Vitamins and Minerals needed by muscles - my notes

These are some of my notes about vitamins/minerals and how they relate to muscles. I found my handwritten notes on the top of the microwave (this is where we keep all the important stuff in our house lol). I realized I better put them in this blog so I can access them in case I need them. Plus, maybe they'll help you, too. Unfortunately, I did not jot down the source of this information. It just made a lot of sense to me.

Keep in mind that I am not a doctor, so you will need to run anything you find here by your own doctor before taking this advice. I am sorry that a lot of these notes will seem random and disconnected, but here they are.

Must move muscles in order for them to demand energy to improve them.

Potassium and Calcium need to be properly balanced.

Absorption of food by muscle cells requires: Zinc Manganese Magnesium Magnesium and Calcium work together, allowing muscle to contract and relax.

When muscles 1) Spasm (tighten) or; 2) are too relaxed, this causes joints to hit each other and cause more pain.

Minerals hold everything together in the cell so it works

Vitaimin E grabs the carbs or fats and sends them to the cell.

Insulin helps Vitamin E put the energy into the cell.

Vitamin E works to get rid of fat. It's oil soluble and uses fat for energy. Fat converts to energy using B1, B2, B3, Vitamin E and Beta Carotene. After the food gets inside the cell, it needs to be converted to energy.

Muscles work like a cylinder and piston in an engine. Engine needs gas, muscles need food, muscles need oxygen. Fat lubricates muscles like oil lubricates an engine.

Vitamin B12 and Iron are important for blood to carry oxygen to the cells. Vitamin E is antioxidant that takes waste out of cell.

Vitamin C grabs free radicals out of bloodstream and taking it out of body through the kidneys.

Vitamin C deficiency will cause toxicity problems.

Vitamins depend on each other:
Vitamin C needs Vitamin E
Vitamin E needs Vitamin B 
Vitamin B needs Beta Carotene

Too many chemicals creates too much waste and toxins in cells. Makes cells less elastic. If the muscles can't move with you it causes pain.

Muscles in arteries are most sensitive to lack of minerals.

Lack of TRACE MINERALS and Calcium will cause spasms in the arteries leading to the muscles. This is like a cramp. Artery tightens to point of blocking blood flow to muscle. The muscle is starved of nutrients and oxygen. Fibromyalgia can begin this way.

If arteries are to the heart, that is the chest pain called Angina. When the muscles don't get enough blood, they CALL the brain to action when there is TOO MUCH WASTE and not enough oxygen. This becomes the pain when the call is unanswered.

These things build muscles:
Vitamins
Minerals
Exercise
Protein

Muscle problems all boil down to lack of nutrients in muscles or increased demand for nutrients.

Factors contributing to FMS can be:
 -Lack of nutrients in the food we eat
-Lack of nutrients in the soil where food is grown
-spasm in artery leading to muscle
 -poor digestion
-lack of exercise
-stress (this increases demand for nutrients)
 -chronic fatigue
-hormonal imbalances
 -viruses and toxins

Run test run 3-6 weeks, take notes.

MITOCHONDRIA are like energy furnaces in the body. Malic Acid helps body produce energy more efficiently.

FMS and CFS symptoms are due in part to ABNORMAL CELLULAR METABOLISM.

 For the Mitochondria to produce ATP, several nutrients are required:
- Malic Acid
 - Magnesium
- NADH
 -Sufficient levels of oxygen
-Active forms of B Vitamins

Deficiencies or imbalances can cause body to switch from oxygen-based metabolism to less efficient ANAEROBIC METABOLISM. This contributes to abnormal build up of LACTIC ACID following even light exertion.

Lactic acid build up results in fatigue, weakness, pain, muscle spasms.

Deficiencies of oxygen and other nutrients can cause body to begin breaking down muscle to use as fuel. Start supplements slowly, building up to 1200-2400 mg malic acid 300 mg or more of magnesium per day. may take 4-6 weeks to see benefit.

tired muscles?

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