Magnesium Helps Diabetes Poem by mutt barker

If you are urinating more than normal,
it is often due to high blood sugar levels,
and your kidney, in it's wonderous way of working,
well, does not work as well as it should, and spills more water out into the urine, instead of reclaiming it.

Just a short Aside, the kidney purifies the blood, removing the toxins
and saving the good stuff. At some point, in the kidney, it has separated the watery parts, from the blood cells, and then begins to reclaim the water, the salts, and the glucose in the blood.

But when the blood has the higher levels of sugar, the kidney cannot work normally, and ends up spilling more water out into the urine, and that is why the person urinates more often.

The person also loses some minerals with this flood of water exiting the body. One mineral in particular, is Magnesium. The body tissues are pretty good about holding onto their supply of Magnesium, within the cells, and there actually is only about one percent of the Magnesium in the bloodstream, compared to the rest of the tissues.

However, it will get washed out, ever so slowly, if a person lets his blood glucose stay high for a long time.

Then, slowly, ever so slowly, the body is depleted of Magnesium.

And the symptoms are often just written off as, 'well, I suffer from diabetes, and that is why my feet tingle, why I feel weak, and why I ache, and my thinking is kind of punchy'

Well, this happened to me, and by accident, my mother asked me to take some magnesium pills, because she read it is good for the heart.

I just took them, to humor her, but it seemed to me, I started to notice a marked improvement in my aches and pains, and sluggishness.

so I read up on Magnesium, and it said that it is involved in many reactions, such as sugar control, and nerve functions.

Then it hit me. I realized that what had happened to me was like 'hyperventilating'. Hyperventilating, is when a person, perhaps because they got anxious, started breathing more than normal, and then at some point, started to feel starved of air, so began breathing even more strongly, which made them feel even more strongly that they needed air, and so were trapped in a state where they were frantically breathing. The cure is to have the person breath in and out of a paper bag, so that the oxygen levels in the blood drop, and things return to normal. Strangely, if your oxygen level in the blood goes too high, the body detects it as being too low!

Also, kind of like sometimes very hot water sometimes, at least for a short second, might feel 'tingly cold'

Well, Please allow me to explain why this Magnesium shortage might lock a normally healthy person into perpetual high blood sugar:

First, by overeating, the body has high blood sugar levels for an extended time.
This depletes the body, slowly of Magnesium.
With lower magnesium, the nerves do not work as well, and the brain does not process signals from the stomach and gastro intestinal tract as well, and the 'full' 'satisfied' signals are botched up somehow.

The loss of magnesium both affects the brain cells, as well as the nerves sending the signals.

This causes a separation of the GI system, from the brain regulation.

so the person eats, and does not receive the 'full' signal, and if it did, in the Magnesium deprived brain, the signal is not well processed.

So slowly, like a ship leaving port, gradually, the GI system grows, separated from the body. At some point it might be able to pump twice as much food the the unmatched body, which makes the 'diabetes'
become worse.

So how does a person get out of this hole?

Well, I am getting out, or maybe I am just fooling myself, by taking the magnesium pills. the Recomended dose of Magnesium, the RDA, I think is about 400mg, or close to half a gram. The pills I got were in the form of MgO, or Magnesium Oxide. When they contact H2O, or water,
they change to MgOH, or Magnesium Hydroxide, or 'Milk of Magnesia'

I also bought a bottle of Milk of magnesia, which was sold as a laxative.

I read that if you take too much, the body just flushes it away, so it is hard to take too much.

Another thing, Magnesium is often used as a laxative, if taken at the 2 gram level.

So it is kind of an ignored mineral, you often don't see it even listed on nutritional labels.

And it is given an embarassing 'aura', as it is related to being a laxative.

But I reasoned to myself that if I really do have a magnesium deficiency, then I was taking double the dose or even more, and sure enough, I have run into the need to rush to the little boys room now and then,

but I also can tell the reader that my muscle cramps, my aches my sluggish feelings, have somehow left me, and I also seem to feel
that I am getting that 'satisfied' full feeling again, and I seem to be perky and thinking clearly.

Now for a caution. After about three days of being on the magnesium pill, I feel more energetic, and seem to stop eating, not because I know it is bad to overeat, but simply because I feel 'satisfied'.

But something also happened to me: something happened to 'stress me out', and I really felt some of the old 'stressed out' feelings. I actually wished for a little while that I was back in the 'drugged out' sedated feeling I was in while under the influence of high sugar and low magnesium. I had to talk to myself to 'not go there'
To realize that feeling stressed out is a 'choice', now, that I can decide to go that route or not.

I once talked to an eighty year old man, and he, I remember, mentioned something similar, that he described it as a choice to handle something with bitterness, or stress, or with happiness.

So maybe my 7 year bout with diabetes has taught me something about reality.

Maybe I am just fooling myself. but I wanted to pass along this to others, to see if they felt any difference.

PS. Drinking alchohol chronically, also causes the peeing, and loss of Magnesium.