Guest guest Posted March 28, 2008 Report Share Posted March 28, 2008 For over a year, I have not taken any calcium supplements. However, I do take a 1000 IU vitamin D supplement daily, and I take 250 mg of Magnesium. I stopped the calcium supplements because I get enough calcium from dairy products and I had read that high doses of calcium can cause tissue calcification. According to CRON-o-Meter, I am most frequently below 100% in potassium and sodium. In the summer, when I sweat a lot, I need to drink water with a little bit of salt, otherwise I get cramps. Tony > > > Hi folks: > > Does anyone have any thoughts about this report? > > http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=80821 > <http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=80821> > > http://snipurl.com/22tmo <http://snipurl.com/22tmo> > > Rodney. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 28, 2008 Report Share Posted March 28, 2008 I too had cramping issues from low sodium and used to dose with salt water, but for a few months now 8 oz of vegetable juice (Walmart generic) daily appears to be keeping me adequately salted and free of cramping. One can sweat in MS even in March,,, JR On Mar 28, 2008, at 12:37 PM, citpeks wrote: > > According to CRON-o-Meter, I am most frequently below 100% in > potassium and sodium. In the summer, when I sweat a lot, I need to > drink water with a little bit of salt, otherwise I get cramps. > > Tony > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 29, 2008 Report Share Posted March 29, 2008 I have actually found a potential correlation between heavily (1500mg+) supplementing with calcium and getting night cramps (calves, almost always, but sometimes feet). I doubt my sodium is low, as I have a big " salt-tooth " , but since calcium is an electrolyte I must be throwing something off.... ....and frankly, I take calcium just to top up the amount I get from dairy which is probably 50-100% RDA. I know that calcium carbonate is not as well absorbed, so I don't feel qualms about 500-1000mg extra from that source daily. That and Viactiv are tasty. ;-) in Albuquerque --- In , <robertsjohnh@...> wrote: > > I too had cramping issues from low sodium and used to dose with salt > water, but for a few months now 8 oz of vegetable juice (Walmart > generic) daily appears to be keeping me adequately salted and free of > cramping. > > One can sweat in MS even in March,,, > > JR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 Hi folks: For now I have no qualms about getting too much vitamin D .............. at least until someone authors a study showing moderate sunshine exposure causes serious problems, which seems very unlikely. But there is no doubt that all the 'essential' metallic nutrients are harmful in larger amounts - the only question being how much is too much. So it seems to me that, as regards the subject line of this thread, it may be a lot easier to get too much calcium. If we knew the symptoms of, or, better, the tests for, excessive calcium we would be a lot further ahead. Any thoughts? My understanding is that blood calcium is so closely controlled at the expense of calcium elsewhere in the body, that it cannot be used as an indicator of calcium sufficiency or excess. And methionine and the metals may not be the only essential nutrients for which we do not want more than the RDA. Rodney. > >> > I too had cramping issues from low sodium and used to dose with salt > > water, but for a few months now 8 oz of vegetable juice (Walmart > > generic) daily appears to be keeping me adequately salted and free of > > cramping.> > > > One can sweat in MS even in March,,,> > > > JR> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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