Re: upper limit for magnesium (supplements)

December 9, 2011

It's recommended to get no more than 350mgÂ of magnesium in supplementÂ form -

more can have a laxative effect eg. milk of magnesia.

Neily, MS, RD, CSSD, LD

Registered and Licensed Dietitian

Board Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics

Nutrition Consultant to Meals to Live, LLC www.mealstolive.com

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To: rd-usa

Sent: Friday, December 9, 2011 3:38 PM

Subject: upper limit for magnesium (supplements)

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Can anyone help me to determine the upper limit for magnesium supplements for

adults? Thank you so much!

Annie Sasseville RD

Pediatric RD @ Mile High Climbers Nutrition

December 9, 2011

1.Â Â Â http://jasn.asnjournals.org/content/20/11/2291.longÂ J. ,

Â Esther A. GonzÃ¡lezand Slatopolsky, Clinical Consequences and

Management of Hypomagnesemia, Â doi: 10.1681/ASN.2007111194 (JASN November 1,

2009 vol. 20 no. 11 2291-2295)Â

8. http://www.ijkd.org/index.php/ijkd/article/view/140 Assadi, F.,

Hypomagnesemia, An Evidence-Based Approach to Clinical Cases, (Iranian Journal

of Kidney Diseases, Vol 4, No 1 (2010)

if you are interested in helping chronically ill clients improve their health, I

would encourage consulting a Nephrologist or two, instead of repeating the

" Upper Limits " that were last truly assessed in 1997 and if you skip the

Executive summary of that report and actually read the magnesium research that

is cited the only thing the upper limit was based on was the diarrhea and the

wording repeatedly shows that studies on foods with added magnesium did not

cause diarrhea. It is a smooth muscle relaxation effect by the soluble ion

actually triggering the bowels to relax. a magnesium glycinate supplement seems

less likely to cause loose stools. Smaller amounts with food is less likely to

trigger the -short term- loose stool effect.

not a poison - a pain killer - not a death sentence - a quality of life gift

18 B. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20081245 Magdalena Bujalska, Helena

Makulska-Nowak, StanisÂ³aw W. Gumuka Magnesium ions and opioid agonistsin

vincristine-induced neuropathy , Department of Pharmacodynamics, Medical

University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieoecie 26/28, PL 00-927 Warszawa, Poland

19 B. Magnesium: an emerging drug in anaesthesia, , Editorial I, M. F. M. ,

British Journal of Anaesthesia, 103 (4): 465-7 (2009) DOI:10.1093/bja/aep242

why is magnesium being treated like a drug and given out in miserly 30 mg iv

doses to boost opioid medication efficacy in diabetic patients that opioid

medications don't work for otherwise but the magnesium alone did work forÂ - oh

maybe they are drug pushers perhaps and really want to sell opioid drugs.Â

Medical field after all is selling medicine. and not food or healthcare.

I know that dietitians don't really count for much but if you would acre for a

dietitian's sloppy opinion then these links cluster most of my gatherings on the

topic of safe use of magnesium and how to actually get it to stay in the person

that you care about - because otherwise it just is pouring on through with the

health shakes.

http://gingerjens.blogspot.com/2011/03/hypomagnesemia-symptoms-and-causes-list.h\

tml

http://gingerjens.blogspot.com/2011/12/medical-hypothesis-re-autism.html

why is it okay that IV of 100,000 IU vitamin D is injected in people by caring

physician's but we quibble over a little loose stool.

If you want to repeat government guidelines and skip individual counseling

considerations, then simply go to the mypyramid.gov website - skip the

university degree - save yourself some time - it covers the basics very well

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R Vajda, R.D.

www.GingerJens.com