Magnesium

[Len]

Hello. I want to combat the calcium deposits and fibrosis situation, and I was hoping a few of you might be able to recommend a particular brand or product etc. so I make sure I am taking a quality one? Thank you everyone, very much.

[Second_Amendment]

This is crazy. I was seriously about to start a thread titled “Magnesium”

I bought a bottle of mangesium a few days ago for $2.50. To date, it’s hands down the best supplment I’ve taken to fight PFS. I took it at night, when I woke up the next morning the “ring like nodules” had almost completely disappeared. Unfortunately, they resurfaced later in the day. But whenever I take it, they quickly subside to 10% of their original size.

Also, magnesium also raises T and decreases SHBG.

Don’t worry about the brand name. Try to get magnesium citrate. It’s more bioavailable than magnesium oxide. But I take the (much cheaper) oxide and it works fine.

[joetz]

Magnesium is great but the body seems to build up a tolerance very quickly

[martinM]

@joetz

Magnesium is great but the body seems to build up a tolerance very quickly

The curse of PFS…

[bryce54]

here’s something interesting on magnesium. i’ve been investigating into insulin resistance as part of propecia’s side effects on our body’s problem, and here’s a little tidbit on magnesium from it…

articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2001/07/14/insulin-part-one.aspx

A less known fact is that insulin also stores magnesium. But if your cells become resistant to insulin, you can‘t store magnesium so you lose it through urination.

Intracellular magnesium relaxes muscles. What happens when you can‘t store magnesium because the cell is resistant? You lose magnesium and your blood vessels constrict.

This causes an increase in blood pressure and a reduction in energy since intracellular magnesium is required for all energy producing reactions that take place in the cell.

But most importantly, magnesium is also necessary for the action of insulin and the manufacture of insulin. When you raise your insulin, you lose magnesium, and the cells become even more insulin resistant. Blood vessels constrict and glucose and insulin can‘t get to the tissues, which makes them more insulin resistant, so the insulin levels go up and you lose more magnesium. This is the vicious cycle that begins even before you were born.

Insulin sensitivity starts to be determined the moment the sperm combines with the egg. If a pregnant woman eats a high-carbohydrate diet, which turns into sugar, animal studies have shown that the fetus will become more insulin resistant.

Worse yet, researchers have used sophisticated measurements and found that if that fetus happens to be a female, the eggs of that fetus are more insulin resistant. Does that mean it is genetic? No, you can be born with something and it doesn‘t mean that it is genetic. Diabetes is not a genetic disease as such. You can have a genetic predisposition, but it should be an extremely rare disease.

some people here have problems with sugar. it’s interesting that when you eat sugar or certain carbs -> your body increases insulin. accord to that article, increased insulin decreases magnesium.

[ChrisC]

I bought some magnesium, just cheap high street chemist stuff. Been taking it every day for 2 weeks. Ended up with about 7 or 8 spots like I’m a teenager again. Had nocturnal erections every night that wake me up. These are the first I’ve had since coming off. No spontanious ones or anything like that. So many other problems but there’s definitely something in it. A good brand and correct dosage would be good to try.

[JustTrynaMakeIt]

Hey how are you doing these days? Did the magnesium eventually cure you?