An observation regarding stool

[Aaron r]

Sorry I am late on this thread but Swisse brand market a 300 mg magnesium citrate tablet in Australia as well.

 

[Possibility of Being]

Re: A question regarding stool

When catching up with this thread one thing caught my eye that I'd like to ask about.

My thoughts are that it may be the clean air as opposed to polluted city air, and unclean household air. It may be that relaxation as opposed to everyday stress. I have read that when you are stressed, blood is pulled from the digestive system first.

Hi Gimpy,
I certainly drink plenty of water, we have a rain tank out the back and I drink in excess of a litre sometimes two a day

Dingo, I might have misunderstood something and be totally off, but do you mean you drink rain water collected in your polluted environment? Could that be the cause of your problem? What do you drink when you go fishing?

 

[tridean]

Re: A question regarding stool

When catching up with this thread one thing caught my eye that I'd like to ask about.

My thoughts are that it may be the clean air as opposed to polluted city air, and unclean household air. It may be that relaxation as opposed to everyday stress. I have read that when you are stressed, blood is pulled from the digestive system first.

Hi Gimpy,
I certainly drink plenty of water, we have a rain tank out the back and I drink in excess of a litre sometimes two a day

Dingo, I might have misunderstood something and be totally off, but do you mean you drink rain water collected in your polluted environment? Could that be the cause of your problem? What do you drink when you go fishing?

Yeah, the only thing is I have had this for for so many years, and it that time I have lived in both city and country town environments. Also, until about a year ago, I was living in a house that had filtered water for at least 4 years, and that was all I drank.

There has been a lot of information given, especially regarding diet and supplements etc, so thanks to all, but I read this post this morning and it made me think of something else
http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=19595.0

I made this post http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=20504.0 in which I talk about a past indiscretion in which I am unable to forgive myself for and it haunts me.

Now that I have had a chance to really think about it, it could have been around this time that my health started to decline in these particular areas, i.e. my digestive system. I know guilt can cause health issues, and it may just be guilt is attacking my digestive system. I do remember that it was around this time that my suffering from 'heartburn' accelerated rapidly to the point where I had to see a doctor and have an endoscopy. Interestingly, after the endoscopy, I was told I had a faulty valve, and that I would need surgery or pills. I took neither course of action and it just went away, as if by awareness of 'why' is was occuring it went away. But then maybe my subconscious started attacking the rest of the digestive system.

This is really all I can conclude from it. Seriously, I have gone through many changes of diet, many changes of environment, exposures etc in the last 15 years, my instincts have told me for quite a number of years that its related to stress, and I do not live a stressful life, my wife works, and I stay at home looking after the kids including my son who is 5 and has Agenesis of the corpus collosum, he is an absolute blessing and joy to have, and his condition has made us appreciate our other kids so much more, the house is full of love and fun, I play a lot a music, and musical instruments, I spend little time in traffic, I watch little TV and so on, I just don't have the stressful life I see others experience day to day. However, guilt is a hidden stress is it not, so maybe this is it. Maybe fishing (and when I say fishing I mean on my boat) puts me closer to something that I am not fully aware of.

Over the last year, my experiences of my guilt have become worse in that at certain times (especially when I separated from my wife) I am unable to accept my past actions to the point where I break down and cry uncontrollably and I wonder that the only way to forgive myself is to give my life, such as offering my life so someone else could live such as a child needing an organ or something.

But, I am working on the book about recapitulation as suggested to me, EE program, and I am working on bettering my diet. I did read from someone on this forum that their psychological issues were much better dealt with 'after' they changed their diet hence my tripled pronged attack of 'recapitulation, EE,. and diet'

Cheers

 

[agni]

Hi All,

I have a question, if quinoa comes in and quinoa(shells?) comes out, does it mean that stomach is messed up, lack of proper enzymes, it's not digestible by certain preference of organism (blood type A if it matters), or it's the way it suppose to be or something else is underlooked ?

I hope this is not what thread hijacking is.

Thank you.

 

[tridean]

Psyche said that magnesium is the most important mineral in the body so it's a start :)

Cheers

Exactly. Don't worry about the whole list of pills right now. Get some magnesium citrate and take 600mg a day, throughout the day, preferably on an empty stomach. You'll be amazed how much better your body functions. It's impossible to get enough magnesium from food sources in this day and age and it is vital to do so. :)

I was hoping someone could clear something up for me. I got some Blackmores Magnesium Powder.
On the bottle it says a 5g serve has

2g of magnesium citrate (magnesium 310mg)

So in order to take my 600mg, am I going by the 2g of magnesium citrate, or 310mg of magnesium?

In other words, do I take about 2g of powder a day or 10g?

Cheers

 

[Gaby]

I was hoping someone could clear something up for me. I got some Blackmores Magnesium Powder.
On the bottle it says a 5g serve has

2g of magnesium citrate (magnesium 310mg)

So in order to take my 600mg, am I going by the 2g of magnesium citrate, or 310mg of magnesium?

In other words, do I take about 2g of powder a day or 10g?

Cheers

I will start with 2 g of powder and see how it goes. You'll have a laxative effect if it was too much. Magnesium citrate is very effective in that regard, so I will start with a low dose and go up if nothing happened. If your stools are too loose, then cut back.

 

[tridean]

I was hoping someone could clear something up for me. I got some Blackmores Magnesium Powder.
On the bottle it says a 5g serve has

2g of magnesium citrate (magnesium 310mg)

So in order to take my 600mg, am I going by the 2g of magnesium citrate, or 310mg of magnesium?

In other words, do I take about 2g of powder a day or 10g?

Cheers

I will start with 2 g of powder and see how it goes. You'll have a laxative effect if it was too much. Magnesium citrate is very effective in that regard, so I will start with a low dose and go up if nothing happened. If your stools are too loose, then cut back.

Thanks Psyche!

I finally found out why it is hard to find in stores, because it took me all this time to find a store that had a bottle, and it's because it goes out of date quickly. So they said.

Anyway, I will see what happens. It almost seems a contradiction to take something that can 'cause' loose stools, in order to fix a loose stool problem

I'd also like to point out that since writing this post, every fishing trip I have had has not had the same effect as before which is extremely strange! It's almost as if by declaring my issue publicly, and the fact that after fishing trips my stool is perfect, something has decided to stop whatever effect the trips were having.

Is there a way one can see some sort of specialist where one takes in a sample or something? It is really frustrating ever since I started becoming aware of it as a problem

Thanks

 

[Liberty]

I'm a bit late to this post but fwiw, making changes to your diet will make all the difference. About 2 years ago my daughter want on holiday to Spain and then came back to starting a new school. (I was never sure whether she had picked up a parasite or was stressed). Her digestive system just got worse and worse to the point were she could not clean herself up properly and for a 10 year old that was a very stressful situation. We visited the doctor who did a stool test, to find nothing and the result was I was told she had irritable bowel syndrome IBS and to go away and find out what was the problem for ourselves(I have not been back to this doctor since a complete waste of time). Anyway my gut feeling was her diet so I stopped her having wheat and you can guess what happened her system has righted its self.

I've found gradually making changes easier for me,so cutting out wheat first, then dairy (apart from butter) then sugar. But including different types of sweeteners agave, honey, zyitol maple syrup helped. Alcohol happened some where in the middle and then moving onto coffee. Not only is my digestion better regularly go 2 times a day, I also rarely sneeze which I used to do 20 or more times a day, but my thoughts are so much clearer, I often felt in a fug.

Hope this helpful.

 

[Gaby]

Is there a way one can see some sort of specialist where one takes in a sample or something? It is really frustrating ever since I started becoming aware of it as a problem

Thanks

Yeah, you could see a general practitioner, and if necessary some studies can be performed. If the magnesium is too laxative for you, you can also use transdermal magnesium with magnesium chloride. That is the best solution to meet mg requirements in people who have laxative effects.

 

[tridean]

I was hoping someone could clear something up for me. I got some Blackmores Magnesium Powder.
On the bottle it says a 5g serve has

2g of magnesium citrate (magnesium 310mg)

So in order to take my 600mg, am I going by the 2g of magnesium citrate, or 310mg of magnesium?

In other words, do I take about 2g of powder a day or 10g?

Cheers

I will start with 2 g of powder and see how it goes. You'll have a laxative effect if it was too much. Magnesium citrate is very effective in that regard, so I will start with a low dose and go up if nothing happened. If your stools are too loose, then cut back.

Hi Psyche,
One question I have is regarding definition of 'loose'. Do you mean loose by way of falling apart and smaller pieces, or do you mean that it is mushy and still retaining more water than normal?

Thanks

 

[Gaby]

Hi Psyche,
One question I have is regarding definition of 'loose'. Do you mean loose by way of falling apart and smaller pieces, or do you mean that it is mushy and still retaining more water than normal?

Thanks

Basically anything that is more loose than usual and/or diarrhea.