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quite often there is some irony in those things I write, generally it is the advice I need to be listening to and doing for my own life!Beautifully said Gabes. I always feel uplifted reading your words. It made my day. thank -you. Life is a gift. I choose to look at possiblities not my many limits.. always a positive in the sea of negatives..
". stay well and keep smiling
Be your own best friend and don't let those challenges win.... You are awesome and such a heart of gold.. take care. and be good to you!!!Gabes-Apg wrote:twirlitgirl
quite often there is some irony in those things I write, generally it is the advice I need to be listening to and doing for my own life!Beautifully said Gabes. I always feel uplifted reading your words. It made my day. thank -you. Life is a gift. I choose to look at possiblities not my many limits.. always a positive in the sea of negatives..
". stay well and keep smiling
there have been some challenges in my life lately and I am not taking the mental and emotional time to process them.
The only thing I had changed was the amount of magnesium that I take daily, so it's pretty clear that the magnesium deficiency caused the bundle branch block in the first place, and additional magnesium resolved the problem. Everything checked out fine and the Dr.'s only explanation was hormones....he was close but not quite. I continued to have skipped beats and increase in HR before hormonal times. So glad I have my answer! Life is soooo much easier! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carolyn-d ... 40931.htmlI became aware of the close association between vitamin D and magnesium after receiving emails from people experiencing magnesium deficiency symptoms after they began taking high doses of Vitamin D. Some doctors are prescribing 50,000iu of Vitamin D in the synthetic D2 form instead of the previous standard of 400iu per day.
It turns out that all the enzymes metabolizing vitamin D require magnesium as a necessary co-factor.[2],[3] When you take high doses of Vitamin D and if you are already low in magnesium, the increased amount of metabolic work drains magnesium from its muscle storage sites. That’s probably why muscles are the first to suffer magnesium deficiency symptoms — twitching, leg cramps, restless legs and charlie horses. Angina and even heart attacks affecting the heart muscle are all magnesium deficiency symptoms.
https://chriskresser.com/calcium-supple ... ink-twice/I’ve made the argument before that some supplements may be necessary even within the context of a nutrient-dense, whole-foods diet. Some nutrients are challenging to get through food alone, especially if you’re not digesting food optimally or you’re struggling with a disease that increases your need for particular nutrients. I routinely recommend supplements to many of my patients, and have seen the benefits of proper supplementation in my own life as well.
That said, there are several supplements that are commonly recommended by conventional doctors and healthcare practitioners that are unnecessary at best, and potentially harmful at worst. Perhaps the best example of this is calcium.
Calcium has become extremely popular to supplement with, especially amongst older women, in the hope that it will prevent osteoporosis. We’ve all seen the products on the market aimed at the “worried-well”, such as Viactiv and Caltrate, suggesting that supplementing with calcium can help maintain bone health and prevent osteoporosis, a serious condition affecting at least 10% of American women. (1) Yet the evidence that calcium supplementation strengthens the bones and teeth was never strong to begin with, and has grown weaker with new research published in the past few years. A 2012 analysis of NHANES data found that consuming a high intake of calcium beyond the recommended dietary allowance, typically from supplementation, provided no benefit for hip or lumbar vertebral bone mineral density in older adults. (2) And a 2007 study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that calcium supplements don’t reduce fracture rates in older women, and may even increase the rate of hip fractures. (3)
Beyond being ineffective for bone health, calcium supplements are associated with some pretty serious health risks. Studies on the relationship between calcium and cardiovascular disease (CVD) suggest that dietary intake of calcium protects against heart disease, but supplemental calcium may increase the risk. A large study of 24,000 men and women aged 35–64 years published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in 2012 found that those who used calcium supplements had a 139% greater risk of heart attack during the 11-year study period, while intake of calcium from food did not increase the risk. (4) A meta-analysis of studies involving more than 12,000 participants also published in BMJ found that calcium supplementation increases the risk of heart attack by 31%, stroke by 20% and death from all causes by 9%. (5)
An analysis involving 12,000 men published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that intakes of over 1,000 mg of supplemental calcium per day (from multivitamins or individual supplements) were associated with a 20% increase in the risk of death from CVD. (6) Researchers suspect that the large burst of calcium in the blood that occurs after supplementation may facilitate the calcification of arteries, whereas calcium obtained from food is absorbed at slower rates and in smaller quantities than from supplements. (7) It is also suspected that extra calcium intake above one’s requirements is not absorbed by bones, but rather excreted in the urine, increasing the risk of calcium kidney stones, or circulated in the blood, where it might attach to atherosclerotic plaques in arteries or heart valves. (8)
The evidence against taking a calcium supplement couldn't be much stronger. We know that more than two-thirds of the general population have a magnesium deficiency. Taking a calcium supplement can only make that magnesium deficiency more severe. If the people in that study had all been taking enough magnesium, the results probably would have been very different. But doctors continue to prescribe calcium supplements, and if they prescribe any magnesium at all to go with the calcium supplements, they never prescribe more than a fraction of the amount actually needed. Shame on them.A large study of 24,000 men and women aged 35–64 years published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in 2012 found that those who used calcium supplements had a 139% greater risk of heart attack during the 11-year study period, while intake of calcium from food did not increase the risk.
