5 Neglected Nutrients - Vitamin D, Boron, Magnesium, Omega 3 fatty acids and Potassium

Robin Whittle rw@firstpr.com.au  2024-09-13 

Please see my Substack:

https://nutritionmatters.substack.com

and:

Vitamin D

Vitamin D3 - for full immune system function, and to reduce the risk of COVID-19, sepsis, Kawasaki disease and MIS-C, autism, preeclampsia, pre-term birth, auto-immune disorders and dementia.

https://nutritionmatters.substack.com/p/how-much-vitamin-d3-to-take


How much vitamin D3 to supplement, as ratios of body weight with higher ratios for those suffering from obesity - the recommendations of New Jersey based Professor of Medicine, Sunil Wimalawansa.

https://vitamindstopscovid.info/0-evi/

Detailed discussion of, and links to, the most pertinent research on the vitamin D compounds and the immune system.  This is the most important page of several at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info.

https://aminotheory.com/cv19/

Some older material on COVID-19 and vitamin D.
 

Boron

https://aminotheory.com/cv19/#08-boron

Magnesium

I don't have any material on magnesium, but please see Patrick Chambers' work: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Patrick-Chambers-4/research.

Omega 3 fatty acids, as found in fish oil

I don't have anything specific on this, but (Google searches) omega 3 fatty acids are important for reducing excessive inflammation and for providing the best mix of phospholipids in our cells' plasma membranes - in part to provide the optimal mix of phospholipids for the operation of trans-membrane proteins and the other proteins which associate with them, and which may be known as "raft": https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0014299915004549.  .

Potassium

https://aminotheory.com/cv19/kna/.

We ingest far more salt - sodium chloride - than our ancestors, but our body tries to retain it, since it was rare in the past.  We ingest far too little potassium, which was plentiful in the past.

A low potassium to sodium ratio (so a high sodium to potassium ratio) is very well established to be a serious risk factor for hypertension and stroke - and for stroke independently of blood pressure.

The entire ionic balance of all our cells would be better if we consumed around twice or more the typical 2 grams a day of potassium current diets generally provide, while generally avoiding the saltiest food.

Restless Legs Syndrome / Periodic Limb Movement Disorder/Syndrome

https://aminotheory.com/rlsd/briefsumm/

This very common, supposedly mysterious and hard to avoid neurological condition is easy to understand as inadequate opioidic and dopaminergic receptor activation in the inhibitory circuits of a uniquely human, soft touch activated, foot withdrawal spinal reflex circuit which has evolved to protect the soft foot arch.  (Only humans have arched feet.)

Although people with spinal injury probably can't be completely relieved of this condition, there are a variety of non-drug approaches to reducing it which do not require the involvement of the medical profession.  Doctors generally prescribe dopamine agonists, and when they stop working, opioids, both of which are extremely pernicious.  Dopamine agonist drugs are known to cause obsessive / compulsive gambling, shopping, eating and sex.

Opioid receptor antagonists in coffee - decaf or not

https://aminotheory.com/coffee/

I wrote a Letter which was published in the Journal of Caffeine Research (now the Journal of Caffeine and Adenosine Research): Beyond Caffeine: Coffee Contains Opioid Antagonists. 2015-03-06: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/jcr.2014.0024  .  It is behind a paywall but Sci Hub has it: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1089/jcr.2014.0024 .

I will provide a update to it here, since my central point - that I was not aware of research which indicates that caffeine causes or worsens Restless Legs Syndrome - was wrong.  Caffeine withdrawal increases the risk of or worsens RLS, though small amounts of caffeine can, for a few hours, relieve this and so lessen any RLS symptoms caused by that withdrawal.  There is a peer reviewed article which reports cessation of RLS upon cessation of caffeine use - but I can't find it at present.


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