Re: Importance of Electrolytes

[Guest guest]

These were good posts, and I cannot overstate the

importance of maintaining electrolytes, especially for

those of us who do colon cleansings through enemas on

a regular basis because of a 'slow' colon or other

health problem. As well, for 'cleansings' taken

orally which induce bowel evacuation. I prefer the

liquid versions of electrolytes, esp magnesium and

potassium.

One relatively 'low cost' mineral/vitamin version is

Emergen-C if you can't find the expensive concentrated

stuff.

JP

Message: 14

Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:06:33 -0000

From: michael758@...

Subject: Re: Constipation, this finally works for me

Suzan,

Electrolytes are the important minerals that exists

in large

quantities in our bodies and control the balance of

salts in and out

of our cells. The other minerals are found in smaller

quantities and

the trace minerals in really small quantities. All of

them are very

important for good health as they are the basis for

most biochemical

reactions. In my opinion you should concentrate in

finding a way to

get more of them in yourself. For me heavy

supplementation worked (

with Solgar chelated multimineral, liquid magnesium

supplement +

other multiminerals I had). The initial dose was about

5 times the

recommneded for normal supplementation but after 10

days I reduced it

significantly. Now, after 5 weeks it's about 1/3 of

the initial dose

and the positive results have been very significant

and still go on.

Basically your body cannot detox with a mineral

deficiency because it

stays in a defensive mode (it is afraid of not losing

more minerals).

In what concerns the most absorbable minerals, from

what I have

read, liquid and plant based ones are the best,

aminoacid chelated

come next and then the rest. In cases of severe

defficiency most

minerals can be and have been in the past,

administered

intravenously. Nowadays doctors might have forgotten

their usage and

they are almost considered a thing of the past when

there were

no " good drugs " around (according to mainstream

doctors I have spoken

to). I also suspect that a blood exam does not show

the deficiencies

well because the body uses all its stores to maintain

the blood as a

first priority, depleting the cells. I have read that

even the

calcium from bones is used this way.

Hoping I have helped,

(Greece)

> Indeed, I have been reading on this list (probably

your posts) on

the

> importance of mineral supplementation. And I have

felt for a long

time that

> this is a part of, if the not the initiator, of my

physical

problems. Tests

> have shown that I am not absorbing minerals. It was

a series of

very

> stressful situations that precipitated my problems

years ago. Do

you

> suggest any particular mode (powder, liquid etc) or

brand? I think

this may

> be a crucial part of healing, but I'm still battling

mal-

absorption. Also, I

> am not clear regarding the difference between taking

minerals and

> electrolytes? Thanks .

>

> in MI

>

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