All that verbiage, yet not once is it mentioned that the best way to increase your magnesium, for most people, is not orally but transdermally. That's how the Epsom salt baths work. Epsom salts are problematic due to their sulfur content, though. Magnesium chloride can be used to make mag oil or lotion.
I put Epsom salt in my drinking water. 1/4 tsp per liter. Can slo use magnesium chloride. Any form of ionized magnesium will work great in the drinking water. No more than 74 mg per liter for best absorbtion.
The magnesium course unbekoming is not complete. I still have much work. Only the first two units out of 11 are complete.
Magnesium chloride flakes are far more effective than Epsom salts. Magnesium chloride oil is another option for transdermal application, but don't be surprised if it makes your skin peel like a snake.
I just tried an orally ingested ozonated magnesium product for a bowel issue. That REALLY jacked up my magnesium levels!
Fab focus piece. It's a nice shift when we begin to appreciate what complex sources harmonize to produce health as opposed to hunting cures for symptoms brought about by failing to provide ingredients required to operate in a balance, optimally functioning system.
I don't know what to trust about any of this. If I am in the medical mafia, I have to promote disease and illness as being what happens when you don't have enough big pharma drugs flowing in your body. This is using fear to sell drugs.
If I am in the supplement business, I need to promote vitamin and mineral deficiencies. It is impossible to know at any time how much vits and mins you actually need (everyone is slightly different just like the gut biome) or how much you have in the body available for use or how much you are actually in-taking from foods and supplements. Again, the fear tactic is used to market supplements.
There are some direct connections to diseases and the lack of vits and mins. Overall, if you are relatively healthy you must be getting enough of what your body needs. If not, it might take years or decades before health begins to falter.
I am leaning on the most critical factor as being the health of the microbiome in the gut. It will take decades of study and research to unlock this entire mystery.
It's pretty easy to solve the mineral side of the problem: sea salt tabs. The government recommends a maximum of 2.3 grams of dietary salt per day, which is based on flawed science. The Salt Fix (another Unbekoming book summary) details research that shows that the average non-athlete needs 3 to 6 grams of salt per day.
Salt is 86% sodium and chloride. The next most abundant mineral is magnesium at 8%, followed by small amounts of the other major electrolytes and dozens of trace minerals. We evolved from the sea, so your body is optimized for the ratios of minerals in the ocean. And if by chance you consume too many minerals, that is what your kidneys are for, to excrete what the body doesn't need.
I take 3 to 4 grams of sea salt per day, and have seen lots of benefits. But I suspect the average human doing likewise would still need to over consume magnesium for a while to make up for existing cellular deficits. But eventually the sea salt should give you most of what you need.
Fixing the gut microbiome is a challenge, and the answer is not simply eating better, eating fermented or taking probiotics. When things go awry, you should suspect biofilms, and there are far too few resources that detail ways to get rid of them.
Salt should be refined to remove the many harmful mineral and other toxins in sea water. The few beneficial minerals such as zinc, selenium, molybdenum, potassium and magnesium can be added with clean supplements or foods.
You'll never find pure sodium chloride in nature, and you'll never find it in nature with aluminum as an anti-caking agent. Any amount of aluminum is too much.
The point of the section on mineral water is to show that the true source of this vital mineral is in the water you drink when it comes from the ground. Get rid of your water softener and water treatment sourced water, dig a well and get the real stuff. Or find somebody that has a deep well and get the real stuff. Or, source your own minerals and make it yourself.
What are your thoughts on sea salt as a source of magnesium, which is about 8% of the total? After reading The Salt Fix I've been taking 3 to 4 grams per day and have noticed a lot of benefits for such a cheap intervention. There should be around 240-320 mgs of Mg per day from that.
All that verbiage, yet not once is it mentioned that the best way to increase your magnesium, for most people, is not orally but transdermally. That's how the Epsom salt baths work. Epsom salts are problematic due to their sulfur content, though. Magnesium chloride can be used to make mag oil or lotion.
I put Epsom salt in my drinking water. 1/4 tsp per liter. Can slo use magnesium chloride. Any form of ionized magnesium will work great in the drinking water. No more than 74 mg per liter for best absorbtion.
The magnesium course unbekoming is not complete. I still have much work. Only the first two units out of 11 are complete.
Thanks Ann, magnesium chloride hexahydrate in topical magnesium sprays is a must.
Magnesium chloride flakes are far more effective than Epsom salts. Magnesium chloride oil is another option for transdermal application, but don't be surprised if it makes your skin peel like a snake.
I just tried an orally ingested ozonated magnesium product for a bowel issue. That REALLY jacked up my magnesium levels!
It is my understanding that magnesium "oil" is just mag chloride in water. It has an oily feel, but is not actually an oil.
The hygroscopic nature of magnesium chloride causes it to feel oily when it is hydrated
Soon will release a free Guidebook on making mineral water with several recipes.
Fab focus piece. It's a nice shift when we begin to appreciate what complex sources harmonize to produce health as opposed to hunting cures for symptoms brought about by failing to provide ingredients required to operate in a balance, optimally functioning system.
I don't know what to trust about any of this. If I am in the medical mafia, I have to promote disease and illness as being what happens when you don't have enough big pharma drugs flowing in your body. This is using fear to sell drugs.
If I am in the supplement business, I need to promote vitamin and mineral deficiencies. It is impossible to know at any time how much vits and mins you actually need (everyone is slightly different just like the gut biome) or how much you have in the body available for use or how much you are actually in-taking from foods and supplements. Again, the fear tactic is used to market supplements.
There are some direct connections to diseases and the lack of vits and mins. Overall, if you are relatively healthy you must be getting enough of what your body needs. If not, it might take years or decades before health begins to falter.
I am leaning on the most critical factor as being the health of the microbiome in the gut. It will take decades of study and research to unlock this entire mystery.
It's pretty easy to solve the mineral side of the problem: sea salt tabs. The government recommends a maximum of 2.3 grams of dietary salt per day, which is based on flawed science. The Salt Fix (another Unbekoming book summary) details research that shows that the average non-athlete needs 3 to 6 grams of salt per day.
Salt is 86% sodium and chloride. The next most abundant mineral is magnesium at 8%, followed by small amounts of the other major electrolytes and dozens of trace minerals. We evolved from the sea, so your body is optimized for the ratios of minerals in the ocean. And if by chance you consume too many minerals, that is what your kidneys are for, to excrete what the body doesn't need.
I take 3 to 4 grams of sea salt per day, and have seen lots of benefits. But I suspect the average human doing likewise would still need to over consume magnesium for a while to make up for existing cellular deficits. But eventually the sea salt should give you most of what you need.
Fixing the gut microbiome is a challenge, and the answer is not simply eating better, eating fermented or taking probiotics. When things go awry, you should suspect biofilms, and there are far too few resources that detail ways to get rid of them.
Salt should be refined to remove the many harmful mineral and other toxins in sea water. The few beneficial minerals such as zinc, selenium, molybdenum, potassium and magnesium can be added with clean supplements or foods.
Refined salt is highly problematic. Sea salt mined from ancient sea beds is less likely to be polluted than salts created from evaporating sea water.
What is "problematic" with pure NaCl?
You'll never find pure sodium chloride in nature, and you'll never find it in nature with aluminum as an anti-caking agent. Any amount of aluminum is too much.
refining purifies the sodium chloride. It removes aluminum and lots of other harmful substances.
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The point of the section on mineral water is to show that the true source of this vital mineral is in the water you drink when it comes from the ground. Get rid of your water softener and water treatment sourced water, dig a well and get the real stuff. Or find somebody that has a deep well and get the real stuff. Or, source your own minerals and make it yourself.
Unfortunately, well water is often contaminated with harmful chemicals and minerals. Purified water is best. So is transdermal magnesium.
Testing the well water is assumed.
What are your thoughts on sea salt as a source of magnesium, which is about 8% of the total? After reading The Salt Fix I've been taking 3 to 4 grams per day and have noticed a lot of benefits for such a cheap intervention. There should be around 240-320 mgs of Mg per day from that.
That's gonna give you a lot of sodium.
The assumption that one would test their well water before drinking. It seems rather obvious to me.