To learn more about what’s wrong with traditional HCl Challenges, read this blog post.

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So, by now you may be wondering: "When is this chick gonna mention HCl supplementation? Isn't she gonna talk about an HCl challenge at some point for my stomach acid?"

Maybe you've heard about the HCl Challenge or have even embarked on one before. In this video we'll discuss what an HCl challenge is, what's wrong with this approach, and how to nip those issues in the bud, in a way that provides real results.

Let's start by looking at the hallmarks of a traditional form of the HCl challenge. This has been recommended by various practitioners, across the internet for years.

But, spoiler alert: it doesn't account for bioindividuality or sensitive people. And is pretty dangerous for most folks.

These challenges typically have everyone start on HCl right away, without assessing whether or not the mucosa is in need of healing, and they tend to use a high dose and move at a fast pace.

You start by taking 1 high dose HCl pill with every meal on the first day, then on day 2 you increase this to 2 HCl pills with meals, on day 3 you increase it to 3 HCl pills with meals, etc.

You do this, keep increasing, until you feel what is described as a 'burning sensation' in your stomach.

So this is dangerous for many reasons.

It usually results in a host of people reporting adverse side effects such as lots of burning which often convinces them to return to their Prilosec. And to be honest, I don't blame them.

When you feel "burning" this is a great indicator that your mucosa is inflamed and potentially being permanently damaged. To inflict this on purpose seems incredibly unintelligent.

My friends, there's a better way that doesn't require your to work with dangerous acid. We can work with the body to produce its own, rather than adding it in with guesswork.

So, spoiler alert, I don't suggest using HCl Challenges. Some folks may find benefit from using HCl if they are over the age of 60 or have damaged acid producing cells in their stomach, but if these populations allowed their mucosa to regenerate (yes, the parietal cells can regenerate!) using our SAFE method, they could get to the root cause without staying dependent on HCl.  

OK, so what makes our approach different?

Well, we don't need to use dangerous burny HCl at all. Instead we focus on turning the natural stomach acid faucet back on.

We always start with hosing off your poor mucosa with soothing agents to prevent any damage and facilitate repair.

Next, we augment cellular energy and we focus that on the gut, so we can increase acid-producing parietal cell activity, which is the most energy intensive process in digestion. To do this we use lots of free therapies available to us outside all the time.

Next, to get to the true root cause of the obstruction to your stomach acid, we flush your body's drainage funnel and facilitate waste removal. This way there are fewer toxins to obstruct natural acid production, and it begins to come back online by itself.

Finally, we use enzymatic support at meals to increase digestive fire while we wait for natural stomach acid to come back online, which is safe and gentle and easy.
Now, do you notice whats missing here? There's no HCl.
HCl is not necessary in 99% of low stomach acid cases. We can apply a much safer and gentler approach that doesn't mess with burning your tissue okay?
I promise you'll never miss it.

So to sort of summarize the methods I suggest for fixing your stomach acid: we are *not* focused on HCl supplementation. Rather we create a much more personalized, safe, and effective strategy using the S.A.F.E. method.

And now is the point of the series where I mention that if you think you'd like some help with applying the principles we've discussed, I'd love to teach you.

I've rolled everything, all of the different aspects of our mitochondria-first approach to fixing stomach acid into an easy workshop we call The 7 Day Gut Soothe.

It's stupid simple, it's an easy 5-pillar process, and it has so many great testimonials you can read through. It walks you through the SAFE process step-by-step.
So if you've been wanting to tackle this, check below this video for a special invitation to the gut soothe. We'd love to see you inside.

Alright, I hope you've learned a lot during this seven day challenge, and have squarely answered whether or not you might have low stomach acid, and that you understand which tools you need to use to fix it, and which tools you don't (I'm looking at you HCl).

I'll see you next time.

Talk to you soon!