Magnesium - more extremely important benefits than you may realize

Magnesium - more extremely important benefits than you may realize.

A feature article in Life Extension magazine by William Faloon titled, Will Magnesium Become the Next Vitamin D? is an important read and very gratifying for afibbers who supplement with magnesium to help maintain heart electrical stability and other cardiac benefits. However, this report goes far beyond reassuring us we are helping our heart by optimizing our magnesium intake on a daily basis. It’s worth sharing with friends and family as it’s highly- informative, valuable information.

Introduction
Vitamin D has emerged as a nutrient with astonishing value in disease prevention. Its low cost enables virtually everyone to supplement with enough potency to obtain broad-spectrum benefits.

Magnesium has similar attributes since it provides robust health effects, costs very little, and most Americans don’t get enough.

The best way to summarize vitamin D is that people who are deficient suffer more degenerative illness and premature death. The same holds true for magnesium.

Scientists recognize magnesium mostly as it relates to protection against cardiovascular disorders. Higher magnesium intake is associated with reduced risks of sudden cardiac death,_1-3 stroke,_4-6 type II diabetes,_7-9 asthma,₁₀ metabolic syndrome,_11,12 heart disease,_13,14 hypertension,_15-19 and osteoporosis.^_20,21

What few publications discuss are findings showing cancer risk reductions in those who ingest higher amounts of magnesium.₂₂

The challenge when assessing dietary magnesium intake is the inconsistency of the amount of magnesium contained in food.

Magnesium is not manufactured inside plants like disease-fighting polyphenols. This means the quantity of dietary magnesium is largely dictated by the amount of magnesium in the soil the food is grown in, or the mineral content of the water one drinks, both of which are highly variable.

In a landmark human study, there were marked reductions in pancreatic cancer risk in those who ingested higher amounts of magnesium primarily in dietary supplements. Other studies show colon cancer risk reductions in response to higher magnesium intake.

The totality of evidence supporting magnesium’s systemic benefits may soon transform this mineral into the next vitamin D as far as widespread public use is concerned.

This is great news for Americans, who face a phalanx of degenerative disorders that magnesium has been shown to protect against. It’s regrettable that it has taken so long for this realization to manifest.

Continue [www.lifeextension.com] There are 89 references.

(note the graphic on the first page that states: 76% Risk Increase Pancreatic Cancer incidence in Magnesium-Deficient Humans)


William Faloon compiled the 1,500 page medical reference book Disease Prevention and Treatment and his latest book is Pharmocracy: How Corrupt Deals and Misguided Medical Regulations Are Bankrupting America—and What to Do About It. He is also Director and Cofounder of the Life Extension Foundation.

The Life Extension Foundation is a nonprofit organization, whose long-range goal is the radical extension of the healthy human lifespan. In seeking to control aging, their objective is to develop methods to enable us to live in health, youth, and vigor for unlimited periods of time. The Life Extension Foundation was officially incorporated in 1980, but the founders have been involved in antiaging research since the 1960s.
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7/9/16

PS – From that Dec. 2016 issue of LEF Magazine, I should also have mentioned the great report recognizing
“Paul Mason’s Mission to Educate Humanity about Magnesium.”

Long-time forum members will recall Erling’s collaboration with Paul Mason (of Adobe Springs, California) when Erling was perfecting the magnesium bicarbonate concentrate formula for making the home-version called Waller Water or WW....another great source of not only an excellent form of magnesium, but an easy, economical and efficient way to maintain alkalinity, so critical to helping maintain optimal function… as discussed in the post on Alkalinity.

Good reminder to us all. Must read. [www.lifeextension.com]


Alkalinity, Healing, pH and Voltage - The Inside Story
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April 12, 2012

Jackie



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/09/2017 08:59AM by Jackie.

Hi, Ive been reading the Strategy and other articles in the resources and nowhere does it say how much magnesium to start with. And since i am on a beta blocker, Bystolic, should I add potassium? I should be off both Eliquis and Bystolic in 4 weeks if all goes well. Thanks, Cindy

This is also a great thread, like CindyH, I'm also curious if there is any way to determine an "optimal" daily magnesium supplemental intake.
I've noticed, too much magnesium causing a laxative effect possibly being detrimental to the overall electrolyte balance....