Tim - The focus of using magnesium bicarbonate water is to provide a small and consistent amount of magnesium in a very desirable form... (bicarbonate) which is quickly and easily assimilated into cells. In the recent post on Magnesium - what's in your supplement?, this was re-emphasized.
I continue to encourage readers to use the WW for adding an additional and highly beneficial form of magnesium bicarbonate to their daily intake. Not only is the WW alkalizing for tissue pH which is essential to health, but also because the magnesium bicarbonate ion is the most easily assimilated into the cells. The fact that many people consume the natural form of magnesium bicarbonate water naturally occurring in their area, just validates the safety and also overall health benefits of maintaining an alkaline tissue pH. That spares using either stored magnesium or calcium to buffer an overly acidic system....so it's a health benefit overall regardless of whether one has AF or not.
Whether or not the drinking the WW provides enough magnesium to overcome an intracellular deficiency and therefore help stabilize electrical conduction by allowing potassium to work as it should, is a matter of just how deficient an individual is...and then, how easily and efficiently they are able to replete their IC stores. It also depends on how deficient that individual is in potassium or how imbalanced the potassium-to-sodium ratio is and therefore, when that chemistry is out of balance, arrhythmia or PACs or PVCs are symptoms of that imbalance.
The list of symptoms of an acidic pH which support disease is long and is yet another topic. There is an abundance of science behind the benefits of maintaining consistently an alkaline tissue pH. There is an abundance of previous posts on this topic with the science well documented... including the science that supports the patent granted on Unique Water. If you'd like the links, let me know and I can pull them up for you.
Meanwhile, the fundamental focus is that all of us need optimal magneisum stores inside all cells...especially heart cells. You can't typically get enough from food sources. You have to supplement. The WW offers a both magnesium and the benefits of alkalizing. Whether or not you have an ablation, your body's requirements for magnesium are not going to change. That's basic biochemistry. Magnesium deficiency is a known cause of cardiac fibrosis which interferes with the heart's electrical conduction system.
Here's an excerpt from a 2013 post:
...." I had initially mentioned the alkalizing benefits for you from the WW but failed to mention that equally important is that this form of magnesium – the magnesium bicarbonate-- ion is most likely to provide the best possible magnesium delivery to the inside of cells (where it works). Note this clip on the magnesium bicarbonate water – Unique Water from Australia and keep in mind that your heart is a muscle dependent upon ATP production:
"Magnesium bicarbonate is a complex hydrated salt that exists only in water under specific
conditions. It does not occur in a solid form. Water containing magnesium bicarbonate is
considered to be appropriately mineralised. Indeed, medical research from many countries has
demonstrated that people live longer when they drink water that is appropriately mineralised.
When consumed, magnesium bicarbonate rapidly enters body cells. This occurs because magnesium is an
intracellular element and magnesium functions as a bicarbonate co-transporter into cells.
Magnesium bicarbonate increases considerably the energy production in body cells. This energy
increase occurs in several ways. First, magnesium bicarbonate protects the natural organic and
inorganic phosphate buffers in the cytoplasm of cells. This is important, particularly in muscle cells
and brain cells (neurons). Second, magnesium bicarbonate neutralises the acid produced as a result
of metabolic processes and ATP hydrolysis. This allows more ATP to be hydrolysed; that is, more
energy can be utilised. Third, magnesium bicarbonate buffers the mitochondria in body cells from
excess acid concentrations which improves mitochondrial function and allows more ATP to be
produced. When more ATP can be hydrolysed and more ATP can be produced, body cells have
sufficient energy for optimum function. When body cells have optimum function, the energy levels
and the physical performance of the body are enhanced. See Appendix for details of magnesium
bicarbonate and mitochondrial function.
During strenuous types of exercise, muscle metabolism can increase to sixty times normal. This
increase is higher than the corresponding increase in blood flow which increases to twenty times
normal. As a result, carbon dioxide concentrations increase greatly in muscle cells and tissues
during strenuous exercise and add to the acid load in the muscles. Normally, muscle cells contain
concentrations of organic and inorganic phosphates that are able to buffer the acid load in
exercising muscles. Indeed, there are about twenty times the concentrations of phosphates inside
cells than there are outside cells. However, during strenuous exercise the phosphate buffers are
overwhelmed and the muscles become acidic. Muscle acidity results in poor performance and
fatigue. "
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Jackie