Flushing the pipes

(Anna) #1

Has anyone taken a good dose of Magnesium to flush out the “pipes”? :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

(James storie) #2

I did some of that accidentally when trying to figure out my dosage! :laughing:

(matt ) #3

Same here…I learned to respect magnesium citrate rather quickly.

(Bacon for the Win) #4

just drink the whole bottle of mag citrate. it should do the trick, if that’s what you’re looking for. Half might work, but I find the whole bottle to be a sure thing.

(eat more) #5

i can’t tell if you’re serious or joking

serious :flushed:
joking :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

:joy:

(What The Fast?!) #6

I’m thinking about it…

(Scott Telfer) #7

Do it slowly!! Overdosing at once is painful and causes subsequent pressure on your gut. Take 150 mg two at night, two in morning two that night etc and Epsom salt baths it will ease everything. Your body’s desire to purge is not something you want to needlessly induce in my experience.

(James storie) #8

In all seriousness, my threshold is about 800 mgs of magnesium citrate. 400 in the morning 400 at night. This will clean me out, but it also brings my blood pressure down to normal levels. My blood pressure has always been in the borderline category no matter what my diet or weight. I normally take 200 in the morning and 200 at night unless I have to get a DOT physical, then I risk the bathroom episodes to ensure I get a 2 year physical. Sorry, I know I got a little off topic.

(Danielle) #9

May I recommend an alternative: Smooth Move Tea.

(Bacon for the Win) #10

[quote=“mikki, post:5, topic:11780”]
serious :flushed: [/quote]
this one.
We regularly give half to a whole bottle to constipated patients. Works like a charm.

(Christopher Avery) #11

One or two whole bottles are often prescribed as prep for a colonoscopy.

(eat more) #12

hah! i’m just a whimp…i had a teaspoon once and that was more than enough for me LOL

(Michael Wallace Ellwood) #13

For whatever reason, magnesium glycinate / bisglycinate never seems to have this effect on me.
I haven’t tried the citrate (at least, not that I can remember).

If I wanted to “clear out the pipes” (and sometimes when I didn’t intend to), large doses of l-ascorbic acid, aka vitamin C, can do the trick. (Large, as in several grams; the pure powder / crystals are better than tablets, so you don’t get the fillers).

(eat more) #14

it’s the citric acid in magnesium citrate that pulls water into the intestines…i wonder if ascorbic does the same since they are both from citrus?

(Donna) #15

To my knowledge, this kind of magnesium is formulated not to cause digestive issues so it won’t work like mg citrate.

(Michael Wallace Ellwood) #16

By the way, I was quite pleased recently when I discovered I could buy magnesium bisglycinate powder, so that I could take it without possible fillers that ready made tablets are likely to have.

However, in “the small print” on the label, it said it also contained citric acid. Slightly annoying, although someone else had pointed this out in the Amazon reviews, and I bought it anyway.
I assume it’s there as some kind of natural preservative, but I wonder if it can react and form at least some mg citrate?

This was “Now” brand.

That’s actually an important topic (possibly worth its own thread, but I don’t have time to look and see if there are existing threads on this topic at the moment, so I will ask:

Has anyone else used Magnesium supplements (of whatever kind) to try to bring elevated blood pressure levels back into a normal range?

If so, how successful was it?

Thank you.