Constipation - Magnesium, Calcium and cofactors

Increased Vitamin D ==> Decreases Mg ==> Constipation

• Vitamin D and Constipation Easy Immune Health] Actually a lack of Mg due to vitamin D

• Magnesium and Constipation

• Magnesium For Constipation? May 2013

  • The symptoms of acute magnesium deficiency that you will tend to experience include:
  • Constipation; Muscle weakness, tremor, or spasm; Sleepiness, fatigue; Vomiting; Headaches; Insomnia; Irritability
  • Poor memory; Rapid heartbeat; Numbness, tingling; Muscle contractions, cramps

• Natural Constipation Relief Dr. Oz Show, March 2012, Ca and Mg

• Magnesium Excels Against Constipation PeoplesPharmacy, March 2013

• The Pain of Constipation New York Times June 2013

  • Nice overview of the increasing problems in 10 year olds. No mention of deficiency of Vitamin D nor Magnesium
  • Constipation was the most common specific diagnosis, the cause of the pain in more than a quarter of the children age 1-18

Admin of VitaminDWiki agrees

I had the worst constipation of my life after taking lots of vitamin D before I started adding Magnesium to the cofactors which I had been taking

Clippings from the internet July 2010: Constipation, Magnesium, and Cofactors

• This got me started - constipation after 6 months on 10,000 IU ofvitamin D - did not describe the solution

• Vitamin uses up Magnesium, which causes constipation

• hundreds of reasons for constipation - vitamin D is just one

• WrongDiagnosis lists 727 causes of constipation

• Discription of Calcium, Magnesium, and other cofactors

• Calcium and Magnesium needed co-factors - to prevent side-affects such as constipation

• Importance of Magnesium cofactor for vitamin D - Vitamin D council newsletter

• Ted Hutchinson on Magnesium and other co-factors- with lots of links and recommendations

• Vitamin D and Opioids both reduce Magnesium, which results in constipation – Sept 2016

See also VitaminDWiki

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• Magnesium and Vitamin D - similar, different and synergistic