Posted by Larry Hoover on June 13, 2006, at 7:32:31
In reply to Re: ratio was 1:2 magnesium/calcium, posted by LOOPS on June 7, 2006, at 8:16:25
> I think there is a big difference between taking a 2:1 Ca:Mg and a 1:1 - well there is with me. There is a site somewhere that advises taking magnesium alone for the first couple of months and then if there is no change in symptoms, or things get better then worse again, to add in a little calcium, but always to be on the look out for return of symptoms with too much calcium.
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> That seems a more sensible way to go about it. 1:1 is the ratio I come out with after experimenting - I would do a higher mag than this - but then arrythmias are back - I DO think these are due to an imbalance between calcium and magnesium - with me anyway.Sounds like you are getting you figured out. That is good.
> It just depends on the person as usual. However I also know people who chug down calcium pills with whatever mag oxide is in them without any mental problems at all.
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> LoopsPeople who chug down pills do not necessarily have a non-zero uptake. It is very commonplace to make the logical error implied therein. Intake is not uptake.
The parathyroid, with vitamin D acting in the kidney, regulates uptake.
If you don't need the calcium, your body won't take it up. Unfortunately, you may not need calcium, and your body has shut down the pumps that uptake magnesium. (Same pumps.) So, you get diarrhea from the magnesium because your body can't uptake it. Your body isn't totally stupid, though. It will sense the increased magnesium in the gut (if you keep taking it daily), and over-ride the calcium shut-down signal. The pumps do start up, eventually (but if and only if you have enough vitamin D). Then, you can get magnesium uptake, instead of diarrhea.
Doctors know this, but they're kinda stupid about it. If someone is clinically hypomagnesemic (very low blood magnesium), they will use an IV to get it back up again. That bypasses the pumps. But it doesn't adjust the pumps. It's duct tape medicine.
Lar
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