If I had only one supplement that I could take, it would be magnesium. I’m glad to hear you’ve done so well.

I have two questions about Magnesium:

1) – I’ve read somewhere Magnesium and Vitamin D3 influence each other.
Could you please explain (in your usual user-oriented language…) in which ways does it occur and if both supplements, taken together, may pose any risks for health?

2) – Should people with LOW blood pressure avoid Magnesium supplement?

Thanks a lot.

Marco

Magnesium is more involved with vitamin D absorption than with magnesium. Magnesium taken with vitamin D shouldn’t be problematic.

No, people with low blood pressure shouldn’t avoid magnesium supplements. I have low blood pressure and take a fair amount of magnesium.

It’s simply a chelated magnesium. Should be fine.

I don’t know what it could be. I can’t think of a reason I wouldn’t want someone on magnesium supplements. Even if I don’t give my patients another thing, I always give them magnesium because almost everyone is deficient in it.

MRE

First question:

I take these two supplements at present:

1) – Vitamin D3 (1000 I.U./day) as the growing body of evidence that taking vitamin D reduces cancer risk (Canadian Cancer Society)

2) – Selenium (50mcg)-Beta-Carotene (5000 IU)-Vitamin C (60 mg)-Vitamin E (natural d-alpha tocopheryl acetate) (10 IU) for the same reasons.

Maybe the optimal selenium dose to prevent cancer would be 200 mcg/day.

I’m looking for the best supplement for me to prevent cancer, and I think the best thing would be to have an ALL-IN-ONE supplement.

I’m trying to intermittent-fasting and I am a bit worried about having consequently some mineral/vitamin deficiencies.

Any suggestions?

Second question:

I’ve always known a healthy water should have as less fixed residue as possible, but probably I’m wrong.
What should I look out when buying a bottle of water?
I’ve run across this site (http://www.3.waisays.com/), could you have a look?

Thanks a lot.

Marco D.

Hi Marco–

MRE

Just going through some of the earlier posts, and I had a question about magnesium.

When I take a supplement of magnesium (250 mg) at night, within a day or two, the veins in my hands and arms seem to bulge. As I’m diabetic, I worry about kindey problems. So far, my tests have come back okay – BUN is 18, Serum Creatine is 1.0, Serum Albumin 4.8, two urine tests showed no protein. Any thoughts?

I don’t have a clue as to why your veins would bulge, but I have trouble linking it to magnesium.  The fact that you have no protein in your urine as a diabetic is a good sign that your kidney function is not impaired. 

Hi Dee–

I use magnesium citrimate, and I take 300 mg per day at bedtime.
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I think I’ve read that this form of magnesium is a combination of Citrate and Malate, good for people with Fibromyalgia. However, I cannot locate a source for it. Can you advise me? Thank you!
Madeline Mason

Hi Madeline–

We use the product made by Thorne for our patients and for ourselves.  Thorne only sells to health care practitioners, but many products, including the magnesium, can be found online.  At some point we will add it to our online catalog, but haven’t yet.

Best–

MRE 

Hi Dee–

I use magnesium citrimate, and I take 300 mg per day at bedtime.  Any good chelated magnesium will do.  Just look for one with ‘ate’ on the end of it, as in magnesium aspartate or magnesium citrate.  And be careful in checking the doses because chelated magnesium isn’t all labeled the same.  Some list the actual magnesium on the label and will say that each pill contains, say, 150 mg of magnesium.  Others add the weight of the chelating agent (the substance that ends in ‘ate’) in with the magnesium, so you might find a brand where the label says each pill is 1000 mg.  This means the magnesium plus the chelating agent adds up to 1000 mg.  The best way is to look for the RDI on the back of the bottle.  Take enough pills to get the RDI each day, and take them at bedtime.

Hope this helps.

MRE