I think it's either telling me, "Whoa there on the minerals honey!" Or else, "These extra minerals are so great I'm throwing off acid faster than you can pee it out!"

Problem is I can't tell which. It's just started the last couple of days and I've been swigging blackstrap, eating lemons, dripping concentrace in my water, gobbling kelp like a frigging manatee, and eating greenery till even my houseplants cower when I walk by. And I also found some magnesium citrate and calcium citrate in my cupboard so I mix a pinch of that in my drinking water. Maybe it's too much, I dunno.

Hi,

AS an added note to the above post: My oldest Daughter, when she had her last Baby several years ago, she started having the normal problems which most women have of cramps and pains etc!

I would ask her "IF" she was taking her extra calcium and a small pinch of Epsom Salt with each meal, of course she would say that she was taking some calcium but not the Epsom salt!

So I would have to remind her to take her Epsom Slat with each meal and to keep increasing the amount of calcium until her problems all went away!

And she would say, But Dad I am taking 5,000 to 10,000 mg of Oystershell calcium a day now already!

So I would remind her that she wasn't taking enough for her present needs and that if she would keep increasing the amount till her Problems stopped, that then she would know how much she needed!

So she kept increasing the amount of Oystershell calcium, for that was her choice to use, until her problems stopped!

Now it just so happens that she found that it took a least "48" 500 mg oystershell calcium, which is 24,000 mg of Extra calcium per day to solve her problems while she was carrying child!

Of course she took these all thru the day, not at one or two times!

If she took any less than this she would have problems, and any more did not seem to improve her anymore!

After the Healthy baby boy was born, she was able to reduce the amount of calcium she needed!

So the moral to this true story is that you need to find out how much you may need to take to solve your problems!

"IF" you are having problems , then you are not getting enough!

Smile Tis your choice!

Aha! So this is why I tend towards constipation when detoxing - all those acids!

Hi happydog,

You need to understand that calcium citrate may be acid forming because of the citric acid which is in it and also that the Epsom Salt may be acid forming because of the Sulfates which are in it!

So more than likely you may need much more Calcium with the amount of these first two which you are taking, or and you may want to reduce the amount of Epsom Salt you are taking!

Smile Tis your choice.

Hi asiaexpat,

Calcium and Magnesium are both Alkaline Minerals, so they both may neutralize body Acids!

Magnesium may neutralize 1.4 times as many Acids as what Calcium may do so!

And because of this difference in neutralizing power, this may be how come the body may need much more Calcium in the long run!

It may be because of this power of neutralization, that the magnesium may solve the problem of cramps under conditions where the body is too short of Magnesium because of too much excess Proteins of the Funny protein kind, but "IF" the body does not have enough Calcium to begin with , then "NO" amount of magnesium may completely solve the problem!

As people who have taken much magnesium over the years and not enough calcium, may be able to tell you it is so!

Smile Tis your choice.