I've taken magnesium chloride 3 grams daily since last july: result is i was the only one who didn't catch a cold around me: there were 3-4 instances where i felt my nose or throat were starting to itch, but additional cloves of garlic took care of it without fail.
It's a devastating combination for the germs: the MgCl increases the activity of white blood cells and the Garlic has direct anti-germs effect. I didn't even need to add iodine or MMS or Vit C.
First time i could remember staying healthy from colds during the winter months.
So your lowered immunity isn't related to the magnesium chloride.
That has been my experience with magnesium chloride taken at 4800mg daily with 6.75g l-ascorbic acid daily. After 5 months of both, that happened. Considering that I was taking plenty of vitamin C, my condition worsened. I first blamed it on the vitamin C, and continued on with magnesium chloride for 2 weeks. It did not get better. I then resumed Vitamin C, and stopped magnesium chloride. I no longer urinated often, and my coughing lessened gradually.
In your case, you can stop taking the cloves or garlic and observe what happens if you're just on magnesium chloride. You can increase the dosage to 4800mg as well. But maybe there are other factors at play. Is it possible that you consume plenty of fruits and vegetables (eaten or in juice form) and that the alkaline contents are able to balance out the acidic load? Or maybe you have access to water with high alkalinity and general hardness, and these also help alkalize your body?
We're going by our own experiences here. But magnesium chloride in large amounts for a long time to me isn't good. Magnesium is only absorbed at 32 percent, while chloride is absorbed at 95 percent in the gut. This creates an acidic load of chlorides that metabolize into hydrochloric acid, a strong acid, and contributes to acidosis:
http://www.alkalizeforhealth.net/Acid-Base Balance Articles/remer.pdf
Knowing that, I would not want to continue on using magnesium chloride if there are other forms of magnesium available.[/QUOTE]
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