Magnesium, calcium, and sodium give me symptoms at even low doses

🧠 Cognition, Mood & Nootropics

- Calcium: Improves a bit signaling (can feel pain going from my back) and makes me sleepy

- Magnesium: Sedation, brain fog, weakness, in higher doses irritability, angriness

- Sodium: Mania, weakness, brain fog, apathy, depression (happens in cycles, e.g. eating none to 0.7g after few hours leads to depressive variant, then manic, and so on, while getting more, like over 1.5g starts with manic; dose dictates intensity)

I even get little sleepy after drinking 300ml of mineral water that has 110mg calcium per 1L. I remember I had been constantly feeling down when on D3 4000IU + K2 100μg vitamins and when I waned off them the cycles started. It is as if it has always been bad (that's why I wanted to stop them), but K2 was keeping oscillations at bay (there are ones in spans of hours, tens of minutes, and tens of seconds: e.g. I can feel sleepiness for 6 seconds, then it disappears for another, and repeat, yet brain fog, avolition, weakness are constant)

I have checked all nutrients, basic health markers, and plasma electrolyte levels (they're fine) and checked my supplements (tyrosine, thiamine, b complex, creatine, choline, vit c, calcium carbonate), so I am kind of lost. The only things I wonder about are parathyroid activity or magical toxins from bacteria in the gut, where I can only suspect fermentation of beetroot, cabbage, onion, wheat bran, or legumes (no digestion, GI issues)

Has anyone experienced such sensitivities? It totally seems as if something on cellular level was dysfunctional, like channels

Posted Jul 8, 2026, 12:02 PM UTC

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