Comments on: Betaine HCL Vegan Version without pepsin review

By: Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 18:26:00 +0000

In reply to Mistelle. Go on a whole food diet nothing processed at all the gut will start to heal itself and work better. Probiotics as well and maybe try this product. I have not tried it but I am looking into it. My diet is mostly whole food and I can see I need to go even further into whole food. A lot of digestive issues went away when I was strictly whole food in the past. I am a nurse and Holistic Health Proffesional.

By: Samia

Samia — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 15:20:48 +0000

Why would they put pepsin into an HCl (betaine hydrochloride) supplement when the function of that substance is to promote the production of your body’s own pepsin? What the heck is the point…

By: Kerri

Kerri — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 15:30:05 +0000

There’s also vegan pepsin in Premier Labs HCL Activator that is designed for use with HCL Betaine.

By: Bob Vaughan

Bob Vaughan — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 01:05:20 +0000

In reply to Kathleene Parker.

Yes you do not need pepsin, it comes from a pig…it sucks…..it is about the money…

By: Bob Vaughan

Bob Vaughan — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 01:04:44 +0000

In reply to Mistelle. Well like I mentioned in the article, you can take vegan HCL, without pepsin, just google vegan HCL....

By: Mistelle

Mistelle — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 00:30:43 +0000

Kathleene Parker, what do you suggest a person who is allergic to pork do about this? My daughter was prescribed HCl with pepsin, but she can’t take it (reacted immediately to it). 🙁 Any suggestions would be appreciated! Unfortunately, she can’t do bovine, either, although I’m not sure if that would have been an option for the pepsin.

By: Kathleene Parker

Kathleene Parker — Sun, 31 Jul 2016 16:29:52 +0000

If you are a vegetarian, you do not need pepsin–although you are asking for devastating health issues like pernicious anemia, which I got (though not a vegetarian) from genetics, eating grains when genetically I can’t handle them, and from gastroenterologists (the most dangerous people on the planet) prescribing ever-higher levels of Nexium and Prylosac, when my ulcers were in fact caused by a LACK of stomach acid, plus the fact that I was eating grains that were effectively poison to me.

But if you eat meat–including fish or even the proteins in cheese–you need to remember that the purpose of HCL is to stimulate pepsin production, and without it, you’re going to be flirting with not digesting proteins properly plus a lot of problems “downstream” as a result.