Betaine test is what my mom was asked to do. There was another one too but this was the easiest. Just in case anyone is curious
""To Perform the Test, Do the Following:
1.Buy some Betaine HCL with pepsin (I like these)
2.Eat a high protein meal of at least 6 ounces of meat
3.In the middle of the meal, take 1 Betaine HCL pill
4.Finish your meal as normal and pay attention to your body
There’s really only 2 outcomes from this test:
1.The first is that you won’t notice anything. As you go about your normal life after the meal, nothing will change. This means it is very likely you have low stomach acid levels.
2.If, as you go about your normal life, you start to feel stomach distress characterized as heaviness, burning, or hotness – then these are signs that you don’t have low acid levels."" From the SCD - Specific Carb Diet
But normal really isn't a weekly or even a 24 hour thing. The body ajusts the stomach constantly, stress and food, and many other things will have your stomach changing in minutes. But yes... generally people have the same cycle, thus making them have a normal that you can compare to this test to see where you stand according to this test. Every organ in our body will have a different acidy from the other. We do not have a ONE read or one level acid/alkaline level for our body... only for that organ or stomach for that moment in time.
I say this because the taking of MMS!, MMS2, CDS, and or CDH is not an exact science. It has to be PERSONALIZED to each person. This just screams out so silently in this forum. So many people, like me, wanted a plan or a Protocol to follow but some, or perhaps many like me, have to use wisdom and fine tune it to fit their body and life style while keeping the taking of Chlorine Dioxide SEEING it working for you. I'm only 3 weeks old to this, and I have no expertise here what so ever. I have no friends taking it who are any older in the experience than I have. What I do have is a very analytical obsessive mind for information and documentation outside of my life and my own life documented hourly. Stating a "normal' anything, IMO, leads people to think that there IS a normal and there is no such thing when taking CLO2 other than the evidence that when it is tuned into YOUR BODY it will or can do this... this being many, many, glorious things. I have begun to see MY normal and it has taken 3 weeks to develop it. My normal does not fit perfectly into any of the Protocols. I began there and I had to let my body help me find our normal. My Protocol is the 1000 but I CAN NOT do the ridged time schedule. I, like Jim Humble, begin at 3pm. No my day can still be used to help others without excusing myself, making a horrid stink somewhere, and then coming back to the group only to not do my NORMAL with them that I have been doing for almost 10 years no. Now, I need not reveal my personal life with MMS. I fret, my insanity for individuals being seen as unique as in my DNA is not like anyone's, I fret when normal is used because it causes people to either think they are normal and not fine tune or not understand and welcome the fact there is no normal and do the work to find THEIR personal path. Normal, IMO, is for the lazy person that won't do the work and fine tune their life and body to a program, and just want a list and time of stuff to do. AUGH!
I don't know how you answer all these questions without writing a book for each answer. Again, as it always has been in our past and is now, and I know will continure on... I give great thanks to you and give thanks for your wisdom and I greatly too respect your finds and experiences in the MMS/CDS/CDH world of good health and healing. Thank you!
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