OT: Magnesium oil vs. Oral magnesium (was) Re: Potassium deficie

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Jim, now you have me confused because if oral mag " feeds the spiros " as you say,

or it helps them build bio-films, as others say, oral mag is bad for Lymies and

should be avoided. That is my take-away every time I see you tell a newbie about

mag oil and that is the issue that I am trying to get to the bottom of.

Again, please do not confuse my concern about oral mag with poor absorption or

diarrhea as I have said (repeatedly) that that is not my concern - I am having

no trouble with that. In fact, my bowels move much better when I take it and

they aren't moving as well now that I have quit taking oral mag for the past few

days.

I was getting over 2/3 of my daily mag in my multi mineral supp which provides

500mg of oral mag per serving so that was not an insignificant amount and if it

feeds the spiros I'm not comfortable taking it anymore.

The info that you have provided includes a reference to Dr. Fry and I have seen

others refer to him as a possible source for this claim, along with Dr. K, so I

asked my doc to reach out to one or both of them but thought that he would have

better luck with Dr. Fry because Dr. Fry markets his lab and services to docs

and might be more inclined to take my doc's call. I don't know if my doc will

try though.

I've been using the Swanson brand oil, on your recommendation, for months (as a

supplement to my oral mag) and I've never diluted it at all - I just deal with

the burning and I notice that if I don't rotate the areas that I apply it to,

the burning gets worse (as I sit here with burning thighs).

Thanks,

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> > > To answer your question of how to fill a magnesium deficiency, the options

> > > are IV, transdermal (mag oil/flakes) or oral supplementation...

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> > > With oral magnesium, only limited amounts can be taken as higher amounts

> > > cause diarrhea and oral is not as well absorbed by the body. It first has

> > > to travel through the gut before it even reaches our cells... There is an

> > > oral protocol that can be tried to get to high doses of magnesium... If

> > > however, Dr. K is correct that spiro's feed on oral magnesium and I see no

> > > reason why he would claim this if it was not true, this becomes more

> > > difficult and most likely the reason he says oral magnesium should not be

> > > used. And below is information that oral magnesium does help form

biofilms.

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