Magnesium is a critical mineral for the human body to function properly. How do I know how much magnesium to take? Buy a low dose magnesium supplement (see list by u/123456watevs). Your morning BM will indicate the right amount you need for your own body. Take one before bed. The next night, take 2, then the next night three, etc...until you have a loose stool the next morning. Loose stool = too much. Cut back by one and that is the amount you need. When I was very sick with a rare kidney disease, I needed 1,000 mg per day. Now that I am healthy again, I take 200 mg per day in the summer (when I sweat a lot) and 200 mg every other day in the winter (when I sweat less).
Yes, the indicator is the loose stool, and by loose I mean close to diarrhea. If your stool is always loose, you have a different health problem that needs to be looked into.
Magnesium is an electrolyte. The amount in your body changes literally moment by moment as your kidneys try to keep electrolytes balanced and thus expel some in urine, you sweat, your body utilizes it, etc. Blood work is only one snapshot in one moment of time, it is not an accurate indicator of your overall magnesium needs.
Since magnesium is such a critical mineral to body function, you should take as much of it as possible up to the point it creates loose stools. Then your body always has enough to function at its peak.
Electrolytes (it's just salt, dude) cause water to move. This is why they're an excellent laxative. Seriously, google "magnesium laxative."
If you take a large dose of laxatives and don't drink enough water you're pushing your body to a bad corner. Your advice is bad and is based off a misunderstanding. You should get an understanding before you hand out advice.
Yes it is critical which is why your kidneys recycle magnesium. 95% of it is retained through this mechanism.
If you suspect you have low magnesium then the blood work will show that. It's a diagnostic. Your stools are NOT. Your advice has about as much value as those stools.
I think you misunderstood what I said. Yes, you are correct that magnesium is a laxative. I wasn't telling people to take laxative-level doses every day, I was telling people to try once to see how much their body could take before it was too much. This way, they had a baseline understanding of how deficient they were before they started taking the supplement and could dose appropriately.
Because Magnesium is critical to just about every bodily function, I firmly believe that people should take as much as they can -- and the only way to figure out how much you can tolerate is to test it. There is no harm in one loose stool.
I was extremely ill with a rare kidney disease that has no treatment in western medicine. I got blood work every single month for many years. Nothing in the blood work indicated how much magnesium needed to be taken on a daily basis in order for my body to have a sufficient amount of magnesium to heal myself.
Had I just assumed that 200 mg per day would be enough, I likely never would have healed. I needed to test the limits to figure out how much I really needed to take to meet my body's needs -- and at that point in my life, I needed 1,000 mg per day. As I healed, I slowly and steadily needed to cut back on the magnesium, and I knew exactly when I needed to cut back based on monitoring my stools. Likewise, I figured out I need twice as much in the summer when I sweat a lot as I do in the winter when I don't sweat -- and I figured it out by monitoring my stools.
What blood test do you think indicates what time of year to change dosages, or if you even need to change dosages when the seasons change? Why would you trust a blood test over your own personal observations, especially for an electrolyte whose levels in the body change many times a day as you eat/drink/go potty/sweat???? As I said before, blood work only shows one moment in time. It's not a long range indicator for something as dynamic as an electrolyte.
What are the different levels of absorption for the different compounds you've mentioned?
How much glycinate would you have to take, in terms of bioavailability, to match the power of the other two?
Again, your body is not a car, there is no "formula" for living successfully. There are merely patterns. Not all of them apply to all people. Outcomes can be challenged by genetic factors. Simple advice can be dangerous.
Please don't take so much of a drug that it loosens your stool. And "sub stool loosening" doses probably aren't a statistically or practically useful measure. You might consider if you have other problems, like water intake, or other challenges, that would be better solved first.
Magnesium is a critical mineral for the human body to function properly. How do I know how much magnesium to take? Buy a low dose magnesium supplement (see list by u/123456watevs). Your morning BM will indicate the right amount you need for your own body. Take one before bed. The next night, take 2, then the next night three, etc...until you have a loose stool the next morning. Loose stool = too much. Cut back by one and that is the amount you need. When I was very sick with a rare kidney disease, I needed 1,000 mg per day. Now that I am healthy again, I take 200 mg per day in the summer (when I sweat a lot) and 200 mg every other day in the winter (when I sweat less).
Thank you Christine!
Ok, May I Ask, What if you Go In the Morning Every Morning as Is i.e. No Mag Supp? You Still Go by the Same Metric?
Yes, the indicator is the loose stool, and by loose I mean close to diarrhea. If your stool is always loose, you have a different health problem that needs to be looked into.
Magnesium is a known laxative. You have loose stools because you're literally taking a laxative dose of it.
Your body is not a simple machine. Get blood work or simple home testing kits. The density of your morning shit is not a diagnostic reference.
Magnesium is an electrolyte. The amount in your body changes literally moment by moment as your kidneys try to keep electrolytes balanced and thus expel some in urine, you sweat, your body utilizes it, etc. Blood work is only one snapshot in one moment of time, it is not an accurate indicator of your overall magnesium needs.
Since magnesium is such a critical mineral to body function, you should take as much of it as possible up to the point it creates loose stools. Then your body always has enough to function at its peak.
Electrolytes (it's just salt, dude) cause water to move. This is why they're an excellent laxative. Seriously, google "magnesium laxative."
If you take a large dose of laxatives and don't drink enough water you're pushing your body to a bad corner. Your advice is bad and is based off a misunderstanding. You should get an understanding before you hand out advice.
Yes it is critical which is why your kidneys recycle magnesium. 95% of it is retained through this mechanism.
If you suspect you have low magnesium then the blood work will show that. It's a diagnostic. Your stools are NOT. Your advice has about as much value as those stools.
I think you misunderstood what I said. Yes, you are correct that magnesium is a laxative. I wasn't telling people to take laxative-level doses every day, I was telling people to try once to see how much their body could take before it was too much. This way, they had a baseline understanding of how deficient they were before they started taking the supplement and could dose appropriately.
Because Magnesium is critical to just about every bodily function, I firmly believe that people should take as much as they can -- and the only way to figure out how much you can tolerate is to test it. There is no harm in one loose stool.
I was extremely ill with a rare kidney disease that has no treatment in western medicine. I got blood work every single month for many years. Nothing in the blood work indicated how much magnesium needed to be taken on a daily basis in order for my body to have a sufficient amount of magnesium to heal myself.
Had I just assumed that 200 mg per day would be enough, I likely never would have healed. I needed to test the limits to figure out how much I really needed to take to meet my body's needs -- and at that point in my life, I needed 1,000 mg per day. As I healed, I slowly and steadily needed to cut back on the magnesium, and I knew exactly when I needed to cut back based on monitoring my stools. Likewise, I figured out I need twice as much in the summer when I sweat a lot as I do in the winter when I don't sweat -- and I figured it out by monitoring my stools.
What blood test do you think indicates what time of year to change dosages, or if you even need to change dosages when the seasons change? Why would you trust a blood test over your own personal observations, especially for an electrolyte whose levels in the body change many times a day as you eat/drink/go potty/sweat???? As I said before, blood work only shows one moment in time. It's not a long range indicator for something as dynamic as an electrolyte.
Keep going.
What are the different levels of absorption for the different compounds you've mentioned?
How much glycinate would you have to take, in terms of bioavailability, to match the power of the other two?
Again, your body is not a car, there is no "formula" for living successfully. There are merely patterns. Not all of them apply to all people. Outcomes can be challenged by genetic factors. Simple advice can be dangerous.
Please don't take so much of a drug that it loosens your stool. And "sub stool loosening" doses probably aren't a statistically or practically useful measure. You might consider if you have other problems, like water intake, or other challenges, that would be better solved first.
You would be surprised how much of how you feel is directly related to electrolyte imbalances.
Sauce to back up your statement: https://www.verywellhealth.com/what-happens-when-your-body-is-low-on-electrolytes-8758873
This is idiocracy. Go drink some Brawndo.
You just made a giant fool out of yourself with that comment. Please read this so that you understand basic body functions: https://www.verywellhealth.com/what-happens-when-your-body-is-low-on-electrolytes-8758873