JBB
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Hey guys,
As with most of us my intracellular magnesium is very low causing poor mitochondrial function.
My M.E Doc suggested doing IV magnesium. I have tried subcutaneous / transdermal / oral with no effect. I wanted to put this up here as I have not seen it mentioned elsewhere.
The reason why IV magnesium can work better than transdermal / subcutanious injections according to Dr Myhill...
There are ion pumps which pump magnesium into the cell and calcium out of the cell. These are required to keep the cell working normally. They use roughly 40% of the cells energy just to maintain this balance. An IV gives a very quick rush of mg which cannot be replicated by other means and makes it really easy for these pumps to work as suddenly the blood concentration of mg is greatly increased. This means it is much easier for the mg to get into the cell and the pumps must use less energy vs the slower release methods!
My mg was very low at 0.57 (on mitochondria test). I had my first IV...WOW...next day I woke at 7am full of energy for most of the day!!! I thought, this is it...but noooo! Had an IV every day for a week and each time it gradually had less effect than the last till eventually it had no effect at all.
Question 1: Why did it stop having an effect?
Now I tried mg IV's nearly every day for three months. My 5ml IV of magnesium sulphate in a syringe contains about 200mg of elemental mg. So that's 200mg x 80 = about 16 grams of elemental magnesium over 3 months. It was not helping anymore by now so I gave it up. I then re-measured my mg level and it was still low at 0.61!
Question 2: Has anyone got any ideas as to why it would still be low? Am I missing an important co-factor or something (was taking boron, zinc etc at the time)? Is there a reason why it wouldn't get into the cells?
Any ideas much appreciated
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Best wishes,
J
As with most of us my intracellular magnesium is very low causing poor mitochondrial function.
My M.E Doc suggested doing IV magnesium. I have tried subcutaneous / transdermal / oral with no effect. I wanted to put this up here as I have not seen it mentioned elsewhere.
The reason why IV magnesium can work better than transdermal / subcutanious injections according to Dr Myhill...
There are ion pumps which pump magnesium into the cell and calcium out of the cell. These are required to keep the cell working normally. They use roughly 40% of the cells energy just to maintain this balance. An IV gives a very quick rush of mg which cannot be replicated by other means and makes it really easy for these pumps to work as suddenly the blood concentration of mg is greatly increased. This means it is much easier for the mg to get into the cell and the pumps must use less energy vs the slower release methods!
My mg was very low at 0.57 (on mitochondria test). I had my first IV...WOW...next day I woke at 7am full of energy for most of the day!!! I thought, this is it...but noooo! Had an IV every day for a week and each time it gradually had less effect than the last till eventually it had no effect at all.
Question 1: Why did it stop having an effect?
Now I tried mg IV's nearly every day for three months. My 5ml IV of magnesium sulphate in a syringe contains about 200mg of elemental mg. So that's 200mg x 80 = about 16 grams of elemental magnesium over 3 months. It was not helping anymore by now so I gave it up. I then re-measured my mg level and it was still low at 0.61!
Question 2: Has anyone got any ideas as to why it would still be low? Am I missing an important co-factor or something (was taking boron, zinc etc at the time)? Is there a reason why it wouldn't get into the cells?
Any ideas much appreciated
Best wishes,
J