How would you feel about the government adding magnesium to water? (lemmy.world)

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I kinda wish there was a way to get tap water fortified with whatever magnesium it is thats in spring water or failing that magnesium glycinate.

My understanding is magnesium deficiency is a common thing and that lack of it causes several musculo-skeletal and nervous system problems and in general a less relaxed state of being when deficient

San pellegrino would be interesting to look at since it has a good deal of magnesium in its spring water, those lucky bastards got that good stuff on tap😋

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[+] isableandaking@lemmy.world -10 points 1 week ago

Terrible idea, the current problems with Fluoride are not enough to convince you ? Just buy a multivitamin/vitamin and take it if you are deficient.

Things to keep in mind - safe dosage varies by gender, race, genetic predispositions, diet, weight, etc. This same water gets used to make coffee, tea, orange juice, soda/pop, etc. so now whatever you drink has magnesium.

Let's add some D3 in the water for the winter months, oh but now people are getting calcified arteries, so we need some Vitamin K2 mk7 as well. And on it goes until we are overmedicated zombies.

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 week ago

what are the problems with fluoride? I thought that's a myth?

[-] isableandaking@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago

I listed them, but got downvoted, people want to blindly claim things...they don't even realize only a handful countries do this, they don't know what type of fluoride it is and that they all pay for it, they have not read how it already fucks up black people and latinos.

No one is saying don't use a fluoride toothpaste where you topically apply to your teeth and not orally ingest most of it, glad I grew up somewhere they didn't do that lol.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

I can't find the post you're referring to. Can you link it?

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