Lots of calcium, was Re: leg cramps

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> This makes SO much sense. The acidosis website I saw

listed " Alkalis " as a

> cause of acidosis, maybe taking a acetic acid solution has the

reverse

> effect. Many calcium tabs are sold as Carbonate though, for some

reason

> (maybe because they dissolve in your stomach quickly?).

I don't know for sure. I keep getting this memory of a porta-john

worker on a radio show once describing the mounds of vitamin pills

he has on the grate of the drain he empties in the truck into. In

some cases he says he can actually read the lable of the vitamin

pills! Gross, eh? Anyway I really am thinking about making sure

stuff gets dissolved.

> I wonder what

> effect lactic acid has, with all my kimchi?

Good question. Anybody know how the body deals with these

different sort of acids? I heard another guy on a radio show

state that it takes our bodies weeks and weeks to excrete the

citric acid in a single can of soda, and when the citric acid

goes it takes calcium with it. My presumption then is that

calcium citrate is a wash, i.e. you lose all the calcium you

ingest. What happens to the lactic acid? Do our bodies

actually use it anywhere? I know it helps our intestinal flora,

and maybe the fauna too (sorry, a joke)...

> BTW the Koreans typically eat their kimchi with little fish,

shrimp, or

> squid in it. The lactic acid, I'd presume, would dissolve the bones

> somewhat so you'd have a bunch of calcium lactate in there. Since

it seems

> that their diet is a staple of pickles (esp. kimchi) and rice with

some

> meat thrown in, they'd be getting most of their calcium from the

pickles,

> as calcium lactate. The beef broths made with vinegar would be

calcium acetate.

Aha, dissolving bones, which I think must be better than dissolving

calcium pills. I forgot about using vinegar for broths, I always

use saurkraut in a big crockpot for my bone stews. I never have

noted sudden jumps in urine PH though, no matter how much broth

I ate. I wonder why? I haven't tried vinegar though... Hmmm.

Hey, anybody tried making a bone broth using Kombucha? That has

all sorts of wierd acids in it!

> I also wonder if the leg cramps are always due to calcium/magnesium

> deficiency or if the acid content of the blood is in there

somewhere.

> Cramps are listed as a side effect of acidosis too.

Another good question. What kind of cramps I wonder. The calcium

things always hit me in the calves, and same for my wife. At least

we think it is calcium. Why not other muscles? Anybody know?

Cheers!

Steve