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known to be poorly absorbed in low acid states (e.g., calcium, zinc and iron), low stomach acid is indicated. Another test consists of a chemical analysis of the stool, with a search for undigested proteins. A well-trained iridologist can also diagnose lack of stomach acid. Note that the pH system is a scale for measuring the acidity or alkalinity of a given environment (in this case, your stomach). The scale goes from zero to 14.0; 7.0 is neutral; below 7.0 is acid; above 7.0 is alkaline. Normally, the acid level in your stomach is about pH 2.0 ann consulted had no idea what to do, so! drove myself to known to be poorly absorbed in low acid states (e.g., London and collapsed. Friends brought in a doctor calcium, zinc and iron), low stomach acid is indicated. who took my pulse and told me it was a dangerously low _—_ Another test consists of a chemical analysis of the stool, ten! Then he asked who my next of kin was, and | knew with a search for undigested proteins. A well-trained was in deep trouble. Tests were done, and the diagnosis _iridologist can also diagnose lack of stomach acid. was pernicious anaemia. Then | had to take B-complex Note that the pH system is a scale for measuring the vitamins, have iron injections and eat lots of red mea acidity or alkalinity of a given environment (in this case, or two months—and | saw zero improvement. your stomach). The scale goes from zero to 14.0; 7.0 is Finally, presumably because he was afraid I'd die on _— neutral; below 7.0 is acid; above 7.0 is alkaline. im, my doctor drove me to a Harley Street specialist. ( Normally, the acid level in your stomach is about pH 2.0 was too weak to get there on my own, but can you — or 3.0. imagine a doctor doing that today?) The first thing this The Heidelberg capsule is recommended by some old-school physician said was, "Have you tried physicians. This is a tiny pH sensor and a radio ydrochloric acid?" transmitter compressed into the size of a large vitamin | had not exhibited the classic symptoms o capsule. It is swallowed, tethered to a long thread, and ypochlorhydria, though | do remember asking my — removed from the stomach once the results have been doctor when I was 16 why my fingernails peeled, why relayed by radio signal to a receiver. This is expensive squinted badly in sunlight and why I had nigh and unappealing, and does not take into consideration blindness. He would have known if he had taken the _ the hourly changes in the pH of the stomach. But Big ime to crack a basic medical Medicine and Big Pharma love it ext. He didn't, though, and because it is "scientific" and merely suggested that I learn to profitable. ; ive with it. These and other The Harle Street S ecialist ; Then there is the try-it-and- ealth problems | had were . . if-you-don't-burn-you-need-it clear signs of the need for understood immediately. method. It's quick, it's cheap, additional acid, and this man * and the result is immediate. It could have saved me years of He prescribed a potent is not, however, scientific, problems which culminated in a form of hydrochloric although (as noted earlier) a close encounter with death. : hysician told me it was Virtually all physicians are acid drops. cuts e and safe. making the same mistake today. Warning: this test must not The Harley Street specialist be attempted by anyone who understood immediately. He has a peptic ulcer or is using prescribed a potent form of hydrochloric acid drops. any kind of anti-inflammatory medication. This includes These had to be diluted and sipped through a glass _ aspirin, ibuprofen (e.g., Advil, Motrin), corticosteroids, straw to avoid tooth enamel damage. The potion had to e.g., prednisone), Indocin, Butazolidin, or any other be drunk prior to each meal, and after two weeks | was SAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs). Wise ighting fit. I have taken hydrochloric acid (fortunately | people shun NSAIDs anyway, considering that, as Dr in capsules now) ever since. oseph Mercola reported on his website Mercola.com, In 1970, a progressive doctor friend in Los Angeles "liJn 1993, of 140,000 hospital admissions for old me that hydrochloric acid in the stomach is so _ osteoarthritis, 25,000 deaths were directly attributed to valuable that every antacid preparation should be igh dosage or prolonged use of NSAIDs". prohibited by law. He also told me something that has If you are taking any drugs, check with your physician proved extremely valuable to the people I've advised _ before experimenting with hydrochloric acid. There are during the many intervening years: doctors in those so many dangerous drugs being prescribed and heavily days often wouldn't prescribe hydrochloric acid without marketed, with new ones coming along frequently, and | irst inserting a tube through the nose and then down = may have omitted some that interact badly with into the stomach to test the acid there. When | ydrochloric acid. Please remember that any anti- expressed horror, he laughed and said that this inflammatory medications can cause stomach bleeding procedure was not necessary; that the easiest way to and ulcers. Combining them with hydrochloric acid determine if supplementation is needed is by taking a increases this risk. People on cortisone, even in sub- ablet with a meal. If you don't need hydrochloric acid, | replacement doses, need to approach hydrochloric acid here will be a slight burning in the stomach, which is cautiously, with professional advice. If supplementation easily neutralised by drinking plenty of water. proves necessary, it is safer to take hydrochloric acid There are now other tests. A hair mineral analysis, _ well separated from cortisone. which measures macro and trace minerals, is an option. In all the years that I have been involved with natural f five or more minerals are deficient, particularly those health, I have not encountered anyone who didn't The Harley Street specialist understood immediately. He prescribed a potent form of hydrochloric acid drops. 34 * NEXUS AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 www.nexusmagazine.com