Re: Thank you, BUT...

 Thank you, but no one really answered my question.

Hveragerthi, I DO eat the majority of the foods you noted on a regular / daily basis; however, there is NO way for me to eat -- budget- and palate-wise during the course of a typical day's activities -- enough dark leafy greens, for instance, to reach the therapeutic levels found in a Cal / Mag supplement.

The reason the "therapeutic" levels recommended for calcium and magnesium are so high is because they are based on the ingestion of calcium carbonate and magnesium oxide. These are the most poorly absorbed forms of calcium and magnesium on the market. So the high doses by supplement are recommended on the false assumption that increasing the intake will force more absorption to compensate for the poor absorption. We do not need such high levels if our calcium and magnesium are derived from better sources such as foods.

As I'm also a sufferer of hormonal migranes, I NEED the cal / mag supplement to give me the noted 1800 total mgs of supplementation on a CONSISTENT basis.

First of all the calcium can contribute to migraines. You want magnesium, not calcium to help prevent migraines. Migraines start with strong vasoconstriction, which is the "aura" people experience. Then the blood vessels rebound vasodilate leading to the inflammation that gives the migraine its other symptoms. The reason magnesium is used to treat migraines is because it acts like a natural calcium channel blocker. Calcium contracts muscles including blood vessels, which is why calcium channel blockers are used to lower blood pressure and treat migraines. They keep calcium from contracting the blood vessels. Increasing magnesium intake helps to keep calcium from contracting blood vessels by antagonizing the calcium. If you take calcium with the magnesium the magnesium will not work as well as it has to deal with antagonizing the calcium from the supplement as well as the calcium causing the blood vessel constriction.

My question was, with taking the brand I noted and the sugar quantity, would that be OK in light of my yeast issues. Would it really harm me in the long run?

Maybe the reason that you did not get a direct answer is because what you are asking is impossible to answer. Candida growth is not just governed by sugar. Alkalinity also plays a role in promoting Candida growth. And orally ingested sugars are not the only source of sugar the Candida can feed on. The body also generates its own sugars from proteins, fats, lactic acid, etc., a process known as gluconeogenesis.

I asked about the multis b/c I heard that those are easier to assimilate. I never heard that they're garbage and heard many positive remarks from those I know taking them. Again, I was asking about the sugar content.

Again the sugar is only one factor.

As for the multivitamin oxidizers only work in the presence of moisture. As an example I can take a handful of powdered bleach and put it on a colored towel. The bleach will not touch the towel though until I add water, which allows the oxidation to take place. The same principle applies to vitamins. When water is added to the vitamin the process of oxidation is sped up, which quickly deteriorates the vitamin. To show you how fast this can occur back in high school we did an experiment with synthetic vitamin C commonly sold in health food stores. We took 3 samples and exposed one to light, one to heat, and one to water all of which promote oxidation. About 40 minutes later we tested all three samples for vitamin C. In all 3 cases the vitamin C was completely destroyed in that short time.

I asked about a probiotic - if I should take it now while I'm still adjusting to diet changes or wait until I killed a bit of the candida off, and you gave the impression that probiotics are rather useless as we never kill the candida. (At least, you did not give a definitive answer to my specific question.) YET, you responded to someone else's question a few threads down about WHEN to properly TAKE the probiotic with no mention of what you stated to me about building immunity over taking it.

You cannot kill off the Candida because it is a natural part of the body. The probiotics will kill some of the Candida, but the primary effect of the probiotics is to generate acids (lactic acid, acetic acid, fatty acids) that keep the Candida in a yeast form rather than its pathogenic fungal form.

I am not sure of which post you are referring to. It could have been one of the posts discussing the many aspects of the immune system. Or it could have been someone asking about how to address Candida. Your question was not about how to get the Candida under control. Your question was when to take the probiotics, which I believe I answered.

I don't mean to sound perturbed, but I asked the questions honestly not looking for a whole foods response. I DO feel I need the supplementation, as many others do as well, to COMPLIMENT my diet and the fact that NONE of us can be 100% perfect OR eat enough to match concentrated amounts found in the aforementioned

That's fine, but I was trying to help you avoid wasting a lot of money on supplements that are not going to do much like liquid vitamins. I also write under the assumption that you are not the only person that is going to be reading this so I tend to expand on things for others to learn from as well.