21st Jan, I started the second week of the Vitamin D Protocol, which requires doubling the Vitamin D to 10,000 IU. It's up to me whether I double the K2 or whether I keep the K2 the same, and I chose to keep the K2 the same. This means I'm taking one brand of softgel with the D3+K2, and another which just has the D3.
Because I'm doubling up on D3, I need to ramp up the Magnesium. K2 takes calcium to the bones and teeth and magnesium keeps it there. D also depletes magnesium, so it needs to be replaced. The Protocol says to increase to 500mg elemental Magnesium, so increase from 2 tablets to 5. This was a huge jump and I didn't do it in one go, I did 2 nights at3 tablets, followed by 2 nights at 4, and then upped to 5.
On Thursday night I had really bad reflux. The last time I'd taken a PPI tablet was Saturday, so I'd missed 2. Quite a while ago I moved myself to having a tablet every other day instead of every day. Before starting on the cider vinegar and the water kefir, I had actually tried moving to every 3 days, but this was a failure. Since being on the cider vinegar and water kefir, I'd skipped several days tablets with no ill effects.
Now that I was taking Magnesium, I wanted to stop the PPIs if possible. I'd read that PPIs stop minerals being absorbed, so I was hoping that the gut stuff I was doing would mean I didn't need to take them anymore.
The reflux/gerd continued on Friday, and I realised that I stupidly hadn't drunk any cider vinegar for.....I'm not sure how long. I'd completely forgotten about it while I was busy making my own Water Kefir. I drank some on Friday afternoon, but it didn't have the immediately calming effect I was irrationally hoping for.
In the end, I took my evening Magnesium in the early evening, so that I could take a PPI that night.
I need to get back into the routine of having some of the cider vinegar stuff every day. I'll also drink some of the Tribeco water Kefir as well as my own Water Kefir.
