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  • July 20, 2009 at 1:59 am #1171
    JanSz
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    Just got my Hair Analysis
    attached is 2008 and 2009 analysis.

    I have a diarrhea since about dec-08 when I started taking Chlorella.
    It did not stopped after I stopped Chlorella a month latter.
    I still have it for this day.
    Colonoscopy revealed colon in good standing.
    Genova’s CDSA 2.0 stool test oct-08 was also unremarkable.
    I am able to control diarrhea eating 2-3 teaspoons of lecithin.
    Nobody knows why would Lecithin be helpful.
    I take Lecithin because years ago I was told to eat it with (AMP-Molo-Cure), also helpful with digestive disorders.

    Now, I think that my diarrhea may have to do with a boatload of magnesium I am taking.

    I stared taking it because it was relieving my leg cramps.
    It actually helps a lot, I am not getting muscle cramps at all.

    At first it did not make sense.
    my blood magnesium

    5/27/2009—2.0(1.5-2.5)mg/dL
    Previously was also within range (cant find the test)

    but my hair magnesium that is different story

    5/27/2008—5(11-122)
    6/3/2009—-13(11-122)—on 4 magnesium pills for a year and half

    Now I increased my magnessium intake from 4 to 6 500mg caps

    I take LEF
    Magnesium Caps, 500 mg 100 capsules Item Catalog Number 00264

    Magnesium
    (as magnesium oxide, magnesium chloride, magnesium aspartate, magnesium succinate, magnesium amino acid chelate )


    Cutting to the chase,

    I need better magnessium.
    something that would not cause runs, but got absorbed by my system.

    At one time I was using
    Natural calm
    and
    Cal-Mag
    http://choicenutritionals.com

    but did not feel much difference

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    Or is there another idea??

    How to absorb magnesium from food?
    What affects magnesium absorption?

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    July 20, 2009 at 2:55 am #2759
    DrMariano2
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    Magnesium plus water is a laxative.

    Excessive Magnesium intake will cause diarrhea.

    If Magnesium used to treat muscle cramps is causing diarrhea, then this poses a significant problem nutritionally since diarrhea will impair absorption of nutrients.

    Thus, if diarrhea occurs, I may have to look for another treatment for muscle cramps – or look for the actual cause of muscle cramping and address that instead.

    July 20, 2009 at 12:05 pm #2760
    JanSz
    Member

    @DrMariano 878 wrote:

    Magnesium plus water is a laxative.

    Excessive Magnesium intake will cause diarrhea.

    If Magnesium used to treat muscle cramps is causing diarrhea, then this poses a significant problem nutritionally since diarrhea will impair absorption of nutrients.

    Thus, if diarrhea occurs, I may have to look for another treatment for muscle cramps – or look for the actual cause of muscle cramping and address that instead.

    I am controlling diarrhea by using Lecithin.
    So on the daily basis I do not have diarrhea.
    But anytime I stop lecithin, diarrhea returns the next day.

    Looking at my hair analysis I was deficient in magnesium in 2008 and am improved in 2009.

    I am able to control muscle cramps (when they come) by using quinine.
    But that does not make a sense to me since I clearly proved to myself that I have mineral imbalance. Cramps are relieved with use of magnesium.

    I am looking for ways to hold to magnesium, among other minerals.

    My Ca/Mg ratio was a way out of bounds, now that ratio is good,
    but
    I am low on both Ca an Mg

    How to hold on to them?

    Any known reasons for this?
    .

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