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"There are several conditions that can lead to magnesium deficiency and therefore hypoparathyroidism and vitamin D deficiency. These include diuretic use (urinary loss), alcohol abuse (nutritional deficiency), diabetes (urinary loss), and chronic diarrhea (malabsorption). Otherwise, magnesium deficiency is rare. From the conventional scientific viewpoint, the main reason why magnesium is part of calcium supplements is that carbonates are constipating and magnesium has a laxative effect, and therefore the combination is usually better tolerated." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "There is strong evidence suggesting a relationship between uncontrolled type 1 and type 2 diabetes and magnesium deficiency,220 thus magnesium deficiency may predispose diabetic patients to an increased incidence of cardiovascular disease and death. Magnesium also improves cardiac performance by enhancing blood flow in the coronary arteries. It also prevents oxidation of lipoproteins and subsequent atherosclerosis. Magnesium 400-1,200 mg per day in divided doses Niacin." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"If there is a tendency to be depressed in the family, a magnesium deficiency will allow that tendency to show up. If there's alcoholism, diabetes, obesity in the family, then low magnesium may allow those things to show up in a person. There are reasons to explain all these things and nutrition is basic to this. The patients don't have an antidepressant pill deficiency; they usually have a magnesium deficiency." Dr. Sherry Rogers is even more emphatic. "In 27 years of medical practice, the one nutrient I have been very impressed with is magnesium." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"There is strong evidence suggesting a relationship between uncontrolled type 1 and type 2 diabetes and magnesium deficiency,220 thus magnesium deficiency may predispose diabetic patients to an increased incidence of cardiovascular disease and death. Magnesium also improves cardiac performance by enhancing blood flow in the coronary arteries. It also prevents oxidation of lipoproteins and subsequent atherosclerosis. Magnesium 400-1,200 mg per day in divided doses Niacin." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Characteristic signs of Type-2 diabetes in children include: overweight, early stages of heart disease, magnesium deficiency, and insulin resistance. Chlorophyll through a plant-sourced diet is high in magnesium. Chlorophyll is an amazing food that is essential for humans, and at the center of every chlorophyll molecule is the element magnesium. Plant blood (chlorophyll) and human blood (hemoglobin) are not so different, as shown in Figure 21. Magnesium is seventeen times as prevalent in the human heart as any other tissue in the body. Famous research scientist Dr." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Other research has noted that magnesium deficiency resulted in impaired insulin secretion, and magnesium replacement restores insulin secretion. Dietary magnesium supplements (400 mg/day) were found to improve glucose tolerance in elderly individuals.145 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 Diabetes Care.U6 Until now, very few large studies have directly examined the long-term effects of dietary magnesium on diabetes. Dr." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Experimental work with magnesium deficiency showed that giving magnesium reduces tissue sensitivity to insulin. If the diet is depleted in potassium, it can also lead to insulin resistance at post-receptor sites.124 Zinc and chromium play a role in decreasing insulin resistance, as well as does vanadium. Biotin does appear to decrease insulin resistance according to research.123 Vitamin E plays a role. About 600 mg was all that was needed to make a difference in insulin resistance. Taurine and glutathione all seem to decrease insulin resistance." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Other symptoms of magnesium deficiency may include muscle cramps, headaches, loss of appetite, insomnia, and a predisposition to stress. Magnesium deficiency is extremely common in the geriatric population and in women during the premenstrual period. magnesium deficiency is often secondary to factors that reduce absorption or increase secretion, such as high calcium intake, alcohol consumption, surgery, diuretic use, liver disease, kidney disease, and oral contraceptive use. The RDA for magnesium is 350 milligrams per day for adult males and 300 milligrams per day for adult females." - Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Get the book.)

"Mahaba HM et al. magnesium deficiency and other risk factors for diabetic retinopathy. / Egypt Public Health Assoc 2000; 75(3-4):323-33. Mahesh T et al. Effect of photo-irradiated curcumin treatment against oxidative stress in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. / Medic Food'2005 Jun; 8(2):251-55. Marin P et al. The effects of testosterone treatment on body composition and metabolism in middle-aged obese men. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 1992 Dec; 16(12):991-97. Martin J et al." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"It increases the effects of magnesium, and thereby helps prevent magnesium deficiency. It is part ofthe metabolic process ofessentialfatty acid assimilation, as well as assimilation of fat-soluble vitamins, such as vitamins A, D, and E. • It is a powerful antioxidant. It is an indirect component of the methylation process, and may work synergistically with TMG and methyl-B-12. • // reduces seizures in some patients, and can increase the activity of the calming neurotransmitter GABA. • // contains sulfur, and may therefore help kids with impaired sulfation." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Otherwise, magnesium deficiency is rare. From the conventional scientific viewpoint, the main reason why magnesium is part of calcium supplements is that carbonates are constipating and magnesium has a laxative effect, and therefore the combination is usually better tolerated. Even though calcium has received the most attention, alternative medicine views the importance of magnesium in skeletal metabolism and calcium regulation in a little bit different and perhaps broader context. Magnesium influences both matrix and mineral metabolism in bone." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Experimentally induced prolonged magnesium deficiency causes osteoporosis in the rat. Eur J Intern Med. 2004 Apr;15(2):97-107. 66. Rude RK, Gruber HE, Norton HJ, Wei LY, Frausto A, Mills BG. Bone loss induced by dietary magnesium reduction to 10% of the nutrient requirement in rats is associated with increased release of substance P and tumor necrosis factor-alpha. J Nutr. 2004 Jan;134(l):79-85. 67. Rude RK, Gruber HE, Wei LY, Frausto A, Mills BG. Magnesium deficiency: effect on bone and mineral metabolism in the mouse. Calcif Tissue Int. 2003 Jan;72(l):32-41. Epub 2002 Oct 10." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Causes of Functional Low Thyroid 1. magnesium deficiency Magnesium is the most common mineral deficiency, and is a frequent cause of low thyroid function. I would estimate that nearly 40 percent of my new patients are mildly or severely magnesium-deficient. Symptoms of low magnesium are: headache, intolerance to bright light, irritability, fatigue, and menstrual cramps. 2. Iron deficiency Iron deficiency is common in women with heavy bleeds. I always try to have low thyroid patients maintain their ferritin above 60 ng/ml. 3." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"But we saw an unexpected increase in her PTH, which was 73; this pointed to protein and/or magnesium deficiency, which often accompanies vitamin D deficiency. So she boosted her protein intake and began supplementing her magnesium, too. After six months on the Vitamin D Cure, she had scores of 0.5-30-35-40-7 and only five minutes of morning stiffness. Her weight was down to 158 and her vitamin D level rose to 54. This shows how much weight a person can lose via vitamin D normalization and dietary modification. Sharon lost 22 pounds in six months, and she wasn't even on a diet!" - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"According to Seelig, "Magnesium deficiency intensifies adverse reactions to stress that can be not only life-threatening but life-ending. All stress and trauma, whether physical or emotional, causes a loss of the body's stores of magnesium. And if you don't have enough magnesium to begin with, you run the risk of more serious reactions." The typical magnesium-deficient American diet produces little magnesium for the body to store, so stress may quickly put you into the red." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "Medically, perhaps the most dramatic evidence of the stress-magnesium connection concerns cardiovascular disease. magnesium deficiency increases the risk of hypertension, cerebrovascular and coronary artery constriction and occlusion, arrhythmias, and sudden cardiac death. Attitude If you have CVD, please check your attitude. We're not joking. Patients have to want to heal. Seneca, the Roman playwright, put it succinctly two thousand years ago when he said, "It is part of the cure to wish to be cured." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "Why is magnesium deficiency so common? For one thing, the soil has become deficient in magnesium and other health-nurturing minerals. And then there's our lifestyle: • Vegetables, nuts, and whole grains contain ample magnesium, but most people don't eat enough of them. The national preference for processed foods ensures a risky low magnesium intake. The refining of whole grains eliminates most of the magnesium content. For example, processing of whole wheat to white flour causes an 82 percent magnesium loss. • High-fat diets generate soaps in the gut that wash out the magnesium in food." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "Shechter suggests that CAD itself may be related to magnesium deficiency. He believes that "this inexpensive and essentially safe nutritional supplement" should be part of all therapy programs for heart disease. Shechter's findings help explain results in other important studies, such as the Honolulu Heart Program, in which researchers monitored the cardiovascular health over three decades of more than seven thousand men of Japanese ancestry living in Hawaii." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Although refined grains are often fortified with thiamin, their original magnesium is depleted by an average of 76 percent. magnesium deficiency may also have played a part in beriberi since so much magnesium is lost when white rice is refined. Thiamin Coenzyme forms are: ThiaminPyroPhosphate (TPP) Thiamin Triphosphate (TTP) Thiamin is also found in the form of thiamin triphosphate in nerve and muscle cells. This form of thiamin activates the transport of electrolytes across the membranes of nerve and muscle cells. This allows healthy nerve conduction and muscle action." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Symptoms of magnesium deficiency include: • Depression, or anxiety. Constipation. • Tics, muscle jerks, and spasms. Poor appetite. Magnesium is important in methylation and sulfation, the processes that can correct heavy metal overload, because it helps to activate certain key enzymes. This magnesium-assisted process of methylation is also important in neurotransmitter and hormone metabolism. Magnesium is also one of the best minerals for restoring sulfation, which is commonly impaired in autistics." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"In animal studies, magnesium deficiency causes decreased bone strength and volume, poor bone development, and dysfunctions in bone formation and resorp- m tion (the process by which bone cells break !J] down bone and release minerals like calcium l! into the blood). [> Magnesium supplements are more impor- ? tant than calcium in reversing bone loss in post- c 70 menopausal women, one of the most vulnerable m populations for osteoporosis, according to a May 1990 report in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Some alcohol withdrawal symptoms such as delirium tremens may be related to magnesium deficiency. In cases of severe alcoholism, low magnesium levels can cause bone loss. Low levels of phosphorus are rarely seen except in near starvation or in alcoholism. Alcoholism also increases the risk of low blood potassium. Alcoholics are at increased risk of zinc deficiency both from impaired absorption and increased urinary losses. One-third to one-half of alcoholics have been found to have low zinc levels. Keeping alcohol consumption to moderate levels will limit the health-depleting effects." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.) "Some alcohol withdrawal symptoms may be related to magnesium deficiency. In elderly populations absorption of magnesium may be lower. Also, magnesium losses in urine increase in older people. These factors, coupled with lower intakes, increase the risk of magnesium depletion in the elderly. Summary for Magnesium Main functions: strengthens bones, promotes muscle relaxation, and used to stabilize ATR Adequate Intake: for adults, 300 mg to 420 mg per day. Toxicity is possible from supplement use and may result in diarrhea. Tolerable upper intake level is set at 350 mg for supplemental doses." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Unfortunately, diagnosing magnesium deficiency is very difficult. Typically, serum magnesium levels are tested where only a trace amount of the body's total magnesium is located. Cellular levels of magnesium are much more sensitive and accurate; however, these can be tested only in research labs, not in hospitals. This is why magnesium deficiency is so underdiagnosed. We all need at least 400-500 mg of magnesium in supplementation. Vanadium is not a well-known mineral, but it is very important for the diabetic." - Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.)

"Up to 50 percent of patients who experience acute migraines have been shown to have a magnesium deficiency. This is actually not surprising because most adults in the United States—75 percent by some estimates—are deficient in this important mineral. The National Academy of Sciences recommends that all women over the age of thirty take 320 mg of magnesium daily, but half of them consume only 230 mg or even less. The academy suggests more for men: 420 mg, yet only half of men over thirty get more than 330 mg." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "Consider this: magnesium deficiency can affect virtually every single organ system in the body. It's involved in more than 300 enzyme reactions in the body including fat, protein, and glucose metabolism, muscle and membrane transport, and energy production. In a classic article called The Importance O m of Magnesium to Human Nutrition, Michael $ Schachter, M.D." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Some believe that magnesium deficiency may increase or cause insulin resistance [106]. Low levels of magnesium have been associated with hypertension, cardiac arrhythmia, congestive heart failure, retinopathy, and insulin resistance [107-109]. Magnesium depletion in a few studies has been shown to result in insulin resistance as well as impaired insulin secretion and thereby may worsen control of diabetes [109]. Nadler and colleagues [110] conducted a magnesium depletion study. Men were fed 12 mg magnesium daily for 3 weeks." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "In humans, magnesium deficiency, although recognized rarely, is seen in severe malnutrition, in chronic alcoholism, and in association with malabsorption [101]. a. Observational Studies. As with calcium, one of the early suggestions for a role of magnesium in hypertension came from reports that water hardness (increased calcium and magnesium) was associated with lower cardiovascular mortality [79]. This finding was corroborated by Yang and Chin [105]. Several cross-sectional [106] and prospective observational analyses [107, 108] have found higher-magnesium diets to be associated with lower BP." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Huerta has suggested that magnesium deficiency is related to Type-2 diabetes in obese children, who are more likely to have insulin resistance.99 This study was performed to see if obese children get enough magnesium in their diets and if a lack of magnesium can cause insulin resistance and thus Type-2 diabetes. Researchers found that 55 percent of obese children did not get enough magnesium from the foods they ate, compared with only 27 percent of lean children. The results showed that obese children got 14." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Magnesium deficiency and other risk factors for diabetic retinopathy. J. Egypt Public Health Assoc. 75, 323-333. 315. Erasmus, R. T., Olukoga, A. O., Alanamu, R. A., Adewoye, H. O., and Bojuwoye, B. (1989). Plasma magnesium and retinopathy in black African diabetics. Tropical Geograph. Med. 41, 234-237. 316. Walter, R. M. Jr., Uriu-Hare, J. Y., Olin, K.L. et al. (1991). Copper, zinc, manganese, and magnesium status and complications of diabetes mellitus. Diabetes Care 14, 1050-1056. 317. Herrmann, W., Herrmann, M., and Obeid, R. (2007)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

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