Re: Sulfur - chelator......*

July 25, 2005

Which supplement would that be?

~Inga

on 7/24/05 5:01 PM, at sage@... wrote:

> If you start noticing reactions to sulfur foods, you

> might want to limit them to your tolerance. If it doesn't go away,

> you might need an additional supplement to support your sulfation

> pathway.

July 25, 2005

Inga,

It depends. Some people are high sulfur normally, so they should

reduce those foods to their tolerance. If you normally don't react to

them and develop problems during chelation, you could be sulfate

depleted or molybdenum deficient. It's hard to tell which (unless you

have the blood tests), so you can try them. Sulfate you get in the

form of epsom salts (magnesium sulfate). You can take orally and/or

absorb from an epsom salt bath. Molybdenum you take as a supplement.

I used about 15 mcg twice a day for a few days. That seemed to help

me a lot.

--

>

> > If you start noticing reactions to sulfur foods, you

> > might want to limit them to your tolerance. If it doesn't go away,

> > you might need an additional supplement to support your sulfation

> > pathway.

July 25, 2005

I don't understand exaclty what sulfate is.

I use magnesium citrate, and I guess that is not going to provide any more

sulfate then, right?

Are epsom salts the only source of sulfate?

How is sulfate different than sulfur?

Thanks,

nga

on 7/25/05 2:12 PM, at sage@... wrote:

> Sulfate you get in the

> form of epsom salts (magnesium sulfate). You can take orally and/or

> absorb from an epsom salt bath. Molybdenum you take as a supplement.

> I used about 15 mcg twice a day for a few days. That seemed to help

> me a lot.

>

> --

July 25, 2005

In a message dated 7/25/2005 10:40:18 PM Pacific Standard Time,

wolfiebear@... writes:

Epsom salts are an easily available and absorbable source of sulfate.

> I've seen glucosamine sulfate mentioned as another acceptable source.

> Those are the only two I'm familiar with.

>

You can also get magnesium sulfate cream.... I just had my practictioner

order me some from a compounding pharmacy because I cannot seem to remember to

drink the epsoms salt (plus they taste yucky)

Kris

July 25, 2005

Inga,

I'm not a chemist, but I remember that sulfur is important in bodily

processes. A process may require sulfur in a certain shape or

structure in order to work. Sulfate is one chemical structure and

sulfide is a different structure. One of the detoxification processes

in the liver is sulfation. This requires sulfate - other forms of

sulfur won't work. The sulfate gets together with some other

chemical(s) and they exchange pieces of themselves and form new stuff.

(This is way oversimplified - like I said I'm not a chemist :-)

As far as I know you can't get sulfate from magnesium citrate (though

I don't know what chemicals make up citrate).

Epsom salts are an easily available and absorbable source of sulfate.

I've seen glucosamine sulfate mentioned as another acceptable source.

Those are the only two I'm familiar with.

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>

> > Sulfate you get in the

> > form of epsom salts (magnesium sulfate). You can take orally and/or

> > absorb from an epsom salt bath. Molybdenum you take as a supplement.

> > I used about 15 mcg twice a day for a few days. That seemed to help

> > me a lot.

> >

> > --

July 25, 2005

Do you need to get a " food grade " epsom salt if you want to take it orally, or

do you use the same stuff you would use for a bath? jackie t.