Intravenous, Transdermal, and Oral Magnesium Mineral Therapy

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'oil'. It is a high concentration of magnesium chloride which only 'feels' like

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blessings, Shan

Intravenous, Transdermal, and Oral

Magnesium Mineral Therapy

http://www.magnesiumforlife.com/mineraltherapy.shtml

by Dr Mark Sircus

 

“Magnesium is poorly absorbed orally. That is why I start off with

injections. By injecting magnesium I can guarantee 100% to bring the levels up.

I cannot

guarantee to do this with or oral magnesium,†says Dr. Sarah Mayhill who

continues with, “Treating magnesium deficiency is the most difficult

deficiency to

correct. In evolutionary terms, magnesium was abundant in the diet and

therefore no good mechanisms to conserve magnesium evolved. It appears to be

poorly

absorbed and easily excreted even by normal people.â€

 

The problem with oral magnesium is that all magnesium compounds are

potentially laxative. And there is good evidence that magnesium absorption

depends upon

the mineral remaining in the intestine at least 12 hours. If intestinal

transit time is less than 12 hours, magnesium absorption is impaired, and this

is

the case when high does of oral magnesium are administered. Thus it is very

difficult to administer what would be considered medicinal does orally.

 

GRAPH

Figure 1: Percent Magnesium content of oral supplements

 

There are many forms of oral magnesium and perhaps one is more easily

utilized then the other. Oral magnesium chloride is well tolerated and gets

absorbed

very quickly and is inexpensive. Magnesium chloride hexahydrate can be

purchased chemically pure from most chemical supply houses without a

prescription.

One of the major disadvantages of oral magnesium compositions that are currently

available is that they do not control the release of magnesium, but instead

immediately release magnesium in the stomach after they are ingested. These

products are inefficient because they release magnesium in the upper

gastrointestinal tract where it reacts with other substances such as calcium.

These

reactions reduce the absorption of magnesium.

 

Many things affect magnesium absorption from the gut. Most drugs will

adversely affect how magnesium taken orally is absorbed or how quickly it will

be

excreted. When we think about the drugs used for children on the autism

spectrum,

we should be concerned about antipsychotics used for behavior control.

Zyprexa, Risperdal, and others can cause hyperglycemia, which in turn causes

increased excretion of magnesium taken orally. Many drugs bind with magnesium

diminishing its availability in the body. Two cans of soda per day (all of which

contain phosphates) also bind up a lot of magnesium by preventing absorption of

magnesium ions in the GI tract. Magnesium also binds with aspartame so drinking

diet sodas is not a good idea for any reason.

 

Magnesium supplementation is actually crucial for everyone today but we have

to pay especial attention to the method of supplementation because this is

critical in terms of effective body utilization. Magnesium is absorbed primarily

in the distal small intestines or colon. Active uptake is required involving

various transport systems such as the vitamin D-sensitive transport system.

Since magnesium is not passively absorbed it demonstrates saturable absorption

resulting in variable bioavailability averaging 35-40% of administered dose even

under the best conditions of intestinal health. Magnesium levels in the body,

presence of calcium, phosphate, phytate and protein can affect rate of

absorption. These and other conditions make oral magnesium supplements intake

chancy

and inefficient compared to the new transdermal magnesium chloride mineral

therapy that this book introduces.

 

The health status of the digestive system and the kidneys significantly

influence magnesium status. Magnesium is absorbed in the intestines and then

transported through the blood to cells and tissues. Approximately one-third to

one-half of dietary magnesium is absorbed into the body. Gastrointestinal

disorders

that impair absorption such as Crohn's disease can limit the body's ability

to absorb magnesium.

 

One of the major disadvantages of oral magnesium compositions that are

currently available is that they do not control the release of magnesium, but

instead immediately release magnesium in the stomach after they are ingested.

These

products are inefficient because they release magnesium in the upper

gastrointestinal tract where it reacts with other substances such as calcium.

These

reactions reduce the absorption of magnesium. “When people are ill, faced with

magnesium deficiency and poor digestion, what do you think the odds are of

fixing that problem with oral magnesium supplementation and digestive enzymes

alone?

†asks Dr. Ronald Hoffman.

 

In his clinic Dr. Hoffman carefully measures magnesium and found that many

patients with low magnesium who take just oral supplements do not normalize. Dr.

Mildred Seelig, renowned researcher of magnesium, predicts it would take 6

months to normalize magnesium levels in a woman who is magnesium deficient with

oral supplementation. The bottom line is that transdermal magnesium therapy

speeds up the process of nutrient repletion in much the same way as intravenous

methods.

 

For children with neurological disorders or asthma

transdermal magnesium is like an oxygen mask.

 

Dr. Mayhill tells us, “One injection of 2mls of 50% magnesium sulphate (1gm

MgSO4, or 100mgs elemental Mg or 4 millimols) will usually keep levels up for

two weeks (however, some people need them more often). By the third week,

levels will usually have fallen again. For some people this is the only method

that

has worked, but it is tedious to have to keep injecting. But the injection is

painful because one is injecting a concentrated solution. It is best given at

room temperature or blood heat, intramuscularly, either into triceps or

deltoid, slowly over one to two minutes. I usually use an orange needle, at

least 1â€

long to get deep into the muscle. Magnesium is a powerful vasodilator. Even

if one takes care to check the tip of the needle is not in a vein, sometimes

there is such a powerful local vasodilatation that the vessels open up and an

i.v. injection is inadvertently given. This does not matter much, except that

the patient develops a generalised vasodilatation, feels hot and alarmed, goes

red and may faint (if upright).â€

 

Intravenous Magnesium

 

According to Dr. Norman Shealy the most rapid restoration of intracellular

magnesium is accomplished with intravenous replacement. For most patients 10

shots, given over a two-week period, are adequate. Depending upon the

patient’s

weight and general status, Dr. Shealy gives either 1 or 2 grams of magnesium

chloride IV over a 30 to 60 minute period:

 

Magnesium I

 

250 cc of 0.9% Sodium Chloride

1 gram Magnesium Chloride

500 mg Calcium Chloride

100 mg. Pyridoxine (B-6)

1 gram DexPanthenol (B-5)

1000 mcg Cyanocobalamin (B-12

6 grams Vitamin C

 

Magnesium II

 

250 cc of 0.9% Sodium Chloride

2 grams Magnesium Chloride

1 gram Calcium Chloride

100 mg. Pyridoxine (B-6)

1 gram DexPanthenol (B-5)

1000 mcg Cyanocobalamin (B-12

6 grams Vitamin C

 

Therapy with magnesium is rapid acting, has a safe toxic-therapeutic ratio,

is easy to administer and titrate. Magnesium has minimal side effects in usual

therapeutic doses and has a large therapeutic index. Meaning it is so useful

that it is just negligent to not use it. In reality there is no medicine like

magnesium chloride when it comes to the effect it has on the life of cells.

Though giving magnesium by injection is the quickest way of restoring normal

blood and tissue levels of magnesium, however for some patients the

injections, while giving benefit, are just too painful to be considered for

children and

for long term use in adults. They are also realitively expensive because they

have to be administered by a doctor. Transdermal magnesium chloride therapy

is inexpensive, safe, a do-it-yourself at home technique that can easily

replace uncomfortable injections in anything other than emergency room

situations.

 

Transdermal application of magnesium is far superior to oral supplements and

is in reality the best practical way magnesium can be used as a medicine

besides by direct injection. Used transdermally or intravenously we have a

potent

natural substance that penetrates the cells with stunning result on cell

biochemistry. Healing, overall energy production (ATP), skin integrity, cardiac

health, diabetes prevention, pain management, calming effect on the nervous

system, sleep improvement, lowering of blood pressure are among the general uses

magnesium chloride can be put to. The studies coming out every day provide more

evidence of the need to supply adequate magnesium to people of all ages, and in

a form that will be easily absorbed.

 

What a few can do with intravenous magnesium

injections everyone can do with transdermal magnesium.

 

Dr. Norman Shealy has done studies on transdermal magnesium chloride mineral

therapy where individuals sprayed a solution of magnesium chloride over the

entire body once daily for a month and did a 20 minute foot soak in magnesium

chloride also once daily. Dr. Shealy recruited 16 individuals with low

intracellular magnesium levels; subjects had a baseline Intracellular Magnesium

Test

documenting their deficiency and another post-Intracellular Magnesium Test after

1 month of daily soaks and spraying were analyzed. The results: Twelve of

sixteen patients, 75%, had significant improvements in intracellular magnesium

levels after only four weeks of foot soaking and skin spraying.

 

Typical Results:

 

Test results before and after 4 weeks of foot soaks:

 

Foot Soaking

 

Electrolyte Before Soaking After Soaking Reference

Range

Name

(mEq/l) (mEq/l)

(mEq/l)

 

Magnesium 31.4 41.2

33.9 - 41.9

 

Calcium 7.5 4.8

3.2 - 5.0

 

Potassium 132.2 124.5

80.0 - 240.0

 

Sodium 3.4 4.1

3.8 - 5.8

 

Chloride 3.2 3.4

3.4 - 6.0

 

Phosphorus 22.2 17.6

14.2 - 17.0

 

Phosphorus/Calcium 3.0 3.7

3.5 - 4.3

 

Magnesium/Calcium 4.2 8.6

7.8 - 10.9

 

Magnesium/Phosphorus 1.4 2.3

1.8 - 3.0

 

Potassium/Calcium 17.6 26.1

25.8 - 52.4

 

Potassium/Magnesium 4.2 3.0

2.4 - 4.6

 

Potassium/Sodium 39.1 30.5

21.5 - 44.6

 

Intravenous as well as transdermal administration of magnesium bypass

processing by the liver. Both transdermal and intravenous therapy create " tissue

saturation " , the ability to get the nutrients where we want them, directly in

the

circulation, where they can reach body tissues at high doses, without loss.

 

Magnesium Oil delivers high levels of magnesium directly through the skin to

the cellular level, bypassing common intestinal and kidney symptoms associated

with oral use. Magnesium chloride has a major advantage over magnesium

sulfate because it is hygroscopic and will attract water to it, thus keeping it

wet

on the skin and vastly more likely to be absorbed, while magnesium sulfate

simply " dries " and becomes " powdery " . Magnesium Oil feels " oily " on the skin.

The

biggest benefit of topical/transdermal magnesium chloride administration is

that the intestines are not adversely impacted by large doses of oral

magnesium.

 

The correction of magnesium deficit is a top priority for clinicians. When

magnesium chloride is understood properly (as the basic medicine it is) it will

be prescribed to all patients as a foundation and support for all other

therapeutic and pharmaceutical interventions. The same medicine that can be used

as

a treatment to limit myocardial damage in myocardial infarction can be used

safely for a broad range of problems healthcare practitioners see everyday.

 

Dr. Walt Stoll says, “Magnesium deficiency inhibits the body's ability to

absorb magnesium. This is an idiosyncracy of magnesium. Once the intracellular

level gets low enough to cause symptoms, in some people, the intestinal lining

loses its ability to absorb magnesium efficiently. The magnesium IVs are to get

the body over that hump so that it can be absorbed orally again.†The same

could be said about magnesium applied through transdermal/topical means.

 

In summary, magnesium is a safe and simple intervention and should be the

first thing doctors recommend to their patients. Transdermal mineral therapy

with

magnesium chloride is the most powerful, relatively safe medical intervention

we have to care for many of our patients needs. With the simple application

of an oily solution on the skin or used in baths we can easily have our

patients take up their magnesium to healthier levels. With patients who are

deficient

in magnesium (the great majority of patients are magnesium deficient) expect

dramatic improvements in a broad range of conditions.

 

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[1] Oral Magnesium Chloride, Magnesium Citrate Magnesium Gluceptate,

Magnesium Gluconate, Magnesium Hydroxide, Magnesium Lactate, Magnesium Oxide,

Magnesium Pidolate, Magnesium Sulfate.

 

[1] There are a number of factors that can prevent the uptake of minerals,

even when they are available in our food. The glandular system that regulates

the messages sent to the intestinal mucosa require plentiful fat-soluble

vitamins in the diet to work properly. Likewise, the intestinal mucosa requires

fat-soluble vitamins and adequate dietary cholesterol to maintain proper

integrity

so that it passes only those nutrients the body needs, while at the same time

keeping out toxins and large, undigested proteins that can cause allergic

reactions. Minerals may " compete " for receptor sites. Excess calcium may impede

the absorption of manganese, for example. Lack of hydrochloric acid in the

stomach, an over-alkaline environment in the upper intestine or deficiencies in

certain enzymes, vitamin C and other nutrients may prevent chelates from

releasing their minerals. Finally, strong chelating substances, such as phytic

acid in

grains, oxalic acid in green leafy vegetables and tannins in tea may bind

with ionized minerals in the digestive tract and prevent them from being

absorbed

 

[1] http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/magnesium.asp#en9#en9

 

[1] Crippa G, Sverzellati E, Giorgi-Pierfranceschi M, et al. Magnesium and

cardiovascular drugs: interactions and therapeutic role. Ann Ital Med Int. 1999

Jan; 14(1):40-5.

 

[1] Experimentally Magnesium has been shown to have a role in myocardial

salvage, possibly by inhibiting calcium influx to ischaemic myocytes and/or by

reducing coronary tone. It has also been shown to increase the threshold for

depolarisation of cardiac myocytes, theoretically reducing the risk of malignant

arrhythmia. In healthy humans it can reduce peripheral vascular resistance and

increase cardiac output with no effect on cardiac work

 

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