Magnesium and Vacatios
Jun 23, 2008 General Nonsense |
I'll be travelling this week, so I don't know how much blogging I will be doing.
About two years ago I started taking magnesium supplements because I saw something on the Internet that indicated it might help my knees problems. (My knees always hurt after exercise.) The magnesium either worked, or it was a remarkable coincidence, that after 15 years of knee pain it suddenly went away and has stayed away.
Recently I realized I haven't had any allergy or asthma symptoms for well over a year. For the first time in my life I went through the entire allergy season without so much as a sniffle or a wheeze. And I didn't even use my allergy or asthma meds. On a hunch, I googled "magnesium allergy" and discovered that doctors sometimes use magnesium to treat asthma attacks. And a magnesium deficiency apparently does promote allergies.
The reader is warned that on the continuum from crackpot to Nobel Price winner, I am much closer to the crackpot side of things. So don't get your medical advice from me. But if you have allergies, and you decide to take magnesium supplements just to see what happens, let me know how it goes.
About two years ago I started taking magnesium supplements because I saw something on the Internet that indicated it might help my knees problems. (My knees always hurt after exercise.) The magnesium either worked, or it was a remarkable coincidence, that after 15 years of knee pain it suddenly went away and has stayed away.
Recently I realized I haven't had any allergy or asthma symptoms for well over a year. For the first time in my life I went through the entire allergy season without so much as a sniffle or a wheeze. And I didn't even use my allergy or asthma meds. On a hunch, I googled "magnesium allergy" and discovered that doctors sometimes use magnesium to treat asthma attacks. And a magnesium deficiency apparently does promote allergies.
The reader is warned that on the continuum from crackpot to Nobel Price winner, I am much closer to the crackpot side of things. So don't get your medical advice from me. But if you have allergies, and you decide to take magnesium supplements just to see what happens, let me know how it goes.
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User Name: lejosi
Aug 7, 2008
0
When I read this blog entry, I thought, why not? (after also googling "magnesium allergy"). I'm allergic to pretty much everything that moves and, it also seems, to many things that don't. I've been using allergy and asthma stuff for as long as I can remember, including an inhaler several times a day.
So, the next time I went shopping, I bought a bottle of magnesium supplements (the supermarket stuff - two tablets a day - nothing fancy). Within two days, I noticed that I had hardly used my inhaler. And it's been like that ever since. Today (over a month later), I just noticed that I even forgot to bring my inhaler to the office - something that would have made me go home to get it straight away, in the past.
So for me, this advice from non-Doctor Scott has certainly helped. I'll buy a new bottle of magnesiunm supplements this weekend (my current bottle will run out on Sunday).
So, the next time I went shopping, I bought a bottle of magnesium supplements (the supermarket stuff - two tablets a day - nothing fancy). Within two days, I noticed that I had hardly used my inhaler. And it's been like that ever since. Today (over a month later), I just noticed that I even forgot to bring my inhaler to the office - something that would have made me go home to get it straight away, in the past.
So for me, this advice from non-Doctor Scott has certainly helped. I'll buy a new bottle of magnesiunm supplements this weekend (my current bottle will run out on Sunday).
User Name: ogheri
Jul 11, 2008
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I know that some italian politicians take magnesium, so I can imagine it to have some bad side effects... (you coud become an italian politician)
User Name: tombivins
Jul 6, 2008
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Knee problems. Time to get off the hardcourts and join a club with clay (or simulated clay) "soft courts'.
User Name: taoteli
Jul 4, 2008
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Magnesium deficiency can cause a lot of muscle/bone/nerve related problems. Quotes from Worlds Healthies Foods website:
"Because magnesium plays such a wide variety of roles in the body, the symptoms of magnesium deficiency can also vary widely. Many symptoms involve changes in nerve and muscle function." "Because of its role in bone structure, the softening and weakening of bone can also be a symptom of magnesium deficiency."
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=nutrient&dbid=75
They don't talk about allergies, though. Interestingly, one of the main source of magnesium is spinach. Ever heard of popeye?
"Because magnesium plays such a wide variety of roles in the body, the symptoms of magnesium deficiency can also vary widely. Many symptoms involve changes in nerve and muscle function." "Because of its role in bone structure, the softening and weakening of bone can also be a symptom of magnesium deficiency."
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=nutrient&dbid=75
They don't talk about allergies, though. Interestingly, one of the main source of magnesium is spinach. Ever heard of popeye?
User Name: mazarlarry
Jul 2, 2008
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One of your best, but I'm biased. If you had mentioned Branson in advance of your departure you could have gotten lots of tips to make your visit even more enjoyable. I know it well as my folks moved down there when Silver Dollar City was the only attraction. Fortunately, I was already on my own by then. My sister's second husband probably contributed some of the nails to your roller coaster. If not, he was still inebriated. Not all the doctors in that hospital are good (RIP, Dad). The idea for a Dilbert Branson week is good, but the Simpsons did a Branson episode which you better research first to avoid appearances of plagerism. Another item missing from your list, and others, is tributes to veterans in the "theaters." Branson is also the first place I ever received an unsolicited senior citizen discount. Guess I'll quit now before I start rambling about Little League in another part of the country.
User Name: patfett
Jun 30, 2008
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I have severe allergies, so I started taking magnesium supplements based on the advice of the doctor who writes this health column. Unfortunately, it turns out that I am also severely allergic to magnesium, so when I took them, I went into anaphylactic shock and I died.
RIP
RIP
User Name: Professor_Abrams
Jun 30, 2008
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This has nothing to do with magnesium
I was so tickled by the idea that Dilbert has apparently built a cyclotron in his living room that I didn't even need a punchline.
This is probably the first time Paul Dirac has ever been cited in a daily comic. (I think I may have seen Feynman mentioned once.)
I was so tickled by the idea that Dilbert has apparently built a cyclotron in his living room that I didn't even need a punchline.
This is probably the first time Paul Dirac has ever been cited in a daily comic. (I think I may have seen Feynman mentioned once.)
User Name: Hemantsclone
Jun 29, 2008
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Whats with the re-runs on the daily strip (tease)? If Scott is on a holiday, is the brain without the body or the body without the brain in the office?
I can't stand poor quality work, specially when it is free!!!
I can't stand poor quality work, specially when it is free!!!
User Name: adeian
Jun 27, 2008
0
I've heard that taking magnesium can, for some people generally tall thin people, cause them to lose their voices for no reason. ;)
User Name: golffan856
Jun 26, 2008
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Is it just a coincident that you and the pointed-haired boss are both on vacation at the same time? Or has this been self-deprecating musings all these years?
User Name: dpollack
Jun 25, 2008
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It seems like your knee pain was possibly something like what Dr. John Sarno talks about it his books. http://www.amazon.com/Mindbody-Prescription-Healing-Body-Pain/dp/0446675156/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214432640&sr=8-2
real pain but with a possible psychological aspect. Perhaps the magnesium allowed you to put your mind at ease. Sarno has some really interesting ideas. I recommend reading his books. They are quite brief and that's always a bonus. Someone that can get they point across succinctly.
real pain but with a possible psychological aspect. Perhaps the magnesium allowed you to put your mind at ease. Sarno has some really interesting ideas. I recommend reading his books. They are quite brief and that's always a bonus. Someone that can get they point across succinctly.
User Name: Lever
Jun 25, 2008
+1
Sondra,
I hope you mean child-bearing, not baring...
Let's make that clear, before you are banned from the city parks and playgrounds.
I hope you mean child-bearing, not baring...
Let's make that clear, before you are banned from the city parks and playgrounds.
User Name: Tigershire
Jun 25, 2008
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I believe nutritional deficiencies are responsible for a lot of the illness that folks suffer from today. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any good method of testing for all the vitamins and minerals we need.
In terms of allergies - I have found that MSM (Methyl-sulfonyl-methane) has worked to virtually eliminate (I say virtually because I'm not consistent in taking it every day but have discovered that I haven't had to take any allergy feds at all this year) my seasonal allergies.
In terms of allergies - I have found that MSM (Methyl-sulfonyl-methane) has worked to virtually eliminate (I say virtually because I'm not consistent in taking it every day but have discovered that I haven't had to take any allergy feds at all this year) my seasonal allergies.
User Name: cehawley
Jun 25, 2008
+1
Wow! I never thought of that, I started smoking 10 years ago and I have never caught a cold the entire time!
Smoking cures the common cold!
Smoking cures the common cold!
User Name: Hemantsclone
Jun 25, 2008
+1
Scott's not on the air guys. He's just put the readers on this Magnesium thing and has weasled off to the Kandahar for a snort...
User Name: april26
Jun 25, 2008
+3
Has anyone ever thought of like... trying REAL FOOD that has magnesium? I know its a leap of faith, but eat brown rice, avocados, natural grains like oats, lentils and barley, bananas and you won't have to go to the chemist and take all those risks with overdosing. Trust Mother Nature.
Google a list of foods containing magnesium and find a few things you like.
Google a list of foods containing magnesium and find a few things you like.
User Name: mandatoryvacation
Jun 24, 2008
+1
10 seconds on google found a site listing <a href="http://www.ctds.info/5_13_magnesium.html">numerous beneficial effects</a> of magnesium, with scientific citations for every one.
45 seconds per symptom on google scholar verified that these studies were not cherry picked; each symptom (and I'll admit, I only googled the two that interest me) had a large number of studies indicating that they were helped by magnesium.
45 seconds per symptom on google scholar verified that these studies were not cherry picked; each symptom (and I'll admit, I only googled the two that interest me) had a large number of studies indicating that they were helped by magnesium.
User Name: kbellmck
Jun 24, 2008
+4
For several years I did service work at a major corporation. I thought that corp. had the absolute nicest, most wonderful people working for them. It took me a little while to realize that impression was aided significantly by the fact that I kept my mega-B vitamins in my service vehicle, and would take them on my way to that account.
B vitamins will improve your mood, folks. It was the old-time 'prescription' by doctors in the ol' days for the blues. Then I began noticing that if I hadn't taken them for awhile, my wrists would ache. Turns out B vitamins are necessary to synthesize the mylein ? that covers nerve endings. I'd start taking them again and would forget all about my aching wrists.
I have horses. We give horses supplements that include vitamins and magnesium to help calm them and for their joints. The effect is very noticeable. Nothing like a horse to let you know if its a placebo effect and worthless, but when you see a 35 year old mare out loping around the pasture for the first time in years, you know a supplement is effective.
B vitamins will improve your mood, folks. It was the old-time 'prescription' by doctors in the ol' days for the blues. Then I began noticing that if I hadn't taken them for awhile, my wrists would ache. Turns out B vitamins are necessary to synthesize the mylein ? that covers nerve endings. I'd start taking them again and would forget all about my aching wrists.
I have horses. We give horses supplements that include vitamins and magnesium to help calm them and for their joints. The effect is very noticeable. Nothing like a horse to let you know if its a placebo effect and worthless, but when you see a 35 year old mare out loping around the pasture for the first time in years, you know a supplement is effective.
