Gabriel Cousens/HCL

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That is very interesting info on the HCL. Not

much of a traveller, but I would probably try that if

I was going to India. Just recently found a copy of

Conscious Eating in a used bookstore and grabbed it up.

(the older edition back when it was $20 and 530 pages)

Haven't read much of it yet though. <br><br>Anyway I

wanted to comment on the use of HCL/pepsin supplements.

(HCL is hydro-chloric acid - your body is supposed to

make what it needs to help disgest food in the

stomach). A chiroprator told me many years ago that I

needed this supplement to digest protein. I started

taking it along with other supplements and had no

problems with it. Perhaps did me some good, who knows.

Many years later, just a few years ago, I bought some,

not really being in the habit of using it regularly

anymore. Anyway I had a couple of incidents of severe pain

in my stomach that lasted for days and had me really

scared because I didn't know what it was. I later

figured out that it was from the HCL. The reason I think

this happened was that I had mistakenly purchased a

much stronger tablet. I think it is commonly in 100mg

tablets and I got the 400mg tablets. So I think I found

out that too much HCL supplementation can be bad. I

would recommend using the regular or light strength and

not the super-duper strength if you are going to use

HCL supplements.