From
the University of Maryland Medical Center: "Some experts
believe that children with ADHD may be exhibiting the effects of mild magnesium
deficiency (such as irritability, decreased attention span, and mental
confusion). In one study of 116 children with ADHD, 95% were magnesium
deficient. In a separate study, 75 magnesium-deficient children with ADHD
were randomly assigned to receive magnesium supplements in addition to
standard treatment or standard treatment alone for 6 months. Those who
received magnesium 
demonstrated
a significant improvement in behavior, whereas those who received only
standard therapy without magnesium exhibited worsening behavior. These
results suggest that magnesium supplementation, or at least high amounts
of magnesium in the diet, may prove to be beneficial for children with
ADHD. Speak with your physician about possible use."
Executive Health, September 1977 issue, article on "The
Dangers of Not Getting Enough Magnesium in the Foods You Eat." Although
emphasis was placed on the abnormalities of the heart and blood vessels,
observations were cited that showed that many patients who sought help
for insomnia, tension and anxiety were magnesium deficient. In a study
of more than 200 patients, Dr. W. S. Davis, University of Pretoria used
magnesium chloride tablets as a possible means of combating insomnia. They
reported that sleep was induced rapidly, was uninterrupted and waking tiredness
disappeared in 99 percent of the patients.
Anxiety and tension diminished during the day. In addition, no ill effects
were noted in a group of patients participating in a longterm study in
which before retiring they took eight tablets of 250
mgs. each of magnesium chloride over a 12-month period. (W.H. Davis
and F. Ziady, "The Role of Magnesium in Sleep," Montreal Symposium, 1976.)
The Executive Health article also cited the observations of Dr. Edmund
B. Fink, West Virginia University School of Medicine in Morgantown. In
his address at the international meeting, this magnesium researcher stated
that:
* Magnesium deficiency not only exists but is common
* Although it is common, it is often undetected
* Chronic deficiency can produce long-term damage
and can be fatal
* The manifestations of the deficiency are many
and varied
In a recent letter from Dr. Fink, he also stated that, "Acute magnesium
deficiency may also occur following several weeks of diuretics, cisplatin
or amino glycoside use."
Chlorophyll and green vegetables contain large
amounts of magnesium.
DISCOVERY
OF HOW ANTI-DEPRESSANTS CAUSE PSYCHOTIC BREAKS BY ADVERSELY AFFECTING SOUND
SLEEP "Without sufficient magnesium the nerve cells can not give
or receive messages and become excitable and highly reactive. This causes
the person to become highly sensitive and highly nervous. Noises will seem
excessively loud and person will jump at sudden sounds like a door slamming
and will generally be nervous and on edge. Lights can appear to be too
bright. magnesium deficiency can cause insomnia
(inability to sleep). Waking up with muscle spasms, cramps, tension and
feeling uncomfortable. These will disappear on drinking magnesium. Muscle
tics of the face are caused by a magnesium deficiency. They disappear on
drinking magnesium. Hiccups are the result of muscle spasms of the diaphragm
and will disappear on taking magnesium. The best form of magnesium that
I have come across is in the form of a drink where the magnesium is in
solution in water. You make it fresh each time and it works faster than
any other form such as tablets or capsules." Peter Gilham
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"I personally started taking magnesium for spasms and facial tics, only
doing so on my own after neurologists simply told me to either get better
sleep or take a prescription drug. The magnesium helped almost immediately,
and I then slowly increased the dose to about 225% the RDA (balanced with
100% calcium RDA) At that point, all spasms and tics stopped completely,
and they have not returned since starting that dose several years ago.
I doubt any traditional doctor would have been willing to prescribe that
much magnesium. The RDA is 400mg, but many people believe this is too low.
Traditionally, it's been recommended to take calcium and magnesium in a
ratio of 2/1, because that is the ratio that these minerals are found in
bone." (more on healthy bone program)
Magnesium deficiency is very common in the general US population.
Not only is our daily intake low, but we eat a diet which increases the
demand for magnesium. And unfortunately, urinary magnesium loss can
be increased by many factors, both physical and emotional. Magnesium
loss increases in the presence of certain hormones. Stress can greatly
increase magnesium loss. Even loud noises can extra magnesium loss.
One article on the web goes so far as to say that that almost everyone
is the United States is at least marginally deficient in magnesium.
So there is an excellent chance that a person with fibromyalgia has a magnesium
deficiency. But since people with fibromyalgia often have high levels
of stress, and a disrupted hormonal system, they are more likely to be
candidates for magnesium deficiency. Magnesium utilization is also
increased by the presence of estrogen, and this might explain why many
women are diagnosed
with fibromyalgia after menopause, when estrogen levels would decrease.
Additionally, the sleep disruption which occurs in fibromyalgia might also
affect magnesium utilization, as sleep deprivation has been shown to cause
lower magnesium levels.
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Magnesium
for the Heart
Adequate
levels of magnesium are essential for the heart muscle. Those who die from
heart attacks have very low magnesium but high calcium levels in their
heart muscles. Patients with coronary heart disease who have been treated
with large amounts of magnesium survived better than those with drug treatment.
Magnesium dilates the arteries of the heart and lowers cholesterol and
fat levels.
High calcium levels, on the other hand, constrict the heart arteries
and increase the risk of heart attacks. Calcium deposits in the walls of
the arteries contribute to the development of arteriosclerosis. The arteries
become hard and rigid, thereby restricting the blood flow and causing high
blood pressure. In addition, such inelastic blood vessels may easily rapture
and cause strokes. Countries with the highest calcium to magnesium ratios
(high calcium and low magnesium levels) in soil and water have the highest
incidence of cardiovascular disease. At the top of the list is Australia.
Worldwide the intake of magnesium has been lowered and that of calcium
increased because of the heavy use of fertilisers high in calcium and low
in magnesium. With this, the intake of magnesium from our food has steadily
declined in the last fifty years, while the use of calcium-rich fertilisers
and cardiovascular disease have greatly increased at the same time.
Diabetics are prone to atherosclerosis, fatty degeneration of the liver
and heart disease. Diabetics have low magnesium tissue levels. They often
develop eye problems - retinopathy. Diabetics with the lowest magnesium
levels had the most severe retinopathy. The lower the magnesium content
of their water, the higher is the death rate of diabetics from cardiovascular
disease. In an American study the death rate due to diabetes was four times
higher in areas with low magnesium water levels as compared to areas with
high levels of magnesium in the water.
Dr.
Cohen's book does the public a great service in discussing the importance
of magnesium for maintaining a healthy level of blood pressure. However,
as Dr. Carolyn Dean discusses in her very important book The
Miracle of Magnesium, magnesium deficiency is a significant factor
-- often the major factor -- in many other severe illnesses including heart
attacks and other forms of heart disease, asthma, anxiety and panic attacks,
depression, fatigue, diabetes, migraines and other headaches, osteoporosis,
insomnia, and most cases of muscular problems. Unfortunately, the majority
of Americans are deficient in magnesium to some degree and many are severely
deficient. Because magnesium deficiency is largely overlooked by orthodox
medical doctors, millions of Americans suffer needlessly from the foregoing
ailments or are having their symptoms treated with expensive drugs (which
often have unpleasant or dangerous side effects) when they could be cured
with magnesium supplementation.
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Magesium and Cancer
It is generally accepted that a higher magnesium intake
in the drinking water is associated with reduced cancer incidence and reduced
frequency of cardiac infarction. Information is scarce about the relationship
between cancer and magnesium but researchers from the School of Public
Health at the University of Minnesota have just concluded that diets rich
in magnesium reduced the occurrence of colon cancer. A previous study
from Sweden reported that women with the highest magnesium intake
had a 40 per cent lower risk of developing the cancer than those with the
lowest intake of the mineral. Preliminary data also suggests a relationship
between low intake of magnesium and kidney cancer.
Several studies have shown an increased cancer
rate in regions with low magnesium levels in soil and drinking water as
well. In Egypt the cancer rate was only about 10% of that in Europe and
America. In the rural fellah it was practically non-existent. The main
difference was an extremely high magnesium intake of 2.5 to 3 g in these
cancer-free populations, ten times more than in most western countries.
Dr Seeger and Dr Budwig in Germany have shown that
cancer is mainly the result of a faulty energy metabolism in the powerhouses
of the cells, the mitochondria. ATP and most of the enzymes involved in
the production of energy require magnesium. A healthy cell has high magnesium
and low calcium levels. The problem that comes with low magnesium (Mg)
levels is the calcium builds up inside the cells while energy production
decreases as the mitochondria gradually calcify.
“Mg2+ is critical for all of the energetics
of the cells because it is absolutely required that Mg2+ be bound (chelated)
by ATP (adenosine triphosphate), the central high energy compound of the
body. ATP without Mg2+ bound cannot create the energy normally used
by specific enzymes of the body to make protein, DNA, RNA, transport sodium
or potassium or calcium in and out of cells, nor to phosphorylate proteins
in response to hormone signals, etc. In fact, ATP without enough
Mg2+ is non-functional and leads to cell death. Bound Mg2+ holds
the triphosphate in the correct stereochemical position so that it can
interact with ATP using enzymes and the Mg2+ also polarizes the phosphate
backbone so that the 'backside of the phosphorous' is more positive and
susceptible to attack by nucleophilic agents such as hydroxide ion or other
negatively charged compounds. Bottom line, Mg2+ at critical concentrations
is essential to life,” says Dr. Boyd Haley who asserts strongly that, “All
detoxification mechanisms have as the bases of the energy required to remove
a toxicant the need for Mg-ATP to drive the process. There is nothing
done in the body that does not use energy and without Mg2+ this energy
can neither be made nor used.” Detoxification of carcinogenic chemical
poisons is essential for people want to avoid the ravages of cancer. The
importance of magnesium in cancer prevention should not be underestimated.
The School of Public Health at the Kaohsiung Medical College
in, Taiwan, found that magnesium also exerts a protective effect against
gastric cancer, but only for the group with the highest levels. Among
other effects, magnesium improves the internal production of defensive
substances, such as antibodies and considerably improves the operational
activity of white, granulozytic blood cells (shown by Delbet with magnesium
chloride), and contributes to many other functions that insure the integrity
of cellular metabolism.
A Dr. Hans A. Nieper, back in 1961, introduced cardiac
therapy based on magnesium aspartate. He was surprised to observe that
hardly any new cancer occurrences appear in the group of patients so treated.
The rate of new cancerous diseases with long-term magnesium therapy was
reported to be less than 20% of the frequency otherwise expected. In an
uncontrolled trial, researchers in the UK found that intravenous magnesium
relieves neuropathy pain in patients with cancer. Magnesium
acts as a noncompetitive antagonist of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor,
which has been implicated in the transmission of pain, according to Dr.
Vincent Crosby and colleagues at Nottingham City Hospital.
It is known that carcinogenesis induces magnesium
distribution disturbances, which cause magnesium mobilization through blood
cells and magnesium depletion in non-neoplastic tissues. Magnesium deficiency
seems to be carcinogenic, and in cases of solid tumors, high levels of
magnesium inhibits carcinogenesis. Both carcinogenesis and magnesium
deficiency increase the plasma membrane permeability and fluidity.
The latest study, conducted by researchers at the Pasteur Institute
in France, among 4035 men age 30-60 years over a period of 18 years, found
males with the highest blood serum concentration of magnesium and zinc
experienced up to a 50% reduction in cancer mortality, while high copper
levels combined with low zinc and magnesium produced elevated cancer death
rates. [Epidemiology 17: 308014, 2006]
Remarkably, 10% of the U.S. population consumes less than half the recommended
dietary allowance for zinc and are at increased risk for zinc deficiency.
[Journal Nutritional Biochemistry 15: 572-78, 2004] Most Americans are
also deficient in magnesium.
Magnesium supplements vary by absorption and mineral content. Magnesium
oxide is the most widely sold magnesium supplement, but only 4% is absorbed.
[Magnesium Research 14:257-62, 2001] Suggested daily supplementation with
magnesium is 200-400 mg. Excessive magnesium may cause loose stool – reduce
dosage if this occurs. –Copyright 2006 Bill Sardi, Knowledge of Health,
Inc. more
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Magnesium:
Research Misconduct?
For the past 15 years evidence has stacked up showing patients with
acute coronary thrombosis improve their survival chances by 50 - 82.5%
when given intravenous magnesium of 32-66 mmol in the first 24 hours. The
single negative study showing that magnesium had a worsening effect on
survival employed a far higher dose of magnesium (80 mmol) than the other
studies. (European Heart J, 1991;12:12158), and one other study showing
no benefit with magnesium employed the low dose of 10 mmol in the first
24 hours.
Although it would appear clear to any first year medical student that
magnesium worked well for coronary thrombosis within the optimal dosage
level of 30 - 70 mmol; that 10 mmol was shown to be too little, and 80
mmol had been shown to be too much, in 1990/91, the Fourth International
Study on Infarct Survival decided to do a major study which was to definitely
determine whether magnesium was beneficial when used for this purpose.
Although their own meta-analysis of all earlier studies showed that magnesium
was beneficial, the ISIS4 investigators also decided to test magnesium
against the drug Catopril and a coronary vasodilator.
Astonishingly, the ISIS investigators chose to use the 80 mmol dosage
for their study, the one dosage that had been found to be harmful. It should
be noted that the ISIS4 study was funded to the tune of almost $10 million
by Bristol Myers Squibb, the manufacturers of Catopril. Not surprisingly,
magnesium lagged behind the drugs. As a result of this paper, many hospitals
ceased using magnesium in their treatment of acute coronary thrombosis.
The scandalous decision to use an overdosage of magnesium in this study
must have caused the loss of several thousand lives within the study and
many other lives in other hospitals that have now stopped using magnesium.
Both nutritional pioneer Dr. Stephen Davies and Dr. Damien Downing, editor
of the Journal of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine, criticized the
designers of the study for clearly selecting too large a dose of intravenous
magnesium, and also for giving magnesium too late and then too quickly.
Downing even titled his editorial "Is ISIS4 research misconduct?" (J Nutr
Environ Med, 1999;9:513)
Benjamin Rush MD
- "Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time
will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship...
To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges
to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws
are un-American and despotic and have no place in a republic... The Constitution
of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well
as religious freedom." Benjamin Rush, MD, a signer of the Declaration of
Independence and personal physician to George Washington
Dr. Schulze - "Over
the last 80 years, organized medical groups and pharmaceutical companies,
using lawyers, bribes, lobbyist, insurance companies and the strong arm
of the Food and Drug Administration, have been very busy. They have corrupted
elected officials to pass laws to remove any competition. They have crushed
Natural Doctors, Natural Medicine, and Self-Care. Their goal is to monopolize
health care and make us dependent on medical doctors and pharmaceutical
drugs. It almost worked! We have watched them pass more and more laws restricting
our rights; they have made many healing herbs, foods and even nutrients
illegal. Natural health professionals that flourished a few decades ago
are now barred by law to practice, and Natural Doctors, Holistic Healers,
Health Food Store Owners and even family members of the sick have been
arrested and jailed for using natural remedies. The
Medical-Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex: Corruption in Drug Research
- Corruption in Medicine
The
Miracle of Magnesium
“Magnesium is indeed the unsung hero and is a key nutriceutical that
everybody needs to know about. Dr Dean has the best credentials in bringing
solutions to those suffering from the hidden magnesium disorders that affect
most of us.” – DR. STEPHEN T. SINATRA, M.D
More than seventy-five years ago, medical scientists declared magnesium
to be an essential nutrient, indispensable to life. When this mineral is
part of your diet, you are guarding against–and helping to alleviate–health
threats such as heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, diabetes, depression,
arthritis, and asthma. But while research continues to reaffirm magnesium’s
irreplaceable contribution to good health, many Americans remain dangerously
deficient.
In The Miracle of Magnesium, Dr. Carolyn Dean, an authority on this
mineral who has used it with dramatic success in her own practice, explains
the vital role that magnesium plays in the control of many serious ailments–from
painful muscle spasms and bladder problems to traumatic brain injury and
complications of pregnancy and childbirth. Inside you will discover
• How diets and lifestyles can create a dangerous magnesium deficiency
• Which magnesium-rich foods keep your vital organs healthy and which
to avoid
• Why other nutrients, including calcium, need magnesium to become
potent
• What vitamins and minerals work with magnesium to treat specific
ailments
• Why prescription medicines, such as birth control pills, can deplete
magnesium
• Which magnesium supplements are best for you
Whether you need help with a serious health problem or merely want to
protect the good health you already enjoy, The Miracle of Magnesium will
answer all your questions. It may even save your life.
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MAGNESIUM DEFICIENCY
AND DIABETES
Jerry L. Nadler, MD
- The link between diabetes mellitus and magnesium deficiency is
well known. A growing body of evidence suggests that magnesium plays a
pivotal role in reducing cardiovascular risks and may be involved in the
pathogenesis of diabetes itself. While the benefits of oral magnesium supplementation
on glycemic control have yet to be demonstrated in patients, magnesium
supplementation has been shown to improve insulin sensitivity. Based on
current knowledge, clinicians have good reason to believe that magnesium
repletion may play a role in delaying type 2 diabetes onset and potentially
in warding off its devastating complications -- cardiovascular disease,
retinopathy, and nephropathy. more
The International Medical Veritas Association (IMVA) introduces a much
needed medical intervention for the prevention and treatment of diabetes
and the many complications that come from it. The treatment is very much
linked to the hidden realities of the causes of diabetes. In this particular
case the cause and the cure are intimately connected.
There are two mammoth factors that the IMVA
has discovered are linked to the horrendous rise in diabetes in adults
and children that the western medical establishment has not paid attention
to. The first is deficiency in magnesium, and the other is chemical
poisoning. The convergence of large drops in cellular magnesium, which
offers protective coverage against chemical toxicity, and increasing poisoning
of people’s blood streams with heavy metals like arsenic and mercury, as
well as a literal host of other chemical toxins in the environment, are
teaming up to create a literal pandemic. Eating junk food fits right into
this alarming picture for poor diet translates immediately into massive
magnesium deficiencies, and modern processed food is also high in chemical
preservatives and pesticides that are also harmful to health.
Diabetes gives us a clear picture of how the
human race is being caught between a rock and a hard place, a kind of devils
anvil of our own corporate making. The human body is failing to deal with
massive chemical exposure in the face of hugely increasing deficiencies
in basic nutrients like magnesium. Malnutrition is now in full bloom in
the first world even among the obese.
Magnesium deficiency is a predictor of
diabetes; diabetics both need more magnesium and lose more magnesium than
most people. In two new studies, in both men and women, those who consumed
the most magnesium in their diet were least likely to develop type 2 diabetes,
according to a report in the January 2006 issue of the journal Diabetes
Care. Until now, very few large studies have directly examined the long-term
effects of dietary magnesium on diabetes. Dr. Simin Liu of the Harvard
Medical School and School of Public Health in Boston says, "Our studies
provided some direct evidence that greater intake of dietary magnesium
may have a long-term protective effect on lowering risk," said Liu, who
was involved in both studies. See Magnesium and Diabetic Neuropathy, which
introduces the concept of administering mega doses of magnesium to heal
Diabetic Neuropathy.
Prolonged use of Magnesium will prevent chronic complications from
diabetes.[iv]
“The current “party line” on this subject is not universally accepted,
but many of us believe the establishment is too conservative and will some
day change. While admitting its importance, for some unknown reason they
remain reluctant to recommend magnesium supplements. They just do not know
how poor the American diet is in Mg and the frequency of magnesium deficiency”
says Dr. Mansmann.[v]
Magnesium
for Diabetes is Critical Magnesium affects carbohydrate metabolism
by influencing the release and activity of insulin, the hormone that controls
blood sugar levels, by influencing the resistance and sensitivity to insulin.
Magnesium for diabetics is critical. At least twenty five percent of diabetics
have hypomagnesemia[i] and this is likely an underestimate. One group has
recently suggested that the effects of reduced glutathione on glucose metabolism
may be mediated, at least in part, by intracellular magnesium levels
Poorly controlled diabetes increases loss of magnesium in urine.
It would be prudent for physicians who treat diabetic patients to consider
magnesium deficiency as a contributing factor in many diabetic complications
and as a main factor in exacerbation of the disease itself. Recent research
from many sources suggests that magnesium for the treatment of diabetes
should be paramount in physicians’ minds. The most recent example,
after only 8 weeks of oral magnesium, thermal hyperalgesia was normalized
and plasma magnesium and glucose levels were restored towards normal in
rats.[vi]
Repletion of the deficiency with transdermal magnesium
chloride mineral therapy[vii] is the ideal way of administering magnesium
in medically therapeutic doses. Such treatments will, in all likelihood,
help avoid or ameliorate such complications as diabetic peripheral neuropathy,
arrhythmias, hypertension, and sudden cardiac death and will even improve
the course of the diabetic condition in general.[viii]
Once doctors, primary healthcare providers and the public are made aware
of the role of magnesium in diabetes there will be no excuse to not increase
public magnesium consumption, which can even be added to water supplies[ix]
instead of poisonous fluoride[x] and dangerous statins[xi],[xii],[xiii]
which are also known to cause peripheral neuropathy with long term use.
During a stroke or heart attack it would be cruel, medically incompetent
and life threatening to not use magnesium chloride or magnesium sulfate
immediately. The same kind of treatment that saves lives in dramatic
life threatening situations is urgently needed in the treatment of diabetes
and diabetic neuropathy.
Rapid increase of magnesium stores are necessary in some cases and
may be lifesaving for diabetics as they are for other patients in emergency
rooms.
Preventative effects of magnesium may go a long way to protecting the
children of the future from early onset of both diabetes and the complications
that come from it. The safety profile of magnesium
chloride is extraordinary compared to today’s pharmaceutical drugs.
It is only with severe renal insufficiency that problems have been observed
with magnesium treatments. The elderly are at risk of magnesium toxicity
only because of possible decreased renal function so caution is necessary.
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Diabetic Children and Magnesium Is
a lack of magnesium related to type 2 Diabetes in Obese Children?
On Monday, November 7, 2005, The Associated Press said that “About 2
million U.S. children ages 12 to 19 have a pre-diabetic condition linked
to obesity and inactivity that puts them at risk for full-blown diabetes
and cardiovascular problems, government data suggest.” One in 14 boys and
girls in a nationally representative sample had the condition. Among the
overweight adolescents, it was one in six. The study in question appears
in November's Pediatrics. It is based on data involving 915 youngsters
who participated in a 1999-2000 national health survey.[i]
The autism disaster is happening at a rate
of one child in approximately 166, though if one counts all the severe
learning disabilities it is one in six. What is happening to the nation’s
children? The CDC does not know because it has its head stuck in the bird
flu sand. And the FDA does not know because it has been too busy allowing
the pharmaceutical companies to poison children.
Dr. Teresa A. Hillier has reported, “Diabetes increased the risk of
heart attack and stroke in both age groups, but the increased risk was
much larger in younger people. People who had been diagnosed before age
45 were 14 times more likely to have a heart attack and 30 times more likely
to have a stroke than their non-diabetic peers. In contrast, older people
with diabetes were four times more likely than their peers to have a heart
attack and three times more likely to have a stroke.” Hillier and a colleague,
Kathryn L. Pedula, based their findings on a study of nearly 8,000 people
who were newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.[ii]
While type 2 diabetes used to be primarily a problem of middle and old
age, new cases of the illness among people 30 to 39 have risen 70 percent
in the last decade.
What is happening to our children is a disaster and
no words can express the pain and agony that millions of parents are facing
in the United States alone. Some day the medical authorities will be held
responsible for their failure to address these issues. In the area of autism
spectrum disorders the government just does not want to admit that hundreds
of thousands of children have been damaged by vaccines laden with mercury.
Poisoned is the word but no one at the FDA or CDC knows anything about
the dangers of low level toxicity because knowledge in those areas brings
guilt and criminal prosecution.
Diabetes has risen by over 14 percent in the last two years. The CDC
estimates that 20.8 million Americans -- 7 percent of the U.S. population
-- have diabetes, up from 18.2 million in 2003. [iii][iii] Centers
for Disease Control
Is a lack of magnesium related to type 2 Diabetes in Obese
Children? Dr. Huerta and colleagues say yes in their study titled
Magnesium deficiency is associated with insulin resistance in obese children.[iv]
Insulin resistance occurs when the body does not use insulin, a protein
made by the pancreas, to turn glucose into energy. Children who are obese
(seriously overweight) are more likely to have insulin resistance. This
might be because they have low magnesium levels in their blood. This study
was done to see if obese children get enough magnesium in their diets and
if a lack of magnesium can cause insulin resistance and eventually type
2 diabetes. This is the first study linking low magnesium levels to insulin
resistance in obese children. Researchers found that 55% of obese children
did not get enough magnesium from the foods they ate, compared with only
27% of lean children. Obese children had much lower magnesium levels in
their blood than lean children. Children with lower magnesium levels had
a higher insulin resistance.
The results of the diet survey showed that obese children got
14.4% less magnesium from the foods they ate than lean children, even though
obese and lean children ate about the same number of calories per day.
Obese children eat more calories from fatty foods than lean children. In
addition to not eating enough foods rich in magnesium, obese children seem
to have problems using magnesium from the foods they eat. Extra body fat
can prevent the body’s cells from using magnesium to break down carbohydrates.
When it comes to diabetes there is no lack
of information pointing to magnesium deficiency and chemical poisoning
converging on the young but medical authorities find it too difficult to
address magnesium deficiencies and warn parents of the chemical dangers.
The United States government seems to be involved in a huge cover up of
medical and pharmaceutical wrong doings and will just keep on letting things
slide as hundreds of thousands of kids each year get sick.
Medical science has discovered how sensitive the insulin receptor sites
are to chemical poisoning. Metals such as cadmium, mercury, arsenic, lead,
fluoride[ii] and possibly aluminum may play a role in the actual
destruction of beta cells through stimulating an auto-immune reaction to
them after they have bonded to these cells in the pancreas. It is because
mercury[iii] and lead attach themselves at highly vulnerable junctures
of proteins that they find their great capacity to provoke morphological
changes in the body. Changes in pancreatic function are among the pathogenetic
mechanisms observable during lead intoxication.[iv] Chemical
Causes of Diabetes
Lead exposure has been associated with an increased risk of hypertension,
and is a well-established risk factor for kidney
disease. Whether lead affects blood pressure indirectly through alterations
in kidney function or via more direct effects on the vasculature or neurologic
blood pressure control is unknown though. Researchers at Harvard Medical
School state, “Our findings support the hypothesis that long-term low-level
lead accumulation (estimated by tibia bone
lead) is associated with an increased risk of declining renal function
particularly among diabetics or hypertensives, populations already at risk
for impaired renal function.” more ----
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Magnesium and Diabetic Neuropathy
Diabetic neuropathy, a complication of both type one and type two diabetes,
is probably the most common complication of the disease.[i] Studies suggest
that up to 50% of people with diabetes are affected to some degree. Diabetic
neuropathy is a nerve disorder caused by diabetes. The two main classifications
of neuropathy are peripheral neuropathy, affecting the extremities, arms,
legs, hands and feet, and autonomic neuropathy, affecting the organ systems,
mainly affecting the nerves of the digestive, cardiovascular systems, urinary
tract and sexual organs.
Symptoms of peripheral nerve damage (neuropathy) are basically weakness,
usually in the arms and hands or legs and feet, often with pain burning,
tingling, or other abnormal sensations. Numbness or decreased sensation,
difficulty walking and difficulty using the arms and hands or legs and
feet are all common. Peripheral sensory neuropathy can initiate physiologic
events that lead to distal extremity ulceration and eventual amputation.
Nerve damage caused by diabetes can also lead to problems with internal
organs such as the digestive tract, heart, and sexual organs, causing indigestion,
diarrhea or constipation, dizziness, bladder infections, and impotence.[ii]
Diabetic neuropathy is a major cause of impotence in diabetic men.[iii]
Autonomic neuropathies are believed to be implicated in “silent heart attacks”
of diabetes, where the full symptoms of myocardial infarction are not felt
by the person.
In some cases, neuropathy can flare up suddenly, causing weakness and
weight loss. Neuropathy may cause both pain and insensitivity to pain in
the same person. Often, symptoms are slight at first, and since most nerve
damage occurs over a period of years, mild cases may go unnoticed for a
long time. In some people, mainly those afflicted by focal neuropathy,
the onset of pain may be sudden and severe
Magnesium is necessary for the production, function & transport
of insulin.
Magnesium is known to be necessary for nerve conduction; deficiency
is known to cause peripheral neuropathy symptoms and studies suggest that
a deficiency in magnesium may worsen blood glucose control in type 2 diabetes.
Scientists believe that a deficiency of magnesium interrupts insulin secretion
in the pancreas and increases insulin resistance in the body's tissues.
Magnesium deficiency played a role in the constriction of arteries and
enhanced injury to the cellular tissues lining the blood vessels.
Peripheral artery disease, or peripheral vascular disease, refers to diseases
of the arteries and veins of the extremities, especially atherosclerosis
with narrowing of the arteries. This opens the door to the development
and progression of atherosclerosis and sets the stage for the development
of neurological events such as strokes. These same conditions set the stage
for the development of peripheral diabetic neuropathy.[i] This entire scenario
described here also sets the stage for the development of peripheral neuropathy
even when diabetes is not present.
A recent analysis showed that people with higher dietary intakes of
magnesium (through consumption of whole grains, nuts, and green leafy vegetables)
had a decreased risk of type 2 diabetes.[ii] Magnesium has potentially
beneficial effects at several key steps of glucose and insulin metabolism.
In animal studies, dietary magnesium supplementation can prevent fructose-induced
insulin resistance and elevations of blood pressure in rats. [iii]
Magnesium deficiency is associated with insulin resistance and increased
platelet reactivity.
Magnesium deficiency creates
resistance to insulin, Insulin resistance increases levels of insulin,
which may result in a form of diabetes. Additionally, insulin
resistance by itself can distrupt intracellular magnesium levels, as PubMed
studies explains.
Dr. Mansmann
“I have had diabetic neuropathy for over 10 years. The most significant
symptom is my neuropathic pain of burning feet, called erythromelalgia.
With the aid of Mg (Magnesium
Chloride) I can completely suppress the symptom, but if my blood glucose
level is acutely elevated, because of a dietary indiscretion, the pain
flares in spite of an apparent adequate dose of Mg. It goes away with extra
Mg gluconate (Magonate) in an hour or so in either case. Without the Mg
it will last for six plus hours, even though the blood glucose level is
normal in about two hours.” “It is my belief that every one with diabetes
should be taking Mg supplementation to the point of one’s Maximum Tolerated
Dose, which is until one has soft-semi, formed stools. In addition, anyone
with neuropathy, without a known cause, must be adequately evaluated for
diabetes and especially those with poorly, slowly, healing foot sores of
any kind. Since the use of Mg is safe I see no reason that this should
not be “the standard of care”. Dr. Herbert Mansmann
Jr., Director of the Magenesium Research Lab,[xi] who is a diabetic
with congenital magnesium deficiency and severe peripheral neuropathy,
shares that he was able to reverse the neuropathy and nerve degeneration
with a year of using oral magnesium preparations at very high doses.
Special Note: While Dr. Mansmann makes
a strong case for high doses of magnesium, it cannot be ignored that GLA
has also been recognized for it's ability to stop and/or reverse peripheral
neuropathy and is endorsed by Dr. Atkins, of the famous Atkins diet, which
many diabetics follow. Dr. Atkins says, “Science has established rather
conclusively that GLA halts the otherwise inevitable advance of
nerve damage caused by diabetes. GLA helps the nerves to heal. As one study
of 111 patients showed, people with either form of diabetes, Type I or
Type II, can benefit, using a dose as small as 480 mg of GLA per day.[xxviii]
Other research suggests that the fatty acid may even prevent the nerve
deterioration from starting up.[xxix] Some kind of abnormality in fatty
acid metabolism is very likely involved in the development of diabetic
complications and maybe even the development of diabetes itself. People
who have the disease seem unable to make GLA
from dietary fats and therefore may suffer from an insufficiency of PGE1,
(Prostaglandin E1, a beneficial hormone-like compound). Coincidentally
enough, this substance can potentiate the work of insulin and exerts insulin
like actions of its own. Therefore diabetics need all the PGE1 that GLA
can help them make.” Spirulina as another basic
natural medicine ideal for diabetics as it is for almost all people. Spirulina
is very high in both magnesium and GLA.
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Magnesium for Diabetes is Critical
Magnesium affects carbohydrate metabolism by influencing the release
and activity of insulin, the hormone that controls blood sugar levels,
by influencing the resistance and sensitivity to insulin. Magnesium for
diabetics is critical. At least twenty five percent of diabetics have hypomagnesemia[i]
and this is likely an underestimate. One group has recently suggested that
the effects of reduced glutathione on glucose metabolism may be mediated,
at least in part, by intracellular magnesium levels.[ii]
Dr. Carolyn Dean indicates that magnesium deficiency may be an independent
predictor of diabetes and that diabetics both need more magnesium and lose
more magnesium than most people. Magnesium is necessary for the production,
function & transport of insulin. Magnesium deficiency is associated
with insulin resistance and increased platelet reactivity. According to
Dr. Jerry L. Nadler, “The link between diabetes mellitus and magnesium
deficiency is well known. A growing body of evidence suggests that magnesium
plays a pivotal role in reducing cardiovascular risks and may be involved
in the pathogenesis of diabetes itself. While the benefits of oral magnesium
supplementation on glycemic control have yet to be demonstrated in patients,
magnesium supplementation has been shown to improve insulin sensitivity.
Based on current knowledge, clinicians have good reason to believe that
magnesium repletion may play a role in delaying type 2 diabetes onset and
potentially in warding off its devastating complications -- cardiovascular
disease, retinopathy, and nephropathy.”
A separate Gallup survey (in 1995) of 500 adults with diabetes reported
that 83 percent of those with diabetes are consuming insufficient magnesium
from food, with many by significant margins.[iii] One group has recently
suggested that the effects of reduced glutathione on glucose metabolism
may be mediated, at least in part, by intracellular magnesium levels.[iv]
The mechanism of hypomagnesemia in diabetic patients still remains unsolved
but there is enough evidence to suggest that Mg levels drop in the course
of recovery from ketoacidosis, during insulin therapy[v] or with severe
retinopathy[vi] or proteinuria.[vii] Diabetic patients, especially those
with poor glucose control, develop hypomagnesemia from a glucose-induced
osmotic diuresis.
Insulin resistance and magnesium depletion may result in a vicious cycle
of worsening insulin resistance and decrease in intracellular Mg(2+) which
may limit the role of magnesium in vital cellular processes. Diabetic ketoacidosis
(DKA)[viii] is a state of inadequate insulin levels resulting in high blood
sugar and accumulation of organic acids and ketones in the blood. Increased
blood acids (ketoacidosis) can be an acute complication of diabetes. It
occurs
when your muscle cells become so starved for energy that your body takes
emergency measures and breaks down fat, a process that forms acids known
as ketones.[ix]
Hyperglycemia initially causes the movement of water out of cells, with
subsequent intracellular dehydration, extracellular fluid expansion and
hyponatremia (sodium loss). It also leads to a diuresis in which
water losses exceed sodium chloride losses. It is believed that magnesium
is also lost by osmotic action. Urinary losses then lead to progressive
dehydration and volume depletion, which causes diminished urine flow and
greater retention of glucose in plasma. The net result of these alterations
is hyperglycemia with metabolic acidosis.[x]
Proteinuria is protein in the urine, caused by damaged kidneys and a
declining ability of the kidneys to protect the body from protein loss.
This is frequently seen in longstanding diabetes, hypertension, as well
as other chronic renal conditions. In the United States, diabetes is the
leading cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD), the result of chronic
kidney
disease. In both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, the first sign of deteriorating
kidney function is the presence of small amounts of albumin in the urine,
a condition called microalbuminuria. As kidney function declines, the amount
of albumin in the urine increases, and microalbuminuria becomes full-fledged
proteinuria. Lower serum magnesium levels are associated with more rapid
decline of renal function. During insulin treatment, neither magnesium
nor potassium can be metabolized properly, so these essential minerals
must be replaced.
Severe symptomatic hypermagnesemia is relatively rare. But high levels
of magnesium can develop in people, most commonly those with renal insufficiency
or renal failure.[xi] (diabetes, chronic renal insufficiency). Kidney disease,
rather than diet, is the usual cause of magnesium overload, because the
kidneys lose the ability to remove excess magnesium.
Magnesium is regulated and excreted primarily by the kidneys where various
ATPase enzymes are responsible for maintaining homeostasis.[xii]
However hypermagnesemia can also occur in people with hypothyroidism, those
using magnesium containing medications such as antacids, laxatives, cathartics,
and in those with certain types of gastrointestinal disorders, such as
colitis, gastroenteritis and gastric dilation, which may cause an increased
absorption of magnesium.
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page. The IMVA was founded upon the idea that reforms are urgently needed
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principle illnesses confronting humanity in the 21st Century. They have
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Magnesium Factor - Magnesium is one of the most important nutrients
for human health, yet it may be the most overlooked -- despite the fact
that the majority of Americans suffer from magnesium deficiency. As Dr.
Mildred Seelig -- probably the world's leading expert on the role of magnesium
in human health -- points out in this invaluable book magnesium deficiency
is a major cause of both heart disease and diabetes as well as a significant
number of other common ailments. If you are one of the majority of Americans
who suffer from magnesium deficiency you undoubtedly suffer from numerous
unpleasant symptoms and are at serious risk of dying prematurely.
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Magnesium
for Healthy Bones & Teeth
Medical authorities claim that the widespread incidence of osteoporosis
and tooth decay in western countries can be prevented with a high calcium
intake. However, published evidence reveals that the opposite is true.
Asian and African populations with a very low intake of about 300 mg of
calcium daily have very little osteoporosis. Bantu women with an intake
of 200 to 300 mg of calcium daily have the lowest incidence of osteoporosis
in the world. In western countries with a high intake of dairy products
the average calcium intake is about 1000 mg. The higher the calcium intake,
especially in the form of cows' milk products (except butter) the higher
the incidence of osteoporosis.
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.
Dr Barnett, an orthopaedic surgeon practised in two different U.S. Counties
with very different soil and water mineral levels. In Dallas County with
a high calcium and low magnesium concentration osteoporosis and hip fractures
were very common, while in Hereford with high magnesium and low calcium
these were nearly absent. In Dallas County the magnesium content of bones
was 0.5% while in Hereford it was 1.76%. In another comparison the magnesium
content in bones of osteoporosis sufferers was 0.62% while in healthy individuals
it was 1.26%.
The same applies for healthy teeth. In a New Zealand study it was found
that caries-resistant teeth had on average twice the amount of magnesium
as caries-prone teeth. The average concentration of magnesium phosphate
in bones is given as about 1%, in teeth about 1.5%, in elephant tusks 2%
and in the teeth of carnivorous animals made to crush bones it is 5%. In
regard to the strength of bones and teeth think of calcium as chalk and
of magnesium as superglue. The magnesium superglue binds and transforms
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Magnesium Chloride Vs Magnesium Sulfate
Magnesium
Chloride Vs Magnesium Sulfate Magnesium chloride
is a special form of magnesium that is natural to the sea as is magnesium
sulfate, otherwise known as Epsom Salt. Both forms are used in emergency
rooms to save lives but it is known that sulfate is more toxic and in transdermal
application it’s less absorbable and retainable in the body then magnesium
chloride is. The best form of magnesium supplementation obviously would
be the most natural and that would be found where life began, in the sea.
Magnesium chloride, though highly bioavaliable when taken orally, is idea
when applied transdermally, either directly to the skin or when used in
baths as Epsom Salts are traditionally used. The difference is remarkable
between the two forms and is almost instantly noticeable. Magnesium
chloride is easily assimilated and metabolized in the human body.[i]
Epsom salts are used by parents of children with autism because of the
sulfate, which they are sometimes deficient in; sulfate is also crucial
to the body and is wasted in the urine of autistic children. Magnesium
sulfate, commonly known as Epsom salts, is rapidly excreted through the
kidneys and therefore difficult to assimilate. This would explain in part
why the effects from Epsom salt baths do not last long and why you need
more magnesium sulfate in a bath than magnesium chloride to get similar
results.
According to Daniel Reid, author of The Tao of Detox, magnesium sulfate,
commonly known as Epsom salts, is rapidly excreted through the kidneys
and therefore difficult to assimilate. This would explain in part why the
effects from Epsom salt baths do not last long and why you need more magnesium
sulfate in a bath than magnesium chloride to get similar results. Magnesium
chloride is easily assimilated and metabolized in the human body.[i] Epsom
salts are used by parents of children with autism because of the sulfate,
which they are sometimes deficient in; sulfate is also crucial to the body
and is wasted in the urine of autistic children. Where
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