Lots of calcium, was Re: leg cramps

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Hi Larry,

I eat a high protein diet too. I have even tried the urine and

saliva testing. I read about it at www.krispin.com. Krispin Sullivan

is writing a book about vitamin D, called " Naked at Noon " . It should

be is stores quite soon. Anyway I could not get my reading to be

alkaline either. You have shown me how to do that. It is interesting,

but I am not sure I am convinced that the acid alkaline business is

critical for optimal health. Are you? If so why?

Sheila

> Steve

>

> Have you tried coral calcium?

>

> Larry

> ----- Original Message -----

> From: Steve Veeneman

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> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 4:15 PM

> Subject: Lots of calcium, was Re: leg cramps

>

>

> 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

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