Magnesium Chloride Product Analysis

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Magnesium Chloride Product Analysis

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Magnesium is nothing short of a miracle

mineral in its healing effect on a wide

range of diseases as well as in its

ability to rejuvenate the aging body.

 

 

Magnesium chloride is one of the best kept secrets, not only in

naturopathic medicine but in the world of allopathic medicine where it is used

in

emergency rooms to save lives. Magnesium chloride has a dramatic effect on

cell life and is vastly safer to use than aspirin. Why is magnesium chloride

so effective in so many medical situations? " Magnesium is necessary for the

normal function of over 300 enzyme systems, for muscle relaxation, immune

function, cardiac function, clotting, nerve conduction etc. Indeed I cannot

think of a bodily department in which magnesium is not essential. It

prevents heart disease, cancer, blood pressure, kidney stones and improves

energy,

sleep etc. " reports Dr. Sara Mayhill.

 

 

 

Those who consumed the most magnesium had about a

31-percent reduced risk of developing metabolic syndromes.

Metabolic syndrome is a collection of conditions, including high blood

pressure,

high triglycerides, lower levels of HDL, or good cholesterol, higher waist

circumference,

and higher than normal blood sugar.

People with metabolic syndrome are at significant risk for heart disease

and diabetes.

 

 

Magnesium chloride is a versatile medicine we can all put in our medicine

cabinets. It boosts almost all aspects of cell physiology and can be used

orally, intravenously, and transdermally. Magnesium chloride treatments

address systemic nutritional deficiencies, act to improve the function of our

cells and immune system, and help protect cells from oxidative damage. It's

a systemic medicine as well as a local one bringing new life and energy to

the cells wherever it is applied topically. Minerals like magnesium help

with everyday body processes, reduce risk of certain cancers, strengthen

muscles and tissues, and help develop organs and tissues as well as keeping them

from deteriorating.

 

 

The biggest benefit of topical/transdermal magnesium

chloride administration is that the intestines are not

adversely impacted by large doses of oral magnesium.

 

 

According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studies show that

as many as two thirds of all Americans do not consume enough magnesium. The

latest government study shows a staggering 68% of Americans do not consume

the recommended daily intake of magnesium, which is set way too low

meaning these statistics are understatements. Even more frightening are data

from

this study showing that 19% of Americans do not consume even half of the go

vernment's recommended daily intake of magnesium.

 

 

 

Magnesium chloride is a potent substance that penetrates

the cells with stunning result on cell biochemistry.

 

 

There is no mystery in the idea that it's always good to eat the most pure

whole foods we can find and the same can be said about magnesium chloride

solutions. There are many magnesium chloride products on the market and

some new ones arriving on the scene. Some are natural ones taken from the sea,

others are taken from brine flows at certain lakes, and now we find a sea

of it 1500 meters underground in the Netherlands that is hundreds of

millions of years old and as pure as can be. And then there are the unnatural

types that are pharmaceutical powders and crystals that are made by industrial

process using hydrochloric acid. These magnesium products come in different

grades.[1]

 

 

Most Magnesium chloride hexahydrate available today is the manufactured

form made with hydrochloric acid, and added to water. In this process

magnesium chloride is regenerated from magnesium hydroxide using hydrochloric

acid.

 

Mg(OH)2(s) + 2 HCl ? MgCl2(aq) + 2 H2O(l)

 

 

Oral magnesium chloride is well tolerated and gets absorbed very

quickly and is inexpensive. Magnesium chloride hexahydrate can be

purchased from most chemical supply houses without a prescription.

 

 

What is of concern to us all is the relative purity or level relative

level of contamination. My official position on the pharmaceutical stuff, which

often contains 25 times the heavy metal pollution than natural seawater

evaporation solutions, is that it's a thousand times better than nothing.

Often in many countries it is the only magnesium chloride product one can

find and the original transdermal magnesium chloride man, Dr. Norman Shealy, I

believe, still uses and sells the pharmaceutical crystals and powders. My

complaint against these pharmaceutical materials is that they have high

levels of lead. They do not feel the same on the skin as natural solutions but

to do without when in need of magnesium supplementation is like not

breathing air when living on earth because of the pollution.

 

 

A typical Magnesium Chloride Hexahydrate solution might have about ten

parts per million of heavy metals. [2] - [3] Some synthetic products only have

about 5ml/kilo meaning only five parts per million of heavy metals.[4] In

general these industrial made magnesium chloride products are inexpensive

when purchased in bulk and can be dumped in your bathtub for relaxation and

medical treatment. Hexahydrate solutions usually maintain in solution about

25 percent magnesium chloride whereas the natural brines are up at around

32 percent sometimes peaking out at 35 percent before we find magnesium

crystals forming at the bottom of the container.

 

 

The problem with oral magnesium is that all

magnesium compounds are potentially laxative.

 

 

Lead is a problem not only in children's toys and household plumbing but

also in magnesium products. Jamiesonâ„¢, Natural Sources Calcium Magnesium is

not approved by Consumer Labs because it contains 1.9 mcg of lead per daily

serving. Weilâ„¢, Andrew Weil, M.D. Balanced Cal-Mag is also not approved

by Consumer Labs because it contains 2.3 mcg of lead per daily serving.[5]

 

 

Mercury is also a problem in some of the available magnesium products and

it's a growing concern on earth today. There is at least one company

selling magnesium chloride brine from the Great Salt Lake but federal

scientists

studying the lake have found some of the highest levels of mercury ever

measured anywhere. Concentrations of methylmercury, the element's most

poisonous form exceeded 25 nanograms per liter of water. Fish consumption

warnings

have been issued when there was just 1 nanogram per liter. ``We thought we

would find some high levels of methylmercury,'' said David Naftz, the USGS

research hydrologist who is heading the Great Salt Lake project, " but not

some of the highest (the USGS) has ever found.''

 

 

The deepest waters of the Great Salt Lake may contain even more toxic

mercury than previously known. That's according to water tests done by

Kennecott Utah Copper last summer, two years after samples that triggered

alarms

about mercury throughout Utah.[6] The large surface area of the lake may

collect a lot of mercury from atmospheric deposition. Once in the lake,

sulfate-reducing bacterial that live in the deep brine layer may facilitate the

creation of methylmercury. Preliminary analyses indicate that methylmercury

levels in the deep brine layer are among the highest ever measured by the

USGS. [7]

 

 

One needs to be seriously concerned about purchasing products coming from

the Great Salt Lake and companies making claims about purity and the

absence of mercury need to send you their official testing reports. It is not

advisable to take someone's word on such matters.

 

 

Magnesium Oil, a solution gathered by salt water evaporation has been our

favorite magnesium chloride solution until now but we found after a few

years of experience that is was not pure enough for medical or health use.

Certainly it could never be taken orally as the pharmaceutical stuff can be.

Though it can be filtered fairly well if it is bottled in a certified

laboratory and bottling company it can still smell and sting when put on the

skin. I now only recommend magnesium oil products that come from certified

laboratories and bottling companies and even then do not suggest sea water

magnesium oil from open and unprotected ponds. These kinds of ponds where

created to produce magnesium chloride in large quantities for use as a road salt

and for crop dusting. It makes a wonderful fertilizer for the soil.

 

 

For the very purest magnesium oil we now have to turn to Europe. Deep

underground is a 250 million old inactive sea of magnesium chloride oil that

has never been touched by modern day pollution and there is enough of it down

there to last humanity hundreds of years. It is so pure that I use it as a

mouthwash and then swallow what is in my mouth for oral supplementation. It

is ideal not only for oral intake but practically insures that skin

reactions will be absent even at full strength. This is the magnesium chloride

oil I recommend along with an iodine for all skin cancers as well as breast

cancer. This magnesium oil is called Ancient Minerals.

_http://www.ancient-minerals.com/_ (http://www.ancient-minerals.com/)

 

 

Special Note for Health Care Practitioners: In critical situations where

heavy application is a must, one needs the confidence that patients will be

able to tolerate without discomfort the application of the magnesium

chloride all over the body. To have an emergency situation where a patient is

in

desperate need we need the purest available.

 

 

Though the small amounts of mercury (0,004 mg/l as originally tested) in

sea derived magnesium chloride products are not threatening especially

because of the larger selenium levels, which are more than enough to bind and

neutralize the mercury, the underground magnesium chloride oil provided by

Ancient Minerals has tested as " undetectable " down to sensitivity thresholds

of 2 parts per billion (2 ppb). Because of the great strength of the Euro

currency and the greatly weakening dollar, this magnesium oil product will

be more expensive meaning it probably will not be appropriate to use in bulk

for baths. Thankfully, Ancient Minerals also provides bath flakes from

the same source, which have made it much more affordable to the masses for

taking medicinal magnesium baths.

 

 

To gaze on 64 ounces of it is to gaze on the purest, most powerful

medicine obtainable anywhere in the world. Its pure healing power and

versatility

of its use make it a non-option in every medicine cabinet and in every

doctor's dispensary. It certainly would be the product of choice for skin

beauty care and for straight oral supplementation. Beauty and health are in

reality highly related subjects. Rarely do we see an unhealthy person who is

beautiful or a beautiful person who is grossly unhealthy. As we lose our

health our beauty is diminished by the diseases we fall victim to. In ancient

China magnesium is called the beautiful metal and it will bring nothing but

beauty to one's life, body and skin.

 

 

One of Hawaii's fastest-growing exports is based on a commodity the state

is soaking in: seawater. Super-cold water sucked up from thousands of feet

below the Pacific Ocean's surface is being marketed as healthy, pure,

mineral-rich drinking water. Japanese consumers are paying top dollar for

desalinated Hawaiian deep-sea water being marketed as a dietary supplement that

aids weight loss, stress reduction, skin tone and digestion. So valuable do

they find this that they are willing to pay a cool $2,144 a gallon for a

concentrated form of this deep sea water. Two-ounce bottles of Hawaii Deep

Marine's Kona Nigari seawater mineral concentrate (to mix with regular water)

sell for $33.50 at the Key of Life store in the Royal Hawaiian Shopping

Center, reported USA Today.[9]

 

 

However, the magnesium oil from this ancient deposit in Northern Europe

will be a hit in the Far East where they appreciate the purity and quality of

such products especially because the cost is dramatically lower than the

price from Hawaii. If purchased by the half gallon, _Ancient Minerals

magnesium oil_ (http://www.ancient-minerals.com/) comes in at about $3.75 per

2 fluid ounces, and it gets my vote for all time purest, most powerful,

useful medicinal substance in the world. Lesser quality evaporated seawater

magnesium oil would come in at an average of about $1.60 for two ounces (when

purchased by the gallon) but there are certain limits we have to put on

contamination with heavy metals and other contaminants with anything

medicinal.

 

 

Most toxic industrially created magnesium chloride products would weigh in

around 80 cents for two ounces and we readily recommend them when nothing

else is available. The Ancient Minerals bath flakes take the cake in this

regard though. In this product you get both great quality and low price. It

weighs in terms of dry ounces at only 49 cents an ounce. So this brand

offers it all, in their oil the unbeatable purest medicinal in the world and in

their flakes the second best quality (next to their oil) but an unbeatable

price. Medical doctors and all healthcare professionals have to be

concerned with the price of products without dropping the ball on quality.

 

 

*Special Note about " Pharmaceutical Grade " magnesium chloride products:

Recently there have been several manufacturers of transdermal magnesium

chloride products on the web, simply stating the purity of their product as

" pharmaceutical grade. " Unfortunately, this is insufficient. It does not

give us any real information or insight into the quality of the product.

First and foremost, many of them cannot or will not supply laboratory proof

to support their claim. Secondly, the standards for pharmaceutical grade

magnesium chloride are too relaxed. A producer can refer to their magnesium

chloride products as pharmaceutical grade provided that it does not contain

more than 10 parts per million of heavy metals (mercury, cadmium, lead,

etc), which is definitely not considered to be a product suited for medical

use.

 

 

There are many other excellent products high in magnesium content, one of

special note is the Dead Sea Salt. It is both high in magnesium and

potassium and is good for strong mineral baths. One will not find that it

replaces

a high potency magnesium chloride but it is a healing agent in its own

right. There are actually many such salt and brine works and salt is a huge

subject in and of itself. Himalayan Salts, Real Salt, Celtic Salts are some

of the finest in the world and are worth their weight in gold.

 

 

Epsom Salts are wonderful for many applications and one can put hundreds

of pounds of it in isolation chambers so you can float easily in them. They

have soothing but limiting health and healing effect in comparison to

magnesium chloride, which could never be put in great quantities in the water

you bathe in. For some reason magnesium chloride is hugely more absorbable

through transdermal means than magnesium sulfate (Epsom Salt). Though

magnesium sulfate is equally effective in the emergency room, saving cardiac

arrest patients with ease, it does not come anywhere near to the level of

medicinal potency of magnesium chloride in the transdermal world of application

and approach. The real value in Epsom Salts is not the magnesium, which is

not easily absorbed or retainable in that form. It's the sulfur and the best

way to get sulfur into the body is with MSM or sodium thiosulfate.

 

 

 

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD

Director

International Medical Veritas Association

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[1] There are many grades of magnesium chloride. When making a solution,

one must first decide what degree of chemical purity is needed. Choose the

most appropriate grade based on need and cost. In order of purity, from

highest to lowest we have:

 

ACS: Highest quality; often equals or exceeds the latest purity standards

set by the American Chemical Society (ACS). This is the only universally

accepted standard. Chemicals are of the highest purity attainable.

 

Reagent: Purity is generally equal to ACS grade. This grade is suitable

for analytical work and is more than adequate for general lab use.

 

USP: A grade of sufficient purity to pass certain tests prescribed by the

US Pharmacopoeia (USP); acceptable for drug use. USP grade may be used for

most laboratory purposes.

 

NF: A grade of sufficient purity to meet the standards of the National

Formulary (NF).

 

Lab: An upper-level intermediate quality. Exact impurities may not be

known; however, lab grade is usually pure enough for most educational

laboratories.

 

Pure: Purified, pure, or practical grade; a lower-level intermediate

quality. Although this grade does contain impurities, it is usually pure enough

for use in educational laboratories.

 

Technical: A good-quality grade used industrially. Use caution when

substituting for reagent-grade or lab-grade chemicals.

Technical Grade is for laboratory use only and are not intended for

medical, drug, food or household use.

 

 

[2] _http://www.fritzspecialty.com/chemicals/magnesiumchloride.htm_

(http://www.fritzspecialty.com/chemicals/magnesiumchloride.htm)

 

[3] _http://www.sciencelab.com/page/S/PVAR/10420/SLM4306_

(http://www.sciencelab.com/page/S/PVAR/10420/SLM4306)

 

[4] _http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/search/ProductDetail/SIGMA/M1028_

(http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/search/ProductDetail/SIGMA/M1028)

 

[5] _http://www.consumerlab.com/results/magnesium.asp_

(http://www.consumerlab.com/results/magnesium.asp)

 

[6]

_http://ff.org/centers/csspp/library/co2weekly/20051222_news/20051222_15.html_

(http://ff.org/centers/csspp/library/co2weekly/20051222_news/20051222_15.html)

 

[7] _http://www.xmission.com/~fogsl/research/mercuryRising.html_

(http://www.xmission.com/~fogsl/research/mercuryRising.html)

 

[8] LL's Magnetic Clay, Inc.

PO Box 619, San Ramon CA 94583

Toll Free (800) 257-3315

+1 925 968 1571 For out of Country Calls

Fax (925) 968-1960

_http://www.ancient-minerals.com/_ (http://www.ancient-minerals.com/)

 

[9]

_http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2004-04-18-hawaii-seawater_x.htm_

(http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2004-04-18-hawaii-seawater_x.htm)