Posted by Hombre on May 8, 2010, at 6:21:59
In reply to Re: Magnesium, posted by Lao Tzu on May 6, 2010, at 15:12:04
Some choice snippets from an article entitled,
"How the Sick Get Sicker by Following Current Medical Protocol: The Example of Undiagnosed Magnesium Deficiency"Sorry, the references show up as numbers and I'm just too lazy to take them all out.
"With the processing of foods such as whole wheat or brown rice to bleached white flour or rice, over 75% of the magnesium is lost.1 U.S.A. government surveys confirm that the average American diet provides only 40% of the recommended daily amount of magnesium.2 In another study 39% of the populus had less than 70% of the RDA for magnesium.3 Add to this the fact that sugar, phosphates (high in processed foods, soft drinks), alcohol, stress, and a high fat diet further potentiate magnesium deficiency.4 There is no blood test to adequately con- firm magnesium repleteness. The serum level is the most commonly performed, but is too insensitive to be of any value except in cases of severe deficiency, since only 1% of body magnesium is extracellular.5 Unfortu- nately, the serum magnesium has become a standard, allowing the doctor who does not know how insensitive the test is to assume magnesium repleteness when he sees it re- ported as normal."
"...magnesium is natures calcium channel blocker and controls the cal- cium pump, as well..."
[people with depression are more likely to develop heart disease. why?]
"Nor is magnesium status routinely as- sessed for chronic electrolyte abnormalities, despite reports where hypokalemia, hypocalcemia, and/or hypophosphatemia could not be corrected until the hypomagnesemia was diagnosed and cor- rected.19,31 And, of course magnesium defi- ciency has a major bearing on the develop- ment of arteriosclerosis, the number-one cause of morbidity and mortality."
"This is a dangerous assumption, es- pecially in light of the JAMA study6 show- ing 90% of physicians caring for1033 hos- pitalized patients never even thought of assessing magnesium status in any form. And many of these patients died as a con- sequence of a magnesium deficiency not being diagnosed and corrected."
"Chronic magnesium deficiency has been implicated in some cases of TIA or mini-strokes;38 organic brain syndrome;39 contributes to the pathology of Alzheim- ers disease; intestinal spasms mimicking colitis;40 cerebral vascular spasms called migraine; bronchial spasms of asthma;41 chronic fatigue;42 unwarranted depression; fallopian spasms of infertility, and chemi- cal sensitivity."
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"When magnesium deficiency symptoms include psychiatric symptoms like irritabil- ity, anxiety, aggitation, and panic attacks,39 you can appreciate how one almost feels clair- voyant reading an article on panic disorder in cardiology patients.44 And still no men- tion of the potential common deficiency that could trigger both target organs. And the recent National Institutes of Health Con- sensus Statement on panic disorder fails to mention nutrient deficiencies in the differ- ential diagnosis.45 Nor do they mention that stress and magnesium deficiency are mutu- ally enhancing,46,47 in that stress through cat- echolamine induction enhances magnesium deficiency, while magnesium deficiency causes irritability, aggitation, and panic, which in turn push more on the catecholamines: another spiral mechanism of how the sick get sicker."
If You Eat a Balanced Diet, You Cant Be Deficient
"This commonly offered medical advice overlooks the fact that the majority of the SAD (standard American diet) is processed, leaving 25-75% of the original nutrients in food. In a Food and Drug Administration study to analyze 234 foods over two years, they found the average American diet to have less than 80% of the RDA of one or more of calcium, magnesium iron, zinc, copper, and manganese."
"For as shown, even the more seemingly minor symptoms, like anxiety or insomnia, can herald a magnesium or other nutrient deficit that can begin to insidiously disrupt arterial and cardiac integrity and conse- quently increase the vulnerablity to life- threatening events.10 If these symptoms are unknowingly masked with a tranquilizer or hypnotic, the opportunity to prevent more serious sequelae is lost."
poster:Hombre
thread:946186
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/alter/20100322/msgs/946761.html