Dahlek, thanks for explaining.

Boy, it is so hard to have to take medicines (and vitimins) with such attention to the time...

When I was first told about Serrapeptase I was keen to take it because the periodontist had just told me that all the Ibuprofen I'd been taking was weakening my jaw bone.

(As an aside, the periodontist, who I think is about the best one here in Santa Fe, said that Fozimax... I forget how you spelled it.... also was known to weaken the jaw bone. Which astonished me since I thought it was supposed to strengthen bone. But people on another forum I go to reiterated that yes, Fozimax is bad for the jaw...)

Anyway, you have to take Serrapeptase on an empty stomach or else it works on the contents of your stomach instead of on the things it's supposed to be "eating" up... I think it's getting rid of these bumps I have on the side of my legs... but what I'm taking it for is my back pain and some other pain I had from the tetanus that was the reason I was taking so much Ibuprofen.

Well, I'd wait the requisite three hours to take it, and then instead of taking it I'd eat a cracker... which was exactly the opposite of what I was supposed to do. That was because of this infuriating brain damage.

Now I take it during the night when there's no chance I'm going to eat something.



Calcium -- I took a great newsletter some years ago that explained that to get calcium we had to take MORE magnesium than calcium... otherwise the calcium was apt to do things we weren't wanting, like forming bone spurs and causing headaches...

The newsletter said that in other countries where people take a lot less calcium and eat less dairy, that there is actually LESS osteoporosis. The reason is that in those countries there is a more natural (and good) ratio of magnesium to calcium.

So ever since then I've tried to remember to take magnesium when I eat any dairy... only I forget when there's a lot of stress, and there's a LOT of stress.

As I understand it, if you begin taking more magnesium the bone can grow back...

The teeth I have left are not so loose since I've started having more magnesium again...


Now if I could just beat this infection around my old dental implants... and win back my condo, I'd be ... healthy and not so poor.