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Not seen any tests on that specific compound but generally speaking the organic magnesium compounds (of which this is one) are well absorbed into the body. My guess is that this compound has been chosen as it has few reports of gastric/colon side effects.

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Good news Graham, keep on truckin!

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No arguments except from my wallet!

Just for fun, here is the way it used to be done in the ground breaking 1992 game.

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Well that worked – the other link I used was this one.

Now it all works – obviously gremlins or the NSA fiddling around!

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I’ll try again, with this link.

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I probably should have posted the title of the NCBI paper “Predicting and Testing Bioavailability of Magnesium Supplements”.

If you are interested in pharma testing it is an interesting read (fairly scientific so not a light read). Also of interest is their development of an artificial gut (SHIME) for in vitro testing purposes and comparison with the human tests. (Testing was only carried out on 10 healthy males Ten slim healthy young men volunteered to participate in this study. The subjects’ age, weight, height, and body mass index (BMI) were 24.8 ± 8.0 years, 75.7 ± 9.7 kg and 179.1 ± 5.2 cm and 23.5 ± 2.1 kg/m2, respectively. Not exactly representative of those who most need supplementation!

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I tried to post some info with links on magnesium supplementation but the links caused WordPress to throw a wobbly, so please accept the following without accreditation.

Only bioavailable magnesium is of any use. NCBI carried out tests on young healthy males (my guess is that old pharts on ppis will be much worse).  Bottom line Neomag was effective, and magnesium citrate on a full stomach was good. Magnesium oxide (a common supplement) is useless to all but rats. While Neomag is obviously preferred, magnesium citrate is half the price and may be worth considering

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Even a non-embedded link sends a post into never-never land!

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Putting a link in a post  or an edit makes it disappear!

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It seems if a link is added to the post it disappears!

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Just testing – two previous post attempts disappeared!

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Bob, I think that the DCLI used the Lance Sergeant position as a ‘probationary’ rank before promoting to full Sergeant, as that is what he became a year later according to his Certificate of Service.

With respect to ‘Wilkins’, I have a very vague recollection that my father said Wilkins was a Mythical Beast, and they just needed to fill in a ‘name’ for his own pay records and to ensure the APTC did not show as over staffed during that period. It all sounded like a bit of creative accounting to keep the books straight!

On line of site – sorry I cannot help with one word. The general exercise when I was a cadet was called Map Recognition, or Map Reading. It normally involved two minutes identifying which was the best bridge to blow up, then five miles tramping through the rain to inspect the installation. I suspect we were all being trained as Cold War cannon fodder.

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I received around 30 spam messages saying I have an unread Happy New Year message timed at 9:36pm

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“Also famous for some of the biggest cockups in recent medical history.”

Giving their situation, I can fully understand why you are getting little feedback. You have a Good News/Bad News situation.

The Good News is that everyone will be under pressure to perform. I bet they are cleaning under your bed every three hours, and everything gets at least double checked.

The Bad News is that you will only get info from the Grand Poobah, everyone else will be scared to rock any boats. They will also be ultra cautious in your treatment which is in itself a good news/bad news topic as caution translates to extended time as well as a better result. I’m afraid it looks like you may have to be a patient patient for a while.

As others have said it is a sh1te situation, but we are all cheering you on, and wishing you all the best.

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I’ll echo all the voices saying Happy New Year and all the best for this one. Thanks also to Lee for all his efforts in providing a very stable lifeboat. (Much more stable than the old MM).

I’ll also echo Lee’s comments on how quiet it has been. Everyone seems very ‘down’ in this part of the world, and shops are nearly empty. Even the usual 4am ‘vomit comet’ bus has fewer, quieter, teenage occupants.

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This may be a bad time to get info as quite possibly the Grand Poobahs are taking a break, and the lesser Mandarins are afraid of saying anything that will come back to make them look foolish or bite them in the bum.

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Line of Sight? Possibly finding the ‘Reverse Slope’ or ‘Military Crest’ positions.

The exercise itself is performing a topographical cross-section.

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There are now quite a lot of vegetable protein ‘mock meats’ and cheeses available in the UK.

The vegetable minces make darned good curries and chilli con carne.

I was introduced to them 30 odd years ago in the Far East. The Bhuddist  religion forbids deliberately killing animals for food, so they have had years of practice in emulating fish, pork, beef etc. As I recollect these were a lot more tasty than the stuff you can now get in the UK, but it was probably laden with MSG and salt which have since been banned by the Western  health Gestapo.

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He was actually in The Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry – one of the ‘double-time’ marching regiments so I would imagine he was in a regiment that emphasised fitness from the time of enlistment.

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Most of the techies like having an appreciative audience as many feel that they are not treated as equals by the House Doctors despite having generally better degrees and more training.

I recollect one technician nearly throwing a wobbly as she just could not get it through the thick heads of the Hospital Management that a Brexit contingency plan was required for the radioactive Technetium used in Myocardial Perfusion tests.

This element only has a half life of 6 hours, and is only produced in Holland, if the stuff goes 16 hours from leaving the reactor in Holland without being used it has to be thrown away. She said that even on a good day sometimes ferry delays resulted in unusable material.

She said that she had had a horrible morning banging her head against a brick wall as she could see Hospital Management eyes glazing over as soon as she said radioactive half life. I think she liked having someone able to say ooh and aah in the correct places, and seemed to finish her session with me a lot happier than when she started.

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