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.
Most people aren't. I'm glad you found a way to manage your health. I think your perspectives are skewed by the extremities of the challenges you faced.
I'm not saying you're wrong for your life, but other people should see this before they decide to blindly follow your advice.
Serious question: Could you please explain to me exactly how a blood test will determine exactly what dosage of magnesium is best for an individual based on that individuals own needs.
If you can't answer that question, then maybe you should take a moment to ponder why you believe that blindly trusting a blood test, which doesn't really tell you anything about the magnesium balance in the body, is better than simply observing your own body to see how your body responds to various inputs.
Do you truly believe it's dangerous for people to trust their own judgment? Because that is my interpretation of what you said.
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.
Most people aren't. I'm glad you found a way to manage your health. I think your perspectives are skewed by the extremities of the challenges you faced.
I'm not saying you're wrong for your life, but other people should see this before they decide to blindly follow your advice.
Serious question: Could you please explain to me exactly how a blood test will determine exactly what dosage of magnesium is best for an individual based on that individuals own needs.
If you can't answer that question, then maybe you should take a moment to ponder why you believe that blindly trusting a blood test, which doesn't really tell you anything about the magnesium balance in the body, is better than simply observing your own body to see how your body responds to various inputs.
Do you truly believe it's dangerous for people to trust their own judgment? Because that is my interpretation of what you said.