An Important Reason Why We Should Be Using Magnesium

[Lilja]

Gabes,
I forgot to thank you for your answer. I will go through the food with K1 and see if I'm "within".

Thank you!

Lilia

[tex]

Jari,

My diet probably contains even less K1 than yours, and I've been eating this very restricted diet for many years (over 11 years). Last fall, when I had the kidney stone problems, I thought that maybe a K2 deficiency was responsible for a calcium buildup which caused the kidney stones and other issues (because my vitamin D level is usually very high), so I bought some K2, and I think I took 1 pill. But after reading the warnings that no one who is taking a blood thinner should take K2, I set it aside and haven't touched it since. I take clopidogrel (Plavix) for stroke prevention.

This spring, after an antibiotic reaction (that depleted the rest of my minimal cellular reserves of magnesium) finally forced me to figure out that I've apparently had a chronic magnesium deficiency for almost 10 years, I increased my magnesium supplementation and all of those problems that I had been having, disappeared. And guess what? When I Googled kidney stones and magnesium, I discovered that magnesium deficiency is a known common cause of kidney stones. Now why couldn't my doctors figure that out?

So now I wonder if some (or maybe all) of the problems attributed to a K2 deficiency might actually be due to a magnesium deficiency, instead. Because research shows that most people are magnesium deficient, and we know that stress depletes magnesium, and many other things also deplete it.

Tex

[jlbattin]

Thanks for your response, Tex.

I think I saw where you wrote the other day that you eat the same thing day after day. So, after all this time, you still eat a pretty restricted diet? I'd be curious to know what you do eat. Would you share that?
Thanks.

[tex]

For breakfast I usually fry 4 thick slices of bacon and a couple of eggs, lightly toast a couple of corn tortillas in the grease, plop an egg and a couple of slices of crisp bacon on each tortilla after they're done, and sorta fold each one to resemble a taco or burrito, except that they're so full that I can't actually roll them. That's usually followed by a couple of cups of coffee while I'm checking email and the discussion board. Maybe once every week or 2 I'll have a large pancake (King Arthur Flour Pancake Mix) and bacon, with either jam or maple syrup, instead of eggs and bacon.

At noon, usually pork sausage and mashed or fried potatoes. Occasionally porkchops instead of sausage. Rarely, fried catfish and French fries. In cold weather I'll occasionally make a pot of chili or stew, but cold weather doesn't happen very often down here, so that's a very minor part of my diet.

Late in the day, I'll either snack on a nuked piece of previously grilled jalapeño pork sausage, or Corn Chex with almond milk.

Tex

[dfpowell]

Tex,

Do you make your own pork sausage, or have you found a brand that works for you?

Thanks,

[Lilja]

Hi Tex,


I got some folks who contacted me after reading my success story on the board and I have been coaching them with LDN. I saw the FB page you started...great idea and Z. is perfect for it.

And how are you, my friend?

Love,

Monique

Tex,
Have you started an FB page, or is Monique talking about the website? If it's the website, has it been officially launched? I checked in, and saw that you had done an amazing job!

Lilia

[tex]

Donna,

I'm fortunate to have a small town locker plant still in business nearby, and they make great, safe sausage. The big processors forced most of the smaller operators out of business decades ago by promoting the use of expensive equipment and other requirements that most smaller operators couldn't afford or comply with, and USDA agreed to add the requirements to their regulations.

When I was a kid, growing up on the farm, we always made our own sausage, but unfortunately that practice fell by the wayside long ago.

Tex

[jlbattin]

Tex,

Thanks for sharing your diet with us. So, did you just decide to stay with the safe foods? Do you stray away from that very often? I love chicken and I love rice, but I am literally gagging on it right now, so am anxious to see what else I can add back in over the next few months. I am only adding something new on Fridays (cause then I have the weekend to recover if need be). I just can't go in and teach every morning with bloating, cramps, etc. So, mine will be a slow process.

[tex]

Lilia,

I don't do FB. Jessica (who is on the board of directors) set up that page. And Dr. Deb (who is also on the board of directors) set up the Pinterest page. There are links to the FB and Pinterest pages at the top of every page on the website.

I thought that the website would be finished long ago, but it's amazing how much red tape and stumbling blocks we have run into. I'm still working on getting the details worked out so that we can add a "Donate" button, and things of that sort. But we'll eventually get everything set up the way we want it.

Thank you for the kind words,
Tex

[tex]

Jari,

I eat what works best for me, and I don't really crave much variety. Of course I ate more different foods before my symptoms came along, but my diet has been pretty boring (plain, simple foods) all of my life. I had to cut out fiber 5 years ago, because of the ileostomy, so that eliminated a lot of the variety in my diet. That limits my diet more than MC.

Testing "new" foods on Fridays is definitely a prudent choice.

Tex