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Severe hypermagnesemia induced by magnesium oxide ingestion: a case series (2019) fft: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6361089/ Abstract Hypermagnesemia is generally considered an exceptional iatrogenic condition usually caused by magnesium-containing cathartics. In particular, this co...

hope you're feeling better! how's the rest of your regular maintenance regimen going, other than the rebif and the current cough syrup, pain killers and vinegar?

interesting title encounter: Zinc deficiency and its repletion following liver transplantation in humans. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8826662 (related older topic i have yet to reread in detail https://www.thisisms.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6906) stream-of-consciousness follow-up search titl...

The Latest Evidence from Vitamin D Intervention Trials for Skeletal and Non-skeletal Outcomes (2019) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00223-019-00616-y Vitamin D has long been considered a central part of the treatment paradigm for osteoporosis. Initial studies in high-risk populations wi...

yep and everyone is free to complain about the results of self care inaction or or celebrate benefits of due diligence as applicable.
have at it

pop quiz:

select one.

a fundamental requirement of life on earth:
a) surgery
b) antibiotics
c) essential nutrition

related reading:

Essential chemistry for biochemists
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5869253/

enjoy

so short answer 'no'? ;)

not ms, but Amyloid plaques arise from zinc-enriched cortical layers in APP/PS1 transgenic mice and are paradoxically enlarged with dietary zinc deficiency (2007) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306452207011608 The ZnT3 zinc transporter is uniquely expressed in cortical gluta...

parked for future review/study Zinc transporter 3 (ZnT3) and vesicular zinc in central nervous system function (2017) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28624432 Zinc transporter 3 (ZnT3) is the sole mechanism responsible for concentrating zinc ions within synaptic vesicles in a subset of the brain...

Zinc transporter 3 (ZnT3) gene deletion reduces spinal cord white matter damage and motor deficits in a murine MOG-induced multiple sclerosis model (2016) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996116301589 The present study aimed to evaluate the role of zinc transporter 3 (ZnT3) on...

i'm so irritated reading posts from a year ago. note to self. again. do not give your health second priority. i should have pushed for the specifics i needed sooner and more often. The emerging role of serum zinc in motor disability and radiological findings in patients with multiple sclerosis (2019...

Randomized clinical trials of oral vitamin D supplementation in need of a paradigm change: The vitamin D autacoid paradigm (2020) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306987719309715 Epidemiological studies highlight the negative correlation between vitamin D levels and the incidence...

welp i've been feeling a bit on the crap side and some of the answers are coming in now. the main news so far is low normal serum magnesium. looks like some regimen juggling is in order! update: high normal ferritin and copper with low normal zinc. see this is why you need data not guesswork. i was ...

Spasticity is modifiable through phototherapy in patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis: A randomized controlled study (2016) http://www.kamj.eg.net/article.asp?issn=1687-4625;year=2016;volume=22;issue=3;spage=81;epage=90;aulast=Essa Background Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammato...

A randomised, controlled clinical trial of narrowband UVB phototherapy for clinically isolated syndrome: The PhoCIS study (2018) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2055217318773112 Abstract Background: The natural history of multiple sclerosis (MS) typically presents with the clinically i...