I have suspected a problem with my magnesium levels for over 20 years. Magnesium supplements not only do not help but if you take the wrong ones, they can make things worse. I found this article very exciting because it gives me hope that the medical community may be on the cusp of understanding the role of magnesium in disease development. If you are highly technical you can read the original research in Cell magazine. There is a great graphic to help explain what they learned.
On my personal journey, I took too many magnesium supplements in my 30’s trying to get rid of involuntary muscle twitches in my eyes. I got diarrhea and developed SIBO, who knows what was driving what at that point but the magnesium supplements were not getting into my system. I explored magnesium in more detail when I read Magnesium Miracle by Carolyn Dean and I currently take a chelated magnesium supplement at night, although I am not sure how much it is helping me.
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Good evening Bonnie,
You know… I think your on to something with the magnesium. I used to work with a very smart ICU doc who would always replace magnesium in all his patients- even if they had “normal levels” on their blood tests. He said it was important for countless processes in the body ( he went into detail- but I don’t remember all of it). He said anyone who was sick needed magnesium to help them heal.
I had recently started taking magnesium as I had heard it can help with constipation- but I bought the kind that is not very well absorbed by the body, because I heard that was best for constipation… maybe I need to get some that is more easily absorbed as well!!
I am currently now doing the BiPhasic diet ( mixing the traditional and vegetarian one), and have seen great symptom management with my bloating and indigestion…. between that and intermittent fasting… I am actually waking up feeling “hungry” which is strange for me. It seems to me if you have SIBO/SIFO ( what I think I have/ what my GI doc thinks I have) the SCD diet or Biphasic diet provides more relief than low fodmap. That book sounds interesting though… will have to look into it!
Thanks for the encouragement about documenting- after seeing how organized you were in documenting- I have started to document more, but am not as regimented/consistent in it… I need to improve this!!!
If it’s not too much of a toll on you- I have found your blog to be very helpful, and I feel others could benefit from you keeping it up as well!
Keep me posted on any break throughs you come across…
I’m still working on getting my mysterious autoimmune/auto inflammatory disease diagnosed!!!! I had some skin lesions pop up this week while tapering prednisone- so we biopsied then quickly and sent them Mayo Clinic… so I’m hoping maybe they might help- but no realistically they may not! The huge issue I am dealing with right now is that there is severe inflammation in my kidneys supposedly due to some autoimmune/ auto inflammatory process- but we don’t know which one or why. But it is progressing rapidly and the only thing they know to do to control it is high dose steroids- but we’ve been doing steroids for 7 months and I keep on getting side effects.
It’s just so nice to talk to someone else to know how challenging this can be, and know I’m not alone in all of this! If you are able to- would love to hear updates from time to time either on your blog or email!
Best wishes!
Thanks for commenting. It makes me happy to know my experience might be helpful to someone else & motivates me to keep posting to this blog. I encourage you to stay strong on your journey to health. It is long, with lots of detours, but if you stick with it, you will continue to learn more about how to keep your one precious body healthy.