MAGNESIUM deficiency –
ü Unsteady handwriting
ü Muscle twitching
ü Muscle cramps
ü Sensitivity to noise
ü Tremors
ü Sweating
ü Limb jerking
ü Confusion
ü Trembling
ü Apprehension
ü Personality changes
ü Emotionally disturbed behaviour
ü Altered heartbeat
ü Pains in the spinal cord
ü Back pain
ü Carpal tunnel syndrome
ü Chronic fatigue
ü Confusion
ü Cravings for chocolate
ü Depression
ü Mental depression - regulating central nervous system excitability - may cause aggressive behaviour, depression or suicide
ü Dizziness
ü Epilepsy or convulsions
ü Excessive body odor
ü Heart palpitations or irregular heartbeat
ü High blood pressure
ü Hyperactive or restlessness
ü Inability to control bladder
ü Insomnia
ü Irritability or anxiety
ü Muscle cramps or muscle tension
ü Nervous tics or twitches, or muscles that twitch or spasm
ü Inflammation and pain
ü Pain in knees or hips
ü Painful and cold feet or hands
ü Restless legs, especially at night
ü Seizures, convulsions, or tremors
ü Sensitive or loose teeth
ü Sleep disturbances
ü PMS or painful periods
Even a mild deficiency of magnesium can cause increased
sensitivity to noise, nervousness, irritability, mental depression,
confusion, twitching, trembling, apprehension, and insomnia.
New research data adds to mounting evidence that depression is linked to an inflammatory response. Inflammation influences the quality of sleep, metabolism, stress response and the release of cytokines. Magnesium medicine is perfect for bringing down inflammation.
When magnesium levels become dramatically deficient we see symptoms
such as convulsions, gross muscular tremor, atheloid movements,
muscular weakness, vertigo, auditory hyperacusis, aggressiveness,
excessive irritability, hallucinations, confusion, and semicomma.
https://drsircus.com/general/medical-psychology/
It is essential for many enzyme reactions (especially in regard to cellular energy production), for the health of the brain and nervous system, and also for healthy teeth and bones. However, many are not aware that - in the form of magnesium chloride - it is also an impressive infection fighter.
Magnesium has a significant impact on a variety of major health issues such as:
Magnesium is Nature’s relaxation and anti-stress mineral, since it plays an important role in helping our bodies combat stress. It is necessary for healthy artery, blood, bone, heart, muscle and nerve function, yet experts estimate that approximately 80 percent of the population in North America may be deficient in this important mineral. Magnesium is vitally important to our health and wellbeing. It is involved in the production of energy for most of our bodily processes and even the structuring of our basic genetic material is dependent on adequate amounts of magnesium. Your body also requires adequate supplies of magnesium to manufacture the approximately 500 enzymes needed for basic life and metabolic functions.
http://parkinsonsresource.org/news/articles/are-you-deficient-in-magnesium/
Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in the body. It has been recognized as a cofactor for more than 300 enzymatic reactions, where it is crucial for adenosine triphosphate (ATP) metabolism.
Magnesium is required for DNA and RNA synthesis, reproduction, and protein synthesis. Moreover, magnesium is essential for the regulation of muscular contraction, blood pressure, insulin metabolism, cardiac excitability, vasomotor tone, nerve transmission and neuromuscular conduction. Imbalances in magnesium status-primarily hypomagnesemia as it is seen more common than hypermagnesemia-might result in unwanted neuromuscular, cardiac or nervous disorders. Based on magnesium's many functions within the human body, it plays an important role in prevention and treatment of many diseases. Low levels of magnesium have been associated with a number of chronic diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, insulin resistance and type-2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, cardiovascular disease (e.g., stroke), migraine headaches, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26404370/
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New Study Confirms Magnesium Needed By Most Patients
Published on October 16, 2020
https://drsircus.com/general/new-study-confirms-magnesium-needed-by-most-patients/
Dr. Madesh Muniswarmy, professor of cardiology at the Long School of Medicine and lead author of the study, said, “Magnesium is essential for life, it’s in our blood. It’s been implicated in and used as a treatment for a variety of diseases, including migraines, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and preeclampsia. Lactate is a signal that — like a light switch — turns on magnesium ions. On lactate’s signal, the ions rush out of cellular storehouses called the endoplasmic reticulum.”
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Why Don’t Doctors Prescribe Magnesium
https://drsircus.com/general/why-dont-doctors-prescribe-magnesium/
Published on September 11, 2019
Almost ten year ago Dr. Mark Hymen wrote, “I find it very funny that more doctors aren’t clued in to the benefits of magnesium, because we use it all the time in conventional medicine. But we never stop to think about why or how important it is to our general health or why it helps our bodies function better.”
Harvard Medical School writes, “If you’re concerned about low magnesium, ask your doctor for a blood test. To maintain a healthy magnesium level, it’s best to get this mineral from food, especially high-fiber foods such as dark green leafy vegetables, unrefined grains, and beans. The recommended dietary allowance (RDA) of magnesium for adults is 420 milligrams (mg) per day.”
If Harvard is a bit stupid about magnesium imagine the rest of the wonderful world of medicine. Sorry to have to use the word stupid, could have said ignorant, uninformed, foolish or just plain boneheaded. First thing to know about magnesium is that blood tests tell us almost nothing about a persons magnesium status because the blood will rob the cells blind of magnesium in a desperate attempt to keep blood levels stable so a person does not have a heart attack.
Harvard Medicals second line of advice suggests its best to get magnesium from food. Actually its best to get magnesium from water. With nutritional values of food deteriorating dramatically over the last five decades it is very difficult to eat enough dark leafy vegetables, unrefined grains and beans to get enough magnesium. And that advice is only appropriate for a completely healthy person who already has their magnesium tank topped off. If one is deficient, which the vast majority are, probably at least 90 percent if not more, then its impossible to eat one’s way out of a magnesium deficiency.
It does seem like they are teaching something other than medicine in medical schools. Magnesium is to humans as oil is to a properly functioning car. If you go to any gas station in the world they will know not only of the need for oil but where to put it. I wish doctors did not deserve for me to say this, but doctors are not as intelligent as gas station attendants, they almost know nothing about the need for magnesium and how best to get it into the body, especially when the need (magnesium deficiency) is great.
Magnesium ignorance (deficiency) causes a lot of pain and suffering. Since doctors will not address, in any kind of serious way, magnesium deficiencies its up to us to save ourselves. The first step in that is to stop listening to medical experts like Dr. Bruce Bistrian, chief of clinical nutrition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, who says magnesium deficiency in otherwise healthy individuals eating a balanced diet is rare. “The kidney has an extraordinary ability to reduce magnesium loss in urine, and thus achieve magnesium balance on a wide variety of intakes,” he explains.
Looking at statistics in the United States tells us that otherwise healthy individuals hardly exist. Also rare are people who are eating a balanced diet of wholesome organic food, and even then, it is still difficult to get enough magnesium from one’s diet. A healthy kidney does have an extraordinary ability to reduce magnesium loss in urine but how many people have completely healthy kidneys when the kidneys themselves depend on full magnesium and bicarbonate sufficiency.
Harvard Medical continues: “Even with an adequate diet, some people are at increased risk of magnesium deficiency, including people with digestive disorders, such as celiac disease and chronic diarrhea. Also certain medicines (including some “water pills” and antibiotics) can lower blood magnesium levels. In these situations, magnesium supplements may be necessary, but taking too much can cause or worsen diarrhea. People with chronic kidney disease should not take supplements unless prescribed by their doctor.”
A more intelligent statement would be, “Even with an adequate diet, most people are at increased risk of magnesium deficiency.” And we should object to their warning about taking too much. The universe truth about magnesium, and what this essay is trying to illustrate, is that we are almost always taking too little.
Deficiency Symptoms and Increased Requirements:
CIRCULATION: angina, arteriosclerosis/atherosclerosis, high blood pressure and cholesterol, heart infarcts, hypertension, strokes, tachycardia (fast pulse), thrombosis.
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM: colic, constipation, chronic diarrhoea, malabsorption, pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas).
MUSCLES: backache, convulsions, cramps, increased excitability/jumpiness, numbness, nystagmus (rapid eye movements), spasms, tense/tight muscles, tingling, tremors.
NERVOUS SYSTEM: apathy, confusion, depression, disorientation, epilepsy, hallucinations, irritability, mental illness, multiple sclerosis, nervousness, neuritis paranoia, Parkinson's Disease, poor memory, senility.
GENERAL: alcoholism, arthritis, body odours, broken bones, calcification in any organ, cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, diabetes, headaches, infections and inflammations, liver cirrhosis, lupus erythematosus, migraines, old age, prostate problems, rickets, mental and physical rigidity, wrinkled skin, stiffness, gall or kidney stones, overactive thyroid.
Magnesium and major depression.
Eby GA, Eby KL, Murk H.
In: Vink R, Nechifor M, editors. Magnesium in the Central Nervous System [Internet]. Adelaide (AU): University of Adelaide Press; 2011.
PMID: 29920018 Free Books & Documents
Excerpt:
The treatment of major depression (MD) is still a major unmet medical need in the majority of patients. Sixty percent of cases of MD are treatment-resistant depression (TRD), showing that classical treatments for MD are poorly effective to non-effective. Magnesium has been largely removed from processed foods, especially refined grains, in the Western world, harming the brain and causing mood disorders. Magnesium deficiency causes N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) coupled calcium channels to be biased towards opening which causes neuronal injury and neurological dysfunction, which we believe results in MD. Oral administration of Mg to animals produced antidepressant-like effects that were comparable to those of antidepressant drugs. Cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) Mg has been found to be low in suicidal TRD.
The first report of Mg treatment for agitated depression was published in 1921 showing success in 220 out of 250 cases. One 2008 randomized clinical trial showed that Mg was as effective as the tricyclic antidepressant imipramine in treating MD. Intravenous and oral Mg protocols have been reported to rapidly terminate MD safely and without side effects. Brain Mg deficiency reduces serotonin levels, and antidepressant drugs have been shown to have the action of raising brain Mg. Excessive calcium, glutamate and aspartate intake can greatly worsen MD. We believe that, when taken together, there is more than sufficient evidence to implicate inadequate dietary Mg as contributing to the cause of MD, and we suggest that physicians prescribe Mg for its prevention and treatment.
Abstract:
Incidence of major depression
Increasing incidence of depression
Classical depression treatments
Treatment-resistant depression
Markers and risk factors of major depression Biological markers of depression or depression- vulnerability Changes in dietary magnesium Regulation of brain magnesium Changes of serum magnesium in major depression Functional impact of magnesium Monoaminergic systems and magnesium Glutamatergic system and magnesium Stress hormone systems (HPA and RAAS) and magnesium Inflammatory system and magnesium Magnesium in animal and human research Animal Models and magnesium Human studies and magnesium Adverse effect of calcium in depression Biomarkers of magnesium and magnesium- related functions Recommendations concerning magnesium- supplementation Future clinical research Impediments to success and precautions.
Magnesium is involved in over 300 processes in the body.
Adrenal cortex is high in calcium, fluorine, iron, magnesium, silicon, zinc.
Blood vessels magnesium, silicon, sulphur.
Brain and nervous system calcium, iodine, magnesium, manganese, phosphorous, potassium, silicon, sodium, sulphur.
Heart calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium.
Inner ear chlorine, fluorine, iron, magnesium.
Hypothalamus chlorine, iodine, magnesium, potassium, sodium.
Kidneys calcium, chlorine, fluorine, iron, magnesium, manganese, potassium, silicon, vanadium
Liver iron, magnesium, potassium, selenium, sulphur, vanadium, zinc.
Muscles calcium, chlorine, magnesium, manganese, phosphorous, potassium, selenium.
Perspiration iodine...
Prostate magnesium, silicon, zinc.
Saliva iodine...
Spleen chlorine, copper, iodine, iron, magnesium, potassium, sodium, vanadium
Tears iodine...
Testes magnesium, manganese, phosphorous, silicon, vanadium, zinc.
Thyroid chlorine, iodine, magnesium, potassium, sodium.
If magnesium levels are low, the nerves lose control over muscle activity, respiration and mental processes. Nervous fatigue, tics and twitches, tremors, irritability, hypersensitivity, muscle spasms, restlessness, anxiety, confusion, disorientation and irregular heartbeat all respond to increased magnesium levels.
We use our muscles by selectively contracting them. On the biochemical level, muscle contraction is triggered by calcium ions flowing into muscle cells. To relax the muscle calcium is pumped out again. However, as we age, more and more calcium remains trapped in the muscles and these become more or less permanently contracted, leading to increasing muscle tension and spasms. Together with calcification of the joints, this is the typical rigidity and inflexibility of old age.
Many of the symptoms of Parkinson's disease can be overcome with high magnesium supplementation. Shaking can be prevented and rigidity eased.
Prof. Delbet found magnesium chloride to be beneficial in a wide range of diseases. These included diseases of the digestive tract such as colitis and gall bladder problems, Parkinson's disease, tremors and muscle cramps; acne, eczema, psoriasis, warts and itching skin; impotence, prostatic hypertrophy, cerebral and circulatory problems; asthma, hay fever, urticaria and anaphylactic reactions. Hair and nails became stronger and healthier, and patients also had more energy. When you ask your Doctor for a blood test, do also ask for a Spectro cell test for magnesium levels (deficiency) to be done, as this otherwise will not be included in your blood test.
The Nutritional Magnesium Association has shared the important points of a new literature review verifying the monumental importance of magnesium in heart disease.
Noted research scientist and author Andrea Rosanoff, PhD, who conducted the comprehensive review, which has been ongoing for over 10 years, and which builds upon the work begun by Mildred Seelig, MD, who studied the relationship of magnesium to cardiovascular disease for over 40 years, says, "These numberous studies have found low magnesium to be associated with all known cardiovascular risk factors, such as cholesterol and high blood pressure, arterial plaque build-up (atherogenesis), hardening of the arteries and the calcification of soft tissues.
MAGNESIUM Cashews, walnuts, almonds, brewer’s yeast, cashews, cocoa, mineral water, molasses, parsnips, soy beans, wholegrain cereals, kelp, eggs, seeds, seafood, dark chocolate, dried fruits, canned pineapple, berries, currants, beans, dates, avocados.
Half of your body’s magnesium is found in your bones and prevents bone loss.
Can help induce sleep. Assists with skeletal muscle function, Decreases blood vessel constriction, Improves muscle strength and endurance, Maximizes heart health. Necessary for bone formation. Necessary for protein synthesis. Relaxes muscles (muscle cramps, soreness, or twitches).
Magnesium citrate – 50 to 1,000mg once a day. Do not use for longer than ten days.
Magnesium oxide is only 1/10th as bioavailable as magnesium aspartate.
Using other forms of magnesium is less advantageous, because these have to be converted into chlorides in the body anyway. If we take magnesium as oxide or carbonate, we then need to produce additional hydrochloric acid to absorb the magnesium.
Many aging individuals, especially those with chronic diseases who desperately need more magnesium, cannot produce sufficient hydrochloric acid, and then cannot absorb the oxide or carbonate.
Epsom salt is magnesium sulphate. It is soluble but not well-absorbed, and acts mainly as a laxative.
Chelated magnesium is well absorbed but much more expensive, and lacks the beneficial contribution of the chloride ions.
Orotates are acceptable, but very expensive for the amount of magnesium that they provide, and both orotates and chelates seem to lack the infection-fighting potential of magnesium chloride.
Calcium and magnesium are opposites in their effects on our body structure. As a general rule, the softer our body structure the more we need calcium, while the more rigid and inflexible it is, the less calcium and the more magnesium we need. Magnesium can reverse the age-related degenerative calcification of our body structure and with this help us to rejuvenate.
Calcium, magnesium and phosphorus levels are kept in a seesaw balance by the parathyroid hormones. If calcium goes up, magnesium goes down and vice versa. With a low magnesium intake, calcium goes out of the bones to increase tissue levels, while a high magnesium intake causes calcium to go out of the tissues into the bones. A high phosphorus intake without a high calcium or magnesium intake causes calcium to leach from the bones and leave the body with the urine. A high phosphorus intake with high calcium and magnesium leads to bone mineralisation.
As we age, we become more and more inflexible. The arteries harden to cause arteriosclerosis, the skeletal system calcifies to cause rigidity with fusion of the spine and joints, kidneys and other organs and glands increasingly calcify and harden with stone formation, calcification in the eyes causes cataracts, and even the skin hardens, becoming tough and wrinkled. In this way calcium is in the same league as oxygen and free radicals, while magnesium works together with hydrogen and the antioxidants to keep our body structure soft.
How much? Magnesium chloride contains about 120 mg of magnesium per gram or 600 mg per rounded teaspoon. It has a mild laxative effect. As a good maintenance intake to remain healthy you may take 1/2 teaspoon (2.5 grams) daily in divided doses with meals. With raised blood pressure and symptoms of magnesium deficiency you may increase this to 1 teaspoon daily in divided doses. This may cause `loose stools' in some, but that is generally beneficial.
Individuals with very sensitive taste buds may start using it in tiny amounts mixed with strongly flavoured food and increase doses very gradually. Alternatively, drink it in one gulp dissolved in water while pinching your nose and quickly drink something pleasant afterwards. With acute infections, dissolve 40g or 8 slightly rounded teaspoons in 1 litre of water.
Magnesium supplementation should be avoided with severe kidney problems (severe renal insufficiency), and also with myasthenia gravis. Be careful with severe adrenal weakness or with very low blood pressure. Magnesium activates many enzymes and is necessary for the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats and amino acids. It is essential for the functions of muscles and nerves and for the formation of bones and teeth. It regulates the influence of calcium.
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ü Unsteady handwriting
ü Muscle twitching
ü Muscle cramps
ü Sensitivity to noise
ü Tremors
ü Sweating
ü Limb jerking
ü Confusion
ü Trembling
ü Apprehension
ü Personality changes
ü Emotionally disturbed behaviour
ü Altered heartbeat
ü Pains in the spinal cord
ü Back pain
ü Carpal tunnel syndrome
ü Chronic fatigue
ü Confusion
ü Cravings for chocolate
ü Depression
ü Mental depression - regulating central nervous system excitability - may cause aggressive behaviour, depression or suicide
ü Dizziness
ü Epilepsy or convulsions
ü Excessive body odor
ü Heart palpitations or irregular heartbeat
ü High blood pressure
ü Hyperactive or restlessness
ü Inability to control bladder
ü Insomnia
ü Irritability or anxiety
ü Muscle cramps or muscle tension
ü Nervous tics or twitches, or muscles that twitch or spasm
ü Inflammation and pain
ü Pain in knees or hips
ü Painful and cold feet or hands
ü Restless legs, especially at night
ü Seizures, convulsions, or tremors
ü Sensitive or loose teeth
ü Sleep disturbances
ü PMS or painful periods
Even a mild deficiency of magnesium can cause increased
sensitivity to noise, nervousness, irritability, mental depression,
confusion, twitching, trembling, apprehension, and insomnia.
New research data adds to mounting evidence that depression is linked to an inflammatory response. Inflammation influences the quality of sleep, metabolism, stress response and the release of cytokines. Magnesium medicine is perfect for bringing down inflammation.
When magnesium levels become dramatically deficient we see symptoms
such as convulsions, gross muscular tremor, atheloid movements,
muscular weakness, vertigo, auditory hyperacusis, aggressiveness,
excessive irritability, hallucinations, confusion, and semicomma.
https://drsircus.com/general/medical-psychology/
It is essential for many enzyme reactions (especially in regard to cellular energy production), for the health of the brain and nervous system, and also for healthy teeth and bones. However, many are not aware that - in the form of magnesium chloride - it is also an impressive infection fighter.
Magnesium has a significant impact on a variety of major health issues such as:
- ADD,
- brain function
- a marginal magnesium intake overexcites the brain’s neurons and results in less coherence
- neurological diseases
- anxiety,
- high blood pressure,
- heart problems,
- arthritis,
- migraine,
- seizures - the lower the magnesium blood levels the more severe was the epilepsy.
- Magnesium also protects the cell from poisonous metals like aluminum, mercury, lead, cadmium, beryllium and nickel, which can contribute to Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, multiple sclerosis, and learning retardation.
- mood disorders - an association between magnesium and aggression, anxiety, ADHD bipolar disorder, depression and schizophrenia..
- Magnesium has a strong positive effect in calming and nourishing the nervous system.
Magnesium is Nature’s relaxation and anti-stress mineral, since it plays an important role in helping our bodies combat stress. It is necessary for healthy artery, blood, bone, heart, muscle and nerve function, yet experts estimate that approximately 80 percent of the population in North America may be deficient in this important mineral. Magnesium is vitally important to our health and wellbeing. It is involved in the production of energy for most of our bodily processes and even the structuring of our basic genetic material is dependent on adequate amounts of magnesium. Your body also requires adequate supplies of magnesium to manufacture the approximately 500 enzymes needed for basic life and metabolic functions.
http://parkinsonsresource.org/news/articles/are-you-deficient-in-magnesium/
Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in the body. It has been recognized as a cofactor for more than 300 enzymatic reactions, where it is crucial for adenosine triphosphate (ATP) metabolism.
Magnesium is required for DNA and RNA synthesis, reproduction, and protein synthesis. Moreover, magnesium is essential for the regulation of muscular contraction, blood pressure, insulin metabolism, cardiac excitability, vasomotor tone, nerve transmission and neuromuscular conduction. Imbalances in magnesium status-primarily hypomagnesemia as it is seen more common than hypermagnesemia-might result in unwanted neuromuscular, cardiac or nervous disorders. Based on magnesium's many functions within the human body, it plays an important role in prevention and treatment of many diseases. Low levels of magnesium have been associated with a number of chronic diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, insulin resistance and type-2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, cardiovascular disease (e.g., stroke), migraine headaches, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26404370/
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New Study Confirms Magnesium Needed By Most Patients
Published on October 16, 2020
https://drsircus.com/general/new-study-confirms-magnesium-needed-by-most-patients/
Dr. Madesh Muniswarmy, professor of cardiology at the Long School of Medicine and lead author of the study, said, “Magnesium is essential for life, it’s in our blood. It’s been implicated in and used as a treatment for a variety of diseases, including migraines, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and preeclampsia. Lactate is a signal that — like a light switch — turns on magnesium ions. On lactate’s signal, the ions rush out of cellular storehouses called the endoplasmic reticulum.”
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Why Don’t Doctors Prescribe Magnesium
https://drsircus.com/general/why-dont-doctors-prescribe-magnesium/
Published on September 11, 2019
Almost ten year ago Dr. Mark Hymen wrote, “I find it very funny that more doctors aren’t clued in to the benefits of magnesium, because we use it all the time in conventional medicine. But we never stop to think about why or how important it is to our general health or why it helps our bodies function better.”
Harvard Medical School writes, “If you’re concerned about low magnesium, ask your doctor for a blood test. To maintain a healthy magnesium level, it’s best to get this mineral from food, especially high-fiber foods such as dark green leafy vegetables, unrefined grains, and beans. The recommended dietary allowance (RDA) of magnesium for adults is 420 milligrams (mg) per day.”
If Harvard is a bit stupid about magnesium imagine the rest of the wonderful world of medicine. Sorry to have to use the word stupid, could have said ignorant, uninformed, foolish or just plain boneheaded. First thing to know about magnesium is that blood tests tell us almost nothing about a persons magnesium status because the blood will rob the cells blind of magnesium in a desperate attempt to keep blood levels stable so a person does not have a heart attack.
Harvard Medicals second line of advice suggests its best to get magnesium from food. Actually its best to get magnesium from water. With nutritional values of food deteriorating dramatically over the last five decades it is very difficult to eat enough dark leafy vegetables, unrefined grains and beans to get enough magnesium. And that advice is only appropriate for a completely healthy person who already has their magnesium tank topped off. If one is deficient, which the vast majority are, probably at least 90 percent if not more, then its impossible to eat one’s way out of a magnesium deficiency.
It does seem like they are teaching something other than medicine in medical schools. Magnesium is to humans as oil is to a properly functioning car. If you go to any gas station in the world they will know not only of the need for oil but where to put it. I wish doctors did not deserve for me to say this, but doctors are not as intelligent as gas station attendants, they almost know nothing about the need for magnesium and how best to get it into the body, especially when the need (magnesium deficiency) is great.
Magnesium ignorance (deficiency) causes a lot of pain and suffering. Since doctors will not address, in any kind of serious way, magnesium deficiencies its up to us to save ourselves. The first step in that is to stop listening to medical experts like Dr. Bruce Bistrian, chief of clinical nutrition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, who says magnesium deficiency in otherwise healthy individuals eating a balanced diet is rare. “The kidney has an extraordinary ability to reduce magnesium loss in urine, and thus achieve magnesium balance on a wide variety of intakes,” he explains.
Looking at statistics in the United States tells us that otherwise healthy individuals hardly exist. Also rare are people who are eating a balanced diet of wholesome organic food, and even then, it is still difficult to get enough magnesium from one’s diet. A healthy kidney does have an extraordinary ability to reduce magnesium loss in urine but how many people have completely healthy kidneys when the kidneys themselves depend on full magnesium and bicarbonate sufficiency.
Harvard Medical continues: “Even with an adequate diet, some people are at increased risk of magnesium deficiency, including people with digestive disorders, such as celiac disease and chronic diarrhea. Also certain medicines (including some “water pills” and antibiotics) can lower blood magnesium levels. In these situations, magnesium supplements may be necessary, but taking too much can cause or worsen diarrhea. People with chronic kidney disease should not take supplements unless prescribed by their doctor.”
A more intelligent statement would be, “Even with an adequate diet, most people are at increased risk of magnesium deficiency.” And we should object to their warning about taking too much. The universe truth about magnesium, and what this essay is trying to illustrate, is that we are almost always taking too little.
Deficiency Symptoms and Increased Requirements:
CIRCULATION: angina, arteriosclerosis/atherosclerosis, high blood pressure and cholesterol, heart infarcts, hypertension, strokes, tachycardia (fast pulse), thrombosis.
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM: colic, constipation, chronic diarrhoea, malabsorption, pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas).
MUSCLES: backache, convulsions, cramps, increased excitability/jumpiness, numbness, nystagmus (rapid eye movements), spasms, tense/tight muscles, tingling, tremors.
NERVOUS SYSTEM: apathy, confusion, depression, disorientation, epilepsy, hallucinations, irritability, mental illness, multiple sclerosis, nervousness, neuritis paranoia, Parkinson's Disease, poor memory, senility.
GENERAL: alcoholism, arthritis, body odours, broken bones, calcification in any organ, cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, diabetes, headaches, infections and inflammations, liver cirrhosis, lupus erythematosus, migraines, old age, prostate problems, rickets, mental and physical rigidity, wrinkled skin, stiffness, gall or kidney stones, overactive thyroid.
Magnesium and major depression.
Eby GA, Eby KL, Murk H.
In: Vink R, Nechifor M, editors. Magnesium in the Central Nervous System [Internet]. Adelaide (AU): University of Adelaide Press; 2011.
PMID: 29920018 Free Books & Documents
Excerpt:
The treatment of major depression (MD) is still a major unmet medical need in the majority of patients. Sixty percent of cases of MD are treatment-resistant depression (TRD), showing that classical treatments for MD are poorly effective to non-effective. Magnesium has been largely removed from processed foods, especially refined grains, in the Western world, harming the brain and causing mood disorders. Magnesium deficiency causes N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) coupled calcium channels to be biased towards opening which causes neuronal injury and neurological dysfunction, which we believe results in MD. Oral administration of Mg to animals produced antidepressant-like effects that were comparable to those of antidepressant drugs. Cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) Mg has been found to be low in suicidal TRD.
The first report of Mg treatment for agitated depression was published in 1921 showing success in 220 out of 250 cases. One 2008 randomized clinical trial showed that Mg was as effective as the tricyclic antidepressant imipramine in treating MD. Intravenous and oral Mg protocols have been reported to rapidly terminate MD safely and without side effects. Brain Mg deficiency reduces serotonin levels, and antidepressant drugs have been shown to have the action of raising brain Mg. Excessive calcium, glutamate and aspartate intake can greatly worsen MD. We believe that, when taken together, there is more than sufficient evidence to implicate inadequate dietary Mg as contributing to the cause of MD, and we suggest that physicians prescribe Mg for its prevention and treatment.
Abstract:
Incidence of major depression
Increasing incidence of depression
Classical depression treatments
Treatment-resistant depression
Markers and risk factors of major depression Biological markers of depression or depression- vulnerability Changes in dietary magnesium Regulation of brain magnesium Changes of serum magnesium in major depression Functional impact of magnesium Monoaminergic systems and magnesium Glutamatergic system and magnesium Stress hormone systems (HPA and RAAS) and magnesium Inflammatory system and magnesium Magnesium in animal and human research Animal Models and magnesium Human studies and magnesium Adverse effect of calcium in depression Biomarkers of magnesium and magnesium- related functions Recommendations concerning magnesium- supplementation Future clinical research Impediments to success and precautions.
Magnesium is involved in over 300 processes in the body.
Adrenal cortex is high in calcium, fluorine, iron, magnesium, silicon, zinc.
Blood vessels magnesium, silicon, sulphur.
Brain and nervous system calcium, iodine, magnesium, manganese, phosphorous, potassium, silicon, sodium, sulphur.
Heart calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium.
Inner ear chlorine, fluorine, iron, magnesium.
Hypothalamus chlorine, iodine, magnesium, potassium, sodium.
Kidneys calcium, chlorine, fluorine, iron, magnesium, manganese, potassium, silicon, vanadium
Liver iron, magnesium, potassium, selenium, sulphur, vanadium, zinc.
Muscles calcium, chlorine, magnesium, manganese, phosphorous, potassium, selenium.
Perspiration iodine...
Prostate magnesium, silicon, zinc.
Saliva iodine...
Spleen chlorine, copper, iodine, iron, magnesium, potassium, sodium, vanadium
Tears iodine...
Testes magnesium, manganese, phosphorous, silicon, vanadium, zinc.
Thyroid chlorine, iodine, magnesium, potassium, sodium.
If magnesium levels are low, the nerves lose control over muscle activity, respiration and mental processes. Nervous fatigue, tics and twitches, tremors, irritability, hypersensitivity, muscle spasms, restlessness, anxiety, confusion, disorientation and irregular heartbeat all respond to increased magnesium levels.
We use our muscles by selectively contracting them. On the biochemical level, muscle contraction is triggered by calcium ions flowing into muscle cells. To relax the muscle calcium is pumped out again. However, as we age, more and more calcium remains trapped in the muscles and these become more or less permanently contracted, leading to increasing muscle tension and spasms. Together with calcification of the joints, this is the typical rigidity and inflexibility of old age.
Many of the symptoms of Parkinson's disease can be overcome with high magnesium supplementation. Shaking can be prevented and rigidity eased.
Prof. Delbet found magnesium chloride to be beneficial in a wide range of diseases. These included diseases of the digestive tract such as colitis and gall bladder problems, Parkinson's disease, tremors and muscle cramps; acne, eczema, psoriasis, warts and itching skin; impotence, prostatic hypertrophy, cerebral and circulatory problems; asthma, hay fever, urticaria and anaphylactic reactions. Hair and nails became stronger and healthier, and patients also had more energy. When you ask your Doctor for a blood test, do also ask for a Spectro cell test for magnesium levels (deficiency) to be done, as this otherwise will not be included in your blood test.
The Nutritional Magnesium Association has shared the important points of a new literature review verifying the monumental importance of magnesium in heart disease.
Noted research scientist and author Andrea Rosanoff, PhD, who conducted the comprehensive review, which has been ongoing for over 10 years, and which builds upon the work begun by Mildred Seelig, MD, who studied the relationship of magnesium to cardiovascular disease for over 40 years, says, "These numberous studies have found low magnesium to be associated with all known cardiovascular risk factors, such as cholesterol and high blood pressure, arterial plaque build-up (atherogenesis), hardening of the arteries and the calcification of soft tissues.
MAGNESIUM Cashews, walnuts, almonds, brewer’s yeast, cashews, cocoa, mineral water, molasses, parsnips, soy beans, wholegrain cereals, kelp, eggs, seeds, seafood, dark chocolate, dried fruits, canned pineapple, berries, currants, beans, dates, avocados.
Half of your body’s magnesium is found in your bones and prevents bone loss.
Can help induce sleep. Assists with skeletal muscle function, Decreases blood vessel constriction, Improves muscle strength and endurance, Maximizes heart health. Necessary for bone formation. Necessary for protein synthesis. Relaxes muscles (muscle cramps, soreness, or twitches).
Magnesium citrate – 50 to 1,000mg once a day. Do not use for longer than ten days.
Magnesium oxide is only 1/10th as bioavailable as magnesium aspartate.
Using other forms of magnesium is less advantageous, because these have to be converted into chlorides in the body anyway. If we take magnesium as oxide or carbonate, we then need to produce additional hydrochloric acid to absorb the magnesium.
Many aging individuals, especially those with chronic diseases who desperately need more magnesium, cannot produce sufficient hydrochloric acid, and then cannot absorb the oxide or carbonate.
Epsom salt is magnesium sulphate. It is soluble but not well-absorbed, and acts mainly as a laxative.
Chelated magnesium is well absorbed but much more expensive, and lacks the beneficial contribution of the chloride ions.
Orotates are acceptable, but very expensive for the amount of magnesium that they provide, and both orotates and chelates seem to lack the infection-fighting potential of magnesium chloride.
Calcium and magnesium are opposites in their effects on our body structure. As a general rule, the softer our body structure the more we need calcium, while the more rigid and inflexible it is, the less calcium and the more magnesium we need. Magnesium can reverse the age-related degenerative calcification of our body structure and with this help us to rejuvenate.
Calcium, magnesium and phosphorus levels are kept in a seesaw balance by the parathyroid hormones. If calcium goes up, magnesium goes down and vice versa. With a low magnesium intake, calcium goes out of the bones to increase tissue levels, while a high magnesium intake causes calcium to go out of the tissues into the bones. A high phosphorus intake without a high calcium or magnesium intake causes calcium to leach from the bones and leave the body with the urine. A high phosphorus intake with high calcium and magnesium leads to bone mineralisation.
As we age, we become more and more inflexible. The arteries harden to cause arteriosclerosis, the skeletal system calcifies to cause rigidity with fusion of the spine and joints, kidneys and other organs and glands increasingly calcify and harden with stone formation, calcification in the eyes causes cataracts, and even the skin hardens, becoming tough and wrinkled. In this way calcium is in the same league as oxygen and free radicals, while magnesium works together with hydrogen and the antioxidants to keep our body structure soft.
How much? Magnesium chloride contains about 120 mg of magnesium per gram or 600 mg per rounded teaspoon. It has a mild laxative effect. As a good maintenance intake to remain healthy you may take 1/2 teaspoon (2.5 grams) daily in divided doses with meals. With raised blood pressure and symptoms of magnesium deficiency you may increase this to 1 teaspoon daily in divided doses. This may cause `loose stools' in some, but that is generally beneficial.
Individuals with very sensitive taste buds may start using it in tiny amounts mixed with strongly flavoured food and increase doses very gradually. Alternatively, drink it in one gulp dissolved in water while pinching your nose and quickly drink something pleasant afterwards. With acute infections, dissolve 40g or 8 slightly rounded teaspoons in 1 litre of water.
Magnesium supplementation should be avoided with severe kidney problems (severe renal insufficiency), and also with myasthenia gravis. Be careful with severe adrenal weakness or with very low blood pressure. Magnesium activates many enzymes and is necessary for the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats and amino acids. It is essential for the functions of muscles and nerves and for the formation of bones and teeth. It regulates the influence of calcium.
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One source of Magnesium can be Ultra-Therapeutics, 124 Kurrajong Drive (PO Box 8), Nanango Qld 4615 Ph (07) 4171 0593 Fax (07) 4171 0508
Have a look at their website for a more comprehensive explanation of the value of cell salts and Magnesium Creams.
For more information/orders: Email: [email protected]
124 Kurrajong Drive, Nanango QLD 4615
Postal address PO Box 8, Nanango QLD 4615
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