Okay, it was fasting day again today. I have been feeling so energetic since I fasted a couple of days ago. I haven’t had this much oomph in a long time! I wanted to keep it that way, so I decided not to make a vegetable juice to start off the day. I wanted to go back to what had worked so well on Friday.
So I decided to make a small change to my previous recipe, and added apples instead of pears. I also decided to make a little less this time, so I could try another tasty juice from my new book, Raw Food Juice Bar.
The apple mixture tasted pretty good, but it kind of made my stomach hurt. It also did not make me feel full at all, and I pretty much stayed hungry the entire time I was drinking it.
I still had energy though, so I decided to clean the house. I got busy cleaning and totally forgot that I needed to keep on drinking my juice. My blood sugar plummeted yet again.
I quickly grabbed the closest healthy food that I could find and that was carrots and raw almond butter. Yeah, I could have just eaten the carrots, but I usually don’t digest them very well, so it probably would not have helped my blood sugar. I had to have something more (not that it really helped, read on).
The carrots were great, but of course, I didn’t digest them. I had forgotten to take my Hydrochloric Acid (HCL). I have something called hypochlorhydria. Hypochlorhydria (and achlorhydria) are conditions in which the production of hydrochloric acid in the digestive juices of the stomach is either low or absent, respectively.
It doesn’t help that I took Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPI) acid-reducing medication for 5 years, thinking it was my only option. Any Acid Reflux/GERD medication you take actually lowers the amount of HCL in your stomach — acid you need to digest your food. In fact, most people don’t know that most acid reflux cases are actually because you are not producing enough acid in your stomach, not too much.
I now take a supplement called Zypan, which has hydrochloric acid and pepsin in it, but you can also take Betaine HCL. I take that and digestive enzymes at every meal. I also have been properly combining my food more often, which really helps.
Continued in Part 2….
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