More Magnesium

[Guest guest]

The website goes on to say that long term theraputic doses of

magnesium supplements can upset the taurine balence in the body.

Sounds like some of us need magnesium supplements but also taurine

with the magnesium. I'm going to look into that.

Hi, Vince:

It looks like an interesting website. I always take magnesium, but now I'm

going to get some magnesium taurate. I didn't know about that, although Dr.

Cabot talks about the importance of taurine for liver function.

Take care,

Susie

[Guest guest]

I just read some of the site that Susie mentioned.

http://www.coldcure.com/html/dep.html#censorship

Wow! It shows a direct link between decreased bile production and

Magnesium deficiency (because adequate bile is required for

magnesium absorbsion). Sounds like most of us here are predisposed

to magnesium deficiency because of liver and gallbladder issues.

The solution according to the website is to take a supplement that

combines magnesium and taurine called magnesium taurate. The

article deals mainly with magnesium to cure depression, but the same

things apply to all other body fuctions of magnesium because we have

to absorb the magnesium to use it. Here's a couple of lines that

are a ways down the webpage, and they are not next to each other on

the page:

" Only magnesium taurate [my words inserted here: magnesium taurate

is magnesium combined with taurine](a form of magnesium that

decreases chances of diarrhea) is superior to all other forms of

magnesium. Both glycine and taurine have been used to effectively

treat depression. Also taurine (the ligand in magnesium taurate) has

been shown to be low or absent in 100 percent of people with

depression and chronic pain according to Shealy….

Inadequate production of bile, which is made in the liver and

aids in proper digestion of fats, probably is five times more

responsible for diarrhea and malabsorption of magnesium than any

other single factor while taking therapeutic doses of magnesium.….

[part of a letter concerning the need to supplement magnesium:] I

thought I was clear on dosage, but all she need do, at least to get

started, is to take magnesium supplements. I like magnesium taurate

for many very important reasons, but to begin with, nearly any form

will do. She will probably do best with 200 to 300 mg of magnesium

(as glycinate, taurate, chloride, gluconate, sulfate, malate and a

few others which escape me at the moment) but NEVER GLUTAMATE OR

ASPARTATE WHICH WILL WORSEN HER SITUATION, and never magnesium

oxide, magnesium carbonate or magnesium hydroxide which will not

work (mainly because of decreases in stomach acidity caused by

them).

http://www.coldcure.com/html/dep.html#censorship

The website goes on to say that long term theraputic doses of

magnesium supplements can upset the taurine balence in the body.

Sounds like some of us need magnesium supplements but also taurine

with the magnesium. I'm going to look into that.

Vince