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Magnesium and Medicine
It never ceases to amaze me how much
there is to learn about medicine and health, and specifically
about the absolute necessity for healthcare workers of every
type to wake up to the amazing power of magnesium chloride when
applied directly to the skin. In my book
Transdermal
Magnesium Therapy
I wrote one powerful line of prose that equated magnesium in
importance to the air we breathe. It is without doubt an
essential element, like water, and in fact when the water we
drink is deficient or devoid of magnesium we have a serious
health problem on our hands that requires action and
resolution.

When it
comes to magnesium,
even when
something is discovered that would help us and our children, the
medical establishment ignores the fact. A good example of this:
an obviously important study was published back in February of
1995, in Vol. 95, Number 2, p. 263 of Pediatrics. It showed that
very low birth
weight babies have a lower incidence of cerebral palsy (CP) when
their mothers are treated with magnesium
sulfate shortly before giving birth. This means that many babies
could be helped using the transdermal magnesium oil I champion;
it could very easily be applied to women’s bellies.
This intriguing
finding means that use of a simple medication could
significantly decrease the incidence of cerebral palsy and
prevent
lifelong disability and suffering for thousands of Americans.
Dr. Zach W. Hall
Director of National Institute of Neurological Disorders and
Stroke
Dr. Karin B. Nelson
speculated that
magnesium may play a role in brain development and possibly
prevent cerebral hemorrhage in preterm infants.
In animal models, magnesium has been associated with
decreased brain injury after the brain has been deprived of
oxygen. This is especially important for humans because doctors
and nurses tend to cut the cord much too quickly after birth,
simultaneously reducing blood volume, pressure and oxygen to the
brain. According to researchers who recently performed the first
high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging studies on healthy
newborns[1]
one quarter of
babies born vaginally suffer small hemorrhages in their brains,
perhaps from compression of the head during delivery. Most of
this is probably due to the unnatural position women in
hospitals are forced to assume during labor and delivery. Women
on their backs and sacrum force the birth canal to constrict,
closing the vagina by as much as thirty percent. Naturally this
would put a big squeeze on infants’ brains as they come through
the birth canal.
Magnesium, which is
without doubt the most powerful safe nutritional “drug” on
earth, is not considered a drug at all when taken orally or when
used topically as a bath oil or salt. Doctors who know something
about magnesium (very few) know that it is routinely used in
emergency rooms to save lives in cases of cardiac arrest as well
as for stroke victims. And here is something else I did not know
about magnesium until recently:
Magnesium infusion
reduces the requirement for other drugs to control
muscle spasms and cardiovascular instability in cases of severe
tetanus.[2]
Obviously no
doctor’s office or family medicine cabinet should be without it.
Magnesium chloride solutions gained from sea water evaporation
(or by industrial pharmaceutical fabrication) offers a medical
miracle to humanity, the one that many have sought but have not
found. Nothing short of a miracle is to be expected in terms of
general health status if cellular levels of magnesium are
increased during illness. There is no wonder drug that can
claim, in the clear, what magnesium chloride can. Approximately
nine out of ten people will show dramatic improvements in the
state of their health when they replete their magnesium levels
and the very best way to do that is with magnesium chloride
gained from the sea. With such “brine solutions” it is simple to
apply the concentrate to the skin or pour it into bath water for
a medical treatment without equal. Of course this is medical
blasphemy which will upset public health officials.
In today's restrictive
medical atmosphere seawater can only be referred
to as a "mineral drink". If the word "cure" were uttered or
written
in relation to a brand name, the "offense" would be legally
actionable.
The medical
industrial complex is in trouble because they will not be able
to restrict the use of magnesium chloride, which is available
even in certain natural salts. A medical wonder drug is now
widely available, one that is vastly cheaper, safer and more
effective than anything the pharmaceutical companies have been
able to develop. I have used the word miracle freely above in
reference to both naturally derived magnesium chloride solutions
and also the more toxic over-the-counter pharmaceutical grade
type of magnesium chloride because both produce dramatic changes
in person after person. So clear and observable are the effects
that there is no mistake, no mysticism, no false claim made.
Magnesium chloride is officially and legally a medicine when it
is injected and that is of course with only the pharmaceutically
produced powder, which unfortunately has about 25 times the
amount of heavy metal pollution than natural sea brines, and it
is especially heavy in lead. But that is also typical, since
allopathic medicine always prefers the more toxic substances.
There are two
mammoth unconsidered factors linked to the horrendous rise in
diabetes in adults and children. The first is deficiency in
magnesium, and the other is chemical poisoning.
Another major contributing factor that is frequently ignored
when we examine the onset of diabetes is dehydration. Magnesium
deficiency is a predictor of diabetes; diabetics both need more
magnesium and lose more magnesium than most people. In two new
studies, using both men and women,
those who consumed the
most magnesium in their diet were least likely to develop type 2
diabetes,
according to a report in the January 2006 issue of the journal
Diabetes Care.
Magnesium
chloride, when applied directly to the skin, is transdermally
absorbed and has an almost immediate effect on chronic and acute
pain. Transdermal magnesium therapy is also ideal for
athletes who need high levels of magnesium. Oral magnesium is
much less effective than transdermal magnesium in the treatment
of injuries and tired worn out muscles. Perhaps the biggest
difference between oral and transdermal supplementation of
magnesium is seen in the area of pain management. Most
importantly, according to Dr. Norman Shealy, is the fact that
only through transdermal application does the master hormone
DHEA shows increases.
One day soon even
the beauty business is going to discover magnesium chloride as
not only a natural skin rejuvenator but as a treatment for skin
growths, including skin cancer. Let’s face it, a powerful
cellular rejuvenator like magnesium makes us feel, and actually
be, physiologically younger. Just the fact that full magnesium
repletion will dramatically decrease the chance of us succumbing
to a heart attack, stroke, diabetes and cancer makes it a life
extender in its almost unlimited power to help us avoid both
chronic and acute illnesses. Of course feeling and being younger
on a cellular level is beautiful because health is beautiful.
The beauty industry will enjoy having at its disposal
transdermally applicable magnesium since it will help its
clients actually look better. It will even stabilize and promote
hair growth, such is its power on the cellular level.
If you add up all
the pharmaceutical drugs that magnesium chloride can replace we
are talking about hundreds of billions of dollars. This is not
good news for an industry that is accustomed to making profits
without end. But it is good news when you think that without the
benefits to the broad population that magnesium offers, medical
costs are doomed to double yet again in the coming decade.
Recently in the
news it was said that grape juice seems to have the same
protective effect against heart disease as red wine. "Grape
juice can have a similar effect (against heart disease) as red
wine but without the alcohol. That is a very important message,"
said Dr Valerie Schini-Kerth, lead author of a study published
in the journal Cardiovascular Research. The reason? Grape juice
just happens to be high in magnesium and in resveratrol.[3]
There are foods we
can eat that are high in magnesium but it is almost impossible
to eat our way back to full cellular magnesium levels if we are
deficient. Officially, approximately 67 percent of the
population is deficient in magnesium and certainly if a person
eats refined foods (white rice, white bread) that number would
approach 100 percent. Most processed foods actually strip food
of its magnesium and in general magnesium levels in soils and
foods have been dropping rapidly over the last century.
If we want health,
graceful longevity, and cures for the pains, discomforts and
diseases that confront us in modern life we will want to
supplement heavily with magnesium chloride. Personally I choose
the most natural form and that is magnesium taken from the sea.
(Magnesium Oil) It is cleaner, stronger and more pleasant to use
than magnesium manufactured industrially by pharmaceutical
companies using hydrochloric acid. Magnesium chloride brine
solutions from seawater are also rich in rare elements
that are important for health and assist us in our efforts to
recover from illness. I would rather have these minerals than a
surplus of lead that is commonly found in fabricated products.
There are several
other natural substances that stand right alongside magnesium
chloride in regards to safety and effectiveness and these
substances will be highlighted and promoted by the
Federation for Safe and Effective Medicines (FSEM), which
is
associated with the International Medical Veritas Association (IMVA),
whose basic mission has been to seek out the safest and most
effective natural treatment alternatives possible for the
principle illnesses confronting humanity.
[2]
Magnesium sulphate for treatment of severe tetanus: a
randomised controlled trial.
Lancet. 2006 Oct 21;368(9545):1436-1443.
[3]
Resveratrol
(trans-3,5,4'-trihydroxystilbene), a compound found
largely in the skins of red grapes, is a component of
Ko-jo-kon, an oriental medicine used to treat diseases
of the blood vessels, heart and liver. It came to
scientific attention only four years ago, however, as a
possible explanation for the "French Paradox" -- the low
incidence of heart disease among the French people, who
eat a relatively high-fat diet. Today, it is touted by
manufacturers and being examined by scientific
researchers as an antioxidant, an anti-cancer agent, and
a phytoestrogen. The resveratrol content of wine is
related to the length of time the grape skins are
present during the fermentation process. Thus the
concentration is significantly higher in red wine than
in white wine, because the skins are removed earlier
during white-wine production, lessening the amount that
is extracted. Grape juice, which is not a fermented
beverage, is not a significant source of resveratrol.
You can obtain reservatrol from natural sources such as
whole grape skins and seeds. Resveratrol is also found
in raspberries, mulberries and peanuts, and is known to
have a number of beneficial health effects, including
fighting cancer. It belongs to a family of compounds
known as polyphenols, which are known to combat damaging
free radicals in the body.
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