Posted by LOOPS on July 27, 2006, at 11:20:01
In reply to Re: Magnesium/acne/dry skin » JLx, posted by dessbee on July 26, 2006, at 16:29:10
If you take too much magnesium you get diarrhea. I'd like to see someone keep taking too much! Most people cut back or take a break.
I've had arrhythmia from taking just magnesium on its own for too long, but that disappears with adding back calcium. Same goes for insomnia - magnesium on its own relieved that one but after awhile I needed calcium as well to stay asleep.
People need different ratios of calcium and magnesium, but I don't think there is anybody that wouldn't benefit from more magnesium either from diet or supplements. Everybody I have recommended magnesium to has has very good results - a friend is taking 300mg a day which is a very moderate amount IMO - he can't stop raving about the stuff (he has asthma and SAD).
I had another friend who has suffered from migraines for years, and who already takes a multi-vit. I told her about Mg and where to get it. She ended up buying the Mg oxide pills which is the only cheap Mg available here (apart from Mg chloride crystals but she wasn't up to mixing that) - one week later I saw her at a party and she said the migraines had disappeared (she was taking 500mg a day) and she could even drink a beer again without setting one off.
That surprised me as Mg oxide is supposed to be crap but obviously she was absorbing it.
Loops
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