M Paine
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Does anyone have any ideas, or papers which might shed light on the mechanism behind Magnesium being beneficial as a supplement?
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Do you know if they looked in other cell lines other than Red Blood Cells?
Me too. Also keeps away pre-cramp symptoms like muscle twitches.All I know is that it helps with muscle cramps!
If I take it daily I get far fewer problems with cramp...
It would be interesting to know if there are any forum members who get significant benefit from magnesium injections or transdermal magnesium cream.
I believe this heavy use of magnesium eventually depleted/interfered with calcium availability and I had to start supplementing with calcium citrate despite adequate sources of calcium in my diet.
Have you been tested for antibodies to GAD65?
Magnesium blocks calcium activity via "competitive antagonism."
This can lead to paradoxical reactions which are the opposite of what you expect.
It may take a long trawl through your medical history, and evidence of adverse responses to drugs, to isolate the cause of your problems with glutamate.
This is a standard clinical test for common autoantibodies which any doctor can order. Here's the Mayo Clinic page on interpretation. Other companies also sell test panels which include this. It shows up in many conditions other than diabetes.No, I haven't. How do I get tested for this?
Assuming some typographic correction, yes they are sometimes in competition. When magnesium ions are going through calcium channels it is likely calcium ions are not. If they were completely equivalent that would not matter, but magnesium will not participate in all the same chemical reactions as calcium.So are they in completion with each other to activate our deactivate certain processes? @alicec called it a yin/yang relationship.
We had a case turn up here where an IV containing magnesium caused flash pulmonary edema, a medical emergency. That is extreme, but it is definitely an example of bad.Are you saying too much magnesium without calcium is bad?
That would complicate lots of things, the next question would be what conditions required those drugs in the first place. This takes us into new territory. This often takes place when doctors treat symptoms without a clue to underlying problems, except their feeling "patient is crazy, and I want him/her to go away".I think my forced cold turkey from Vicodin and taper/withdrawal from Valium may be the cause of this.
That would complicate lots of things, the next question would be what conditions required those drugs in the first place. This takes us into new territory. This often takes place when doctors treat symptoms without a clue to underlying problems, except their feeling "patient is crazy, and I want him/her to go away".
If you are being treated for conditions that really are unrelated, then more drugs may be managed, but what you seem to be telling us is that they have wandered off any known treatment path, and you are now in strange territory corresponding to what golfers call "the rough". You need to get back to the fairway where it is at least possible to tell if you are getting closer to some goal, not farther away.