Nutricost Betaine HCl + Pepsin 790mg, 240 Capsules - Gluten Free & Non-GMO

Because my system seems to produce little or no hydrochloric acidI have been taking HCL for many years now as many as a dozen WITH A MEAL.You NEVER take HCL on an empty stomach for fear of doing damage to your stomach lining but always with food and not until you have taken at least a couple of bites.How many capsules are required to take just depends on your individual needs. I may be an extreme case, but the clinic that originally got me on these capsules told me that eight with a meal is not an uncommon number once you get older. Having said that many people get by with just a couple of capsules with a meal. The only thing you can do is take one capsule and if it doesn’t irritate your stomach, you try two the next time and keep going from there until you hit your sweet spot. Unfortunately it is always trial and error because different foods require a different amount of HCL. Bread is my nemesis and there is never any question of eating something like a steak.On a side note, it is amazing how many people get prescribed antacids when they complain of acid reflux. A large percentage of them probably have the opposite problem - low acid. Because they do not have enough acid to digest their meal. It just sits there and comes back up into their throat.But does the medical profession ever even consider low acid? Of course not. My son was diagnosed with too much acid, but did try one tablet with a meal. His stomach burned pretty badly, so he genuinely had too much acid in his system. Luckily a few sips of whole milk stopped the burning in seconds.

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I have been ordering Betaine for a couple years now and never noticed till I almost got to the end that I was short of pills. As you can see there is powder at the bottom of the bottle and the encapsulation opened and spilled in the bottle. I'm not sure if it was one or more pills. I do enjoy this product but have been cut short of pills. I also did a video that I will add.

I use this to help with my digestion. It has helped tremendously as I'm trying to go all natural for my health.

I had been using the Thorne brand betaine HCL with enzymes for a long time, but it's been out of stock so I tried this. This is much cheaper, it's a similar formulation and it does work very well - in fact, too well, at least for me.One of these capsules will make me very sick to my stomach unless I take it with a really large high fat, high protein meal. I've been taking HCL for ~6 years for reflux, and it works very effectively to control it but I have to have the dose just right. This is too strong for me most of the time. I sometimes take 1 capsule of the Thorne brand with a regular meal and it's perfect, but 1 capsule of this stuff will make me really sick to my stomach unless I take it with a meal that's something like half a package of bacon scrambled into 5 eggs, a bunch of cheese, etc. I do that sometimes, but I don't do it often.I would only recommend these if you have really bad reflux symptoms, or regularly eat really large meals or have severely low stomach acid. A year ago this would have worked better for me, because my reflux was worse and I had to take 3 capsules of the Thorne HCL with every meal. Now I often go without, or just take 1. But 1 of these is usually way too strong and makes me sick. If I take too much of the Thorne I will have the same symptoms so that's why I say it's a dosage or strength issue.Another weird thing about this is that every time I put it in my mouth it makes me cough. It's like I inhale a tiny bit of the HCL and it irritates my lungs. Not a lot, just a little; just one cough. But I've taken a lot of supplements over the last 40 years and never experienced anything like this. I also noticed from the moment I opened the bottle that the capsules would leave kind of a sticky grit on my fingers. Both of these things happened every time I used it from when I first opened the bottle to when I finished it.I never saw a capsule that I could tell was broken or leaking. I have had plenty of experiences over the years of a capsule doing that but I generally never noticed until the bottom of the bottle and there would just be some powder there, and often I could identify the failed capsule. So I'm not sure if one of the capsules did leak or if this is just normal for the way they encapsulate the product. It seems clear that this powder is stickier than most and gets all over stuff, in any case.Amazon no longer carries the Thorne but I can get it directly from their website so I have gone back to that and have to use this on those rare occasions when I feel ravenous and eat a giant meal.

I wish it took less to work for me. But I'm not blaming the product. I've taken high quality expensive ones in the past when my stomach acid was really low and I would have to take like 15 pills of meal. I take 7-8 now. So this is much more cost effective at least for me now.

This product has been effective for my husband's indigestion. The quality and price are great. We even carry it in the car so that he can take it after we eat out. He jokingly calls it his after dinner mint.