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Written and Compiled by Tony M. Isaacs
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Very few people are aware of the vital role magnesium plays in our bodies. After oxygen, water, and basic food, magnesium may be the most important element needed by our bodies, activating over 300 different biochemical reactions necessary for your body to function properly. The U.S. minimum RDA for magnesium is about 320 mg per day for women and more than 400 mg per day for men, while optimum daily amounts are closer to 500 to 700 mg per day - yet studies show that most people regularly take in about half of that and that over 8 out of 10 people do not take enough daily magnesium for even the minimum daily amounts recommended. Recent research has revealed that this lack of magnesium may put your heart - and your health - at significant risk.
Magnesium protects against heart disease and heart attacks, high blood pressure and stroke, type II diabetes and much, much more. It is more important than calcium, potassium or sodium and regulates all three of them. Contrary to popular misconceptions, it is magnesium that is actually most important in building strong bones and preventing bone loss.
Magnesium is a
muscle relaxant, while calcium is a
muscle constrictor. Low magnesium
intake is associated with muscle
spasm, tremors and convulsions. Most
Americans, particularly women, have
been advised to consume 1200-1500
milligrams of calcium daily.
Virtually none of these women have
been told that calcium in single
doses that exceed 500 milligrams are
not absorbed and that they only need
an additional 400-600 milligrams of
supplemental calcium since their
diet already provides about 800
milligrams of this mineral. Since 99
percent of magnesium resides inside
living cells, blood serum levels are
not a good indicator of magnesium
deficiency. Blood tests
for magnesium are notoriously
inaccurate. Only 1 percent of the
total body magnesium pool exists
outside of living cells. So blood
serum levels are notoriously
inaccurate. [Clin Chem Lab
Med 37: 1011-33, 1999]
In other words, your doctor can't
easily tell you by a blood test if
your magnesium levels are low. Most
Americans, 8 in 10, do not consume
enough magnesium. The countries that
have the highest mortality rates in
the world are the Scandinavian
countries and New Zealand where more
calcium is consumed from dairy
products, while for comparison the
lowest mortality rates in the world
are in Portugal and Japan where
calcium-rich dairy products are not
consumed regularly. Americans
consume about 800 milligrams of
calcium daily (milk drinkers may get
1200-1500 mgs from their diet
alone), but only consume about 275
milligrams of magnesium. Thus the
dominance of calcium over magnesium
produces symptoms of muscle spasm.
Migraines, eyelid twitch, heart
flutters, back aches, premenstrual
tension, leg cramps and constipation
are all linked to calcium overload.
Excessive calcium may also result in
kidney stones (1 in 11 Americans)
and heart valve calcifications
(mitral valve, 1 in 12 Americans). A
significant percentage of American
adults consume more than 2000
milligrams of daily calcium, the
point where side effects of
overdosage begin to be reported.
Magnesium has been called the "The Forgotten Mineral" and the "5-Cent Miracle Tablet" by medical researchers. Numerous researchers have reported that the provision of this mineral in the population at large would greatly diminish the incidence of kidney stones (1 in 11 Americans), calcified mitral heart valve (1 in 12 Americans), premenstrual tension, constipation, miscarriages, stillbirths, strokes, diabetes, thyroid failure, asthma, chronic eyelid twitch (blepharospasm), brittle bones, chronic migraines, muscle spasms and anxiety reactions. [Pediatric Asthma, Allergy Immunology 5: 273-79; Journal Bone Mineral Research 13: 749-58, 1998; Magnesium 5: 1-8, 1986; Medical Hypotheses 43: 187-92, 1994] That's a lot of health benefits for a nickel. Sufficient provision of magnesium in the American population would likely reduce health care costs by billions of dollars.
When we get too low on oxygen, water or food, the consequences are serious. Yet, we often don't realize the consequences of magnesium deficiency. The improper use of magnesium among health professionals and the population in general, is deeply responsible for many of the failures encountered daily in treating chronic health conditions nationwide. In addition to the ones listed above are:
Insomnia
Sleep-disorders
Fatigue
Body-tension
Headaches
Heart-disorders
Low energy
High Blood Pressure
PMS
Muscle tension
Backaches
Constipation
Kidney stones
Osteoporosis
Accelerated aging
Depression
Irregular-heartbeat
Anxiety
Muscle cramps
Spasms Irritability
and the list goes on.... It is
reported that 90-95% of us are deficient in magnesium,
including many of
those who already supplement it.
Why? Due to the misleading
information presented in common
magnesium texts. As a result,
magnesium remains largely
misunderstood, largely misused and
the problem goes on undetected.
Magnesium and the Heart
One Mineral Can Make Or Break Your Heart's Rhythm
Low blood levels of magnesium can significantly affect the way your heart pumps blood throughout your body. And even if you think you're living a healthy lifestyle, you may not be getting enough of it.
Magnesium May Prevent Sudden-Death Heart Attacks
More than 300,000 sudden-death heart attacks are reported annually in the US (more than 80 per day) which are believed to be related to excessive calcium and a shortage of magnesium. Modern medicine's answer to the problem is to prescribe billions of dollars of calcium-blocker drugs. Magnesium is a natural calcium blocker, but this goes unrecognized by most physicians. Researchers warn that adults who consume excessive amounts of caffeine or alcohol, or who take water pills (diuretics), are prone to experience irregular heart beats and should consume more magnesium. The same is true for diabetics and people with low thyroid. Most Americans consume tap water that has been softened (sodium added) which worsens the problem. American adults need to supplement their diet with 200-400 milligrams of magnesium. The only side effect of too much magnesium is loose stool. Reducing dosage resolves this problem.
In the 1990s a preliminary report showed that intravenous magnesium reduced mortality rates following a heart attack. Unfortunately, this was apparently perceived as a threat to the sale of calcium-blocking drugs used for the same purpose. Medical researchers, financially backed by a pharmaceutical company that produces calcium-blocker drugs, deliberately chose to use an excessive dose of intravenous magnesium to prove it was of no value during the post-heart attack period. [Townsend Letter for Doctors, October 1998]
Magnesium is not limited to treating heart disease after a heart attack. A shortage of dietary magnesium has been repeatedly shown to be associated with an increased risk of sudden-death heart attack. Unequivocally, a shortage of magnesium from the American diet, in particular the absence or shortage of magnesium in drinking water, is directly related to sudden-death heart attack. [Epidemiology 10: 31-36, 1999; Heart 82: 455-60, 1999; American Journal Epidemiology 143: 456-62, 1996] Out of 750,000 heart attacks in the USA annually, an estimated 340,000 deaths occur within one hour of a heart attack. [Journal Nutrition Health Aging 5: 173-78, 2001]
One study showed the relative risk of sudden-death heart attack is more than 1.5 times higher among adults who consume on average 105 milligrams of magnesium a day compared to adults who consume 233 milligrams a day. [Magnesium Trace Element Research 9: 143-51, 1990] In an animal experiment, no rodents experienced a sudden-death heart attack when magnesium levels were adequate, whereas 4 of 11 rodents with low magnesium levels experienced a sudden lethal heart muscle spasm. [Journal American Collage Cardiology 27: 1771-76, 1996]
Recently researchers reported on the effects of slowly withdrawing magnesium from the diet of postmenopausal women. Women began to exhibit abnormal heart rhythms as circulating magnesium levels declined. [American Journal Clinical Nutrition 75: 550-54, 2002]. Of the minerals removed during water softening, magnesium is the only mineral found to be deficient in the heart muscle of sudden-death heart attack victims. [Science 208: 198-200, 1980]
Magnesium and High Blood Pressure
Magnesium helps signal muscles to contract and relax. And when the muscles that line the major blood vessels contract, your blood pressure rises.
When researchers studied the diets of 40,000 nurses and 30,000 male health professionals, they found lower blood pressures in people who ate more magnesium.
Magnesium and Diabetes
Eating more magnesium-rich foods,
like green leafy vegetables and nuts, may reduce the risk of type-2 diabetes,
suggests a meta-analysis of observational studies.
The analysis of prospective cohort studies, by researchers at Stockholm's
Karolinska Institute, reports that for every 100 milligram increase in
magnesium intake, the risk of developing type-2 diabetes decreased by 15 per
cent.
Larsson
and Wolk identified seven studies
looking at the link between
magnesium intake from food or food
plus supplements and the risk of
type-2 diabetes. This gave the
researchers a total of 286,668
participants and 10,912 cases of
type-2 diabetes.
Six of the studies showed a
statistically significant inverse
association, with every 100 mg per
day increase in magnesium intake
linked to a 15 per cent decrease in
type-2 diabetes risk.
"The potential protective role of
magnesium intake against type-2
diabetes may be due to improvement
of insulin sensitivity," said the
reviewers. "Studies in animals have
demonstrated an adverse effect of
magnesium deficiency on
glucose-induced insulin secretion
and insulin-mediated glucose uptake.
In contrast, magnesium
supplementation was shown to prevent
fructose-induced insulin resistance
and reduce the development of
diabetes in a rat model of
spontaneous type-2 diabetes."
They concluded that while it is too
early to recommend magnesium
supplements for type-2 diabetes
prevention, increased consumption of
magnesium-rich food "seems prudent."
While refusing to label the results of their
meta-analysis definitive, authors
Susanna Larsson and Alicia Wolk
wrote in the
Journal of Internal Medicine
that the evidence that increased
intake of magnesium may reduce the incidence of type-2 diabetes was "compelling."
Widespread Dietary Deficiency
Since the turn of last century, our depleted soils, processed foods and fast food diet lifestyles have led to a steady increase in mineral deficiencies. Nowhere is this more true than in Magnesium:
Progressive decline of dietary magnesium consumption
| Years | Magnesium intake milligrams per day |
| 1900-08 | 475-500 |
| 1909-13 | 415-435 |
| 1925-29 | 385-398 |
| 1935-39 | 360-375 |
| 1947-49 | 358-370 |
| 1957-59 | 340-360 |
| 1965-76 | 300-340 |
| 1978-85 | 225-318 |
| 1990-2002 | 175-225 |
[Magnesium Trace Elements 10: 162-28, 1997]
Dietary Sources of Magnesium
Food Sources of Magnesium ranked by milligrams of magnesium per standard amount; also calories in the standard amount. (All are >- 10% of RDA for adult men, which is 420 mg/day.)
| Food, Standard Amount |
Magnesium (mg) |
Calories |
| Pumpkin and squash seed kernels, roasted, 1 oz |
151 |
148 |
| Brazil nuts, 1 oz |
107 |
186 |
| Bran ready-to-eat cereal (100%), ~1 oz |
103 |
74 |
| Halibut, cooked, 3 oz |
91 |
119 |
| Quinoa, dry, ¼ cup |
89 |
159 |
| Spinach, canned, ½ cup |
81 |
25 |
| Almonds, 1 oz |
78 |
164 |
| Spinach, cooked from fresh, ½ cup |
78 |
20 |
| Buckwheat flour, ¼ cup |
75 |
101 |
| Cashews, dry roasted, 1 oz |
74 |
163 |
| Soybeans, mature, cooked, ½ cup |
74 |
149 |
| Pine nuts, dried, 1 oz |
71 |
191 |
| Mixed nuts, oil roasted, with peanuts, 1 oz |
67 |
175 |
| White beans, canned, ½ cup |
67 |
154 |
| Pollock, walleye, cooked, 3 oz |
62 |
96 |
| Black beans, cooked, ½ cup |
60 |
114 |
| Bulgur, dry, ¼ cup |
57 |
120 |
| Oat bran, raw, ¼ cup |
55 |
58 |
| Soybeans, green, cooked, ½ cup |
54 |
127 |
| Tuna, yellowfin, cooked, 3 oz |
54 |
118 |
| Artichokes (hearts), cooked, ½ cup |
50 |
42 |
| Peanuts, dry roasted, 1 oz |
50 |
166 |
| Lima beans, baby, cooked from frozen, ½ cup |
50 |
95 |
| Beet greens, cooked, ½ cup |
49 |
19 |
| Navy beans, cooked, ½ cup |
48 |
127 |
| Tofu, firm, prepared with nigaria , ½ cup |
47 |
88 |
| Okra, cooked from frozen, ½ cup |
47 |
26 |
| Soy beverage, 1 cup |
47 |
127 |
| Cowpeas, cooked, ½ cup |
46 |
100 |
| Hazelnuts, 1 oz |
46 |
178 |
| Oat bran muffin, 1 oz |
45 |
77 |
| Great northern beans, cooked, ½ cup |
44 |
104 |
| Oat bran, cooked, ½ cup |
44 |
44 |
| Buckwheat groats, roasted, cooked, ½ cup |
43 |
78 |
| Brown rice, cooked, ½ cup |
42 |
108 |
| Haddock, cooked, 3 oz |
42 |
95 |
| Spirulina, 10 grams |
40 |
39 |
a Calcium sulfate and magnesium chloride.
Supplementation Advised
Although you can see from the above chart that a person might be able to obtain enough minimum RDA of magnesium and perhaps even optimum amounts of magnesium through a very carefully planned and managed daily diet, it would be a difficult task since much of the above list are no longer staple parts of our Western diets and when processed food is added to the diet it can safely be assumed that, while anyone should be able to increase the magnesium they get from wise diet choices, it is exceedingly difficult for the general public to consume enough magnesium through dietary sources alone.
Only supplementation is likely to make up for such a widespread deficiency in magnesium. Foods cannot easily be fortified with magnesium because it is a bulky mineral that would alter the consistency and taste of flour and foods. Magnesium cannot be added to tap water because it would erode piping. Either magnesium pills or magnesium added to bottled water would make up for this mineral deficiency. Currently, only 5 major brands of bottled water provide a desirable measure of more than 75 milligrams of magnesium per liter and only one brand has a ratio of magnesium that exceeds that of calcium.
Since the same problems with soil depletion and diet causes deficiencies in many other vital minerals, it would be a good idea to supplement for magnesium and to also supplement with a wide range of minerals. The very best source of mineral supplements are plant derived minerals, because they are more readily absorbed than mined rock minerals. For maximum absorption, bromelain can be added. Bromelain is an all natural compound found in the stem of the pineapple plant and is a powerful binder that increases the absorption of many things.
Until now it was thought that the best forms of supplemental magnesium were the ones chelated to an amino acid (magnesium glycinate, magnesium taurate) or a krebs cycle intermediate (magnesium malate, magnesium citrate, magnesium fumarate). But now we have magnesium oil, a magnesium chloride, that can be applied directly to the skin, so dosage levels can be brought up safely to high levels without diarrhea and problems with absorption. Magnesium orotate is considered to be a superior form of oral magnesium supplementation. The only side effect of too much magnesium is loose stool. Reducing the dosage or dividing daily doses into smaller amounts resolves the problem.
Note: For optimum health, magnesium and calcium intake needs to be at about a 1 to 2 ratio. So, if you supplement with 500 mg of magnesium, you should supplement with 1000 mg of calcium (or less if you get plenty of dietary calcium and little dietary magnesium).
Sources included:
Jenny Thompson, Health Sciences Institute
http://www.omeonet.info/en/articles/magnesium.htm
Journal of Internal Medicine (Blackwell Publishing)
Published on-line, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2796.2007.01840.x
"Magnesium intake and risk of type-2 diabetes: a meta-analysis"
Authors: S.C. Larsson, A. Wolk
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2002; 75:550-554
The Robert Cathey Research Source by Roger Scott Cathey
http://www.navi.net/~rsc/mgcl2_txt.html Updated June 17, 2003
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