have you been over in the Ask Barefoot Herbalist Forum ? He is the only person I have ever heard suggest that the stomach should actually be alkaline (assuming we are eating "human foods", which I guess, according to that theory, is primarily fruitarian). It sounds as though the idea is that the stomach produces acid only to digest "wrong foods." He has gotten most of his information from pre-1950 medical books. I ordered some of his literature, but have yet to read all the way through it. Just thought I would throw that out there! Who knows, might be true, couldn't say.