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some more on the potassium problem:

so, i already know i get problems with high motility (fast transit through the intestines, and this causes problems with potassium levels) due in part to celiac, i also know that i most likely have early, and until this last year, uncontrolled diabetes, made worse by stuff like maltodextrin (it has always caused me to pee brown), i suspect kidney damage due to sucralose and acesulfame-k as well

these are more than enough as a cluster to explain how i acquired the problem, and also it hints at issues with magnesium, which also with potassium makes up a big part of the etiology of chronic muscle cramps

it is probable, in fact, that i have all of these problems running concurrently and so the result is more extreme than any single one of them would be. each one alone would not be a problem but they all happen at once, compounding the amount of potassium my kidneys are eliminating

note that there are other interesting things related to kidney function and electrolyte elimination, if there is insufficient boron in the diet, the kidneys also eliminate calcium and magnesium to compensate, and low magnesium causes more elimination of potassium as well!

my aunty, and several others i have now had confirm this recently (one of my follows from hungary) that sodium borate is incredibly helpful for a lot of electrolyte and blood conditions, notable he mentioned that it can reduce fungal organism levels in the blood (mycoplasma)

so, anyway, i think i probably need to scratch in a visit to the pharmacy for some epsom salt to add to my electrolyte stack - have to be careful with that to not have too much at once as it causes intestines to smooth and increase motility also, but probably the increased retention of calcium due to adding borax to the stack will probably help mitigate a lot of that

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gojiberra 1y ago

Today I learned a new word: motility 🤣

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

yeah, it's the medical science word for the rate of intestinal pumping, if it is too fast you get one problem, too slow you get the other problem

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

for years, literally 2 decades, i thought i simply had IBS, which my mother also seemed to have

but then i learned that an allergic rash i get from time to time is a common comorbidity with celiac, and i could easily recognise it when it was happening recently it almost always followed up after eating wheat

was a bummer cos i was loving my hamburger sammiches, but yes, gluten causes a person with celiac, which is an immune disorder of the intestinal membranes involving immunoglobulin-A that causes... yes, increased motility, and antibodies that attack several other parts of the body in response, the dermatitis herpeteformis is one of the places, it can also cause problems with the lungs (i get "allergic asthma" which was dx'd as bronchial asthma as a child) i used to get motion sickness a lot, probably also another symptom, and motion sickness and potassium deficiency are related, as are the muscle weakness and all that shit

so, probably at the root is celiac, and secondary is all the things i've developed the habit of doing to mitigate the worst of it that has caused its own problems

the pains i get in my kidneys are quite nasty... but i've discovered positively that simply drinking a lot of water is helping a lot... i drank a LOT last night, to the point where i felt like there was an overall increase of pressure all over my skin, like my joints had fluid around them and stuff... maybe i did too much water but more is better than less, so long as it doesn't spill over into my lungs :)