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I've been looking into types of oil, will follow it up when I get more info about it, but wondering if it will substitute for mineral oil. What is mineral oil, anyway? (I guess I'll have to look that up, too.) I know castor oil was used a while back. So do you take the mineral oil by itself (plain)? How does it taste? and how soon after that do you move your bowels?
I've been taking a probiotic these past days as well as ducolace (or something like that) and it helps. Naturally I'd prefer not being on them forever, but chances are I may be.
The Magnesium as a supplement differs in the binder they use. This also affects the absorption. From what I've read Magnesium Citrate is one of the best. They use citric acid to bind it. I was buying it for a while but in order to get the amount you need you need a huge pill, a 200mg tablet is huge, so to get the 400mg recommended you need two of them.
They sell it in a powder form which I also bought and still have. You mix it with water and drink. The taste is not unpleasant. It tastes kind of well, citrusy (not a word). Some people don't like it. It's sour and I like sour.
Ionic magnesium is supposedly the best absorbed. It is in liquid form. I've yet to try it but I think I will soon. I've just been buying the cheap stuff at Walmart, the magnesium oxide. It's the same magnesium and it does the job and the pills are not huge.
The dosing for the liquid is what I'm not sure about. Is it by the drop or teaspoon?
There was a thread on it a while back, I think in the supplements forum.
Thanks for response. I wonder if foods high in magnesium would do the job also. I will look into the magnesium oxide, not ready for more stuff. I have more questions, but appreciate the boards here.
Just doing a little research about foods containing magnesium, and see that although dark chocolate is touted as a possibility, it makes sense that another website says that cacao powder is even better. So I will look into that now, since some smoothie drinks I'm reading about (not quite into smooties yet) say to add cacao. Altough those dark chocolate tidbits were appealing, thinking I'd add some to my oatmeal, LOL! But probably not.
Just doing a little research about foods containing magnesium, and see that although dark chocolate is touted as a possibility, it makes sense that another website says that cacao powder is even better. So I will look into that now, since some smoothie drinks I'm reading about (not quite into smooties yet) say to add cacao. Altough those dark chocolate tidbits were appealing, thinking I'd add some to my oatmeal, LOL! But probably not.
I don't believe we can rely on foods to get enough magnesium. There are books written about the Magnesium Deficiency. Our foods are so depleted today of all minerals including mag.
I don't believe we can rely on foods to get enough magnesium. There are books written about the Magnesium Deficiency. Our foods are so depleted today of all minerals including mag.
I believe that. So I'll keep figuring it out. I just bought grapes, but they were not organic, so I'm trying to remember to look for organic. I actually think I felt a film on them.
I have posted on this a couple of time wife takes Konsyl religiously now for many years daily,no choice,it has 3 grams of fiber psyllium.No problems ever.
But, the supplement by itself would probably be more effective at relieving constipation.
I got magnesium citrate today, 100 mg. It says to take 1 3x daily. One 3X daily? Well, I'll try it for a while and see how it 'works.' :-) This is hard for me, figuring what 'works.'
^^That sounds like a therapeutic dose to me. When I have problems I up the dose. It is completely safe to take more. I sometimes use the citrate powder in large doses as a laxative up to one teaspoon or about 2800mg believe it or not. This "temporarily" clears up any problems with constipation.
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