I think I've been pretty heavily deficient in magnesium. I was already taking some, but obviously not enough. Will this be The Nutrient that solves all my problems? I'm not sure. I've got so used to conserving energy that I don't know what to do with it when I have it.
What happened is that I was annoyed by my eyelid twitching again, and did another search about whether that was a nutrient thing. I'd looked up magnesium deficiency before, but I didn't know it can lead to potassium deficiency. Water tends not to hydrate me, but sports drinks and electrolyte solutions do, and I know it's not sodium that's the problem. Magnesium is also an electrolyte, but the main electrolyte solution I use only has sodium and potassium. Maybe this explains the times when it doesn't seem to work but Powerade does? Powerade has calcium and magnesium as well. And a much lower concentration of sodium and potassium. And about four times the sugar.
Also! The electrolyte solution is expensive and I tend to react to the artificial sweeteners, which seems to require even more electrolytes, but I recently saw a post here that mentioned potassium salt. I didn't know you could get that! And I was worried that you really couldn't in Australia, but I managed to find some "Lite Salt" on the bottom shelf of the salt section at Coles. It's got a 3:2 ratio of potassium to sodium, which sounds pretty good on its own for a homemade electrolyte solution.
So I had a look at the salts to sugar ratio on the electrolyte solution I usually take, forgot how many milligrams were in a gram, and added ten times as much salt as I meant to. Also, apparently brown sugar is kind of gross when dissolved in water? But anyway, I went out and bought white sugar, and dissolving about 8-12 times as much sugar as Lite Salt in water seems to be a good ratio.
Also also! The stuff I'd previously looked up about magnesium deficiency didn't mention that it can stop you feeling hunger. That's a problem I've had for ages and ages, but recently I've actually been feeling hungry before dinner. Also (x3), I'd been taking magnesium with calcium, because the only Vitamin D supplement I could find in tablet form was a combined calcium/Vitamin D thing. But apparently you shouldn't take those together because they have the same absorption pathways? Maybe I should switch it with that C/D/zinc stuff I take at lunch instead. I probably shouldn't be taking that at the same time as the iron.
In conclusion, my eyelid has almost stopped twitching, I washed both the wok and the saucepan within a week of making stir-fry, and now I have decision paralysis. Which isn't the worst problem to have!
