I think you’ll find sodium is the work horse, Walter and magnesium has been ascribed its work results to continue the ‘sodium is bad’ non-science as directions.
Check a blood test, look at the electrolytes quantities and do the math on the sodium to magnesium ratio.
Sodium is magnitudes larger in quantity because it’s doing the lions share of work.
Low salt or dehydration or hyponatremia all the same condition is an emergency and sodium modulates all the listed responsibilities for magnesium.
“Hypomagnesemia is believed to play a significant role in the development of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and thrombosis in the general population.20,21 Magnesium is well known to modulate vascular tone and response, and act as a cofactor for Ach-induced endothelium-dependent relaxation.1 Magnesium deficiency promotes oxidative stress in various cell types, including endothelial cells.22,23 In addition, oral magnesium therapy is associated with significant improvement in endothelial function in patients with coronary artery disease. “
Hydration not oxygenation underpins our physiology. Oxygen is a poison.
Oxygen is an artificial man-made SUPER dry gas. It is made by removing moisture from air to the parts per million of water.
Sugar cane juice is dehydrated to become sugar. Sugar has 1,000 parts per million of water.
Air is stripped of moisture to become oxygen. Oxygen has zero humidity. Medical Oxygen has 67 parts per million of water. Industrial oxygen has 0.5 parts per million of water.
The lungs require air we inhale to be in the range of 30-50% humidity.
Can you see a problem?
Read my articles and notes, then ponder. We’ve been too easy to fool.
My female cousin ( last member of my family older than me), living in a independent living apt. of a nursing facility had hyponatremia listed as her cause of death. She was also fully vaxed and boosted for covid and had rapid cognitive decline in the year and a half before she died. I noted they do not use much salt in the kitchens. We tried to get her some salty snacks, but she was also not eating much. She was hospitalized twice after collapsing due to the hyponatremia. The second time lead to a broken vertebra (she had osteoporosis) and would not survive a surgery so it was balancing pain with dope so she was not too out of it. Sad but probably welcome end after a month in skilled care.
Yes, elderly women are salt deprived and this causes chronic dehydration, dementia, osteoporosis, falls from being dizzy and slow tendon reflexes and muscle weakness.
It’s a very sad way to leave this place.
I write to prevent the ones still able to make changes, retain their minds.
I am seeing the same thing with a friend's mother now. she even had a stroke which she recovered from. She forgets to drink water and gets UTIs. They have her in assisted living now which may help. This growing old stuff is not like all the ads for pharma show.
When my mother was in assisted living, no effort was made to see that she drank despite weekly calls to ask them to do it. Enough hydration and cranberry capsules daily can eliminate UTIs.
UTIs worsen dementia and can lead to hallucinations.
Don't forget the magic of pairing magnesium with selenium. A couple of Brazil nuts every other day and you're good to go. Unless you hate Brazil nuts but I love them...they are so full of good fat too like coconut oil. Fat as a nutritional delivery system is imperative with most supplements but many super foods are already packed with natural fat like coconut oil or Brazil nuts etc. Our world is pretty magical that we have these blessings to heal us. XOXO
Could poster please SPECIFY which TYPE of Magnesium? There are innumerable brands selling "Magnesium" but one needs to be sure readers are informed as to the easily absorbable forms of Magnesium...
Speaking generally, not in reference to the articles referenced, mag citrate commonly passes through and causes loose stools. Mag glycinate and/or mag threonate are better absorbed and thus less likely to induce diarrhea. They also cross the blood-brain-barrier better than other forms of mag, according to what I have read, and thus more helpful for anxiety or neurological matters than other forms of magnesium.
Mag maleate is another option although a naturopathic dr told me it is more stimulating to the nervous system, so perhaps less desirable for folks with, say, tics or tremors.
As a person with an Inguinal Hernia (had surgery in 2022, but it failed and had the hernia back, full blown in 2024 - (awaiting laproscopcic surgery in Dec.) I have used magnesium in several forms to balance my bowel movements as I found I tended to have normal stools for a number of days but would tend to constipation which needed to be avoided. Various meals and amount of physical activity are the deciding factor for me.
YES, Vinnie. Supplements vary widely in quality of ingredients, so it's important to know your manufacturers. Check my [badly in need of update] article:
Yet another reason that PH failure to inform the public about the importance of good vitamin D levels - and the absolute necessity for cofactors - is criminal. This research exists, and as far as Vit D and minerals go, has done for years, yet has not reached any health guidelines. It beggars belief. Thanks Mr Chestnut.
I think it's important to note that magnesium comes in at least 10 varieties and all are important. Just taking 1 form of magnesium will not help. Look for magnesium complex 10 in 1 or 5 in 1 capsules.
I take daily in order of importance; Magnesium x6 (sometimes 10 capsules spread over a day), vitamin D x1 (10,000 IU), Lugol's Iodine (2 drops), Niacin and vitamin B complex x3. I take MSM sulphur every 2 or 3 days, vitamin C in ascorbic acid form every 2 or 3 days. I am about to try methylene blue this month.
According to Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox: How a Little-Known Vitamin Could Save Your Life by Kate Rheaume-Bleue, you should be taking megadoses of vitamin A (as retinol) if you are taking megadoses of vitamin D3 (as you are) to prevent the toxic effects of both.
oops I forget I take vitamin k2 daily along with the single capsule of D3. I eat red meat, which I hopefully get my retinol from. I get my supplements from Clive de Carle here in the UK.
It depends on how the red meat was raised, fed, and processed.
If you take the water-soluble version of K2, it requires 10,000mg several time a day to get the benefit of micrograms a day of MK-7, the oil-soluble form, frequently encapsulated with D3. Beta carotene is frequently considered to be vitamin A, when it is a precursor that is poorly absorbed by people lacking the enzymes needed to convert it to retinol or its successors.
Great article and excellent comments here. Some questions and thoughts: I checked out the list of magnesium variants for consumption but did NOT see chelated magnesium which I've understood to be the most easily absorbed of all of them. I was disappointed to see that increased magnesium intake did NOT improve the situation for the over 65 crowd, what could be the reason for it?
Jane, your observations on sodium are most intriguing in light of how much we are encouraged to cut back on it. I don't see how we would survive without oxygen or how it could have been man made in the atmosphere in the earliest primordial age.
I would like to suggest that people who are recommending supplements include links to those products they've found effective.
"First, the Spike Protein optimizes the body’s use of Vitamin D. " should that be mg optimizes..."?
Yes, thanks for catching that. One of those typos spell check doesn't catch!
I think you’ll find sodium is the work horse, Walter and magnesium has been ascribed its work results to continue the ‘sodium is bad’ non-science as directions.
Check a blood test, look at the electrolytes quantities and do the math on the sodium to magnesium ratio.
Sodium is magnitudes larger in quantity because it’s doing the lions share of work.
Low salt or dehydration or hyponatremia all the same condition is an emergency and sodium modulates all the listed responsibilities for magnesium.
“Hypomagnesemia is believed to play a significant role in the development of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and thrombosis in the general population.20,21 Magnesium is well known to modulate vascular tone and response, and act as a cofactor for Ach-induced endothelium-dependent relaxation.1 Magnesium deficiency promotes oxidative stress in various cell types, including endothelial cells.22,23 In addition, oral magnesium therapy is associated with significant improvement in endothelial function in patients with coronary artery disease. “
Hydration not oxygenation underpins our physiology. Oxygen is a poison.
Oxygen is an artificial man-made SUPER dry gas. It is made by removing moisture from air to the parts per million of water.
Sugar cane juice is dehydrated to become sugar. Sugar has 1,000 parts per million of water.
Air is stripped of moisture to become oxygen. Oxygen has zero humidity. Medical Oxygen has 67 parts per million of water. Industrial oxygen has 0.5 parts per million of water.
The lungs require air we inhale to be in the range of 30-50% humidity.
Can you see a problem?
Read my articles and notes, then ponder. We’ve been too easy to fool.
Click on my blue icon to read.
"Hypomagnesemia" is a new word for me, so thank you for that!
I will be injecting it into conversations at every opportunity now.
My female cousin ( last member of my family older than me), living in a independent living apt. of a nursing facility had hyponatremia listed as her cause of death. She was also fully vaxed and boosted for covid and had rapid cognitive decline in the year and a half before she died. I noted they do not use much salt in the kitchens. We tried to get her some salty snacks, but she was also not eating much. She was hospitalized twice after collapsing due to the hyponatremia. The second time lead to a broken vertebra (she had osteoporosis) and would not survive a surgery so it was balancing pain with dope so she was not too out of it. Sad but probably welcome end after a month in skilled care.
Yes, elderly women are salt deprived and this causes chronic dehydration, dementia, osteoporosis, falls from being dizzy and slow tendon reflexes and muscle weakness.
It’s a very sad way to leave this place.
I write to prevent the ones still able to make changes, retain their minds.
May your cousin rest in peace.
Jane, if you are right about the damaging effects of pure oxygen, then the ventilators are way more lethal than we've been lead to believe. Ghastly!!
I am seeing the same thing with a friend's mother now. she even had a stroke which she recovered from. She forgets to drink water and gets UTIs. They have her in assisted living now which may help. This growing old stuff is not like all the ads for pharma show.
When my mother was in assisted living, no effort was made to see that she drank despite weekly calls to ask them to do it. Enough hydration and cranberry capsules daily can eliminate UTIs.
UTIs worsen dementia and can lead to hallucinations.
Don't forget the magic of pairing magnesium with selenium. A couple of Brazil nuts every other day and you're good to go. Unless you hate Brazil nuts but I love them...they are so full of good fat too like coconut oil. Fat as a nutritional delivery system is imperative with most supplements but many super foods are already packed with natural fat like coconut oil or Brazil nuts etc. Our world is pretty magical that we have these blessings to heal us. XOXO
Thanks Walter.
Far too little is said about Mg, especially by those who should know better but have their paymasters to impress.
I planned to post a short Substack about magnesium but ended up writing a book-length 4 part series.
Further reading:
https://doorlesscarp953.substack.com/p/magnesium-deficiency-and-associated
Could poster please SPECIFY which TYPE of Magnesium? There are innumerable brands selling "Magnesium" but one needs to be sure readers are informed as to the easily absorbable forms of Magnesium...
So, please what TYPES of Magnesium...
Thanks!
Speaking generally, not in reference to the articles referenced, mag citrate commonly passes through and causes loose stools. Mag glycinate and/or mag threonate are better absorbed and thus less likely to induce diarrhea. They also cross the blood-brain-barrier better than other forms of mag, according to what I have read, and thus more helpful for anxiety or neurological matters than other forms of magnesium.
Mag maleate is another option although a naturopathic dr told me it is more stimulating to the nervous system, so perhaps less desirable for folks with, say, tics or tremors.
mag citrate is a laxative yes, but it is also well absorbed
As a person with an Inguinal Hernia (had surgery in 2022, but it failed and had the hernia back, full blown in 2024 - (awaiting laproscopcic surgery in Dec.) I have used magnesium in several forms to balance my bowel movements as I found I tended to have normal stools for a number of days but would tend to constipation which needed to be avoided. Various meals and amount of physical activity are the deciding factor for me.
Thanks, HATE to spend hard earned cash on supplements with fillers and the WRONG type of Magnesium...
Folks WATCH your supplements from Warehouse Big Box stores... check your ingredients, they may contain added nonsense including SUGAR...
One would rather have a positive functioning gut with the proper magnesium, best to keep the yuck movin' on OUT!
YES, Vinnie. Supplements vary widely in quality of ingredients, so it's important to know your manufacturers. Check my [badly in need of update] article:
https://cheapthoughts.substack.com/p/exposing-consolidation-in-the-nutritional
Thanks Doc!
Yet another reason that PH failure to inform the public about the importance of good vitamin D levels - and the absolute necessity for cofactors - is criminal. This research exists, and as far as Vit D and minerals go, has done for years, yet has not reached any health guidelines. It beggars belief. Thanks Mr Chestnut.
I think it's important to note that magnesium comes in at least 10 varieties and all are important. Just taking 1 form of magnesium will not help. Look for magnesium complex 10 in 1 or 5 in 1 capsules.
We need to send this to all the billions who injected the Vax... everyone else... nah
Malic Acid helps Magnesium absorption.
Magnesium Malate.
Don't forget that zinc is an essential nutrient for endothelial function.
I take daily in order of importance; Magnesium x6 (sometimes 10 capsules spread over a day), vitamin D x1 (10,000 IU), Lugol's Iodine (2 drops), Niacin and vitamin B complex x3. I take MSM sulphur every 2 or 3 days, vitamin C in ascorbic acid form every 2 or 3 days. I am about to try methylene blue this month.
According to Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox: How a Little-Known Vitamin Could Save Your Life by Kate Rheaume-Bleue, you should be taking megadoses of vitamin A (as retinol) if you are taking megadoses of vitamin D3 (as you are) to prevent the toxic effects of both.
oops I forget I take vitamin k2 daily along with the single capsule of D3. I eat red meat, which I hopefully get my retinol from. I get my supplements from Clive de Carle here in the UK.
It depends on how the red meat was raised, fed, and processed.
If you take the water-soluble version of K2, it requires 10,000mg several time a day to get the benefit of micrograms a day of MK-7, the oil-soluble form, frequently encapsulated with D3. Beta carotene is frequently considered to be vitamin A, when it is a precursor that is poorly absorbed by people lacking the enzymes needed to convert it to retinol or its successors.
Great article and excellent comments here. Some questions and thoughts: I checked out the list of magnesium variants for consumption but did NOT see chelated magnesium which I've understood to be the most easily absorbed of all of them. I was disappointed to see that increased magnesium intake did NOT improve the situation for the over 65 crowd, what could be the reason for it?
Jane, your observations on sodium are most intriguing in light of how much we are encouraged to cut back on it. I don't see how we would survive without oxygen or how it could have been man made in the atmosphere in the earliest primordial age.
I would like to suggest that people who are recommending supplements include links to those products they've found effective.