Re: Spasms, Chills and Genova.

i have had, muscle twitching, and spasms all over my body for sometime now. and as i learned this is a sign of low magnesium. I had the Genova test done, and it shows my magnesium to be fine. Is it possible that since this is a blood test, my blood was fine, but it had already pulled everything out of my muscles ?

Lab tests are frequently inaccurate.  Usually because things fluctuate in the body so much or because they are testing something like blood or saliva that do not test tissue levels of a substance.

Spasms are more often caused by a lack of magnesium since magnesium antagonizes muscle contracting calcium.  Although, there is a fairly common condition called hyperparathyroidism that can lead to spasms by increasing serum calcium antagonizing the muscle relaxing effects of magnesium.

Also i am cold with chills all the time. It is 75 outside, but i still need to wear a jacket. anyone know what this is from.

This can be either hypothyroidism or a form of anemia.  

Hypothyroidism is frequently missed by lab tests for several reasons.  Doing your basal body temperature for a week and seeing if you have other hypothyroid symptoms is a much more accurate way if determining if you have hypothyroidism.  Symptoms can include weight gain, fatigue, mental fogginess, constipation, dry hair and skin, cold intolerance, hair falling out, etc.

If it is hypothyroidism do not just jump on taking iodine.  As I have told people so many times before if some one simply recommends iodine for hypothyroidism you need to run as fast as you can because the person has no idea what they are talking about!  Hypothyroidism has various causes, not all are from low iodine.  These articles list some of the known causes:

http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1839229#i

http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1875314#i

Therefore, increasing iodine intake will not treat all causes of hypothyroidism.  More importantly though is that iodine can aggravate  a very common form of hypothyroidism known as Hashimoto's thyroidosis:

http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1877952#i

Even if the problem is from a lack of iodine, iodine supplementation does not always work.  Iodine uptake is regulated by cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP).  If a person is low in cAMP they can take all sorts of iodine and it will not do them any good.  Although, they could end up with iodine poisoning.

Low thyroid results in a condition known as Raynaud's phenomena, which leads to the cold feeling.  If everything else is ruled out then the other possibility is Raynaud's disease, which is an autoimmune condition.

As for anemia, there are different forms.