Medical News - IMVA - Magnesium and Preventive Medicine Part One - March 7, 2006

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Magnesium and Preventive Medicine - Part One

International Medical Veritas Association

 

 

Typically, if you are a mainstream allopathic physician, preventive medicine

is limited to elective stress testing, mammography, screening for

prostate-specific antigen, periodic lipid profiling and giving some kind of lip

service to

life-style changes and diet. This kind of medicine offers only a shadow of

what preventive medicine needs to be. According to the New York Times, “New

evidence keeps emerging that the medical profession has sold its soul in

exchange

for what can only be described as bribes from the manufacturers of drugs and

medical devices.†A soulless medicine’s first crime is its failure to

seriously embrace preventive medicine and avoid disease in the first place. None

of

the pharmaceutical companies are interested in preventive medicine for they

make all their money off the sick and dying.

Preventive medicine is as important as any other type of medicine. In ancient

China the oriental medical doctors were paid for keeping people well thus

patients stopped paying when they fell sick. Allopathic medicine, through its

major misunderstanding, denial and neglect of preventive medicine, is directly

contributing to modern man becoming the most diseased population in the history

of the world. Doctors and health officials really have no idea that the vast

majority of diseases can be prevented and even cured without drugs or surgery.

Their idea of preventive medicine starts and ends with vaccines, which contain

toxic chemicals like mercury that may be contributing greatly to the swift

rise in chronic diseases.

Allopathic medicine could do much to redeem its soul if it would face all the

evidence that has been building up all of which suggests that we have to add

adequate intake of magnesium—the " forgotten electrolyte " —to our list of

preventive health measures. Ensuring adequate magnesium intake, through a

combination of dietary sources, oral supplementation, and importantly the use of

transdermal methods of application, constitutes a crucial step toward health

that is

justified by scientific and clinical data.

We need no further information to conclude that the American public consumes

less magnesium than necessary for good health and that magnesium

supplementation is indicated for almost everyone. Magnesium supplementation is

the single

greatest thing we can do to help people avoid serious diseases or recover from

the ones they already have. It certainly is not the only thing but there is no

other single element that can compare.

The use of magnesium as a preventive, clinical and emergency medicine would

spell disaster for the 1.6 trillion dollar medical industry in the United

States. Single-handedly it could wipe out the need for hundreds of billions of

dollars of medical expenses and diminish a mountain of pain, misery and death.

When combined with some other medical essentials like Vitamin C, proven

antioxidants and minerals like selenium, zinc, organic foods and full hydration

with

pure water the reduction in medical expenses would be staggering to the

industry.

There is a mountain of evidence that sustain these statements. For instance,

Dr. Frank D. Gilliland, professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of

Medicine, and his colleagues monitored more than 2,500 pre-teens and

teen-agers in a dozen Southern California communities, tracking what kids eat

and

measuring lung function (how well their lungs work). The team has found that

children who eat lots of antioxidant-rich fruit and juices-as well as those who

get

an abundance of magnesium and potassium-perform better on lung function tests

than children who eat less of the nutrients.[ii] Vitamin C plays a big role

in lung development, Gilliland says, while vitamins E and A also appear

helpful, especially in children with asthma. This information is especially

important

for children who live in cities and other areas where air pollution is a

problem.

According to Dr. Ronald Elin and Dr. Robert Rude, “Refining and processing of

grains and other foodstuffs typically results in loss of 70% or more of the

magnesium content (as well as other nutrients). The conversion of wheat into

flour results in a loss of 82% of magnesium. Refining rice into polished rice

sacrifices 83% of the magnesium. Milling corn into corn starch loses 98% of the

magnesium. When soy beans are cooked, they lose 69% of their magnesium.

Quick-cooking oatmeal provides only about 15% of the magnesium obtained from the

slow-cooking cereal. As the nation’s eating habits have gone from freshly

prepared items made in the home to prepared, processed meals and " fast foods "

taken

on the run, the magnesium content of the food has plummeted.â€[iii]

Our bodies simply cannot extract adequate nutrition

from today’s “fast†and processed foods.

Dr. David Thomas, who researched government records, found that the levels of

magnesium in the average rump steak have dropped 7%. Milk appears to have

lost 2% of its calcium and 21% of its magnesium.[iv] According to the analysis,

cheddar provides 9% less calcium today, 38% less magnesium and 47% less iron,

while parmesan shows the steepest drop in nutrients, with magnesium levels down

by 70% and iron all gone compared with content in the years up to 1940.

Though some of this information is being contested,[v] academics in the US and

Denmark have also reported significant changes in the nutritional profile of

modern foods.

Studies show that people who eat at least three servings of whole grains a

day have a lower risk of heart disease, diabetes and cancer and seem to maintain

a healthy weight more easily. Since refined grains, such as white flour, have

their innermost and outermost layers (their germ and bran) removed, they are

stripped of a great portion of their minerals. Whole grains are not only

higher in fiber but contain four times the magnesium and zinc and twice the

selenium. [vi]

Only about 15 to 25 percent of children eat

the recommended amount of magnesium.

Even in individuals who are unwilling to make prudent changes in their diets

and sedentary habits, the administration of certain nutrients and/or drugs may

help to prevent or postpone the onset of type 2 diabetes. The evident ability

of fiber-rich cereal products to decrease diabetes risk, as documented in

prospective epidemiological studies, is most likely mediated by the superior

magnesium content of such foods. High-magnesium diets have preventive (though

not

curative) activity in certain rodent models of diabetes; conversely, magnesium

depletion provokes insulin resistance.[vii]

A non-drug abortive approach to migraine attacks has been

the use of 1g magnesium sulfate through a slow intravenous push during an

acute migraine with 85% effectiveness.[viii]

Deficiencies in magnesium affect all people leaving them vulnerable to

developing acute and chronic conditions. We humans are genetically strong and

designed to be well, not ill. Mistakes of living and nutrition break down our

natural strengths. It is thought that each person is especially susceptible to

certain diseases when compared to other people, but each person is also more

resistant to certain diseases when compared to others. In this sense, each

person

could be thought to have particular genetic weaknesses and strengths but nobody

is strong enough to live without air, water, or magnesium for very long.

Though in the long run food can be considered one of the best medicines, it is

difficult to recover fully from magnesium deficiencies through changes in diet

only. Even the use of oral magnesium supplementation is slow and needs to be

augmented with quick acting transdermal methods of application and by

intramuscular and intravenous magnesium in emergency situations.

A magnesium deficiency is closely associated with cardiovascular disease.[ix]

Lower magnesium concentrations have been found in heart attack patients[x]

and administration of magnesium[xi] has proven beneficial in treating

ventricular arrhythmias.[xii],[xiii],[xiv],[xv] Fatal heart attacks are more

common in

areas where the water supply is deficient in magnesium and the average intake

through the diet is often significantly less than the 200-400 milligrams

required daily.[xvi]

Magnesium is proving to be very important in the maintenance of heart health

and in the treatment of heart disease. Magnesium, calcium, and potassium are

all effective in lowering blood pressure.[xvii],[xviii],[xix],[xx] Magnesium is

useful in preventing death from heart attack and protects against further

heart attacks.[xxi],[xxii] It also reduces the frequency and severity of

ventricular arrhythmias and helps prevent complications after bypass surgery.

Using magnesium as a preventive medicine starts in pregnancy for there are

significant benefits of magnesium for preeclampsia and eclampsia. Eclampsia and

preeclampsia are the leading causes of death for pregnant women and their

fetuses, particularly in developing countries. Physicians believe the high blood

pressure, swelling, and protein in the urine associated with preeclampsia lead

to the convulsions and coma of eclampsia. Magnesium is a most effective drug

at preventing eclamptic seizures. Now magnesium sulfate is being used

increasingly to treat preeclampsia as well, with the hope it will prevent

eclampsia. A

study published in the June 1, 2002, issue of The Lancet confirms this

hope.[xxiii]

Women receiving magnesium sulfate had a 27% lower risk

of premature detachment of the placenta.

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD International Medical Veritas Association

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