Posted on 05/29/2025 6:48:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
Modern medicine wants you to believe heartburn comes from too much acid.
But after years of pharma pills, Senator Ron Johnson still found no relief.
Then he discovered something called hydrochloric acid, and once he started taking it, everything changed.
Senator Ron Johnson dropped the first of two bombshell personal health stories when Carlson asked why Americans keep getting sicker, even as healthcare costs continue to skyrocket.
That’s when Johnson opened up about his personal experience with statin drugs—and what happened after he stopped taking them.
He told Carlson that his severe dizzy spells vanished the moment he quit statins.
Tucker Carlson was astonished. “What?!” he exclaimed.
The dizzy spells weren’t the only thing that went away.
Senator Johnson explained that he’s had “a number of health conditions that just improved as a result” of stopping statins.
One possible way Johnson believes statin drugs may have harmed him is through his sudden loss of hearing. It’s difficult to prove, but he can’t help but wonder if the statins played a role.
Even more concerning, many doctors in the alternative health space are now suspecting that statin drugs could be associated with dementia.
Carlson responded to the claim, saying, “That’s really scary right there.”
Senator Johnson declared that the medical establishment would never admit statins cause dementia—even if it were true—because they’re the most commonly prescribed drugs in America, and there’s too much money at stake.
“That’s a multi-billion dollar industry right there,” he said.
Senator Johnson’s personal story about statins is not unique. Dissenting doctors have been warning about the dangers of statins for some time.
Medical researcher A Midwestern Doctor, a top Substack author, writes:
“There is a widespread belief that elevated cholesterol is the “cause” of cardiovascular disease. However, a large body of evidence shows that there is no association between the two and that lower cholesterol significantly INCREASES one’s risk of death.”
“Unfortunately, the benefits of these highly toxic drugs are MINISCULE (e.g., at best taking them for years extends your life by a few days) and the harms are VAST (statins are one of the most common pharmaceuticals that severely injure patients).”
Read more here.
After shocking Carlson with a bold story about statins, Senator Johnson hit him with another jaw-dropping tale about how he cured his acid reflux disease with hydrochloric acid after years on Zantac, Prilosec, and Nexium with no luck.
Tucker Carlson’s reaction said it all.
The medical industry wants you to believe heartburn is caused by too much acid.
Senator Johnson discovered the opposite—the real issue was too little.
After he started supplementing with betaine HCl, his reflux symptoms disappeared.
Johnson says it worked better than anything doctors ever gave him, even when he only remembers to take it about half the time before meals.
The work of Dr. Jonathan Wright explains exactly why Senator Johnson suddenly found relief.
He documented that hydrochloric acid plays a critical role not just in digestion, but in triggering the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) to close.
Without enough acid, the LES stays loose, allowing stomach contents to leak into the esophagus and trigger reflux.
As Wright showed over two decades ago, supplementing with betaine HCl can often reverse acid reflux by restoring this natural closure mechanism.
Read more on that here.
Johnson’s experience mirrors what thousands have seen after restoring their stomach’s natural acid levels.
At the end of the day, hydrochloric acid is exactly what your stomach is designed to produce.
Sometimes the solution isn’t high-tech. It’s just common sense.
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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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