a little info on vinegar..........if it helps ur stomach significantly, then u r in need of more hydrochloric acid (HCl), this is the normal acid ur stomach is suppose to make in enough quantities to keep things sterile, help digest food & provide a number of import things for the rest of ur body...........when u don't produce enough, it can make u feel like u want to die.........been there, done that.........there r many things that can cause a person to not produce enough, age being only one.........so if the vinegar helped, then this is a clue to the fact that u r not producing enough.........the problem is & this can b a can of worms, cause it gets complicated.....but simply, acetic acid, which is what vinegar is, is only one of the waste acids our biological processes produce all the time........this then has o b gotten rid of, by sweating, peeing & defecating, throwing up works, too.........been there done that, too.......now if u r adding the acid ur body is crying out for with vinegar, it may work for a time........the problem comes cause ur body really needs HCl, not more waste acids.........this can cause the kidneys to slow down, cause the tissues of ur of ur body to become more acidic day by day & as the acids build, it causes the mineral balance to get un-balanced........if the kidneys do not take up the slack & get rid of the acetic acid, along with all the other acids produced all the time, ur blood becomes a pea soup of toxins & acids.........it can take time, but without enough HCl, everything slowly starts going to hell.........it's like a snow ball rolling down hill, it goes faster with time..........in the beginning with the vinegar, u feel so good, u think this is it, i finally found it.........but this whole process & lessening of HCl to keep things in balance can put u into disease states that can cause permanent damage..........& i'm here to tell u, U DO NOT WANT TO GO THERE............sometimes there is no going back..........and the reason i'm so sure, i've done the vinegar thing.........i've taken it cause it felt so good.........it took me 2 weeks to get to the point that i started throwing up afterwards, then i just couldn't swallow it anymore, cause i'd throw up just smelling it.........my body was in such a bad state, for so long, it didn't take me long to go into acidosis & that pea soup blood.........i had migraines so bad, i couldn't move from the bed, for days.........my stomach was so bloated & sensitive, i couldn't even rest a t-shirt on it............i could hardly put anything in my stomach, cause there was no acid to digest it, that throwing up came often.........i lost lean muscle mass, i couldn't think, cause my brain didn't work so well anymore..........my kidneys were inflamed & i was so fatigued, that just getting up to go to the bathroom, caused my heart to pound........there was other stuff, besides, but.........mine was an extreme situation, but it is an illustration of what happens when there isn't the right things in ur stomach to completely digest the food & supplements u need to maintain hemostasis...........also, with incomplete digestion of food, it can cause leaky gut & systemic candida..........this is a horrible way to live..........i've studied this thing in depth, cause i was there & needed to know why it quit working, why i got so much sicker & what was really suppose to b going on after the chewed food leaves ur throat..........i hope u can handle it longer & nothing happens to u...........but beware.......