The Importance Of Magnesium

[Sparklingsunshine]

As if we didnt already plug the benefits of magnesium enough on the forum, here's a good BBC article on how important this vital mineral is for our health.

bbc.co.uk/food/articles/mag...

[Brightness14]

I tried it only last week 2 x 200 mg over one day. I never tested beforehand. Anyway, I was in pain all evening and the next day my kidney was hurting so much I decided not to take anymore and the pain went over the next two days. I never listened to my own advice test first, try later.

[humanbean in reply to Brightness14]

Testing magnesium is pointless.

Look at Table 2 in this link :

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...

It shows that only 0.3% of the body's magnesium is found in the serum. It may be just a small percentage but magnesium is very important and needs some to be circulating in the bloodstream all the time.

If magnesium in the bloodstream starts to run low the body moves it from bones, muscles and soft tissue into the bloodstream.

As a result a serum test of magnesium is unlikely to be deficient. But the magnesium levels in bones, muscles, and soft tissue could be deficient and it won't show up in a serum test.

Some people say that the best test for magnesium is by testing the red blood cells. But the red blood cells only contain 0.5% of the body's magnesium so I can't see why the RBC test is much better than the serum test - but then I'm not a scientist.

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Someone who takes magnesium supplements needs to have functioning kidneys because excess magnesium is excreted in the urine.

For info :

Magnesium deficiency : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magne...

Magnesium toxicity : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper...

If kidneys are not super-healthy, then this paper is worth reading :

Title : Oral Magnesium Supplementation in Chronic Kidney Disease Stages 3 and 4: Efficacy, Safety, and Effect on Serum Calcification Propensity—A Prospective Randomized Double-Blinded Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial

Link : kireports.org/article/S2468...

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I tried it only last week 2 x 200 mg over one day. I never tested beforehand. Anyway, I was in pain all evening and the next day my kidney was hurting so much I decided not to take anymore

What magnesium supplement did you buy? If the supplement you took actually contained 200 mg of pure magnesium, and you took 2 in a day that was really quite a high dose.

The maximum dietary reference intake for magnesium for females is 360mg per day. See this link :

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieta...

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To choose a suitable magnesium supplement :

naturalnews.com/046401_magn...

drjockers.com/best-magnesiu...

If you struggle to tolerate magnesium in any form try cutting your supplement in halves or quarters and see if you can tolerate it that way. (I'm assuming your kidneys are functional.)

[Brightness14 in reply to humanbean]

One of my Kidneys was slightly damaged when I lived in the UK. I had a UTI and the GP surgery missed it four times with the old dip stick test. I became very ill and lost 1.5 stone in eights weeks. I then went private but it took 12 months to sort out the biofilm in my kidney. It works but not like it used too. Thank you for the information. I think I will leave well alone.

[lovedoncebefore]

Magnesium in any form makes me feel very unwell. Weak upper arms and lower legs. I have tried very form of magnesium even the organic spray but still the same symptoms. It's confusing why my body just does not like supplemental magnesium. I use to take magnesium supplements up to age 50 then after that my body just does not tolerate it.

[humanbean in reply to lovedoncebefore]

That is unusual in the context of magnesium if there is no kidney involvement.

There are some people who, for reasons unknown, can't tolerate vitamin D. One suggestion has been that vitamin D helps bones to become stronger, but in cases of severe, long-term deficiency it takes a long time to improve the bones and the process is painful.