Guest guest Posted July 28, 2009 Report Share Posted July 28, 2009 Can it be this simple? From what I've read, magnesium supplements need to be balanced with calcium supplements - 2 times as much calcium as magnesium. So I was looking for a water-soluble calcium supplement, similar to the magnesium bicarbonate water I'm making from Milk of Magnesia and Seltzer water. I kept coming up on saltwater aquarium sites (they need high calcium for their shellfish). They said to make Kalkwasser (lime water) from 1 tsp pickling lime dissolved in 1 gallon of filtered water. Now I'm wondering, can humans get their calcium that way too? It seems too simple! So much cheaper than buying coral calcium and all that. " Hard water " is mostly water with dissolved calcium and magnesium in it from limestone in the ground. Hard on pipes but I guess good on teeth and bones, as well as the immune system, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 28, 2009 Report Share Posted July 28, 2009 Granted magnesium is more important, but since I've been supplementing it, I've gotten leg cramps, TMJ, and fatigue. I'm thinking just supplementing magnesium is throwing off the mineral balance. I get enough sodium and potassium so the magnesium messing up calcium levels is my concern now and I'm thinking that rather than take just magnesium I should be taking both during the day. I'm sure this is why WAP is against supplements in general, but I don't feel that we CAN get a balance of magnesium from foods with the fluoride in everything and magnesium low in the soils to begin with, not to mention the public water doesn't contain it here. > > From: haecklers <haecklers@...> > Subject: supplementing calcium > > Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 7:35 AM > > > > > > > > > > > > > Can it be this simple? From what I've read, magnesium supplements need to be balanced with calcium supplements - 2 times as much calcium as magnesium. So I was looking for a water-soluble calcium supplement, similar to the magnesium bicarbonate water I'm making from Milk of Magnesia and Seltzer water. I kept coming up on saltwater aquarium sites (they need high calcium for their shellfish). They said to make Kalkwasser (lime water) from 1 tsp pickling lime dissolved in 1 gallon of filtered water. > > > > Now I'm wondering, can humans get their calcium that way too? It seems too simple! So much cheaper than buying coral calcium and all that. > > > > " Hard water " is mostly water with dissolved calcium and magnesium in it from limestone in the ground. Hard on pipes but I guess good on teeth and bones, as well as the immune system, etc. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 29, 2009 Report Share Posted July 29, 2009 HI all, PICKLING LIME? THis is NOT pickling..........stuff used in pickling , say, cukes? ANd where would one acquire this>? NOT familiar at all with this..but would lvoe to know where you get it ? Thanks and Namaste, Diann From: haecklers <haecklers@...> Subject: supplementing calcium Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 10:35 AM Can it be this simple? From what I've read, magnesium supplements need to be balanced with calcium supplements - 2 times as much calcium as magnesium. So I was looking for a water-soluble calcium supplement, similar to the magnesium bicarbonate water I'm making from Milk of Magnesia and Seltzer water. I kept coming up on saltwater aquarium sites (they need high calcium for their shellfish). They said to make Kalkwasser (lime water) from 1 tsp pickling lime dissolved in 1 gallon of filtered water. Now I'm wondering, can humans get their calcium that way too? It seems too simple! So much cheaper than buying coral calcium and all that. " Hard water " is mostly water with dissolved calcium and magnesium in it from limestone in the ground. Hard on pipes but I guess good on teeth and bones, as well as the immune system, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 29, 2009 Report Share Posted July 29, 2009 --- <haecklers@...> wrote: > But is the mineral profile of raw milk good only if the cow is eating > on a pasture with a good mineral profile? If there is not magnesium > in the soil, wouldn't the cow also be deficient? From what I have been able to find, magnesium doesn't seem to vary all that much in milk, unlike selenium, which can be highly variable. I put together some stats from different places here: http://tinyurl.com/nzdtt5 Scroll down the blog post to see the table " Nutrients in Human, Cow, and Goat Milk " (click to enlarge). It's interesting that minerals in human milk are typically quite a bit lower than in goat and cow milk. The magnesium generally runs between 9 and 14 mg/100g in cow and goat milk but is only around 3 mg/100g in human milk. That might simply reflect poor nutrition in the average person these days, but it's hard to tell without more data. It would be interesting to get a larger variety of milk samples from humans and animals from around the world to compare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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