A while ago I made a post about me having constant headaches after eating large amounts of honey daily for a few months. The headaches would get worse whenever I ate sugar (the source didn't really matter). They weren't nearly as bad with starch as my only carb source but still there.
Anyway, after lots of experimentation I finally found out that supplemental magnesium would completely get rid of my headaches. It seems like those enormous quantities of honey daily depleted my magnesium stores.
I use oral magnesium chloride to bowel tolerance and also apply it topically once a day. Despite a lot of claims online that topical magnesium chloride can't be absorbed through the skin, I found it to be the most effective way to prevent these sugar headaches. Actually, oral magnesium alone never did anything for me.
Ray said that thyroid hormone and salt both help the body retain magnesium. I am taking NDT again and also upped my salt intake a little bit.
I can eat moderate amounts of fruit again now without any problems. If I go overboard with the sugar, the headaches will slowly start to creep back in though.
So now to my actual questions:
It seems like sugar requires a lot more magnesium to be processed than starch does. Why is that?
From what I've read, it can take quite a while to completely replete the body's stores of cellular magnesium. What can I do to speed up the process? Would asking my doctor for intravenous magnesium be a good idea? What other lifestyle related things help retain magnesium and prevent the wasting of it?
I would like to incorporate some more natural sources of magnesium into my diet. It seems like most sources have to many downsides nutritionally to be eaten in larger amounts daily though.
How do people like the hadza tribe manage to eat those large amounts of honey without the extra need for supplemental magnesium? Do they eat some secret magnesium berries? Maybe they just waste less magnesium due to lower stress hormones?
Anyway, after lots of experimentation I finally found out that supplemental magnesium would completely get rid of my headaches. It seems like those enormous quantities of honey daily depleted my magnesium stores.
I use oral magnesium chloride to bowel tolerance and also apply it topically once a day. Despite a lot of claims online that topical magnesium chloride can't be absorbed through the skin, I found it to be the most effective way to prevent these sugar headaches. Actually, oral magnesium alone never did anything for me.
Ray said that thyroid hormone and salt both help the body retain magnesium. I am taking NDT again and also upped my salt intake a little bit.
I can eat moderate amounts of fruit again now without any problems. If I go overboard with the sugar, the headaches will slowly start to creep back in though.
So now to my actual questions:
It seems like sugar requires a lot more magnesium to be processed than starch does. Why is that?
From what I've read, it can take quite a while to completely replete the body's stores of cellular magnesium. What can I do to speed up the process? Would asking my doctor for intravenous magnesium be a good idea? What other lifestyle related things help retain magnesium and prevent the wasting of it?
I would like to incorporate some more natural sources of magnesium into my diet. It seems like most sources have to many downsides nutritionally to be eaten in larger amounts daily though.
How do people like the hadza tribe manage to eat those large amounts of honey without the extra need for supplemental magnesium? Do they eat some secret magnesium berries? Maybe they just waste less magnesium due to lower stress hormones?