Liane Lim yes I would but its not good to make sweeping generalizations.

 

Mark

 

 

 

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From: "Mark Sircus Ac., OMD" <director@...>
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Subject: [Naturopaths] IMVA - Magnesium - August 24, 2005
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 23:46:19 -0300

 

Dear IMVA,

 

This past week I have been working on two very important subjects, which I will publish as a series because of the length and detail of the materials. The first is on Magnesium and the second is on Pure Water.

 

The health and healing implications are tremendous, not only for autistic children but for all of us. Some of the materials may be slightly tedious to wade through but I seriously recommend the effort be made. I have shunted as much as I can of the deeper science into the notes/references section to streamline the reading.

 

It is interesting to write in three dimensions on a subject like this alternating between regular text, my use of italic quotations inserted between paragraphs, and an in depth reference and notes section. As many of you might have gathered I really enjoy breaking rules and probably that is because 10 years ago, in my first book The Marriage of Souls, I wrote:

 

To love is to break all the rules for love is the only rule.

With love we need no other rules because real love is responsible.

It is sensitive and in tune with the Cosmic Will.

Christ gave us two commandments

and each one contained the simple rule of love.

If we love God and others and ourselves

how can we ever go wrong in this life?

 

Everything I wrote in that book, which is full of prose like this, I fixed deeply and permanently in my heart and imagination. Certainly I break the rules of publishing a medical review on magnesium with a spiritual statement like this. Oh well.

 

Below is the introduction on magnesium. Tomorrow I hope to publish the second installment on the role of magnesium in detoxification and chelation and its part in glutathione production. Then we will move on to Magnesium and Disease, food and magnesium, then to magnesium and DHEA, a crucial hormone. And then finally onto treatment recommendations, which is about a new form of transdermal magnesium therapy similar but more flexible and stronger than Epson Salt baths. If you want to learn about a crucial therapy that employs a basic agent like magnesium, one that is instrumental in helping recover from many diseases, as well as a therapy that will help you stay young, stay healthy and live longer, I suggest you read this series carefully and put yourself on this form of naturopathic therapy.

 

These writings are part of the Ecstasy of Deliverance, my third book in the Medical Veritas series.

 

After all of this I will deliver on the next part of the series on water.

 

 

Best Regards,

 

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
Director International Medical Veritas Association
http://www.detoxchelationclinic.com
http://www.imva.info
http://www.worldpsychology.net
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Magnesium

 International Medical Veritas Association

 

 

It is highly regrettable that the deficiency of such an
 inexpensive, low-toxicity nutrient results in diseases that
 cause incalculable suffering and expense throughout the world.

                                                                                         Dr. Steven Johnson

 

     Magnesium, atomic number twelve, is an element essential for normal function of the nervous and cardiovascular systems. Unfortunately, magnesium deficiency is one of the most common nutritional problems in the industrialized world today. This deficiency is the result of agricultural practices, food preparation techniques, and dietary trends. Despite the current recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for magnesium (350 mg. per day), it has been estimated that adults average less than 50% of this requirement. The health implications are nothing short of catastrophic.

 

    There are basically two classes of minerals: micronutrient minerals, which are only needed in trace amounts and, mineral macronutrients of which we need fairly significant amounts. Most people are aware that we need calcium, iron, phosphorus, zinc, in relatively large quantities. Unfortunately, the conventional medical paradigm in the United States has not realized the importance of magnesium. Magnesium (Mg) supplementation is dramatically under utilized by conventional physicians. Though Mg deficiency is common it is usually not looked for, and therefore, not found or corrected. In most industrialized countries, Mg intake has decreased over time and is marginal in the entire population.[i]

 

When 1,033 patients who were hospitalized, over 54% were low in
magnesium. The worst part of the study showed that 90% of the
 doctors never even thought of ordering a magnesium test.[ii]
                                                                 Journal of the American Medical Association

 

    There are over 200 published clinical studies[iii] documenting the need for magnesium and many examples of miraculous “cures” from the use of this common mineral. Even DAN (Defeat Autism Now) doctors underestimate autistic children’s needs recommending only 50 mgs twice a day in oral form. Not much of that is going to get into the children’s blood and cells because oral administration of magnesium is not absorbed readily and is made less available because of all the problems in these kids’ GI systems. Professor Gilbert LeLord of France published six studies evaluating the use of vitamin B6 with magnesium, on autistic children and adults. Their studies typically used as much as 500 mgs of magnesium with more than satisfactory results. 

    According to Dr. Norman Shealy oral magnesium supplementation takes between 6 to 12 months to restore intracellular levels whereas a transdermally applied magnesium lotion with 25% magnesium chloride restores intracellular levels within 4 to 6 weeks. Some nutritional experts now believe that 750 mg. of magnesium supplement per day is a more physiologic[iv] recommendation but to take that much orally would not suffice and would upset the digestive system, cause diarrhea, and end up not being properly absorbed. There is great confusion about types of magnesium being used to rectify deficiencies and metabolic problems in utilizing Mg. Good sources of magnesium include whole grains, nuts, peanut butter, cottonseed, peanut and soybean flours, green leafy vegetables and spices. It's better to get magnesium from foods rather than supplements because high doses have a laxative effect--the body's way of preventing toxic levels.  But unfortunately we have to come to terms with that fact that the food values of magnesium have been dropping over the last fifty years making it extremely difficult to receive all we need from foods. The International Medical Veritas Association recommends a system of transdermal magnesium therapy that bypasses the problems evident with oral magnesium supplementation. (See treatment recommendations)  

     Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in the body and is essential to good health. Approximately 50% of total body magnesium is found in bone. The other half is found predominantly inside cells of body tissues and organs. Only 1% of magnesium is found in blood, but the body works very hard to keep blood levels of magnesium constant. Magnesium is the single most important mineral for maintaining proper electrical balance and facilitating smooth metabolism in the cells. One of the major properties of magnesium is that of stabilizing membranes. Magnesium has a stabilizing effect not only for the cell membrane but also for various subcellular organelles. 

Magnesium deficiency can affect virtually every organ system of the body.
Unfortunately, Mg absorption and elimination depend on a very large

number of variables, at least one of which often goes awry, leading to

 a Mg deficiency that can present with many signs and symptoms.

 

    To say that magnesium is important in health and medicine is to underestimate the case for it is needed for more than 300 biochemical reactions in the body. Mg is extremely important for the metabolism of Ca, K, P, Zn, Cu, Fe, Na, Pb, Cd, HCl, acetylcholine, and nitric oxide (NO), for many enzymes, for the intracellular homeostasis and for activation of thiamine and therefore, for a very wide gamut of critical body functions. Magnesium is a particularly crucial element for mediating the vital functions of the nervous and endocrine systems, it helps maintain normal muscle and nerve function, keeps heart rhythm steady, supports a healthy immune system, and keeps bones strong. Magnesium also helps regulate blood sugar levels, promotes normal blood pressure, and is known to be involved in energy metabolism and protein synthesis. In the nucleus more than half the magnesium is closely associated with nucleic acids and mononucleotides. Magnesium is necessary for the physical integrity of the double helix of DNA which carries genetic information and the code for specific proteins.

 

Enzymes are protein molecules that stimulate every
 chemical reaction in the body. Magnesium is
 required to make hundreds of these enzymes work.
                                                                                    Dr. Carolyn Dean

 

    According to Dr. Carolyn Dean, “Of the 325 magnesium-dependent enzymes[v], the most important enzyme reaction involves the creation of energy by activating adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the fundamental energy storage molecule of the body. ATP may be what the Chinese refer to as qi, or life force. Magnesium is required for the body to produce and store energy. Without magnesium there is no energy, no movement, no life.” Magnesium is necessary for the synthesis of various compounds that have energy-rich bonds of any type.[vi] The formation of energy-rich bonds that require Mg²⁺ constitutes the necessary basis for all cellular activities. This alone establishes the critical biologic importance of magnesium. Thus fatigue is often reduced with magnesium (and potassium) supplementation. The many enzyme systems that require magnesium help restore normal energy levels.

 

The toxic effect of fluoride ions plays a key role in acute Mg deficiency.

Fluoride ion clearly interferes with the biological activity of magnesium ions.

In general, Mg-F^- interactions decrease enzymatic activity.[vii]

 

     Dr. Dean is the author of The Miracle of Magnesium and she and many other doctors and researchers are clear that “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.” Dr.  Steven Johnson puts it better. “The range of pathologies associated with Mg deficiency is staggering: hypertension (cardiovascular disease, kidney and liver damage, etc.), peroxynitrite damage (migraine, multiple sclerosis, glaucoma, Alzheimer's disease, etc.), recurrent bacterial infection due to low levels of nitric oxide in the cavities (sinuses, vagina, middle ear, lungs, throat, etc.), fungal infections due to a depressed immune system, thiamine deactivation (low gastric acid, behavioral disorders, etc.), premenstrual syndrome, Ca deficiency (osteoporosis, mood swings, etc.), tooth cavities, hearing loss, diabetes type II, cramps, muscle weakness, impotence, aggression, fibromas, K deficiency (arrhythmia, hypertension, some forms of cancer), Fe accumulation, etc.”

 

     Magnesium is essential in regulating central nervous system excitability. Magnesium-deficiency may also cause aggressive behaviour, [viii] depression, or suicide.[ix] Magnesium calms the brain and people do not need to become severely deficient in magnesium for the brain to become hyperactive. One  study[x] confirmed earlier reports that a marginal magnesium intake overexcites the brain's neurons and results in less coherence--creating cacaphony rather than symphony--according to electroencephalogram (EEG) measurements.[xi] During half of the six-month study, 13 women consumed 115 milligrams of magnesium daily--or about 40 percent of the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA). During the other half, they got 315 mg daily--a little more than the 280 mg recommended for women. After only six weeks on the marginal intake, EEG readings showed significant differences in brain function.

 

Magnesium exists in the body either as active magnesium ions or as
 inactive magnesium complexes bound to proteins or other substances.

 

     Minerals in general rule over other nutrients because vitamins, enzymes and amino acids, as well as fats and carbohydrates, require them for activity. There are 17 minerals which are considered essential in human nutrition and if there is a shortage of just one the balance of the entire system can be upset. A deficiency of a single mineral can negatively impact the entire chain of life, rendering other nutrients ineffective and useless. Magnesium is one of the key minerals that we need in relatively large quantities. The recommended daily requirement of magnesium in the diet of human beings is between 280 and 350 mg per day, although some studies have shown a daily requirement of as much as 500 mg per day or more, depending on the body weight of the individual.

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[i] Galan, P., Preziosi, P., Durlach, V., Valeix, P., Ribas, L., Bouzid, D., Favier, A. & Hercberg, S. (1997) Dietary magnesium intake in a French adult population. Magnes. Res. 10:321-328.[Medline]

[ii] June 13, 1990

[iii] http://mgwater.com/

[iv] Means relating to a persons healthy or normal functioning

[v] Enzymes of carbohydrate metabolism glucokinase, hexokinase, galactokinase, phosphorylase phosphatase, phosphorylase kinase, phosphoglucomutase, 6-phosphofructokinase aldolase, triokinase, fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase, glucose-6-phosphatase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, transketolase, phosphoglycerate kinase, phosphoryl glycerylmutase, enolase, pyruvate kinase, thiamine-pyrophosphate kinase, pyruvate decarboxylase, glycerokinase, glycerophosphatase, various pentoside kinases that activate B vitamins. Enzymes of nucleic acid and protein metabolism: RNA polymerase which allows the synthesis of RNA and especially that of messenger RNA which, associated with post-ribosomal factors of initiation and elongation and with polyamines, codes for amino acids to produce specific proteins; DNA polymerase which allows the reconstitution and recombination of DNA, ornithine carbamyl transferase, glutamine synthetase, carbamate kinase, argininosuccinate synthetase, creatine kinase, insulinase, leucine aminopeptidase which appears to be similar to hypertensinase. Enzymes of lipid metabolism acetylcoenzyme A synthetase, acylco A synthetase, beta-ketothiolase, diglyceride kinase, phosphatidate phosphatase, mevalonate kinase, phosphomevalonate kinase, lecithin-cholesterol-acyl transferase (LCAT).

[vi] The phosphoric anhydride bond that is found mainly in ATP or adenosine triphosphate, "the main fuel of life" (13), but also in GTP (guanosine triphosphate) as well as in other nucleoside triphosphates such as UTP (uridine triphosphate), CTP (cytosine triphosphate) and ITP (inosine triphosphate). It is also found in the phosphoamide bond of phosphocreatine, the phosphoenol bond of phosphoenolpyruvic acid, the mixed anhydride bond of 1,3-diphosphoglyceric acid and in the bond between an acid and a thiol group as in acyl coenzyme A or succinyl coenzyme A.

[vii] A Machoy-Mokrzynska. Fluoride_Magnesium Interaction.  Fluoride (J. of the International Society for Fluoride Research), Vol. 28 No. 4; November, 1995, pp 175-177  http://www.mgwater.com/fl2.shtml Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Pomeranian Medical Academy, Szczecin, Poland.

[viii] Bernard Rimland. While no patient has been cured with the vitamin B6 and magnesium treatment, there have been many instances where remarkable improvement has been achieved. In one such case an 18-year-old autistic patient was about to be evicted from the third mental hospital in his city. Even massive amounts of drugs had no effect on him, and he was considered too violent and assaultative to be kept in the hospital. The psychiatrist tried the B6/magnesium approach as a last resort. The young man calmed down very quickly. The psychiatrist reported at a meeting that she had recently visited the family and had found the young man to now be a pleasant and easy-going young autistic person who sang and played his guitar for her. http://www.autism.org/vitb6.html

[ix] C. M. Banki, M. Arato and C. D. Kilts. Aminergic studies and cerebrospinal fluid cations in suicide. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol 487, Issue 1 221-230, Copyright © 1986 by New York Academy of Sciences 

[x] This is the first experimental study in which magnesium intakes were tightly controlled and EEG measurements were analyzed by computer so they could be statistically compared.

[xi] http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/np/fnrb/fnrb1095.htm#calm

 

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