Low Magnesium and Zinc Levels

[Dramlouie]

My magnesium level is .72 (7 - 1) and zinc is 11.2 (11.5 - 20). I supplement with magnesium citrate in evening and magnesium malate in the morning and zinc picolinate each day as they were at these levels when I had a heart attack back in 2014. I am suffering from aches and pains, weakness, muscle wasting, stiffness and fatigue. I have Hashimotos. Why would my levels be low when also supplementing? I have also changed from Thiroyd to Thyroid S a month ago. Blood tests for kidney, liver, bone were all good.

[greygoose]

Well, magnesium blood tests are not reliable, so just ignore that and keep supplementing. How much magnesium are you taking?

Apparently, zinc blood tests are reliable if you have a large deficiency, but is insensitive to small changes. How much zinc are you taking?

Did you also get your copper tested? Because high copper will lower zinc.

[Dramlouie in reply to greygoose]

I take 22mg zinc picolinate daily. The other mineral results were normal so I would expect the copper to have been tested. Magnesium malate 150mg elemental magnesium 1 in the morning and 1 magnesium citrate before bed 222mg elemental magnesium. I have just noticed that in very small writing on the packs that suggested serving size is 3 tablets mag malate and 2 for the mag citrate.

[greygoose in reply to Dramlouie]

Yes, that's a very small dose of magnesium.

As for the copper, you can't just expect anything. You should always get a print-out of your results so that you know exactly what's been tested, and exactly what the results are.

That's actually rather a large dose of zinc. One normally takes 15 mg. So doesn't explain why your zinc isn't rising.

[Jaydee1507 Administrator]

Hi and sorry I'm coming in late. Just thought I'd share my cause of low magnesium which is a fermenting gut. Seems it all get's used up in the fermenting process causing the awful weakness, aches, pains etc symptoms. Mine was discovered when I ended up in ICU and they gave me 2 bags of magnesium IV and few months later I was back with symptoms. I've recently started daily injections of Magnesium which I've bought from Germany. Pretty sure it doesn't get absorbed properly via the gut for me.

Honestly, if you have those symptoms your blood results are likely accurate.

[Dramlouie in reply to Jaydee1507]

Very interesting, thank you. I told my doctor that I belch after eating a raw apple. He said to test whether I still belch after the apple is cooked. I didn't hear back from him. I shall look into this further.

[Jaydee1507 Administrator in reply to Dramlouie]

Honestly, I think you'll find that a GP won't know anything about this. When I told my GP about the low magnesium she said, oh, we don't test that. Dr Myhill has a good article about fermenting gut.

There are other nutritional deficits that are linked with this.

sciencedirect.com/science/a...