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I don't know. I have always been hypersensitive to smells, fake light, and sound. Sun doesn't bother me at all. I don't even own sunglasses. But I keep my inside spaces very dim. I have a theory that nature upped my sensory capacity since I was destined to be small in stature. 😂

Do you supplement K & Mg or try to increase it through diet?

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

i'm doing both... it's led me to adding potato back to my diet (it's very high in K) and bananas, also very high, as well as actually having a substantial amount of potassium chloride that i add to drinks and yogurt and put on other foods i eat as well, and the magnesium unfortunately it's not the best, carbonate, hydroxide and citrate, but it is definitely working

i think it takes time for the tissue to regenerate and absorb the stuff into it as well, almost a week after i started on the potassium i started to really feel noticable relief from the cramping, i suspect that it takes 1-3 months to fully recover normal distribution of these minerals, according to stuff i've read about potassium deficiency

i shoud also add that in my case it's related to my kidneys and i have to be careful about diuretics, been exploring different options to cut back on that, pretty much i have to restrict my caffeine and alcohol intake, i feel much better when i do, and when i go too far i feel pretty bad for days, it's got to this point

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Dawn 1y ago

I'm glad you're starting to find some balance. 🫂

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

yeah... it's mostly related to kidney disease, i think, and the biggest part of the damage that set me back this far was actually artificial sweeteners

there is a lot of evidence hinting at the idea that especially acesulfame-k is quite nephrotoxic, but the others to some extent as well

i was just noticing, also, a juice drink i got that has stevia as its sweetener, when i added some potassium chloride and sea salt, the flavor reminded me a lot of dutch salty liquorice, and i realised that stevia's sweetness is probably due to some similar glycoside type chemical in it that is like what's in liquorice - and i believe that too much of that stuff can do some bad things to your organs and stuff as well, but a little is ok

and here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8962506/

the word "hypokalemia" appears as a symptom of excess liquorice consumption

it's probably related to a whole thing that is related to the taste of sweet and the chemical properties of sweet things

like, another sweet substance is dichloromethane... which is very hepa-and nephrotoxic, and interestingly also, magnesium is quite sweet, to the point where it is common parlance to talk about magnesium/calcium additives for soil being "sweeteners" and that it is something related to being opposite to sour, though that's not quite correct because bitter is the main flavor of alkali

Dawn 1y ago

Funny how the path to healing gets clearer as you go huh? 😊

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

yeah, i'm sure there is still more corrections to be made but i'm on the track now a lot of the time