A big pinch of bicarb soda in water daily (not together with food of course) will help to buffer the acid byproducts so the body can restore balance.
If you are not well or very stressed with pain and inflammation, your digestive system doesn’t work optimally. That’s why we don’t feel all that hungry when we are sick. The body needs to ration the energy supply for the more important jobs – like driving the heart muscle and pumping blood, feeding the brain, moving lungs and healing. You see? Grandma knew!
When your hormones are out of balance – look out!
During menopause (and even perimenopause) we can experience an undulating mixture of extremes of hyper-excitability, anger, frustration, stress explosions and irritations to uncontrollable sobbing or energy collapse into a heap on the lounge totally depressed and lacking of motivation to do anything. But wait a minute: Didn’t we hear that excessive levels of estrogen cause histrionic outbursts and symptoms of PMS? Why does lowering estrogen then produce similar symptoms in menopause?
These happen to be the symptoms of excessive phyto or synthetic chemical estrogen, which many people are exposed to these days because of so many soy product phytoestrogens in the food supply, as well as estrogen-mimicking chemicals in our environment. The pseudo estrogens prevent the body’s natural estrogen from attaching to cells. Estrogen replacement therapy is not necessarily the answer. “ Women taking combined hormone replacement therapy (HRT) are 2.7 times more likely to develop breast cancer than non-users, and the risk may increase with longer use, a study published in the British Journal of Cancer has found.”
BMJ 2016;354:i4612
Natural estrogen is actually protective of magnesium stores and helps to recycle and distribute magnesium more efficiently. There is a very beneficial relationship between natural estrogen and magnesium.
This is why women in their childbearing years are less prone to cardiovascular disease compared to men. However this statistic changes after menopause as women lose the magnesium-conserving attributes of natural estrogen. The increasing magnesium deficiency is the common culprit responsible for these symptoms.
Low magnesium is the fundamental link to hyper-excitability of muscles and inflammatory responses. When magnesium levels go down, stress hormone release goes up. (Fawcett et al., 1999). “Magnesium is known to have a marked anti-adrenergic effect.
This is mediated by a variety of mechanisms, of which the most important is probably calcium antagonism. Calcium plays a fundamental role in stimulus-response coupling of catecholamine release from the adrenal medulla and adrenergic nerve terminals, and its role in adrenal catecholamine release has been well described for more than 30 years.”
Researchers Drs Mildred Seelig and Andrea Rosanoff reported in their book The Magnesium Factor [9] that the lower the magnesium levels get, the more acute our stress responses. In other words, we can go to pieces in response to the smallest provocation. Low magnesium primes us for hyper-excitability, stress sensitivity and also inflammatory responses, metabolic syndrome and low energy depressive states.
It’s common to get adrenal fatigue and hypothyroidism after chronic stress. Magnesium acts like an antioxidant that helps us to recover from stress, so it’s important to replace what is lost under stress.
The effect of magnesium deficiency on the endocrine system is profound: “Examinations of the sleep-electroencephalogram (EEG) and of endocrine systems point to the involvement of the limbic-hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenocortical axis as magnesium affects all elements of this system.
Magnesium has the property to suppress hippocampal kindling, to reduce the release of adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) and to affect adrenocortical sensitivity to ACTH. “ [10]"