It's just average malic acid capsuls I got from my health food store. The name brand is Natures Life and each pill is 800 mg's, but I don't think the name brand matters too much. I take a little more than the recomended dose (3 pills = 240mg's a day). I take all three capsuls at once.

Taking malic acid makes A HUGE difference in your flushes and a bottle of it is usually under $10.00. I began my first flushes and didn't take any malic acid. At that point it didn't matter as much because they were packed in there like sardines & couldn't wait to get out. By the time I got to my sixth flush, I was getting less and less, so I took them before my 7th flush and got out about 500--many were very large. Now I take it and even though I've done 13 flushes, I am still getting a hundred stones--many of them are the size of the tip of my thumb, so they are a lot bigger than the hundreds of pea size & b.b. bullet ones I was getting when I first started. The stones just keep getting bigger the further along I get and I have the malic acid to think for it because I can feel something happening when I take it! Now I have proof it works since I lost that one 8 hours after taking those three pills the other night. It's wonderful to get those out because then I know I'm getting the hard to reach stuff.

One time I took 7 before a flush and got slush except for a few mushy deformed stones. I'm sure it was a great flush, but I couldn't count stones to tell just how much I really got. I felt so much better afterwards anyway, although I prefer to count stones so I know what I've got and what I dont't.

I also try to do jumping jacks or workout on my total trainer in a bouncing motion soon after I take my malic acid because that knocks the stones down toward my galbladder faster. I also read on an archived post in here about a girl who jogged and got hundreds more stones than her friend who did everything else the same, but didn't workout. I think that helps a lot with the flushes too. Imagine every time she took a step, the pounding from her weight was slamming hundreds of stones into the postion she wanted them in for her next flush = )

Lovey