Magnesium Deficiency Linked to Type 2 Diabetes

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I have read " Magnesium, Zinc, and Chromium " deficiency causes type2 diabets.

What is the level reqired ? what are the tests ?My latest lab report is shown

below FBS 95 mg%, PPBS 140 mg%, Cholestrole 209 mg% Triglyceride 130 mg%, HDL 58

mg%, LDL 125 mg%, VLDL 26 mg%, BP 120/80 mm Hg Pr.  I am taking 10 drops

Diabonil , a Hmeo medicine twice daily, 6 to 9 cloves of garlic and small

teaspoon tumeric powder in 1 TSP cocunut oil, walk 40 mnts, and drink 3 litre

water.Avoids chiken, eats fish.

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Magnesium Deficiency Linked to Type 2 Diabetes

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(NaturalNews) Is a lack of magnesium related to type 2 Diabetes in obese

children? Dr. Huerta and colleagues say " yes " in their study titled Magnesium

deficiency is associated with insulin resistance in obese children [ii][iv].

Insulin resistance occurs when the body does not use insulin, a protein made by

the pancreas, to turn glucose into energy. Children who are obese (seriously

overweight) are more likely to have insulin resistance. This might be

because they have low magnesium levels in their blood. This study was done to

see

if obese children get enough magnesium in their diets and if a lack of

magnesium can cause insulin resistance and eventually type 2 diabetes. This is

the

first study linking low magnesium levels to insulin resistance in obese

children. Researchers found that 55% of obese children did not get enough

magnesium

from the foods they ate, compared with only 27% of lean children. Obese

children had much lower magnesium levels in their blood than lean children.

Children with lower magnesium levels had a higher insulin resistance.

 

Diabetes has risen by over 14 percent in the last two years. The CDC

estimates that 20.8 million Americans -- 7 percent of the U.S. population --

have

diabetes, up from 18.2 million in 2003 [iii]. - Centers for Disease Control

The results of the diet survey showed that obese children got 14.4% less

magnesium from the foods they ate than lean children. An important finding was

that even though obese and lean children ate about the same number of calories

per day, obese children ate more calories from fatty foods than lean

children. In addition to not eating enough foods that have a lot of magnesium,

obese

children might also have problems using magnesium from the foods they eat.

Extra body fat can prevent the body’s cells from using magnesium to break down

carbohydrates.

When it comes to diabetes there is enough information pointing to magnesium

deficiency and chemical poisoning converging on the young but the medical

authorities would rather throw more money into diabetic agencies to do more

research. It is just too difficult for them to simply address magnesium

deficiencies. What would be of greater benefit to these kids, research or

nutritional

action? The United States government is involved in a huge cover up of

medical and pharmaceutical wrong doings and will just keep on letting things

slide

as hundreds of thousands of kids each year get sick.

Average levels of bad cholesterol and blood fats called triglycerides were

higher in youngsters who had the pre-diabetic condition, in the study done by

Dr. Hillier. One of the extremely important things about this fact is what

Dr. Carolyn Dean shares about statins, magnesium and heart disease. Most

diabetics are put on statins, and this is one study which clearly states that

magnesium acts as a statin [iii][v].. If these diabetic children were using

magnesium, it would also prevent them using these pharmaceutical drugs besides

decreasing their risk of CVD. Magnesium is what they need not the medical

establishment conducting more studies and research.

Type 2 diabetes can be controlled or prevented through weight loss and by

eating a healthier diet. Getting magnesium into the kids at medicinal doses

though is not easily achieved. Spirulina and other super green foods like wheat

grass juice are high in absorbable magnesium in the form of chlorophyll. IV

and intramuscular injections are uncomfortable and expensive. Oral magnesium

supplements are not easily absorbable and some are very high in lead. If we

could get these magnesium levels in these young children up and prevent

diabetes, and if we could raise the levels in the young who are already

diagnosed

diabetics we would be preventing heart disease, stroke and many other

complications that all of these diabetics would eventually face. This we can

easily do

with magnesium chloride applied transdermally.

Magnesium is a wonder drug touted by pharmaceutical companies in the

emergency room and a simple element, a mineral vital to life and health. Dr.

Carolyn

Dean said in her book The Miracle of Magnesium, “The more I have learned

about magnesium, the more convinced I am that doctors are missing a huge

opportunity by not making it one of their “drugs of choice.†Because of the

disaster happening with children all doctors need to become acutely aware of the

great service they can do to prevent and treat diabetes with magnesium.

References:

i. American Diabetes Association (_http://www.diabetes .org_

(http://www.diabetes .org) )

ii. Diabetes Care 28:1175–1181, 2005.

iii. Rosanoff, Andrea. Seelig, Mildred. Comparison of Mechanism and

Functional Effects of Magnesium and Statin Pharmaceuticals. Department of

Physiology

and Pharmacology, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center,

Brooklyn (M.S.) Since Mg2+-ATP is the controlling factor for the rate-limiting

enzyme in the cholesterol biosynthesis sequence that is targeted by the statin

pharmaceutical drugs, comparison of the effects of Mg2+ on lipoproteins with

those of the statin drugs is warranted. Formation of cholesterol in blood,

as well as of cholesterol required in hormone synthesis, and membrane

maintenance, is achieved in a series of enzymatic reactions that convert HMG-CoA

to

cholesterol. The rate-limiting reaction of this pathway is the enzymatic

conversion of HMG CoA to mevalonate via HMG CoA. The statins and Mg inhibit that

enzyme.

Large trials have consistently shown that statins, taken by subjects with

high LDL-cholesterol (LDL-C) values, lower its blood levels 35 to 65%. They

also reduce the incidence of heart attacks, angina and other nonfatal cardiac

events, as well as cardiac, stroke, and total mortality. These effects of

statins derive less from their lowering of LDL-C than from their reduction of

mevalonate formation which improves endothelial function, inhibits proliferation

and migration of vascular smooth muscle cells and macrophages, promotes

plaque stabilization and regression, and reduces inflammation, Mg has effects

that

parallel those of statins. For example, the enzyme that deactivates HMG-CoA

Reductase requires Mg, making Mg a Reductase controller rather than

inhibitor.

Mg is also necessary for the activity of lecithin cholesterol acyl

transferase (LCAT), which lowers LDL-C and triglyceride levels and raises HDL-C

levels. Desaturase is another Mg-dependent enzyme involved in lipid metabolism

which statins do not directly affect. Desaturase catalyzes the first step in

conversion of essential fatty acids (omega-3 linoleic acid and omega-6 linolenic

acid) into prostaglandins, important in cardiovascular and overall health. Mg

at optimal cellular concentration is well accepted as a natural calcium

channel blocker. More recent work shows that Mg also acts as a statin.

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/_ (http://www.imva. info/)

Details

-- Another study conducted in Mexico showed that patients suffering form

metabolic syndrome (which is associated with insulin resistance that usually

develops into type 2 diabetes over time), had significantly lower magnesium

levels than subjects without metabolic syndrome.

-- This research evidence indicates that people who have low magnesium

levels due to inadequate dietary intake or increased loss of magnesium through

the

kidneys are more likely to develop insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.

The results were encouraging: subjects who took magnesium supplements improved

their fasting glucose levels and other symptoms of diabetes.

-- * Magnesium deficiency is also linked to high blood pressure, irregular

heartbeats (when such irregular heart beats are serious in nature they are

called cardiac arrhythmias) and other manifestations of heart disease.

-- The problem with such a magnesium deficiency is that diabetes will

aggravate the deficiency, which will in turn aggravate the diabetic condition,

thus

creating a vicious cycle.

-- Food sources of magnesium Although most foods contain some magnesium and

individuals eating a balanced, varied diet should in theory not easily

develop a deficiency, data from America indicate that most adult Americans,

especially older people, tend to have a so-called 'subclinical' magnesium

deficiency.

-- If you take calcium or vitamin D supplements, or eat a lot of protein and

drink a lot of alcohol, this will increase your requirement for magnesium.

-- Diets that contain a high percentage of highly refined foods, meat and

dairy products are usually lower in magnesium than diets rich in vegetables and

unsifted grains.

-- Recently Merck launched a product called 'Diabion' -- a special vitamin

and mineral supplement for diabetics. This product, which also contains

antioxidants, can help to prevent metabolic disorders that are common in

diabetic

patients.

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