Lots of calcium, was Re: leg cramps

[Guest guest]

Don't try this at home... <grin>

I should have gotten some PH paper long ago, but

at the age of 50 I bought a roll a few months ago.

What fun! As a natural born experimenter I could

not resist taking my urine and saliva readings

every morning.

For over a decade my wife and I both agreed that if

we had a leg cramp we needed more calcium, and

taking calcium always helped alleviate the symptom,

but when I started taking PH measurements I had a

much more direct way to check on things.

After trying out all the calcium supplements in

the house without really dramatic effects I started

poking around the web with the Google search engine.

I looked up Calcium Lactate, which is what my stew

of soup bones and saurkraut is likely rich in, and

guessed at other ionic Calcium solutions.

When I hit on Calcium Acetate I found what I recall

may have been a Medline article, saying that if a

clinical worker needed to get a lot of Calcium into

someone in a hurry, to use it intravenously. Acetic

acid, as the article went on, is used ubiquitously

throughout the body, so presumably the patient gets

to keep a large portion of the Calcium so introduced.

This made sense to me, partly because I already

believed acetic acid to be the active feature of

the skin's acid mantle.

So right away I tried it, dissolving a big old

Calcium Carbonate tablet in an ounce of organic

apple cider vinegar and swilling it down after

all the foam disappeared. Ugh, not very tasty.

The next morning though, WOW! My urine PH was up a

whole integer. Normally my readings are on the acid

side, which makes sense due to all the meat I eat.

Right now this is the only technique I know of that

really definitely pushes my urine PH upwards that

much. I really needed it a few weeks ago, when

I sweat so much while spading up our garden that

the next day my urine PH was below 5.3. It took

two or three days to get it back to normal and I

nearly caught a cold or flu in the process. No

wonder my immune system seemed week after I ran

long distance foot races in the past!

Since then my brother suggested that if I deliberately

eat a calcium carbonate supplement during a meal

that I know will take a long time to digest then

my stomach acids will do something similar, using

Hydrochloric Acid instead of Acetic Acid instead.

I have less clear data about that so far though.

Anyway my point is that there is nothing like

really measuring what it going on. If you are

really brave you may want to taste your urine

every day like I do. Multidimensional information

there too for a minimum of cost or effort!

Comments?

Steve

=====

# Steve Veeneman - svnmn@...

# What do you really want...

__________________________________________________