A local God-Channel just ran a program about alternative health

[Orrex]

I could only stomach about three minutes of it, because every word was laced with that self-congratulatory "we know the real story" narcissism. However, in that three minute segment I learned that magnesium deficiency is responsible for 90% of illness.

Who knew?!

[mr blur]

1. Well, Jebus knew!

How strange it must be to live in a country that has God-Channels. I can't imagine such a thing. Well, I can of course, but I'd rather not.

[salvorhardin]

2. The UK has no religious channels at all?

I mean, historically I can see how the UK escaped. There used to be just BBC 1-3. But now that there's commercial TV in the UK, I would have expected at least one religious channel to pop up.

[mr blur]

3. Never seen one.

There are no religious stations on terrestrial TV here. Not enough people would watch them, I'd guess, so they would generate little income. Any religious stations would transmit via direct-to-home satellite. But I don't have a satellite dish or cable, so... In fact I don't watch TV but I'm pretty sure the hysterical laughter from the rest of the family would alert me if a god channel appeared.

[LeftishBrit]

4. I've never heard/seen any...

though on checking a list of radio and TV channels you can get in the UK, they do include 'Premium Christian Radio', and 'mta Muslim TV'. However these are definitely minority-interest, and most people wouldn't even have heard of them.

[salvorhardin]

5. That's amazing

It's hard to imagine life in the US without religious channels. They're just ubiquitous. In fact, I found out one of my favorite rock radio stations as a teen was sold a few years back. It's now an Xian radio station. *sigh*

[realisticphish]

8. same here

a quality metal station was sold out to a christian station. Now the only other modern rock station, which used to be pretty good, is nothing but "alternative" rock. At least I still have my awesome classic rock station and NPR

[Orrex]

9. When I had basic cable, I had about 15 channels

Two of those were Godchannels. You can't swing a rosary aroudn here without hitting one of those idiotic stations.

[bluedawg12]

14. The heart break of dyslexia, it’s the Dog channel.

:rofl:

[moggie]

6. Possible solutions

Get some magnesium ribbon, light it, and stare at the soothing flame while inhaling the healing smoke.

Or:

If you smoke, sprinkle some powdered magnesium into the roll-up.

Or:

Magnesium buttcandles!

[uriel1972]

7. Magnesium buttcandles!

You have a flare for this moggie.

[Heddi]

10. On a serious note (no, really)

magnesium is nothing to fuck around with.

Low magnesium levels can be dangerous and cause all kinds of problems. I generally see the cardiac-related problems (which are the most common) and they can be severe and life threatning. That's why in ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support), magnesium is one of the drugs we give to try to convert back to regular, or a "more" regular rhythm.

Too low of Magnesium can cause a very very typically fatal heart rhythm called "Torsades de Pointes" which means "twisting of the points" and is a form of ventricular fibrillation, where the chambers of the heart are just quivering and not actually beating. It is caused by low mg levels and the treatment of Torsades is magnesium.

But high mg levels can have equally deleterious problems as well.

Same as potassium, and sodium. Too much or too little can fucking KILL.YOUR.ASS.

When I see people in the *ahem* other forums advocating 'Oh, just take potassium" I wanna scream. SO many medications enhance or decrease potassium uptake, and a MINOR shift in potassium levels can be deadly. Seriously. Normal K levels are 3.5-5.5. A K of 6 might not be "that' far off from 5.5 but physiologically it can cause TONS of problems, again, especially with the heart.

Get too much or too little salt and your brain either swells or shrinks.

People need to shut the fuck up about "oh, just take a supplement". no. Not unless you know WHAT you're taking and WHY you're taking it and HOW these electrolytes affect other medications you're taking, or more likely, how those meds affect the uptake, absorption, and excretion of the electrolytes you're taking.

people just seem to want to die while pretending that they're interested in living longer and better. That's my only explaination.

[TZ]

12. If people want to up their Potassium I tell them "Eat a goddamned banana"

It fucking pisses me off that the "natural is good" woos don't understand that its MUCH healthier to get your nutrition from a GOOD DIET than from a fucking vitamin or supplement pill. Funny how they bash people for taking pharaceuticals as "unnatural" yet they feel they have to take eleven billionty supplement pills to be healthy...:banghead:

[mr blur]

11. Imagine if a local Health-Channel ran a program about alternative gods -

The Jebus whackjobs would have heart attacks and rant about persecution and "hate speech".

[moggie]

13. Aha!

So you admit that science is your God! Scientism fundie!