I've been reading about HCl or hydrochloric acids since August 2009. I don't like the idea of not studying about a supplement enough before buying it because I've seen so many people buying a ton of supplements and then they said it helped this and that and that and this, yet the original intention of the supplement isn't supposed to do that.

HCl is, in very simply words.

A digestive acid that is available in your stomach.

So why the hell am I paying USD40 for a bottle of Poliquin's HCL? Simply because I want to test it before I make my clients use it.

The stresses in our lives nowadays, causes low acid levels in our stomachs. Thus, we can have digestive problems. What stomach acid does is break down foods, so the body can extract the nutrients for purposes such as muscle growth and general health. So when someone doesn't have enough acids in the stomach, the nutrients that the food provides goes to waste. In a less calculated way, if you eat 200GMS of protein a day, and your body can only absorb 50%, 100GMS goes to the drain. So quite pointless.

Source: http://www.charlespoliquin.com/ArticlesMul...icle.aspx?ID=27

Here are 13 tips to see if you've got HCl deficiency.


In bold are the ones I suffer from

Day 1 (17 March)
Meal 1:

250MG ingested. Nothing felt actually...just that I don't feel disgusted after drinking my protein shakes.

Meal 2:
500MG ingested. Well the thing is, I keep going to poo and I feel like burping, but I'm not burping. Like, there is nothing to burp, but I wanna burp out of habit.

Meal 3:
750MG ingested. Still no "hot coffee" feel in my tummy. My acid levels must be pretty bad.

Meal 4:
1000MG ingested. Okay, now I'm starting to feel a little emptiness in my tummy. No coffee feel yet....

Meal 5:
1250MG ingested. OKAY! The coffee is here. At this point, I back down to 1000MG.

First day. 15 capsules.

I've got another 100 caps to go (Friend from Singapore gave it to me) and if I take around 4 caps a day, 3 meals. Breakfast, cuz it's light, so just 2 caps, I'll go to about 14 caps. I'd be lasting for a week before my own stocks of HCl come in. Just nice.

Now that I've determined my HCl intake, I'll be updating once a day on how I feel for the day. My friend " Google Coachjon Singapore " has said that it's a life changing supplement ( ) and that I'd see about 2-3KG of muscle in about a month of usage. Let's see how true that is.

http://askwaltstollmd.com/archives/burping/75923.html
But some say it's due to digestion. I don't know myself, but I've felt that there IS a reduction in burping.

Yeah. We discuss about training and weightlifting sometimes. We'll be working on something in the near future. Look forward to it.

it makes my poo smaller.