Insulin question for Wayne and others

[tex]

thank you Gabes. i just hope my insulin resistance doesn't impede my absorption of magnesium too much.

Insulin resistance will not affect your ability to absorb topically-applied magnesium into your skin and from there into your bloodstream. Insulin resistance interferes with the process of transporting the magnesium out of the blood and into the cells of the body for use and storage.

Higher rates of vitamin D should only affect magnesium levels if your diet contains a lot of calcium. Calcium does not interfere with magnesium absorption, but it depletes magnesium because magnesium has to be used in order to transport the calcium out of the blood. Too much calcium in the blood is dangerous, so the body assigns priority to maintaining a normal blood level of calcium. Therefore magnesium usage will be higher with higher calcium levels.

Vitamin D enhances calcium absorption into the bloodstream. Therefore, whenever there is an excess amount of calcium in the diet, more of it will be absorbed into the bloodstream when higher amounts of vitamin D are present. That will prompt additional magnesium usage. So that's how higher vitamin D intake can cause increased magnesium depletion. IOW, it depends on how much calcium is in your diet (especially calcium supplements).

Tex

[Suzy]

Thank you Wayne. I take no calcium supplements and eat no dairy (very occasional ghee), so I'm probably not overdoing the calcium. (No processed foods either so I don't get any "added calcium" in products).

So if I'm interpreting your response correctly, I should continue with the oral and transdermal magnesium (I'm taking 800 mg Dr's Best glycinate oral plus several sprays transdermal, plus Epsom foot baths); and continue with the vitamin D3 (4000 iu daily, plus some sun on my skin when I can); and stay off the calcium supplements as I have been.

I'm also going to try and keep my carb count under 75 grams when possible.

All this in the hopes of raising my magnesium, lowering my A1C and getting rid of the Gerd-related chest pain caused by PPI use.

Did I get that right?

Thanks a million for your help and your hope. I've given up on medical doctors after the trouble they've caused me.

[tex]

That's what I would do if I were in that situation. As Gabes has mentioned elsewhere, after 3–6 months you should be able to reduce the magnesium supplementation. It's possible that it might take longer, because using PPIs and other antacids for so long can really mess up one's magnesium reserves and functionality. Recovering from that amounts to sailing through uncharted waters (because there are no research data to chart an optimal path to recovery).

Tex