Did you mention before that progesterone dumps salt?j. said:Haagendazendiane said:Could it be just an imbalance? More magnesium needed if calcium increased?
Consuming more salt increases one's ability to retain magnesium.
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Did you mention before that progesterone dumps salt?j. said:Haagendazendiane said:Could it be just an imbalance? More magnesium needed if calcium increased?
Consuming more salt increases one's ability to retain magnesium.
Charlie said:Did you mention before that progesterone dumps salt?
Results suggest that the acute natriuretic action of progesterone is in part independent of aldosterone inhibition and that progesterone may inhibit sodium reabsorption at proximal as well as distal sites in the nephron.
I hear you Lindsay. I am a bit overwhelmed with this right now. Just keep digging at it, you will get there.lindsay said:now i'm confused.
Jacob Riis said:When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Calcium.
It appears unlikely that calcium per se has a negative effect on zinc absorption. We added calcium to cow’s milk formula to a level of ∼1300 mg/L and found no significant difference in zinc absorption from the formula with the regular level of calcium (500 mg/L) through the use of radioisotopes in human adults and paired observations (Lönnerdal et al. 1984). Similarly, Spencer et al. (1984) and Dawson-Hughes et al. (1986) added large amounts of calcium to a meal and found no effect on zinc absorption in human adults. It also appears that the long-term use of calcium supplements has no effect on zinc status; Gambian women who were given 1000 mg calcium/d had plasma zinc concentrations similar to those of unsupplemented women (Yan et al. 1996).
The calcium content of the diet may, however, affect zinc absorption from phytate-containing meals. It has been postulated that the formula [Ca] × ([phytate]/[Zn]) ratio can be used as a predictor of zinc bioavailability (Fordyce et al. 1987). The reason for this is that calcium has the propensity to form complexes with phytate and zinc that are insoluble and consequently have an inhibitory effect on zinc absorption. Although there certainly are studies that support this concept, the interaction is complex, and it is possible that this ratio may be of limited predictive value. For example, we added calcium to a soy-based infant formula (1300 versus 550 mg/L) and found that zinc absorption increased significantly compared with regular soy formula, even though an increased [Ca] × [phytate]/[Zn] ratio would predict lower zinc absorption. We hypothesized that a larger proportion of calcium bound to phytate in the gastrointestinal tract, thereby making more zinc available for absorption (Lönnerdal et al. 1984). Several authors have suggested that the phytate-to-zinc molar ratio can be used to estimate zinc bioavailability from the diet (Davies and Olpin 1979, Lo et al. 1981, Morris and Ellis 1980), and it is possible that this ratio in general may have more predictability than the ratio that includes calcium as a variable.
j. said:lindsay, do you consume honey? If you can tolerate it, I think it's good to consume it maybe with your milk and coffee because 1. is anti-estrogen 2. fills glycogen stores quickly 3. Has more minerals per unit of sugar than table sugar.
Charlie said:Orange season ended in California, and Florida is just starting up so the oranges are not ripe yet. So the last 10 days or so I have not been getting any orange juice, and instead drinking more milk with sugar to make up for it.
Charlie said:They taste is not what it should be. And if they are navel oranges they will get a sour taste to them soon after squeezing if not really ripe. I do not know the specifics of nutrient availability. But I know the sugar availability can differ greatly.
Charlie said:To me when it's not ripe...... it does not taste right, feel right, and seems toxic.