Guest guest Posted September 1, 2004 Report Share Posted September 1, 2004 In a message dated 9/1/2004 3:02:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, kathymatthews@... writes: I now have to take anywhere from 1,500-2,000 mg of calcium per day. If not I will get very severe leg cramps. You sure it's not a lack of potassium? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 1, 2004 Report Share Posted September 1, 2004 Hi Leanne, Can you tell us what specific brand of Calcium Citrate w/ Magnesium you are using? Also, where do you purchase it/ Thanks! > The only kind of calcium that works for me is calcium citrate > combined with magnesium. Any other calcium does not work. Not even > coral calcium. > Anyway, that's my two cents worth! > > Leanne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 1, 2004 Report Share Posted September 1, 2004 Leanne Calcium citrate is pretty good but if you are getting that much leg cramping you may need more magnesium than calcium. Try not taking as much calcium and get a separate magnesium and take some of it. At least equal part, say 1000 mg of each. Sorry to get personal, but do your bowels work fast or slow? Kathy leannekoren <leannekoren@...> wrote: I don't know how an O can get by with drinking milk and actually feeling ok. I know that I can't! I eliminated dairy from my diet several years before going on the blood type diet because I knew that it was causing me all kinds of allergy problems. I now have to take anywhere from 1,500-2,000 mg of calcium per day. If not I will get very severe leg cramps. If feels like my legs are going to break. My 5 year old daughter is the same way. The only kind of calcium that works for me is calcium citrate combined with magnesium. Any other calcium does not work. Not even coral calcium. Anyway, that's my two cents worth! Leanne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 1, 2004 Report Share Posted September 1, 2004 kathy matthews wrote: > Leanne > Calcium citrate is pretty good but if you are getting that much leg > cramping you may need more magnesium than calcium. I would agree. Also you can get low on magnesium if your potassium is low. Potassium " holds " the magnesium so you do not lose it. Vit B6 is also essential for absorption of magnesium - in fact they are an interesting pair as each helps absorb the other :-) (Constipation is usually magnesium deficiency. Haemorrhoids are B6 deficiency. It has to be pretty bad deficiency for either of these.) Magnesium can't be absorbed well in presence of fat. Calcium can't be absorbed well without fat. It pays to take them separately or to take a big excess of the one taken with the wrong fat/no-fat environment. ....... > leannekoren <leannekoren@...> wrote: > I don't know how an O can get by with drinking milk and actually > feeling ok. I know that I can't! I know a lot of folks can not handle milk for one reason or other, perhaps including blood type. Maybe it's different for non-secretors? But that's just a guess, I have no data. > I eliminated dairy from my diet > several years before going on the blood type diet because I knew > that it was causing me all kinds of allergy problems. Allergies are an interesting case however. They can only occur if you have a skewed immune system. (Too much TH-2 cytokine hence antibody response from bone marrow in proportion to TH-1 cytokine response from thymus.) So then to see why you really have allergies you need to know what skewed your immune system. Research I did at Creighton University back in 1972 showed that whooping cough vaccination was especially bad at triggering allergies and did so for 40% of Americans more than before they introduced the vaccine! It did it by having an adverse effect on the immune system, and so does the whooping cough disease (which I had twice by age 4 - plus 6 vaccinations for it. My mother thought the more the merrier.) This wrecked my immune system and that and the ratio of allergic kids I saw in my work who had the disease or vaccine, is what triggered me to do the research later. My own immune system is not skewed like that any more (thanks to alternative medicine techniques) and old allergies are now okay to eat. Only my worst one I do not dare try :-)) Until the balance of immune system is restored an allergic (called " atopic " ) person will continue to be capable of developing new or worse allergic reactions to whatever protein their systems " see " in the blood stream or lungs etc. If your Th-1 cytokines are working, the foreign protein is just engulfed and tossed, without the TH-2 system going into gear to make antibodies and hence allergy response. The only way I can see that milk would " cause " other allergies to occur is if it somehow compromises the gut lining by damaging it. That indeed would allow foreign other proteins into the blood stream through the damaged gut lining - and foreign protein will trigger allergy in an atopic person. So looks like in your case probably the milk definitely damages the gut lining in some way making it more " leaky " to protein? Definitely an avoid then! I hope you do well with your calcium, magnesium, potassium electrolyte sources. It's not always so easy to get them right. Namaste, Irene -- Irene de Villiers, B.Sc; AASCA; MCSSA; D.I.Hom. P.O.Box 4703, Spokane, WA 99220-0703. http://www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html Veterinary Homeopath and Feline Information Counsellor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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