Magnesium Rocks!
As to PMS and magnesium; I promised to comment upon this subject in my last post.
After a battery of tests in my younger years, it was determined that my body did not readily absorb magnesium, and this, in turn, was not allowing my body to utilize the ample amount of calcium that I had easily absorbed from my dietary intake. I was immediately placed upon a series of magnesium supplements, which never worked.
I suffered from muscle stiffness, cramping, petite mals, and very excruciating and prolonged premenstrual and menstrual cramps. All over my lower body, front to back. Nausea and vomiting, sweats, pain. For days. My forty-hour back-labour with my son was slightly more painful — not much. And that was no walk in the park, believe me.
Lo and behold, one whole year before I became perimenopausal, I was finally introduced to Peter Gillham’s Natural Vitality Calm. This is a delicious-tasting, raspberrry-lemon magnesium powder that one stirs in a tall glass of water and adds instant sunshine to one’s life! For the first time since I was eleven years of age, I had little or no premenstrual or menstrual cramps.
Peter Gillham’s Natural Vitality Calm magnesium supplement is a godsend. It is the only form of magnesium on the market that I have ever been able to successfully absorb. Ask your physician if you should give it a try. Many men and women find that it helps them get a better night’s sleep. It is recommended that you take it just before bed because it makes many people quite sleepy. In a good way.
Not me. It doesn’t affect my sleepiness or non-sleepiness in the least, but it does take away all my cramps, and they have been wicked my whole adult and pubescent life.
If you are suffering from any of the above symptoms, or migraines, depression, fibromyalgia, impaired thinking, ask your doctor to check for magnesium deficiency. Don’t assume that regular blood tests include this work-up. They don’t. Ask for it. Get a test for lead while you are at it.
Stop the suffering! Tell any of your loved ones experiencing the agonies or annoyances of poor magnesium absorption to give Calm a try. With their doctor’s permission, of course. Calm is a magnesium citrate-based product. I find it works amazingly well for me and many other people that I know.
Magnesium affects the rhythms of the heart, as well as being one half of the calcium/magnesium team that is responsible for the contraction and expansion of all of the other muscles in the human body.
Always consult a health care professional before trying a new product or health regimen, to make certain that such a course of action is right for you and your particular constitution.
Herbal Remedies carries Calm. I have asked Well.ca to look into stocking it on their online drugstore also. It’s absence is a glaring oversight. Peter Gillham’s product is excellent.
I’m sure they’ll comply. After all, it’s me asking them.
Riiiight.
We’ll see!
If we Google foods rich magnesium, as a keyword search, we are sent to numerous helpful sites on the internet which provide helpful lists of magnesium-rich foodstuffs. Magnesiumrichfoods.com lists the following foods as rich in notable amounts of absorbable magnesium: green leafy vegetables, broccoli, artichokes, bananas, avocadoes, black beans, white beans and lentils, barley, wheat bran, oat bran, cornmeal, and whole grains in general, pumpkin and sunflower seeds. I’m sure there are others. This was not an exhaustive list. Please check out this excellent, succinct site for yourself. Magnesiumrichfoods.com.
Why is magnesium not readily absorbed from foods rich magnesium, in foods rich magnesium -resistant people such as myself? (Italicized phrase is a keyword search phrase that sends readers to this site, so please bear with the intentionally, painfully bad grammar. It is necessary for web traffic.)
In English: why don’t some people absorb magnesium from magnesium-rich foods?
Let’s check it out in my next blog.
Pat.
