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Want more progesterone? Increase magnesium and decrease excessive calcium!
Want more progesterone? Increase magnesium and decrease excessive calcium!
GARRETT SMITH·
For those who are wondering how to raise their progesterone levels (well, this is only ONE aspect, and it is a huge one). Two words: topical magnesium.
How to use topical magnesium, you ask? I tell you that here: All about topical magnesium: lotions, sprays, baths, foot soaks, oh my! — Steemit
On to the evidence. First study (in men):
Serum ionized magnesium and calcium and sex hormones in healthy young men: importance of serum progesterone level. - PubMed - NCBI
"The Mg2+ concentration in the young men was directly and significantly related to the progesterone level, and the Ca2+/Mg2+ ratio was inversely related to the progesterone level."
This means that higher magnesium levels were associated with more progesterone. It also is saying that the higher the calcium-to-magnesium ratio is (known in my hair mineral analysis world as the “blood sugar ratio” and also the “calcification ratio”), the lower the progesterone levels are. High Ca/Mg ratios are present in nearly everyone these days, particularly in those who have a history of ever taking Vitamin D or cold liver oil supplements (these all raise hair calcium levels, see my other notes for more info on calcium itself).
Second study (in rats):
http://sci-hub.bz/10.1055/s-2007-979930
"***The more prolonged low-magnesium diet did reduce progesterone levels significantly***, possibly by altering the intracellular calcium-magnesium balance, or by the adenylate cyclase system."
Again, less magnesium, less progesterone.
Third study, linking low magnesium with low Vitamin D levels (and the inverse):
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23981518
"RESULTS: High intake of total, dietary or supplemental magnesium was independently associated with significantly reduced risks of vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency respectively. Intake of magnesium significantly interacted with intake of vitamin D in relation to risk of both vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency. Additionally, the inverse association between total magnesium intake and vitamin D insufficiency primarily appeared among populations at high risk of vitamin D insufficiency. Furthermore, the associations of serum 25(OH)D with mortality, particularly due to cardiovascular disease (CVD) and colorectal cancer, were modified by magnesium intake, and the inverse associations were primarily present among those with magnesium intake above the median.
***CONCLUSIONS: Our preliminary findings indicate it is possible that magnesium intake alone or its interaction with vitamin D intake may contribute to vitamin D status.***"
A magnesium deficiency will result in your blood showing a so-called “Vitamin D deficiency”. Taking Vitamin D in this situation will make things much worse, as it will imbalance calcium and magnesium even further.
So, how to summarize this without writing all day...let me try.
1. If you are magnesium deficient, then you will almost guaranteed come up low on a 25-hydroxycholecalciferol ("storage" Vitamin D) blood test. As the last study says, that D deficiency may be COMPLETELY due to your magnesium deficiency (although if you get very little UVB light, that would also obviously be a factor and should be fixed, see below). HINT: If you are not using a topical magnesium approach regularly and aggressively, you can be dang sure you are deficient in magnesium (to answer it early, NO, pills are nowhere near as effective as topical, in nearly everyone!). Topical approaches include magnesium "oil" spray, Mag-A-Hol, magnesium lotion (DIY or Life-Flo brand), and footsoaks or baths with either magnesium chloride flakes or Epsom salts.
2. Magnesium deficiency will cause low progesterone.
3. A calcium-to-magnesium imbalance (ie. a high Ca/Mg ratio, aka too much calcium to too little magnesium on a hair mineral test) will also decrease progesterone (mentioned in both Mg/progesterone studies above). The strongest way to dysfunctionally raise calcium levels is to *take Vitamin D by mouth*. The best way to get a magnesium deficiency is pretty much to *not use topical magnesium*.
5. Get sunlight (as much as possible without getting burned) and/or use a UVB lamp Vitamin D from low-cost UVB lamps | Vitamin D Wiki to make Vitamin D through the skin. NEVER use Vitamin D supplements OR take cod liver oil (fermented or not).
I think that covers it. On that final note, were you aware of the theory that Vitamin D supplements (including cod liver oil) are potentially linked to the pandemic rise in all types of allergies? http://aacijournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1710-1492-5-8
Want more progesterone? Increase magnesium and decrease excessive calcium!
GARRETT SMITH·
For those who are wondering how to raise their progesterone levels (well, this is only ONE aspect, and it is a huge one). Two words: topical magnesium.
How to use topical magnesium, you ask? I tell you that here: All about topical magnesium: lotions, sprays, baths, foot soaks, oh my! — Steemit
On to the evidence. First study (in men):
Serum ionized magnesium and calcium and sex hormones in healthy young men: importance of serum progesterone level. - PubMed - NCBI
"The Mg2+ concentration in the young men was directly and significantly related to the progesterone level, and the Ca2+/Mg2+ ratio was inversely related to the progesterone level."
This means that higher magnesium levels were associated with more progesterone. It also is saying that the higher the calcium-to-magnesium ratio is (known in my hair mineral analysis world as the “blood sugar ratio” and also the “calcification ratio”), the lower the progesterone levels are. High Ca/Mg ratios are present in nearly everyone these days, particularly in those who have a history of ever taking Vitamin D or cold liver oil supplements (these all raise hair calcium levels, see my other notes for more info on calcium itself).
Second study (in rats):
http://sci-hub.bz/10.1055/s-2007-979930
"***The more prolonged low-magnesium diet did reduce progesterone levels significantly***, possibly by altering the intracellular calcium-magnesium balance, or by the adenylate cyclase system."
Again, less magnesium, less progesterone.
Third study, linking low magnesium with low Vitamin D levels (and the inverse):
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23981518
"RESULTS: High intake of total, dietary or supplemental magnesium was independently associated with significantly reduced risks of vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency respectively. Intake of magnesium significantly interacted with intake of vitamin D in relation to risk of both vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency. Additionally, the inverse association between total magnesium intake and vitamin D insufficiency primarily appeared among populations at high risk of vitamin D insufficiency. Furthermore, the associations of serum 25(OH)D with mortality, particularly due to cardiovascular disease (CVD) and colorectal cancer, were modified by magnesium intake, and the inverse associations were primarily present among those with magnesium intake above the median.
***CONCLUSIONS: Our preliminary findings indicate it is possible that magnesium intake alone or its interaction with vitamin D intake may contribute to vitamin D status.***"
A magnesium deficiency will result in your blood showing a so-called “Vitamin D deficiency”. Taking Vitamin D in this situation will make things much worse, as it will imbalance calcium and magnesium even further.
So, how to summarize this without writing all day...let me try.
1. If you are magnesium deficient, then you will almost guaranteed come up low on a 25-hydroxycholecalciferol ("storage" Vitamin D) blood test. As the last study says, that D deficiency may be COMPLETELY due to your magnesium deficiency (although if you get very little UVB light, that would also obviously be a factor and should be fixed, see below). HINT: If you are not using a topical magnesium approach regularly and aggressively, you can be dang sure you are deficient in magnesium (to answer it early, NO, pills are nowhere near as effective as topical, in nearly everyone!). Topical approaches include magnesium "oil" spray, Mag-A-Hol, magnesium lotion (DIY or Life-Flo brand), and footsoaks or baths with either magnesium chloride flakes or Epsom salts.
2. Magnesium deficiency will cause low progesterone.
3. A calcium-to-magnesium imbalance (ie. a high Ca/Mg ratio, aka too much calcium to too little magnesium on a hair mineral test) will also decrease progesterone (mentioned in both Mg/progesterone studies above). The strongest way to dysfunctionally raise calcium levels is to *take Vitamin D by mouth*. The best way to get a magnesium deficiency is pretty much to *not use topical magnesium*.
5. Get sunlight (as much as possible without getting burned) and/or use a UVB lamp Vitamin D from low-cost UVB lamps | Vitamin D Wiki to make Vitamin D through the skin. NEVER use Vitamin D supplements OR take cod liver oil (fermented or not).
I think that covers it. On that final note, were you aware of the theory that Vitamin D supplements (including cod liver oil) are potentially linked to the pandemic rise in all types of allergies? http://aacijournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1710-1492-5-8