MAGNESIUM THE LINK TO LIFE
By RAFFI DILSIZIAN VP/TEREPIA INTERNATIONAL
Magnesium and Calcium
Magnesium is considered to be one of the most important elements in life; not
only in plants, where the chlorophyll molecule is built around an atom of
magnesium, but also in animal life. Geologists believe that magnesium was
twelve times more abundant in the pre-cambrian era. We know that sea water
is strongly deficient in calcium but high in magnesium. Magnesium is the fourth
most abundant mineral in the body, after calcium.
Calcium could have had many origins, one of which is Magnesium (12Mg + 8O = 20Ca).
At the Maritime Laboratory of Roscoff, a crayfish was put in a sea water basin from
which limestone had been removed; the animal made its shell anyway. Magnesium
converts to calcium when the body needs it, and chelates calcium out of the body
as a natural calcium inhibitor when there is access calcium. In our organism
certain mechanisms often enter into play: Calcium may have other origins.
Calcium may also come from silicon and potassium. The complex interrelationships
of Magnesium with other electrolytes and with hormonal and cellular functions
helps one appreciate it’s important role in over 300 enzymatic reactions, amino
acid activation and DNA synthesis. Magnesium interacts and stimulates various
hormones that help shuttle more calcium into the bones, and it’s involvement in
the processes relating to energy production.
A diet very high in calcium increases the elimination of magnesium.
Epidemiological evidence suggests an association between magnesium deficiency
and an increased risk of coronary artery disease. Magnesium blocks the physiological
actions of calcium and promotes vasodilation possibly through interactions with the
inner lining of blood vessels. Dietary supplement magnesium must exist with calcium
in about a two to one proportion in the body. If this level of magnesium is not
maintained, the excess calcium becomes a toxin to the body and can lead to asthma,
kidney stone, heart disease, arthritis, senility, osteoporosis, arrhythmia, hardening
of the arteries, calcification of tissues and organs. Most people are magnesium
deficient and calcium excessive. As a calcium antagonist, magnesium is involved
in relaxation of nerve and muscle tissue, and is an essential component in the
regulation of neurotransmitters.
Proper calcium and magnesium consumption supports feeling younger and weight
loss. It has been proposed the premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is nothing more than a
symptom of premature aging caused by the calcification of female body parts stemming
from magnesium deficiencies. Taking mega-doses of calcium will only accelerate this
imbalance between Magnesium and calcium. The body begins to deteriorate at twenty
rather than sixty. Women on a program of increased nutritional supplement magnesium
reported a vanishing of the PMS symptom. Many of these women reported weight-loss,
looking 10-15 years younger, increased energy, fewer wrinkles, secession in
depression, and one sixty year old woman began to menstruate again. A new enjoyment
of sex was also experienced.
Magnesium is required for protein synthesis, contractibility of muscle, excitability
of nerves, a co-factor in a plethora of enzyme functions and is essential for
the normal metabolism of potassium and calcium. The RDA for diet supplement
magnesium is 350mg daily for adult males. However, this is believed to possibly
be a low estimate.
Research & History
Astonishing amount of research has been done implicating long term magnesium
deficiency in many diseases.
Back in 1915, a French surgeon, Prof. Pierre Delbet, M.D., performed a lot of
"in vitro" [in test tube] and "in vivo" [in life] experiments with this solution
and he became aware that it was good not only for external applications, but it
was also a powerful immuno-stimulant and a tonic effect if taken by injections or
even by mouth. He obtained very good results in: colitis, angiocholitis,
cholecystitis, in the digestive apparatus; Parkinson's Disease, senile tremors
and muscular cramps, in the nervous system, acne, eczema, psoriasis, warts,
itch of various origins and chilblains, in the skin. There was a strengthening
of hair and nails, a good effect on diseases typical of the aged (impotency,
prostatic hypertrophy, cerebral and circulatory troubles) and on diseases of
allergic origin (hay-fever, asthma, urticaria, and anaphylactic reactions).
Epidemiological studies confirmed Dr. Delbet's views and demonstrated that
the regions of soil with richer incidence of magnesium had less cancer, and
vice versa.
Prof. Delbert wrote two books, Politique Preventive du Cancer (1944) and
L'Agriculture et la Sante' (1945), which are well documented reports of all
his studies on Magnesium Chloride on cancer prevention, diphtheria pharyngitis, tonsillitis, hoarseness, common cold, influenza, asthma, bronchitis, broncho-pneumonia, pulmonary emphysema, "children diseases" (whooping-cough, measles, rubella, mumps, scarlet fever . . ), alimentary and professional poisonings, gastroenteritis, boils, abscesses, erysipelas, whitlow, septic pricks (wounds), puerperal fever and osteomyelitis (acute or chronic inflammatory process of the bone).
More recent research
Studies have clearly shown beyond any mathematical or statistical contestation
that magnesium ingestion is the source of rapid increase of calcium and phosphorus,
and that this occurs within a few days when given in overdose.
Studies have further implicated low magnesium levels in migraines, osteoporosis,
diabetes, type II (magnesium is thought to influence cellular insulin receptors),
Growth failure, Vertigo, Anorexia, Multiple Sclerosis, tremor, arteriosclerosis,
rheumatoid arthritis and a number of other conditions too numerous to list here.
In 1964, in the laboratories of Institute National de la recherché Agronomique,
conducted an experiment with calves in order to demonstrate that the skeleton
does not develop at all when the diet is deficient in magnesium. The calcium
rate in the blood and muscles becomes too low and tetany results. Eventually
death occurs, preceded by convulsions, if the magnesium deficiency is prolonged.
Conversely, an overdose of magnesium helps develop the skeleton, hence we see
clearly calcium and phophorus increase and a rapid increase in energy and weight.
This occurs within a few days.
In 2000, Medi ca Company, Inc, Austria examined the effects of an oral magnesium
supplement on brachial artery endothelial function and exercise tolerance in
patients with coronary artery diseases. The study showed that oral magnesium
supplementation results in a significant improvement in brachial artery endothelial
function. The study demonstrated that oral magnesium supplementation is an adjuvant
therapy for patients with coronary artery disease.
Magnesium and Cholesterol
Oral Magnesium chloride therapy improves coronary artery disease. Some laboratory
and clinical trials have demonstrated that magnesium can reduce total and LDL
cholesterol and increase HDL cholesterol. Experimental work has shown
hypercoagulability and increased platelet aggregation during hypomagnesemia
which contributes to thrombus formation. Magnesium is inversely related to
platelet aggregation and ATP release; it can dependently inhibit a wide variety
of agonists of platelet aggregation, such as TXA2 and stimulate prostacyclin (PG12)
synthesis. Magnesium reduces vulnerability to oxygen-derived free radicals.
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