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Too much is not the best for your system. My maternal line grandfather lived to be 104 years of age. He road horses, could play fiddle and piano, raised meat for the family and drank one spoonful of Epsom Salt Magnesium Sulfate U.S.P. once a week on Friday evening. It is difficult to find U.S.P these days I have even complained to "Kroger" about it as they used to sell it and now they only sell Epsom Salt Magnesium Sulfate. Much epsom salt now has dark particles in it which is probably harmless if a person uses it to ease muscle pain, etc. I wouldnt take it orally unless you can find a brand labeled "USP"Would drinking epsom salt be a good magnesium supp? Would the sulfate cause any problems long term?
I get the concern but people use all kinds of oral mg, vitamin, etc supplements and none of those are USP and most contain harmful additives on purpose. So what would make epsom salts so different that it would need to be USP?Too much is not the best for your system. My maternal line grandfather lived to be 104 years of age. He road horses, could play fiddle and piano, raised meat for the family and drank one spoonful of Epsom Salt Magnesium Sulfate U.S.P. once a week on Friday evening. It is difficult to find U.S.P these days I have even complained to "Kroger" about it as they used to sell it and now they only sell Epsom Salt Magnesium Sulfate. Much epsom salt now has dark particles in it which is probably harmless if a person uses it to ease muscle pain, etc. I wouldnt take it orally unless you can find a brand labeled "USP"
depends on the source as some sources are not as well controlled and inspected as we would hope them to be if taken internally although many of the ingredients people now take via supplements are made in China or other places with lower standards. We dont use many supplements. I have used the epsom salts that do not show as USP on my husband as a soak if he has been working too long in the yard and also myself if I have a sore muscle. It is great and no need to run a bath, soak towels in it and put them on arms, shoulders, back etc.USP, aka pharmaceutical grade, seems to be readily available.
Epsom salts from natural deposits may have beneficial or harmful contaminants. Like, for example, particular salt deposits that do have a history of use. IDK if there are epsom salt deposits with recognized traditional consumption or chemical analysis.
This forum has had many posting and discussions on magnesium. It might help you tremendously to do searches on what others have done for their magnesium. Charlie has a good search tool and it uncovers unexpected solutions.I get the concern but people use all kinds of oral mg, vitamin, etc supplements and none of those are USP and most contain harmful additives on purpose. So what would make epsom salts so different that it would need to be USP?
So far nothing negative noticed, no diarrhea and maybe even more relaxed muscles possibly from the magnesium. I just wash 500-1000mg of epsom salts down with a drinkI make a mag-a-hol solution, using equal parts vodka and Epsom salts, it absorbs better than mixed with just water. The same if you are using magnesium chloride {Dead Sea salts, etc.}, the alcohol drives it into the skin better.
Regarding Epsom salts orally, most people think about using a few teaspoons in water for constipation or detoxing, but I often wondered why not just put a pinch into a gallon of water or whatever volume, to just make the water magnesium-rich. That small amount of sulfate should be beneficial, not detrimental. We are not talking supplement-size amounts, just enough to give the water some magnesium and sulfate. But, apparently this doesn't seem to be something embraced, like the magnesium bicarbonate water.
Mag oil is magnesium chloride I thought, not magnesium sulfate.you can mix it with demineralized water to make mag oil (dont rub it on the balls)
Very interesting about the grandfather!Too much is not the best for your system. My maternal line grandfather lived to be 104 years of age. He road horses, could play fiddle and piano, raised meat for the family and drank one spoonful of Epsom Salt Magnesium Sulfate U.S.P. once a week on Friday evening. It is difficult to find U.S.P these days I have even complained to "Kroger" about it as they used to sell it and now they only sell Epsom Salt Magnesium Sulfate. Much epsom salt now has dark particles in it which is probably harmless if a person uses it to ease muscle pain, etc. I wouldnt take it orally unless you can find a brand labeled "USP"
A few years before his 100th birthday one of my mom's brothers went to Idaho and convinced my grandfather to come down and live with him. My Uncle's wife did not like the smell of grandpa's cigars so he would go outside to smoke his evening cigar. One night, at the age of 104, he fell while negotiating the stairs in the dark (the story was something about the back-porch light not being turned on or it burnt out) grandfather fell and broke his ribs, which punctured his lungs. He did not survive the night in the hospital.Very interesting about the grandfather!
104 is insane!! Tell us more about him, interesting that he smoked cigars. Any other quirky things. I'm still doing the weekly Epsom salts and still noticing benefits- I don't think I'll stopA few years before his 100th birthday one of my mom's brothers went to Idaho and convinced my grandfather to come down and live with him. My Uncle's wife did not like the smell of grandpa's cigars so he would go outside to smoke his evening cigar. One night, at the age of 104, he fell while negotiating the stairs in the dark (the story was something about the back-porch light not being turned on or it burnt out) grandfather fell and broke his ribs, which punctured his lungs. He did not survive the night in the hospital.