Stress, Magnesium & Disease

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Stress, Magnesium & Disease

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture says that about 60% of adults in the

United States do not consume the estimated average requirement for magnesium.

What they don*t tell us is that this 60% is based on minimum daily

estimates set by the Department of Agriculture which are set terribly low, so

actually the number is much higher. In the best of times magnesium intake from

white processed foods is on the level of starvation of this precious and

very necessary mineral. Most Americans are actually malnourished and diseased

because of it and because of the toxic loads they carry in their cells and

blood.

The normal accepted recommended daily dietary amount of magnesium is only

300-400 mg. Many professionals feel this to be a bare minimum. Some would

say that 1,000 mg is probably more in the range of what most people need due

to stress (measured by cortisol levels) causing magnesium to be dumped

into the sweat in increasing quantities. Actually there are all kinds of

_cellular stresses_

(http://blog.imva.info/medicine/cellular-stress-and-adaptive-cellular-capacity)

that drive down magnesium levels including chemical

stress.

Radiation, chemicals and heavy metals put enormous stress on organs,

tissues and cells. Magnesium mediates a good part of our body’s ability to

deal

with and remove such toxic insults. Toxicities actually increase as

magnesium levels fall. In plain language that means we have more allergic

reactions, come down with the flu more often (never listen or trust anything the

World Health Organizations says about the flu for most cases are actually not

caused by a virus but by chemical stress), suffer from _diabetes_

(http://diabetic.imva.info/) (diabetes is largely a result of these toxic

stresses

combined with overall malnutrition especially magnesium deficiency).

_Magnesium is the Ultimate Heart Medicine_

(http://publications.imva.info/index.php/e-books/magnesium-the-ultimate-heart-me\

dicine-e-book.html) for you will

always see deficient cellular magnesium in each and every case of heart

disease, stroke, cancer and neurological decline.

In the Age of Toxicity we are suffering to live through we are from

conception being exposed to poison and increased radiation exposure from

medical

tests, constant microwave exposure, and strong increases in environmental

background radiation that has increased because of the American militaries

passion for depleted uranium weapons, which they use on every major

battlefield in modern times.

Magnesium levels thus fall through the years and it is not easy to reverse

this decline. Oral supplementation is chancy at best because high dosages

loosen the intestines. My book _Transdermal Magnesium Therapy_

(http://www.magnesiumforlife.com/) was a landmark medical text in that it

presented

what is commonly known as _magnesium oil_

(http://blog.imva.info/medicine/magnesium-oil) and how it can be applied

directly to the skin or put into

_medical baths_

(http://publications.imva.info/index.php/e-books/sodium-bicarbonate-magnesium-me\

dical-baths.html) for transdermal absorption. The second

edition of this in print text will be out in late November.

Mg deficiency increases susceptibility to the

physiologic damage produced by stress.

The adrenergic effects of psychological stress induce a shift

of Mg from the intracellular to the extracellular space,

increasing urinary excretion and eventually depleting body stores.[1]

Dr. Leo Galland

Recently the British Journal of Psychiatry published that people with a

diet heavy in processed food had a 58% higher risk of depression. What they

don’t say is that the reason for the depression was lack of dietary

magnesium in such diets and that depression can easily and best be treated with

magnesium. What they do say is that a “whole food†diet protects against

depression because of the combined effect of consuming nutrients from lots of

different types of food, rather than the effect of one single nutrient.

Though there is a glint of truth to this statement it hides the well-researched

reality that it is magnesium levels that provide the key to our mental and

emotional states.

In today’s stressful world magnesium levels get driven further down. Not

only does the stress eat up our magnesium stores at an accelerated pace but

how we deal with our stress is also telling. For instance it’s generally

understood that liquor sales spike during an economic slump. According to _a

recent poll by Gallup_

(http://us.rd./dailynews/yblog_upshot/bs_yblog_upshot/storytext/america\

-nation-of-drunkards/37102302/SIG=12f9ortkv/*http:

/www.gallup.com/poll/141656/Drinking-Rate-Edges-Slightly-Year-High.aspx)

Americans are downing more booze – 67% of Americans report that _they

consume alcohol on a regular basis_

(http://us.rd./dailynews/yblog_upshot/bs_yblog_upshot/storytext/america\

-nation-of-drunkards/37102302/SIG=12f9ortk

v/*http:/www.gallup.com/poll/141656/Drinking-Rate-Edges-Slightly-Year-High.a

spx) . Increased alcoholic intake, which happens frequently in times of

stress for some people, depletes magnesium in our bodies. Alcohol increases

urinary magnesium excretion by as much as 260% above baseline values; this

occurs within minutes of ingestion.[2] Often by increasing magnesium, the

perceived need for alcohol decreases while some of the depression and anxiety

are alleviated.

Research published in the American Journal of

Epidemiology in 2002 shows that when the diets of 2,566

children ages 11-19 were studied, less than 14% of boys

and 12% of girls had adequate intakes of magnesium.

We can actually see the hate and foul viciousness of some of the richest

people and companies on earth in this story because the truth and facts

about magnesium are well known by researchers around the world. Magnesium is

one of the most well studied nutrients and smart doctors reach for it quickly

for patients suffering from heart attacks or strokes. We would have an

entirely different world if governments got behind magnesium supplementation.

People would be healthier and happier, would miss less days of work, would

be less stressed and would be able to work harder and enjoy life more. We

would also cut the world’s medical bill down by a trillion or two dollars.

This would upset people like Bill Gates and others like him who want to cut

population not increase it.

Pharmaceutical companies especially don’t want us to know anything about

using simple minerals to help depression, reduce violence, reduce stress or

stay healthy and out of the doctor’s office and out of hospitals. Since the

arrival of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors antidepressants (SSRIs)

and atypical antipsychotics on the market, countless studies have shown

the so-called **new generation** of psychiatric drugs to be ineffective and

dangerous but exceptionally profitable. There is no such thing as a

substitute for the mineral magnesium.

Worldwide, sales of anti-psychotics went from $263 million in 1986 to $8.6

billion in 2004 and antidepressant sales went from $240 million in 1986 to

$11.2 billion in 2004. For these two classes of drugs combined, sales went

from $500 million in 1986 to nearly $20 billion in 2004, a 40-fold

increase, according to Whitaker, best-selling author of Mad in

America.[3]

And God only knows how high these numbers have climbed to in the year 2010

when stress, mental and emotional disturbances are going off the charts.

Despite a dramatic increase in treatment of psychiatric disorders

during the past 10 years, there has been no decrease in the rate of

suicidal thoughts and behavior among adults, according to a federal

study primarily funded by the National Institute of Mental Health.

The Washington Post

Police Chief Nannette H. Hegerty of Milwaukee said a few years ago that, “

We’re seeing a very angry population, and they don’t go to fists anymore,

they go right to guns,†she said. **When we ask, ‘Why did you shoot this

guy?’ it’s, ‘He bumped into me.’ or, ‘He looked at my girl the wrong

way.** said Police Commissioner Sylvester M. of Philadelphia. **It’s

not

like they’re riding around doing drive-by shootings. It’s arguments –

stupid arguments over stupid things.** While arguments have always made up a

large number of homicides, the police say the trigger point now comes

faster. In robberies, Milwaukee’s Chief Hegerty said, **Even after the person

gives up, the guy with the gun shoots him anyway. We didn’t have as much of

that before.**

A marginal deficiency can easily be transformed into a more significant

problem when stressful events trigger additional magnesium loss. In the

extreme situations stressful events trigger sudden drops of serum magnesium

leading to cardiac arrest. Even a mild deficiency of magnesium can cause

increased sensitivity to noise, nervousness, irritability, mental depression,

confusion, twitching, trembling, apprehension, and insomnia.

In recent years we’ve seen an increase of all kinds of weird violence as

magnesium levels are driven lower and lower. Almost every week now we hear

reports of people walking into schools in China stabbing teachers and

children and in America also mass killings are slaughtering people and there

they

hide the fact that most of these assaulters are on pharmaceutical

medications that drive their magnesium levels to the bottom.

I am in no way saying that magnesium is the answer to every problem in the

world but it would go a long way to calm people down and reset the trigger

points much higher. The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended

drinking water containing 25-50 mg of magnesium (Mg) per liter to prevent

deaths from heart attack and stroke. American bottled water contains about 5

mg of Mg per liter, well below the 20 mg/l in the rest of the world’s

bottled water, according to the WHO. If the WHO was really interested in

helping

Americans, like they want to help with their dangerous vaccines, they would

make sure that the government implemented these kinds of recommendations

that would save countless lives.

Magnesium deficiency causes serotonin deficiency

with possible resultant aberrant behaviors,

including depression suicide or irrational violence.

Mason

The Department of Family Medicine, Pomeranian Medical Academy, states that

dietetic factors can play a significant role in the origin of ADHD and

that magnesium deficiency can result in disruptive behaviors.[4] Even a mild

deficiency of magnesium can cause sensitiveness to noise, nervousness,

irritability, mental depression, confusion, twitching, trembling, apprehension,

and insomnia. A significant number of researchers have shown that as much

as 60-90% of illnesses are directly caused or exacerbated by stress. And in

fact, numerous studies have shown that stress is related to major illnesses

like heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes.

There is now little question that stress can kill, meaning that magnesium

deficiencies can put you in your grave. Harvard physiologist Walter Cannon

recognized 90 years ago that when confronted by a threat – physical or

emotional, real or imagined – the body responds with a rise in blood

pressure,

heart rate, muscle tension and breathing rate. We now know that this

physiological “stress response†involves hormones and inflammatory

chemicals

that can foster everything from headaches to heart attacks in overdose.

It is clear that magnesium deficiency or imbalance plays a role in the

symptoms of mood disorders. Observational and experimental studies have shown

an association between magnesium and aggression,[5],[6],[7],[8],[9]

anxiety,[10],[11],[12] ADHD,[13],[14],[15],[16] bipolar disorder,[17],[18]

depression,[19],[20],[21],[22] and schizophrenia.[23],[24],[25],[26] So you tell

me who the real terrorists are? The sea is full of magnesium and it is easily

sourced and applied orally, transdermally, through IVs and even nebulized

directly into the lungs.

Patients who had made suicide attempts (by using either

violent or nonviolent means) had significantly lower mean

CSF magnesium level irrespective of the diagnosis.[27]

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD

Director International Medical Veritas Association

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[1] _www.mdheal.org/magnesiu1.htm_ (http://www.mdheal.org/magnesiu1.htm)

[2] With chronic alcohol intake, body stores of magnesium become depleted.

Reasons include inadequate intake, starvation ketosis, vomiting and

diarrhea, and urinary excretion.

_www.mgwater.com/adequate.shtml_ (http://www.mgwater.com/adequate.shtml)

[3] Pringle: _www.lawyersands

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(http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/ssri_offlabel.html)

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