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Plan: Dr Dahlqvist's
Stats: 205/152/160
BF:
Progress: 118%
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Originally Posted by dianabell
Wow. Thanks for the heads up regarding magnesium. I Googled and I saw lots of hits explaining the studies and benefits for it to prevent diabetes. Your signature mentionsed "absorbable magnesium." I Googled that and read it's best to use "chelated magnesium." Do you agree?
LOW MAGNESIUM results in the body absorbing excess amounts of iron.
Inappropriately liganded and excess iron causes oxidation which is implicated in many chronic conditions and in diabetes/Alzheimer's drives mitochondrial dysfunction and accelerates the ageing process
But it's a long term job restoring magnesium as it should be stored in bones and bone cells are replaced on a 10yr maintenance schedule so you have to stay in magnesium surplus all that time.
Most people are also vitamin D deficient and correcting that usually takes about 3yrs at around 10.000iu/d.
Omega 3 omega 6 imbalance probably takes 4~5 yrs to optimize.
So it's a long term business getting back to the level of anti inflammatory antioxidants you should ideally have.
Thank you so much for the links. I bookmarked this page and will read them thoroughly. What you said about it taking the minerals so long to get into the bones makes perfect sense. Good info and much appreciated.
Can I just ask if a good multi-vitamin would cover the shortfall?
We take vitD3 (in Scotland there isn't enough sun to give adequate vitD), and we take multivits, and I take magnesium and kelp. SO if staying LC long term, would that give good nutrition?