Country Life Betaine Hydrochloride with pepsin 600 mg - 250 Tablets

Good quality; good for what ails your malfunctioning gut

These tablets are super easy to swallow compared to capsules. Product works well, and I’ve tried a few different kinds of Betain HCL.

This is a great product at a great price! I have been using Country Life Betaine HCL for years--as I suffer from reduced HCL production. So in addition to my prebiotics/probiotics and digestive enzymes, whenever I have a protein meal, I usually try to take one tablet of Betaine HCL with my meal as it does aid my digestion (the bottle says to take two, but two is too much for me). I can actually feel the difference once I take the tablet. Mind you, my protein intake is about 5 ounces of fish or meat (I can't digest chicken that well) per day (but not every day), so I am not eating a lot of protein, per say. The digestive enzymes that I take also include protease to breakdown the protein, but the HCL provides an additional boost to my ability to break down the protein into amino acids. Anyway, my amino acid profile is pretty good according to my labs, and I think that this product as well as the digestive enzymes have helped.Once of the reasons that this is a well-rounded product is that in addition to Betaine (912 mg), it also contains Pepsin (36 mg), Papain (10 mg), Bromelain (10 mg) and Calcium (103 mg). Actually, I'm not really sure why the calcium is included (calcium carbonate) because it's not listed as a filler. It's actually a substantial amount. I would drop the calcium carbonate, if I were the manufacturer. The rest of the stuff is awesome digestive power!

Okay. Doesn't seem too strong. I use 1/4 tablet to a 1/2 tablet at a time. It works fair. Ive never tried a whole tablet, just to be safe.

SAVED MY LIFE!!!I have been sick for months now with horrible acid reflux, sore throat, not able to sleep, afraid to lie down at night, afraid of losing my vocal chords... feeling tired all the time... and now... just one week after purchase... and swallowing one of these before I eat anything... I'm a BRAND NEW PERSON! I've been suffering with this for so long now.... on and off for years... and I'm SOOO PISSED OFF that my doctor didn't recommend this. How horrible is THAT!?!?!?I had to read about it from an online poster and take the chance of buying a product I know nothing about in the hopes it didn't make me worse... and in the end... this little bottle of pills has SAVED MY LIFE! In every sense of the word. THANK YOU COUNTRY LIFE!!!Just for other readers that might be suffering like me... I am also taking very strong DIGESTIVE ENZYMES PAN 10x and I'm also taking NAC - and I'm eating chewable DGL and at night before bed I always put a teaspoon of slippery elm into hot water to make a tea and add raw honey to it and I'm using that to coat my throat at night. With all of these products I have turned a horrible situation in my life around. I really thought I was finished! I saw myself getting throat cancer and losing my vocal chords... I cannot say enough good things about this product. I was really afraid to take it at first because it is acid and I thought I had too much acid... but as everyone else on the Internet claims, you need acid to fix the acid reflux... so I guess really, my acid was too low.I hope my good new found health continues. Good luck to any readers with the same issues.

This pill in my view is dangerous or just useless. Made me bloat like a pregnant girl and made me highly aggressive. 2 pills with each major meal with protein? Dangerous and excessive. Try one with each when you’re eating stuff you actually need the pill for: this is highly important.You don’t need these pills if you’re just having a salad. Heavy proteins yes, particularly if you have Hypochlorhydria or big signs of it, Still, if it makes you bloat and feel nauseous, naturally stop.These were banned from over the counter a few years back for a reason. There is no proof they do anything. Well, they do one thing on my end : make me bloat and nauseous. Honestly, the worst money I have spent in recent memory besides American made unisex beanies.Do your research and always and ask loads of questions. Also, be extremely careful. Good luck.

I was so disappointed when I saw that this had Porcine in it. I'm an avid vegan and I try to be very careful about not consuming animal products. I was shocked to see that you say this product is Vegan Friendly when in fact it's Not. Just keep it real with folks. I gave you 3 stars for the price, but I'm a nice person.

I bought this as an experiment to conform a suspicion about my body. At the age of 36, I was noticing that I was loosing strength, but I didn't know why. I wasn't recovering from my workouts and always seem to have sore muscles all the time. I couldn't run up the stairs anymore, and my legs seem to be always in pain. I hear a commercial from a company called Maximize Living that specialized in correcting the cause in the body so it can heal itself instead of medicating the symptoms. They had a guy on the show that had the same problem I had but worse and it turned out that he wasn't digesting the proteins he was eating because of low stomach levels. I searched the web to find out if I could purchase something that could increase my stomach acid. I saw the apple cider vinegar solution and even though it did produce positive results, I found it a little impractical, not to mention disgusting. Then I found that you can increase the stomach acid using hydrochloride supplements. I have tried other brands but this one seems to yield the best results for me. My legs don't hurt anymore, and I can run up the stairs again. And I am recovering from my workouts much better. I guess the saying is true, It isn't what you eat, it is what you adsorb that makes a difference.