stomach pains from supplements

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Hi.

For the past week, I've had my dear husband started on supplements. I went based

on

per-pound dosages Andy described in other posts (onibasu). He just got all his

fillings out

5 days ago. He's been on Natren Healthy Trinity Probiotics (one capsule every

morning) for

the past month, as prep for his very sensetive stomach, before starting the

supplementation.

For the past couple days, he tells me he gets mild stomach pain after each time

taking the

supplements. It lasts about an hour. It makes him not want to take them, but he

does

anyway. I need to find out what's causing this. One particular supplement? A

particular

brand? Taking so many at once?

He also says for the past 3 days, he's had diarreah. I think that must be from

the

Magnesium, right? I'm guessing he's getting more than he needs, exceeding bowel

tolerance, right?

Here's his daily dosage. Keep in mind that, starting on 3/25, I started him with

loading

doses of these things, like I read in an Andy post. It said the loading dose to

take the

mineral daily doses 4 times a day for one week, after which you go to just one

daily dose a

day (instead of 4 times per day). For example: his dosage-per-pound of Zinc is

100mg/day. That means his loading dose for 7 days is 100mg, four times per day.

Then

it'll be no more than 100mg of Zinc per day (spread out, though).

I don't think it's his Vitamin C, CLO, milk thistle, or probiotics, because he

was already

taking those without stomach pains before I started him on the following in

loading

doses:

-B50: 3 or 4 times per day.

-Zinc: 100mg x 4 times per day.

-Vitamin E: 800 mg x 4 times per day.

-Mixed Carotenes: 1 pill x 4 times per day.

-Selenium: 330 mcg x 4 times per day.

-Molybdenum: 860 mcg x 4 times per day.

-Magnesium: 1720 mg, SPREAD OUT through the day (8 200 mg tablets of Magnesium

Citrate per day. Maybe 3 for breakfast, 3 for lunch and 2 for dinner).

Please let me know what you think. I've already backed this off to 3 doses per

day of most

of this stuff, instead of 4 per day, since it's bothering him. But even so, it

hurts his

stomach.

Advice?

Abrenica