Below are all the questions linked to this video plus a few extra ones I popped in on reflection. You may wish to work through and make a note of your findings. You don’t have to answer all the questions — they are just here to get you thinking and researching the things you feel drawn to.

I will make other videos in the coming weeks so pop back once you have digested what all this means. Add questions in the comments and I’ll do my best to answer them.

The full transcript of the video will be added later this week. I will look at adding a research crib sheet to give you some structure to your research in time.

Please feel free to:

· record a similar video linked to your own discoveries asking people to look into this themselves

· start conversations about calcium toxicity (excess/too much calcium) and magnesium deficiency (shortage/not enough magnesium)

· translate the questions and/or transcription into your own language while sharing my video

· take action on anything you end up researching

· heal yourself and find your peace 😊

Please be aware of the tone in which you share information about this: if your tone is strong, angry, dominant or anything overbearing then you will pass that energy on whereas if you show your emotion as soft, light, grounded, sad or warm then you will pass that energy on as I intended to here. This is a life-changing process to take someone on and kindness is paramount.

Please try to not elevate the elements around frustration or reduce down the level of wonder and discovery that was my intention in the original video. I have spent 6 weeks grieving to take me to a place where I am able to talk about this topic in this way to facilitate your own journey and communicate and radiate love while I do that. Perhaps you could take some time to process what this means before sharing — something we rarely do in this instantly connected culture we live in.

Sent with wonder, love and peace as always

Magnesium Girl

Questions Set A — The basics for our investigation into magnesium and calcium balance

1. Basics of Nutrition: Why is nutrition important to our body? What is calcium? What is magnesium? How do calcium and magnesium work together in our body?

2. Diet: What is the diet in the country/region that I live in like? What is the diet that I eat? In my diet how much calcium do I take in and how much magnesium do I take in?

3. Scope: Is there anyone else it would be appropriate for me to investigate this for as well as for me? (It is always easier for someone to take ownership of themselves and go through this process themselves rather than me telling them, so it is recommended that I only do this for children or dependents unable to go through this process themselves)

4. Investigation: What does the research into my symptom, disease, disorder, ailment, imbalance, blood test or observation along with each of these terms tell me?

‘calcium’

‘magnesium’

‘calcium blocker’ or ‘calcium channel blocker’

Questions Set B — What we can find out about nutritional recommendations

5. Sources: Where can I find out what the recommended levels for nutrients in my country? Is there another source I feel confident in referring to? How good are these sources at understanding nutrition as a balanced thing? What is the recommended amount for magnesium and calcium? What is the recommendation if my intake is higher than the recommended amount seeing as nutrition is needed in balance?

6. Authority: How did my country or this other authority source come to make these recommendations? How old is the science behind these recommendations? What method/s were used to work out these recommended levels? Are these recommendations fully conclusive or could a different method to establish them be useful also now times have changes and other methods may now be available?

7. Cultural norms: What assumptions, perceptions or mindsets are behind these decisions for the methods and recommendations? What could be missing and why? What are the implications or consequences of these recommended levels being a little bit out perhaps? Which industries base their work on these levels? What could be happening here?

Questions Set C — The process of eating magnesium and calcium, and their sources

8. Body functions: How does the body get, digest, process and use magnesium? How does the body get, digest, process and use calcium? Which parts of the body are involved with processing these two substances and how does that work?

9. Dietary sources: What foods are high in magnesium? What foods are high in calcium? What foods are higher in magnesium than calcium? What choices do I have here for myself and my family? What will I be changing and how will I go about addressing this change with others?

10. Location of magnesium: Where does magnesium come from in nature? How much is in the air, water, or soil? How does it get into our food or drink? What are any trends or changes that have impacted or could impact on the levels of magnesium in the air, water, or soil? What could I do about any of these things?

Questions Set D — What we can learn about magnesium from other research

11. Magnesium plant function: What does magnesium do within the leaves and other green parts of plants? What is the connection between plants and us? How does magnesium help us to make Vitamin D from sunlight? How similar is the human process to make energy (ATP) from vitamin D/magnesium and the way plants need magnesium to make energy from sunlight? How has our relationship with plants changed over the years and is this echoed in our increase of disease?

12. Trends: Why are we not consuming a lot of magnesium these days overall? What does magnesium taste like? Which foods/drinks have this taste? Is there any particular reason why this bitter taste has fallen out of fashion in my country or life? Why could this have happened and what could I do about this?

13. International data: Which countries consume higher amounts of bitters? How much bitter food and drink intake do countries with high longevity, health and/or lower rates of illness have? Is there a link between countries who embrace bitter or have a higher magnesium intake and the health metrics of that country? What other things may factor in?

Questions Set E — Why we may be in this situation as a globe

14. Water analysis: How much calcium and magnesium is there in my water? What is the difference between the amount of calcium and the amount of magnesium in my tap or government provided water, and the natural water sources or mineral water available to me? Which sources have higher amounts of calcium or magnesium? How have government decisions about water quality or levels of elements in it been made? What choices do I have available to me? What could I do to change something here?

15. Nature connection: What does spending time in nature do to me? What happens when we breathe in air in nature (green spaces) or near natural water sources (blue spaces)? How does nature help us with our health? How can I access nature’s benefits? What can we do to address our connection with nature? What could happen if we do not address this?

16. Breathing: What is the best way to breathe? How can we train ourselves to breathe better? What is the best way to breathe at night? What does good breathing do for me? How could I improve my air quality? What about the humidity in the air and how that affects health?

17. Philosophy: Are there any religions, philosophies, spiritual practices, or sources of ancient wisdoms that link to this situation? Does any source talk about the value in nature or how embracing plants and/or eating plants are needed for optimum health? Is there a source that talks about how the outside effects the inside and the inside effects the outside.., or that the small effects the large and vice versa — that these two aspects are somehow connected? Why could we be in this situation as a globe?

Questions Set F — Other things to consider if increasing magnesium intake

18. Magnesium options: What are the magnesium-based products available to me and what do people say about them? Where could I purchase Epsom salts? How do they work? Could the ‘science’ on Epsom salts be lacking due to poor design? What do the sports performance or body building industries say about using Epsom salts? How do magnesium sprays work and could this be right for me? Are any other magnesium-based products available to me? How expensive and accessible are these options to me?

19. Using Epsom salts: Would an Epsom salt bath work for me? Would an Epsom salt footbath work for me? What do the instructions say about how to use the product? What does my instinct say about how long a soak is right for me? Should my water be hot, warm or neutral and how would this affect my body? Could making a solution in a bottle and spraying this onto my skin work for me? How does using Epsom salts make me feel? Does this feel safe and right for me? Have I gone too quickly: what did my body tell me and what did I learn from this for next time?

20. Research onto intuition: Is intuition fact or fiction? Where in the body is intuition created? What scientific research papers have been recently published into intuition? Which organisations or government departments are currently funding research into the benefits of enhancing people’s intuition and why? Is intuition valuable?

21. Accessing intuition: How do I start to ask, listen to and trust my own intuition? What is the value of focusing inwards? How can I get better at focusing inwards and trusting myself? What do I need to do or which boundaries do I need to put into place to get better at trusting myself and my intuition? Who could help me with this? Are there any ways of bringing intuition/sub conscious guidance clearly into my conscious awareness?

Questions Set G — Using Magnesium Supplements

22. Using magnesium supplements: What supplements are available that contain magnesium? Why do magnesium supplements always come with another substance with them? What may happen to me if I take magnesium supplements — what else could this affect? Should I seek medical guidance before making any changes as it may effect medication I am on for example? How will I know what is the right thing for me to do?

23. What ifs: What happens if I take too high a level of magnesium for my body to be able to process right now? What happens if I overdose on super high levels of magnesium supplements? Has anyone died of too much magnesium? Could taking magnesium means that I then have too low calcium or will there still be enough in my diet? What happens if I don’t have enough calcium? What if once I have been taking magnesium for quite a while I start to get poops or other indicators my body has received too much — would stopping altogether or dropping down my amount of magnesium intake be the right thing to do and why? What else do I need to consider before taking magnesium supplements?

24. Learning from others: What do people who have taken magnesium supplements themselves say? Why is it recommend I start slower and built the amount up when taking magnesium outside of dietary sources? What does nutritional poverty do to the body if someone then introduces something in? What do other people with the same disease, symptom or ailment as me say about their experience of taking magnesium? If I have a digestive issue: is a supplement or food the best way to increase my level of magnesium or would I be better with a skin-based epsom salt method until my gut has healed or improved?

Questions Set H — Why this has been missed

25. Searching for blame: Does this information and situation effect covid? Is any one person to blame that this has been missed or is it cultural or institutional? What are the methods used to ‘look inside’ the body? How does the scientific and medical industries gauge health? What procedures are undertaken to diagnose an illness? Why are some methods for diagnosis more popular or available than others? When medical practitioners use each method what can and can’t they determine?

26. Establishing magnesium status: Where is calcium in the body? Where is magnesium in the body? How much of the body’s total calcium need or level shows up in a blood test? How much of the body’s total magnesium need or level shows up in a blood test? Is the blood level of calcium or magnesium tightly regulated or does it fluctuate a lot in a larger range (high amount to low amount) and why is it this way? Why is it hard to establish the calcium or magnesium status (the total amount at that time) in a human or animal?

27. Blood test orientation: What is blood and the blood system? What is the blood system in relation to the rest of the body? Is the blood system only a transport system? Why are things found in our blood — where are they going or what are they doing in there? What can we not learn from a blood test? What are the limitations of using blood test results to diagnose disease? Why could blood be perceived as a primary window into the health of the body? What is going on here and why? How could this calcium toxicity/magnesium deficiency information have been missed?

Questions Set I — What next?

28. Value of generalist thinking: How can someone outside of science or medicine have spotted this yet those within these fields perhaps have not yet? What skillset does this person have who put all these questions together and has taken me through this process? What is the value of diversity of society and thought and collaborative working across fields? How does indoctrination of thinking and perception happen within institutes? How are societies controlling knowledge?

29. Cultural change: What barriers are in place for knowledge and ideas to be shared and what has this meant for this topic specifically? What type of person could have spotted this and where do we find those types of people? Why are large innovative firms now employing innovators and disruptors who use play to work things out? Why are we often told we have to specialise in life? How much of the way we have previously done things needs to change?

30. Future: What other imbalances could be undetected in the body? What else could be missing based on a blood test orientated way of working? What else could be going on? What else could I become more interested in myself? What are the ethical implications of this situation? What could happen going forward? What may need to change? What changes would I welcome in the way the world works, the medical services or doctors work, or the way my family or I myself go about things?

31. Response: Where could I go from here? Should I record a reaction video to this video? Should I go through the process and document it and share that? Who should I talk to about this as it’s such a big thing to work through? Which emotions should I let out and what is a safe way to do that? What responsibility do I have in this situation? What should I do about all this?

32. Refection: Should I share this video? What is my responsibility in sharing this? How will people respond to this? What are the wider implications of this situation? Who do I have to talk to about this or work through this with me? Should I get angry and what will this achieve? Should I cry about this and how will that help release my emotions about all this? How should I share this information? Where is the hope and love in all this?

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Rachel Stark

A solution-orientated, love-centred, systems-thinking, concerned citizen