Posted by bleauberry on November 3, 2007, at 19:34:28
In reply to Magnesium + Taurine questions..., posted by tecknohed on October 30, 2007, at 12:06:45
You want the magnesium supplement to be absorbed in your stomach, not later in the intestines. When in the intestines, much of it is wasted in feeding the bad bacteria there who gobble it up like ice cream, multiply themselves, and worsen your overall health. If you suspect absorption prooblems, it can be taken with apple cider vinegar or HCL. If you get diarrhea from it, it means too much of it did indeed get to the intestines.
For maximum absorption, if you aren't too finnicky about weird tastes, crush the tablet in your mouth and let it dissolve a few minutes before swallowing.
Other than that, always use a capsule form. Never a tablet. If the stomach isn't working 100%, and in most people with any mental or physical ailment it isn't, pills are too likely to pass through the stomach and into the intestines not full broken down, and sometimes not broken down at all. I know one person who discovered entire pills coming out in the stool, but got amazing results when switched to capsules.
As others have noted, periodic breaks from supplements is I think a good thing. I mean, we want to correct a deficiency, but we do not want to create an overabundance. Balance is the goal, not too little and not too much. Maybe over time some of these supplements build up to higher levels than we anticipated. Slower liver function maybe. Slower intestinal function. Who knows. Everywhere I read it says B vitamins are soluble and quickly pass in the urine and because of that are not toxic in high doses. In my experience, that is not true. I have gotten very toxic results from taking medium or high dose B's just once a day for a couple weeks. I know two other people who had adverse neuromuscular reactions to B vitamins after a couple weeks of high doses. I'm sure it is the same with any supplement. Too much magnesium will throw calcium out of whack, and who knows what else. We want what it takes for the body to function, or we want what it takes to overcome some logjam in our biochemistry, but we don't want to go beyhond that. Just my experience.
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