reply to ian: supplements & other ramblings

> canaryyuk
> Sent: 16 June 2006 16:15
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> Subject: [eSens] Re: Canary's situation - transformers / magnesium
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> Its interesting that sue is finding magnesium helpful too. It is
> confusing when i see the list of foods that mag is present in, many
> of which i eat loads of, so i think that it can't be possible that

> have an actual deficiency. So what is it with having to take loads
> of a certain thing? Do you know what the theory is behind that?
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> hi Ian, yes i think we're all padding around the same areas. L-
> glutathione has been of interest to me for a while, as i have said in
> previous emails. I don't feel the need to supplement with it a great
> deal at the moment, but i did take stacks of whey protein for a good
> few months last year which helped alot at the time and which is
> connected in some way i think to L-G synthesis, tho' i can't remember
> the details.  
>
> I don't take so much now though I really like the taste of l-
> glutathione (i go alot on taste now), like a creamy Vitamin C, seems
> a much gentler detoxifier. I was also intersted to read somewhere
> that Selenium is connected with L-G synthesis. I had a Selenium
> deficiency, as well as B12 at the beginning of my illness. And its
> interesting that both of those substances produce a quite pronounced
> (negative?/detoxing?) effect when i take them, though I am better
> with the B12 since moving to wales.
>
> on the subject of supplements i'm drawn towards: I could drink
> gallons of my BioCare Vit E drops, i have to stop myself, worried as
> usual about build up of stuff in my system, or cravings for certain
> things masking other deficiencies. The other thing i could eat
> stacks of is the mega GLA capsules i have, yet i have no desire at
> all to eat either Vit D capsules or omega 3 fish oil capsules. Yet i
> read over and over again that omega 3s are what we really need, and
> specifically EPA. I'm better with eating mackrel when it comes to
> omega 3, though i should eat more. I tend to get to the real craving
> and headachey/neckachy stage before i get some and then it makes me
> feel SO much better.
>
> sorry, i'm going off on a tangent (maybe i DO need more fish oils!).  
> The magnesium continues to be a very useful sleeping aid. I'm
> visiting Brighton at the moment and last time i was here i had to
> have the leccy off at night, but this time i don't need to, and this
> could be as a result of the mag i've been taking nightly in wales,
> tho' have only taken one dose here in brighton. Or it might just be
> the different season, lots of sun giving my system a boost. I don't
> know.  
>
> What i do know is that my whole metabolism, and symptoms alter when i
> change location,ie Wales-Brighton. The best bit about being in
> brighton is the dryness and high pressure of the climate compared to
> wales. Damp is not good, methinks. And its such a relief to have a
> break from that fucking transformer. It really is well-bad, on
> account of the simple fact that its impossible to protect myself from
> its effects. In brighton i'm sleeping in a room with a mast signal
> that is almost as strong as it gets but I can PROTECT myself from it
> at night and it makes all the difference(in the daytime theres the RF-
> lite basement).  
>
> Magnetic fields are in themselves probably less damaging to me in low
> concentrations than low concentrations of RF 'rays', but the fact
> that Mag fields cannot be stopped infact makes them in a way a more
> important factor to consider.
>
> I'm not saying i want to come back to brighton, mind. I've only been
> here 5 days, and that thing of not being able to find ANYWHERE,
> especially outdoors where i'm not exposed, is slowly but surely
> grinding me down.
>
> Sulphates, i'm going to have to look that up in my new nutrients book
> now, though annoyingly i haven't got it with me in Brighton.
>
> cheers
> j
>
>  
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> --- In [hidden email], "Ian Kemp" <ianandsue.kemp@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Canary,
> >  
> > - Its interesting that sue is finding magnesium helpful too. It is
> > confusing when i see the list of foods that mag is present in, many
> > of which i eat loads of, so i think that it can't be possible that
> i
> > have an actual deficiency.
> >  
> > I was also very reluctant to believe that Sue could have
> vitamin/mineral
> > deficiencies as she always ate a very healthy well-balanced diet
> and took
> > supplements too, so she was well above the required daily intake for
> > everything. The missing clue was that she wasn't absorbing the
> things she
> > was taking in, because of leaky gut. Eventually we managed to get
> tests
> > done (not on the NHS, unfortunately!) which confirmed both the
> leaky gut and
> > the low magnesium in her body.
> >  
> > This means that conventional supplements won't help her and
> alternatives are
> > needed. Basically there are three. (1) Oral supplementation with a
> simple
> > inorganic molecule - magnesium sulphate - Epsom salts. These seem
> to absorb
> > to some extent. (Also much cheaper than mineral supplements!) (2)
> Epsom
> > salts baths, so that it absorbs through the skin - possibly more
> effective
> > for the sulphate component than the magnesium, but again cheap and
> easy to
> > do. (3) Intravenous infusions - the most expensive and
> inconvenient route,
> > because one has to find a private doctor or hospital who will do
> them, but
> > we have found these most effective for Sue.
> >  
> > Also Sue finds that she, like you, gets pain if she has too much
> magnesium
> > at a time, so she has to have frequent small doses, which is slow
> and
> > tedious. But it is working - her levels are showing an
> improvement. And
> > after she had two successive magnesium infusions 2 weeks ago, her
> > sensitivity to both sunlight and EM fields got noticeably better.
> >  
> > I'd repeat my growing mantra for ES sufferers - try to find out the
> > underlying cause of why you became ill in the first place,
> especially if it
> > is related to ME/CFS or MCS. There are so many different possible
> reasons
> > and depending on the cause, the treatment will differ. In Sue's
> case we now
> > have test results which show specific problems with sulphate
> (especially)
> > and magnesium, plus low glutathione which was a consequence of
> these. Some
> > of her symptoms are also related to mitral valve prolapse, which
> she has
> > (yes, officially diagnosed by the NHS!) but the full consequences
> weren't
> > explained to us at the time - a new book has just come out. We
> wish we had
> > known much of this 2 or 3 years earlier, it would have saved us
> going up a
> > lot of blind alleys.
> >  
> > Ian
> >
> > _____  
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> > Sent: 16 June 2006 16:15
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> > Subject: [eSens] Re: Canary's situation - transformers / magnesium
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> > Its interesting that sue is finding magnesium helpful too. It is
> > confusing when i see the list of foods that mag is present in, many
> > of which i eat loads of, so i think that it can't be possible that
> i
> > have an actual deficiency. So what is it with having to take loads
> > of a certain thing? Do you know what the theory is behind that?
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