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Question:
I used to have very bad back pain. I had to roll out of bed or the
couch, support myself with my hands to get out of a chair. To move after
sitting or lying for a while was painful. I had always been a milk
drinker. A friend gave me some pills just as general health pills and I
noticed after a few days my back was better.
I isolated the effective
ingredient to be magnesium. I had read in the past that calcium could
precipitate out in the soft tissue and the crystals could cause pain.
I have since recommended a chelated magnesium product with manganese,
which is what I used, to others with back problems and if it was muscle
soreness it worked well for most of them. It is not a cure for all back
pain but it is cheap and worth a try. Perhaps magnesium by itself would
work. I took about 800 mg a day, spread out. Am I alone in thinking this?
Answer:
An excellent suggestion for my favorite mineral supplement.
I have much the same story. I would be out of work for as much as
3 days at a time in the past due to back pain so bad it would knock
me down where I had to crawl into bed and even days later leave me
walking like an old man for a few days. This occured as early as my
20's and most of the way through my 30s. I was also a big milk
drinker.
I then started studying
Hulda Clark and realizing the importance of using magnesium and other
kidney cleansers. Since her program was hard to put together, I
just used Stone Free, magnesium, and B6 for a few weeks. I then
use a 1:1 chelated cal:mag for maintenance and years later
I have yet to be in bed with a sore back. I can still make it
sore with strenuous work, but it never lasts past lunch the next
day.
>I have since recommended a chelated magnesium product with manganese,
>which is what I used, to others with back problems and if it was muscle
>soreness it worked well for most of them. It is not a cure for all back
>pain but it is cheap and worth a try. Perhaps magnesium by itself would
>work. I took about 800 mg a day, spread out.
Magnesium by itself will work, but I still like to use a non-crystal
forming calcium along with it. I don't think any of the non-carbonate
forms of calcium are crystal-forming, but calcium citrate actually
helps remove them, I think, and magnesium citrate is the best
form of magnesium for removing them. Therefore, Solaray Cal-Mag
Citrate is the ideal supplement since it has 1000mg magnesium
(citrate and oxide) with 1000mg calcium citrate.
I also like
Country Life Calcium Magnesium Potassium for maintenance.
However, even the cheapest $3 per 100 tablet magnesium oxide
and plenty of water will still work wonders for someone with a
deficiency.
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