Should We Take Mg With Calcium?

OldMaidButOK said:

I got (yet another of those in-the-mail) "doctor's newsletters".

?????

The supplement that you should be taking is Calcium / Magnesium at
close to equal ratios. And, of course your would want to be taking
Vitamin D, too.
--
john gohde
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If you want to blow out your kidneys ..

Keep doing the calcium ..

Who loves ya.
Tom
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A good diet can contain upwards of a gram of magnesium.
Granted, as a celiac victim your uptake of nutrients has
been impaired and my still be somewhat impaired.

I will suggest you should be taking generous D and K supplements
for your bone health. I take 4000 IU of D3 during the late fall
and all winter. And I take 10 mg of K per day.

Magnesium citrate is a good choice. Don't ever buy magnesium oxide
as it is VERY poorly absorbed. If one is poor an 1/8 of teaspoon
of Epsom salts twice a day would provide about 250 milligrams of very
well absorb magnesium at a low enough dose to avoid loose
bowels.

Some suggest an ideal diet has about a 1 to 1 ratio of calcium to
magnesium rather than the 2 1/2 to 3 ratio the dietician will
suggest as adequate.

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Quoted message said:

I got (yet another of those in-the-mail) "doctor's newsletters". One of

the

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tips it puts out is that: Calcium supplement should be taken with some
magnesium too. Says that, in nature, when Man takes in calcium, he most

always

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also ingests Mg. So, each day I take 3 or 4 calcium pills and also a

smidgen of

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MgCitrate with it. Is anyone else familiar with this?

Forget the calcium. It doesn't perform much, isn't needed and is easy to get
from fresh vegetables.

The magnesium? You are probably now deficient in magnesium from taking
cacium. Avoid magnesium oxide for very long. I acheived many heel and
achillies tendon bone spurs with it. You don't want them. Citrates give me
acid gut.

"OldMaidButOK" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I got (yet another of those in-the-mail) "doctor's newsletters". One of

the

Quoted message said:

tips it puts out is that: Calcium supplement should be taken with some
magnesium too. Says that, in nature, when Man takes in calcium, he most

always

Quoted message said:

also ingests Mg. So, each day I take 3 or 4 calcium pills and also a

smidgen of

Quoted message said:

MgCitrate with it. Is anyone else familiar with this?

Piezo Guru said:

calcium ...is easy to get
from fresh vegetables.

Simply not true!

The bioavailability of minerals in general from vegetables is very low.

When looking at the projected need for minerals from the diet, the
numbers simply do not add up. They don't even come close. Ergo,
everyone should supplement their diet for the macro minerals: calcium,
magnesium, and zinc.

One can only speculate about the evolutionary ramifications. But
apparently, primitive man consumed a huge amount of calories, performed
a tremendous amount of physical labor, and consequentially did not lose
as much bone mass in the first place.

Of course, as romantic a notion that the paleo diet is; a significant
portion of the recent increase in human longevity is due to eating a
better diet from an improved food transportation system. The other
major factor in improved longevity is clean drinking water, hygiene,
and sanitation in urban areas. Conventional medicine, of course, had
nothing to do with it; but like any good politician is the first to
claim all the credit for something that they did not do. The truth is
that throughout history, most humans ate a crappy borderline starvation
diet.

If you are lumber jack, chopping down trees for a living, with a hand
axe, burning 7,000 calories a day you can get your calcium needs from
your diet. Otherwise, supplement!
--
john gohde
http://naturalhealthperspective.com/blog/