Thread by @LocalRachel

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My story thread

I looked into covid health solutions earlier this year by mapping symptoms to functions in the body.

Excess intracellular calcium was a common aspect. I wondered how to fix this.

Antagonist & balancer to calcium is: magnesium (Mg).

I looked into magnesium more. Holy smokes!

Not only is Mg nature's calcium ion channel blocker but there are thousands of studies all showing a positive effect on health/recovery using Mg.

It is used in every cell in the body across all body systems & makes our energy (ATP).

Why, in my calcium obsessed culture had no-one ever mentioned how important magnesium was?

Magnesium is health essential & helps with so much!

I started telling everyone I knew about this.

My friends started calling me Magnesium Girl. I was even given this hoodie for my Bday!

Magnesium is found within the green chlorophyll part of plants & is essential for photosynthesis (the plant process that makes energy from sunlight).

For us, magnesium is in:
🥦green foods
🥦animal products
🥦nuts n seeds
🥦veggies n grains (grown in soils with Mg in)

So why are we so deficient in magnesium?

😢Overfarming resulting in low Mg in soils - less in our food
😢High calorie/low nutrition foods - needs Mg to process for little gains
😢Higher calcium diet - needs more Mg to regulate this
😢 Stress hormones - needs Mg to clear

😢 Damage to 'guts' (digestive tract) from medicine/foods/stress - resulting in lower Mg absorption
😢 Oral contraceptive pill & other medications - blocks or increases excretion
😢 Diuretic substances eg cola, caffeine - Mg loss
😢 Addictions & illness - needs more Mg to heal

Magnesium tastes rather bitter too!

Bitter tastes have fallen out of fashion so there are fewer bitter drinks & foods in many cultures' cuisines.

Peoples who eat high magnesium foods regularly also have longer life spans & better health eg. Japan (nori) or Italy (anti-pasti).

So back to my story: studying covid had taken me to understand magnesium & I knew it was part of the pandemic solution.

But how could this have been missed by thousands of scientists & medics across the globe? How could I have worked this out?

Blood test culture may be why.

These days the world has to have evidence before acting.

Yet blood tests are a poor indicator of body magnesium status.

Less than 0.8% of total body magnesium is inside the blood & it is tightly regulated so is no reflection at all!

Read more here: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/artic…

I gathered a lot more evidence of how magnesium links to covid outcomes including:

😲how low magnesium links to low vitamin D (we can see those with low Vit D have poorer outcomes)

😲how this small trial involving magnesium was successful: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33039952/

I wrote a long email (with evidence links to peer reviewed studies) to my country's bodies linked with pandemic outcomes & the independent body too (SAGE & indie SAGE) as well as MP, organisations, university academics & a journal.

I made zero progress which broke my heart.

I knew people were dying every day but the value of magnesium had been missed through no-one's fault! Could it have stopped this?

I wrote a letter to all the national papers but it was not published.

You can read my 3 edits (to help it be published) here:localrachel.medium.com/natures-soluti…

I made videos most of which were removed.

I shared my findings in long covid fb groups & again came up against censorship even though I knew Mg helped heal autoimmune issues.

How do I take this forward when not from 'the science community'? Where does an innovator citizen go?

I learned more about health & nutrition. I started to see other patterns.

I redesigned the periodic table of elements into the 'Stark Relativity Table of Elements'. More things became clear to me.

I ran some self experiments & discovering missing body functions & more.

For those of you that perhaps are not aware magnesium is a element usually found naturally with other substances.

Mg is available as an over-the-counter health supplement in many countries without the need for prescription. It is regarded as very safe.

Epsom bath salts are Mg!

Magnesium deficiency affects so many body processes - ALL of them directly or indirecty

For example, we are also low in melatonin due to too much light use & stress, coupled with low Mg.

Here is a recent trial about how melatonin helps with covid sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I have pulled together more information about other patterns I have spotted & spent many hours sharing ideas & learning from others.

I have taken to twitter more to share information directly with those that perhaps could take this forward.

One person CAN make a difference.

So this is the situation I am now in.

I have knowledge & detailed solutions to real pressing issues.

I designed novel drug administration methods to help Mg stores stretch to help more people.

I just need a bit of help to take this all forward.

Thanks,

Magnesium girl x

If you wanted to read my current recommendations on Magnesium please see this thread:

https://twitter.com/LocalRachel/status/1459669460604829700?s=20&t=2Ru5a7KKUpkcjHtg0QOpDQ