Ultimate Mito Cocktail by Marc Sircus ....

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this is from Sircus' newsletter - be interested to see what people

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The Ultimate Mitochondrial Cocktail

Magnesium Bicarbonate – Part One

There are good reasons many believe that there is nothing in

mainstream medicine that addresses de-acidification, detoxification,

fixing nutritional deficiencies, modulating and boosting the immune

system, and increasing full body circulation. Medical science has

failed in its attempts at curing degenerative, metabolic, or

autoimmune diseases. Without removing toxins and acids from all

organs, cells and tissues, and without providing the essential

nutritional building blocks like magnesium, the body will not be able

to heal completely.

Unless a treatment actually removes acid toxins from the body

and increases oxygen, water, and nutrients most medical interventions

come to naught. With most allopathic medicines themselves being

mitochondrial poisons, what happens is that they often change the

symptom picture that then almost always drives disorders into a

deeper chronic state. When the body's tissues and cells become too

acidic in conjunction with mitochondrial deficiency we set the stage

for tissue inflammation and degeneration as we become breeding

grounds for anaerobic pathogens.

It is time for allopathic medicine to understand that

viruses, bacteria and fungi all thrive in acid conditions. Why is

this so hard for orthodox doctors to understand? Tissues and cells

are like factories with furnace mitochondria everywhere and

everything gets very dirty with acid wastes that have to be cleared

away every millisecond we are alive. There is no way around the

reality that metabolism creates acid waste that can accumulate quite

rapidly under the right conditions.

Increased oxidative stress, which

correlates almost exponentially

with ph changes into the acidic, is

especially dangerous to the mitochondria,

which suffer the greatest under oxidative duress.

Many in the alternative health field believe that there is

not one drug on the market that reduces the acidity of the body or

addresses any king of nutritional deficiency. This is not true! There

happens to be two exceptional medicines that are excellent in

addressing most of the issues mentioned above. Magnesium chloride and

sodium bicarbonate are both considered medicines in their injectable

forms and both provide almost immediate relief to physiological

disturbances.

Patients receiving sodium bicarbonate

achieved urine pH's of 6.5 as

opposed to 5.6 with those receiving

sodium chloride. This alkalinization is

theorized to have a protective effect

against the formation of free-radicals

that may cause nephropathy.

One of the fundamental approaches to medicine has to be the

alkalinization of the body so it can dispose acids from our cells

tissues, and organs. We can do this in many ways but often doctors

have to do this in quick ways in emergency situations. Other times,

when we have cooperative patients we can use food as medicines and

accomplish things gradually with time.

The most powerful alkalizing foods on the planet are the ones

that are highest in chlorophyll. In Magnesium Medicine, my third

magnesium book due out soon, is a chapter called The Lamp of Life and

it's about the central role that magnesium has in life. It is also

the central atom in the chlorophyll molecule. Without magnesium,

without chlorophyll, life simply does not exist.

You just can't beat the cell-restoring potential of green

foods such as wheat, barley, kamut, alfalfa, and oat grasses along

with spirulina and chlorella. These foods are all high in magnesium

and act readily as food medicines. They are thousands of times more

powerful than ordinary green vegetables, because they are super

concentrated in chlorophyll, alkaline minerals, rare trace minerals,

vitamins, phyto-nutrients, and enzymes. My favourite has always been

spirulina and I include it in all my protocols.

Though I believe in the power of raw food diets and healing

medical approaches like the Gerson Diet, today we need exceptionally

powerful medicinal medicines that are not really medicines in the way

we normally think of medicines. Both sodium bicarbonate and magnesium

chloride are common items that when not injected are considered foods

safe for consumption. Luckily for everyone these two substances are

affective for chronic and acute disorders when used orally and

transdermally; we do not need to go to the emergency room for

injections.

This chapter is specifically about the dynamics of using

these two substances together. They offer a combination therapy that

is natural, effective and safe and can be used readily with other

protocol items, medicines and healing processes. Add some sun

(vitamin D), iodine, ALA and Vitamin C and we will go a long way of

helping the pharmaceutical giants to an early grave.

Magnesium bicarbonate is a complex hydrated salt that exists

only in water under specific conditions. The magnesium ion is Mg2+,

and the bicarbonate ion is HCO3-. So, magnesium bicarbonate must have

two bicarbonate ions: Mg (HCO3)2. Magnesium chloride and sodium

bicarbonate taken at full strength with water at slightly separated

times are an ideal way to supply magnesium ions and bicarbonate ions

to body cells.

Magnesium and bicarbonate rich mineral waters

are easily absorbed and have many health benefits.

Likewise, in small doses, the two together make up an ideal

treatment system for distilled and reverse osmosis water.1 Adding

these two substances to taste not only will remineralise highly

processed water but will provide the body with a constant supply of

the ultimate mitochondrial cocktail. Good drinking water would

contain approximately 125 mg of magnesium and 650 mg of bicarbonate

per litre.2When consumed together magnesium chloride and sodium

bicarbonate work very well together to combat basic physiological

problems.

When our tissues become too acidic and lacking in

magnesium necessary for ATP production cellular

metabolism drops off and this can lead to obesity and diabetes.

Few clinicians are aware how these two substances work to

enhance each other – they are mutually reinforcing because magnesium

functions as a bicarbonate co-transporter into cells. And bicarbonate

acts as a transporter of magnesium into the mitochondria. Magnesium

influx is linked with bicarbonate transport according to the Dietary

Reference Intakes guide from the Institute of Medicine. Magnesium

transport into or out of cells requires the presence of carrier-

mediated transport systems (Gunther, 1003; Romani et al., 1993).3

ATPase reaction has a broad pH optimum centering on neutral pH, with

little significant activity above pH9.0 or below pH5.5.4 Thus

anything that moves us from overall acid conditions toward alkaline

that recover the neutral zone is going to enhance cell metabolism via

mitochondrial optimization.

Alkalosis enhances magnesium reabsorption

in the juxtamedullary proximal nephron.5

It was actually the dedicated work of Dr Beckett, a

veterinarian with a PhD in biochemical pathology that paved the way

to understand the significance of bicarbonate acting in conjunction

with magnesium. He has formulated Unique Water which, it has been

asserted, slowed the ageing process and increased the length of life

of humans and other mammals and could be used to treat all

inflammatory and degenerative diseases. Unique Water is water

containing magnesium bicarbonate at an alkaline pH value. Dr.

Beckett's theoretical and experimental research has resulted in the

understanding how important both of bicarbonate and magnesium ions

are in human physiology and how they work together to optimize human

health and the ability to recover from disease.

Bicarbonate ions working alongside magnesium would naturally

create the conditions for increased glucose transport across cell

plasma membranes. Bicarbonate ions without doubt create the alkaline

conditions for maintaining the enzyme activity of pancreatic

secretions in the intestines. Bicarbonate neutralize acid conditions

required for inflammatory reactions hence sodium bicarbonate would be

of benefit in the treatment of a range of chronic inflammatory and

autoimmune diseases. An excellent research group called Agua G is

studying the overall benefits of bicarbonate in human physiology.

Bicarbonate acts to stimulate the

ATPase by acting directly on it6.

Magnesium does not readily reach the mitochondrion, but if

plenty of bicarbonate is available the bicarbonate will act as

transport into the mitochondrion. The problem is that few magnesium

bicarbonate products are available; they are expensive and difficult

to source. So using magnesium chloride and sodium bicarbonate

individually in combination is idea. It is possible to make one's own

magnesium bicarbonate..7 This chapter does not recommend going out

and buying magnesium bicarbonate or make it yourself as directed in

this last footnote. A person gets much more control over both

bicarbonate and magnesium physiology when magnesium is taken in its

chloride form and the bicarbonate is taken as sodium bicarbonate.

When using magnesium chloride for oral consumption you must use the

highest quality sources.8 Sea water evaporation magnesium oils are

not appropriate for this type of application.

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD

Director International Medical Veritas Association

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Special Note: This is the end of part one of Magnesium Bicarbonate,

which is a chapter in my book Sodium Bicarbonate – Rich Man's Poor

Man's Cancer Treatment. Part Two will take us more deeply into the

physiology of both bicarbonate and magnesium in relation to the

mitochondria. At some future time I will present magnesium

thiosulfate, which is a cousin of sodium thiosulfate. Both of these

chemicals can be purchases online and as my colleague Dr. Oleg Yasko

says, drinking either before bed offers a wonderful relaxing detox.

1 Distilled water is not safe for long term use, it lacks

bicarbonates and minerals and yes, it is acid forming to the body.

Yet it is an excellent aid in detoxification and chelation for it

purity pulls on toxicities in the body. Part of the reason why our

body is acid is that it lacks enough bicarbonate necessary to

neutralize the acid. Whenever the water lacks the proper bicarbonates

to neutralize the water in distilled water your body basically

becomes acid. Long term acidity causes acid blood, which is like acid

rain, causes the calcium from the bones to be leeched out and as a

result, the tissues and organ have too much of calcium clogging the

system. Therefore distilled water is generally not recommended as a

regular drinking water, since most of our body usually receives

bicarbonates from the water we drink than from the food we eat. But

we can easily treat distilled water by adding bicarbonate and

magnesium and then it is not really distilled water anymore.

7 The method consists of using one tablespoon of magnesium carbonate

to be dissolved with soda water. Buy a bottle of Carbonated Seltzer

water - NO SODIUM, just carbonated " fizz " water, unflavored.

Refrigerate for a couple of hours. Get another, larger bottle, and

pour 2/3 of a capful of PLAIN (no-flavor) Philips Milk of Magnesia

(which is Magnesium Oxide, an alkaline laxative) into the large

bottle. (The bottle comes with a plastic measuring cup which is what

I mean when I say 2/3 capful.) Now quickly open the bottle of

carbonated water (water + carbonic acid) and empty it into the large

bottle containing the 2/3 capful of Magnesia. Shake well. You will

have a bottle of milky/cloudy liquid which is in the process of

neutralization between the carbonic acid and the magnesium oxide--

leaving a neutral salt, Magnesium Bicarbonate.

8 Ancient Minerals Magnesium Oil and Bath Flakes are both pure enough

for oral consumption even they are not sold for oral use.