XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: xxx@yyy.zzz   
      
   On 2022-12-11 22:05:57 +0000, The Real Bev said:   
      
      
   > I regard carbonated water as a negative.   
      
   Water out of the tap tastes good.   
   Water out of the tap with bubbles, tastes better.   
   Water out of the tap with bubbles & magnesium citrate tastes good.   
      
   You have to let it sit a bit though, maybe a day or two, to get the full   
   acid tangy flavor that comes from carbon dioxide creating carbonic acid.   
      
   >> I don't remember what the magnesium citrate "Calm" powder costs, but one   
   >> large tub lasts a few years so I think that cost is in the noise level.   
   >   
   > Isn't that a laxative? ... Yeah, I remember taking it before a   
   > colonoscopy.  Ew.   
      
   Saying magnesium citrate is laxative is like saying apples are poisonous.   
      
   Sure, if you consume huge amounts, it's a laxative.   
   Just as apples (and many other fruits) contain cyanide.   
      
   But the Calm is so bitter in even quarter spoonful quantities, you will   
   only add a pinch to a liter of soda to get that slightly lemony flavor.   
      
   Nonetheless, looking up the prices, here it's twenty dollars a pound.   
   https://www.amazon.com/Natural-Vitality-Anti-Stress-Supplement-R   
   spberry/dp/B00BPUY3W0   
      
   I don't know how long it lasts, but it's at least a year, maybe two or   
   three years, as I don't recall ever buying it more than that one time.   
      
   I'm told it's the same stuff in alka seltzer but I never checked that.   
      
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