Minutus

Hello, you'all,

I have learned from my current experience with magnesium, water, boron, and B-vitamins that ALL nutritional supplements (as opposed to homeopathy, TCM, allopathic medicine etc. which I don't know about) should be integrated as much as possible with any food that one is eating. Why is this, Roger? One excellent reason is that you want to AVOID spikes. When a spike occurs, the body tries to make it go away. If it is glucose, then insulin stores it in places that do harm to our girlish figures. If it is magnesium, then the body does diarrhea. If it is water or Vitamin C, then the body pees it out.

It stands up to perfect reasoning that the body needs and craves balance and if a nutrient is too much, then that is out of balance and the body will fix that problem if possible.

I try to blend my supplements in my kefir if possible. Even better, I blend my magnesium into the milk that I am going to use to make kefir. The magnesium then becomes a nutrient for the kefir. This sort of makes the magnesium in the kefir compensation for the magnesium missing from our foods. I only know that this works with magnesium chelates; I have not done this with any other other magnesium supplement, so I don't know if other magnesium sources work. But for a long time I was just popping the magnesium taurate into the milk and letting the kefir do all of hard work of dissolving the tablet. That worked just great. I had no problems with my kefir whatsoever and I could not even tell a difference in the taste.

Now that I have a better idea of what I am doing and why, I will be blending my magnesium taurate into the milk before I put the kefir "grains" into the milk.

The bottom line is that it is best for us for the food to keep supplying us nutrients long after the food has first entered the small colon. If possible, the food that you eat now should hopefully continue to supply you magnesium or Vitamin C or whatever for 24 hours or so.

Water is trickier, since it is not good to drink water during a meal, since it dilutes stomach acid. It is best to eat wet foods like watermelons and drink the water between meals.

Sincerely hope this helps,

Roger Bird

I agree with you.
However there is more to it. Nature provides nutrients in specific ways for good reasons.
For example magnesium comes naturally in green leaves not milk, along wiht the B vitamins to absorb it. Also in green leaves, is vit K to keep calcium in the bones, and so prevent osteoporosis. Both are best absorbed MINUS fat - and there is no fat in green leaves.
Calcium is supplied in milk - whole milk with fat in it - as calcium needs fat to be absobred, as does the Vit D that should be in the milk - I hope they are not putting sun block on the cows yet!
Likewise eggs come with yolks full of the good cholesterol needed by the brain, and the yolk also contains the biotin needed to ensure the correct use of the albumin and avidin in the white of the egg. Separating them as many humans do, removes all the carefully planned *balanced* nutrition of the whole egg.

So maye add to your formula - the right foods, to which each supplement can be added for optimum absorption and effect. When in doubt, put the supplement where nature does.

Namaste,
Irene

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Roger and Irene,

Irene is so full of common sense. Thanks,

Roger, I am into green smoothies and fermenting. The magnesium might feel at home in a green smoothie.

I have been fermenting soy milk with store bought yogurt, but I have a feeling I should be using something more specific.

Your idea might work in the context of green smoothies. They taste good, are easy to make.

Recently I started planting wheat seeds in my garden. Instead of store bought organic veggies. I cut up the grass, add some water and blend it. Then I put that strained water into the green smoothie. I bought a juicer and really regretted it. This process involves a strainer, an extra bowl and an extra step, but it is nothing compared to taking apart and washing a juicer. Anyway, the grass is really cheap, easier than sprouting inside the house and looks pretty in the garden. The wheat grass feels very cold to me. I warm it up with ginger, still cold food is not a good idea for me. So next time I am going to sprout brown rice. I have had a 3 week bronchitis and want to build my immmune system. This greeen smoothie routine seems like a good bet.