until Tuesday morning. Then I repeat from Wednesday night through Friday(right now). Weekends I eat normally. I am down roughly 25 pounds.
I used to get terrible heartburn. Had to take Tums almost every day multiple times for years. Had a doc use some natural cure about 20 years ago. It’s never returned. So long ago. I don’t recall what I took.
The best news I’ve got for anyone with heartburn: it can be beaten in a prescription drug free manner.
not exactly HCL, but Betaine HCL capsules ...
“Both the author and the editor are irresponsible for not making that clear from the very start.”
totally ...
I don’t know a lot of things. But I do know chemistry. HCl and betaine HCl are different substances with different properties.
Betaine HCl can increase hydrochloric acid in the stomach (supposedly a good thing). HCl is hydrochloric acid in the first place.
For example, betaine HCl will not affect the esophagus. Depending on the concentration, taking HCl can damage the esophagus. And perhaps severely.
I fully understand that no one - including the author of this article - is advocating taking HCl. I am saying that the writing is sloppy.
They ARE advocating taking HCl because it works
Everyone I have known that was put on statins developed other problems that resolved themselves when they went off the statins.
CAREFUL. Do not take Hydrochloric Acid. It is dangerous.
> They ARE advocating taking HCl because it works <
Yes, I see your point. Their argument is that an increased level of hydrochloric acid in the stomach is a good thing. It works to treat acid reflux. I can’t speak to that, as I was trained as a chemist and not as a physician.
My beef is that the author is accidentally confusing betaine HCl with HCl. The former might well be good medicine. The latter is an industrial chemical that must be handled with care.
yes, betaine HCl is excellent and necessary and like 99% of people taking antacids actually have LOW stomach acid and would benefit greatly by supplementing.
“Modern medicine is about repeat customers by treating symptoms and not curing anything.”
That is so true about many “pharma” tools in use today.
It is also true with many ailments it is the symptoms that make the ailment feel so bad, even in the simplest things. You have a fever or nausea from a virus, and most medicines you take bring down the fever or nausea while it is your body’s immune system that goes after the virus.
Most medicines for hypertension cause changes to offset whatever is causing the hypertension, but most likely do not address any root cause, because many people have the one or more “causes” claimed to be behind hypertension, such as
Obesity;
Poor Diet: High salt intake and diets low in potassium;
Lack of Exercise: Physical inactivity can lead to weight gain and other health problems that increase blood pressure risk;
Smoking: Smoking damages blood vessels, increasing the risk of hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases;
Excessive Alcohol Consumption: Heavy drinking can raise blood pressure;
Stress: Chronic stress can trigger the release of hormones that constrict blood vessels, leading to temporary increases in blood pressure.
and yet never develop high blood pressure.
It is my belief that modern medicine understands 100 times more about what it can do to offset hypertension that it does about determining the cause with each individual. They throw different hypertension meds at the case until they get one or a combination “that works”. Can they ever say “this is what has caused your hypertension” - almost never.
He also mentions dizzy spells and hearing loss. Basically that’s meniere’s disease.
“A quarter cup of bleach “ for acid reflux???? Trump, is that you?
bkmk
For athlete’s foot that I had, I found soaking my feet in vinegar and using Vick’s vapor rub did a lot more good for it than any medication on the market.
I take Pravastatin now for Cholesterol...have for several years now. I have had no problems with it, no dizzy spells or anything else, and my bloodwork is normal. Different drugs affect people differently. My old doctor changed me from Pravastatin to Atorvastatin, and within a week my urine had turned orange. I lost my appetite, felt fatigued all the time, glucose levels went out of kilter, among other symptoms. Bloodwork taken at the time showed everything either too high or too low. Once I stopped taking the Atorvastatin, it took me six weeks to get back to feeling well and my bloodwork back to normal. My doctor then put me back on the Pravastatin with no issues since.
Atorvastatin is what I was taking and stopped..................
A friend of mine's husband had heart surgery about 5 years ago, and he's been taking it with no problem. Many years ago, when I was going through my change, my doctor put me on Actonel. I ended up having to stop, because it was causing my liver enzymes to go out of whack to the point where another doctor thought I had liver cancer. They did a sonogram of my liver and found nothing, and attributed the problem to that medication. They told me to stop taking it, and my liver numbers went back to normal. Some people can take a certain med without problems, but other folk will have bad reactions to that same medication.
Back in the day for certain experiments we had to use HCl with special gloves to clean our glassware. Dipped the glass items (beakers, flasks, etc.) in diluted HCl, let them air dry. There may have been a rinsing step, but I don’t remember what the exact procedure was anymore. The point, though, is that HCl burns your skin if it touches it. Those gloves were necessary.
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