Health Salon

Dr. Mark Hyman, MD.
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A deficiency in this critical nutrient, magnesium, makes you
twice as likely to die as other people,
according to a study published in the journal
“Critical Care.”

I remember using magnesium when I worked in the
emergency room. It was a critical “medication”
on the crash cart. If someone was dying of a
life-threatening arrhythmia (or irregular heart
beat), we used intravenous magnesium.

If someone was constipated or needed to prepare
for colonoscopy, we gave them milk of magnesia
or a green bottle of liquid magnesium citrate,
which emptied their bowels.

If pregnant women came in with pre-term labor,
or high blood pressure of pregnancy (pre-
eclampsia) or seizures, we gave them continuous
high doses of intravenous magnesium.

Anything that is tight, irritable, crampy, and
stiff — whether it is a body part or an even a
mood — is a sign of magnesium deficiency.

Why?

Well, this critical mineral is responsible for
over 300 enzyme reactions and is found in all of
your tissues — but mainly, bone, muscle, and brain.

The list of conditions that are found related to
magnesium deficiency is very long.

In fact, there are over 3,500 medical references
on magnesium deficiency!

You might be magnesium deficient if you have any
of the following symptoms:

* muscle cramps or twitches
* insomnia
* irritability
* sensitivity to loud noises
* anxiety
* autism
* ADD
* palpitations
* angina
* constipation
* headaches
* migraines
* fibromyalgia
* chronic fatigue
* asthma
* kidney stones
* diabetes
* obesity
* osteoporosis
* high blood pressure
* PMS
* menstrual cramps
* irritable bladder
* irritable bowel syndrome
* reflux
* trouble swallowing

By conservative standards of measurement (blood,
or serum, magnesium levels), 65 percent of
people admitted to the intensive care unit –
and about 15 percent of the general population -
- have magnesium deficiency.

Why are we so deficient?

The answer is simple: Many of us eat a diet that
contains practically no magnesium — a highly
processed, refined diet that is based mostly on
white flour, meat, and dairy (all of which have
no magnesium).

When was the last time you had a good dose of
sea vegetables (seaweed), nuts, greens, and
beans? If you are like most Americans, your nut
consumption mostly comes from peanut butter, and
mostly in chocolate peanut butter cups.

Our processed diet contains almost no magnesium.

It is also often poorly absorbed and easily lost
from our bodies.

To absorb magnesium we need a lot of it in our
diet, plus enough vitamins B6 and D and selenium
to get the job done.

Moreover, much of modern life conspires to help
us lose whatever magnesium we get in our diet.

Magnesium levels are decreased by excess
alcohol, salt, coffee, phosphoric acid in colas,
profuse sweating, prolonged or intense stress,
chronic diarrhea, excessive menstruation,
diuretics (water pills), antibiotics and other
drugs, and some intestinal parasites.

In fact, in one study in Kosovo, people under
chronic war stress lost large amounts of
magnesium in their urine.

So if you suffer from any of the symptoms I
mentioned or have any of the diseases I noted,
don’t worry — it is an easy fix!!

Here’s how.

* Limit coffee, colas, salt, sugar and alcohol

* Learn how to practice active relaxation

* Check with your doctor if your medication is
causing magnesium loss (many high blood pressure
drugs or diuretics cause loss of magnesium)

Eat foods high in magnesium.

* These include kelp, wheat bran, wheat germ,
almonds, cashews, buckwheat, brazil nuts, dulse,
filberts, millet, pecans, walnuts, rye, tofu,
soy beans, brown rice, figs, dates, collard
greens, shrimp, avocado, parsley, beans, barley,
dandelion greens, and garlic

Take magnesium supplements.

* The RDA (the minimum amount needed) for
magnesium is about 300 mg a day. Most of us get
far less than 200 mg

* Some may need much more depending on their
condition

* Most people benefit from 400 to 1,000 mg a day

* The most absorbable forms are magnesium
citrate, glycinate taurate, or aspartate,
although magnesium bound to Kreb cycle chelates
(malate, succinate, fumarate) are also good

* Avoid magnesium carbonate, sulfate, gluconate,
and oxide. They are poorly absorbed (and the
cheapest and most common forms found in
supplements)

* Side effects from too much magnesium include
diarrhea, which can be avoided if you switch to
magnesium glycinate

* Most minerals are best taken as a team with
other minerals in a multi-mineral formula

* Taking a hot bath with Epsom salts (magnesium
sulfate) is a good way to absorb and get much
needed magnesium

* People with kidney disease or severe heart
disease should take magnesium only under a
doctor’s supervision

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BACKGROUND: Magnesium deficiency can cause dyslipidemia and insulin hypersecretion, which may facilitate gallstone formation. However, the effect of long-term consumption of magnesium on the risk of gallstone disease is unknown.

METHODS: We prospectively studied magnesium consumption and risk of gallstone disease in a cohort of 42,705 U.S. men from 1986 to 2002. Magnesium consumption was assessed using a validated semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire. Newly diagnosed gallstone disease was ascertained biennially.

RESULTS: We documented 2,195 incident cases of symptomatic gallstones during 560,810 person-years of follow-up. The age-adjusted relative risks (RRs) for men with total magnesium intake and dietary magnesium, when the highest and lowest quintiles were compared, were 0.67 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.59-0.77, P for trend <0.0001) and 0.67 (CI 0.59-0.76, P for trend <0.0001), respectively.

After adjusting for multiple potential confounding variables, when extreme quintiles were compared, the multivariate RR of total magnesium intake (RR 0.72, CI 0.61-0.86, P for trend = 0.006) and dietary magnesium (RR 0.68, CI 0.57-0.82, P for trend = 0.0006) remained significant with a dose-response relationship.

CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest a protective role of magnesium consumption in the prevention of symptomatic gallstone disease among men.

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