Did you know your body requires magnesium for proper detoxification of your cells?

Magnesium is a foundational nutrient on which detoxification systems depend for their function.  Without proper magnesium levels in the body, natural minerals like calcium can accumulate within your cells because magnesium deficiency causes cells to lose the ability to maintain normal mineral concentrations and exhibit toxic effects. The health of detoxification systems also is critical because exposure to environmental contaminants, synthetic chemicals, and pollution is a reality in our industrial world.

Magnesium is one of the best weapons in your arsenal against chemical toxicity!

Just how does magnesium support detox? First and foremost, magnesium’s major role in the production of energy (as ATP) puts magnesium at the top of the list when it comes to detox! After all, ATP provides your cells with the energy they require for pumping out toxins before, during, and after they accumulate.

It’s true! High levels of energy are needed for the function of sodium/potassium ATPase, the enzyme that uses this energy to pump sodium ions from cells and potassium ions into cells. Cells use ATPase as the pumping mechanism for transporting nutrients, preserving proper concentrations of minerals within cells (and extracellular fluid), and removing toxins.

Abundant highly absorbed magnesium that flows through the body’s pathways allows for the creation of energy needed to pump excess calcium from cells and thereby to maintain proper calcium to magnesium ratio within cells. Excess calcium in cells reduces the amount of available magnesium and rigidifies cell membranes, thereby reducing cell function. In addition, the entry of calcium into cells can overwhelm the capacity of ATPase to remove it.

When too much calcium enters into a cell, entry of magnesium is blocked, and the cell loses its ability to pump out calcium. When this occurs, the cell cannot transport nutrients, regulate its membrane, or preserve proper concentration gradients of minerals within itself or in the fluid outside its membrane (extracellular fluid).

Another aspect of magnesium’s role in detox is its impact on metals including aluminum, mercury, lead, cadmium, beryllium, and nickel.

Maintaining sufficient levels of magnesium supports the body’s efforts to detoxify metals whether for day-to-day heavy metal detox (in order to prevent accumulation within cells), or when levels of metals have become extremely high (as in heavy metal poisoning) due to chronic or acute exposure.

For example, lead and cadmium are known to exert cumulative toxic effects on the heart and kidneys. Due to lead’s high toxicity, in cases of exposure lead detox is imperative. Magnesium appears to competitively inhibit uptake of both metals, especially when they are found together. One study found that increased intake of magnesium facilitates the elimination of lead and cadmium through urinary excretion.

It is also known that mercury dramatically increases excretion of magnesium from kidneys. It has been suggested that magnesium loss is responsible for kidney damage witnessed in mercury poisoning. That kidney damage may relate to magnesium losses in mercury poisoning appears likely given that the body’s demands for magnesium increase as metal toxicity rises.

Finally, magnesium plays a significant role in supporting the body’s antioxidant systems. An important aspect of detoxification with respect to antioxidant status is that magnesium helps prevent the accumulation of oxidative by-products within tissues.

It is known that magnesium deficiency causes accumulation of oxidative products in the liver, kidney, skeletal muscles tissues, and red blood cells. When antioxidant systems fail to function properly, increased free-radical activity creates oxidative products that damage tissues and cells, and can significantly reduce their function. By supporting optimal antioxidant activity within the body, magnesium helps reduce free-radical damage and thereby lessens harmful effects related to an excessive activity of oxygen radical species.

You’ve probably heard that eating more vegetables and less meat is healthy. Maybe you’re even feeling inspired to try eating a vegan diet—which excludes all animal products, including dairy and eggs—to improve your health or lose a little weight, even with the intent of preventing animal exploitation. I’ve talked to many clients and customers who embrace raw foods, green smoothies, vegan diets for cancer, and paleo diets who have obvious magnesium deficiency symptoms – migraines, leg cramps, and heart palpitations. Yet they’ve been told that a particular diet will take care of all their problems. And many have been told that a vegan or vegetarian diet is the healthiest diet of all.

Truth is: we really don’t have a good analysis of who is healthier and who is not – the meat eaters or the vegetarians or the vegans. And even if we did  – science and statistics can’t tell you how your individual body will react to foods. Neither can a health enthusiast tell you what to eat (even though they may think they have all the reasons why you should or shouldn’t).

You have to experiment on your own body. What your body does with the food you give it is experiential and individual.

It also depends on your environment. A vegan stranded in the Arctic Circle would be well-advised to start eating raw seal meat – as soon as possible.

Most important is that you…

feel good after eating certain foods

they are grown and prepared with little or no chemicals

you chew it thoroughly (see Module 8 of Future Health Now!)

you don’t overeat (see Module 13)

it’s not refined or denatured

Also, look at what your ancestors ate. If for thousands of years they ate plenty of meat… avoiding meat can be a hard choice for some people’s DNA. Not impossible.

And I know of no cultures that avoided ALL animal protein. The Chinese, for example, ate little or no dairy – but still ate meat (despite popular belief). Many Hindu sects largely avoided meat – but did eat plenty of dairy.

Tonight on Dr. Carolyn Dean LIVE we’ll be joined by guest Shakaya Breeze, health advocate, blogger and [former] vegan enthusiast. We’ll be talking about diet, dietary choices, vegan vs. whole foods and gaining insights along the way! You will love hearing the beneficial interactions with our callers and hosts alike including the body/mind connection, identifying the \'conflict\' in the \'conflict basis\' of disease and much more!!

Increasing magnesium intake may be a valid strategy to enhance cognitive abilities. This comes on the heels of much research and speculation that inadequate levels of magnesium could impair cognitive function, leading to faster deterioration of memory in aging humans.

In fact, because of how magnesium deficiency affects the brain, world-renown magnesium expert  Dr. Carolyn Dean thoroughly researched and provided over 600 medical and scientific references in her newest edition of The Magnesium Miracle 2017 Edition, many of which refer directly to the function of the central nervous system!

The following excerpts citing magnesium\\\'s role in the brain function and cognition is taken from The Magnesium Miracle, 2017 Edition:

* Stroke: The U.S. population, deficient in magnesium, is at greater risk for stroke with severe post-stroke complications. There can be poor recovery from head injury and escalating neurological damage. Lack of magnesium can enhance neurotoxin damage from vast numbers of chemicals in our air, food, and water.

* Brain Trauma: Higher magnesium levels are associated with a better recovery, and giving magnesium will create a better healing outcome. IV magnesium sulfate significantly reduces brain edema following brain injury and is used to treat patients with severe TBI without adverse effects. This is crucial information to give your doctor if your child suffers a head injury or any family member is involved in a motor vehicle accident. Good Neurosurgeons give IV magnesium to all their surgical patients.

* Diuretics Dry Out The Brain: A journal case study reported that an elderly woman’s Serum Magnesium level became depleted due to a diuretic she was taking for hypertension. She was admitted to the hospital with severe weakness and developed an overt psychosis with paranoid delusions. Following large intravenous doses of magnesium, her symptoms disappeared within twenty-four hours. However, her symptoms returned as long as she was taking the diuretic. People who are prescribed diuretics should check with their doctor about taking at least 600 mg a day of supplemental magnesium in divided doses. In that way, many of the side effects of diuretics can be avoided.

* Aging: French magnesium researcher Dr. Pierre Delbet, who practiced in the early 1900s, was convinced that the aging body’s tissues have three times more calcium than magnesium. He knew that calcium precipitates out into tissues that are deficient in magnesium. He observed the toxicity of excess calcium in the testicles, brain, and other tissues and concluded almost a century ago that magnesium deficiency plays a role in senility.

* Memory: Research at MIT, however, produced a study in 2004 that elevates magnesium to the position of memory enhancer. Particular brain receptors important for learning and memory depend on magnesium for their regulation. The researchers describe magnesium as an absolutely necessary component of the cerebrospinal fluid in order to keep these learning and memory receptors active. The term they use for this activity, interactivity, and changeability is plasticity.

* Fear: MIT researcher found that “As predicted by our theory, increasing the concentration of magnesium and reducing the background level of noise led to the largest increases of plasticity ever reported in scientific literature.” In English, that statement simply means that magnesium reduces the physical reaction to fear, which can only be a good thing!

* Treating Telomeres: A telomere is an essential part of chromosomes that affect how our cells age. Telomeres are the caps at the ends of chromosomes that protect them from unraveling or getting attached to another chromosome. The current research on aging is firmly tied up with telomeres. It should come as no surprise that magnesium is tightly wrapped up with telomeres. But the real shock is how few researchers are focusing on the miracle of magnesium in keeping telomeres from unraveling. Instead, they are looking for drugs or formulating expensive supplements to save the telomeres – ignoring the solution that’s right before their eyes.

* Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s: There is evidence that magnesium deficiency can trigger or worsen Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.[i] These conditions are the neurological equivalent of heart disease. After all, both heart and brain are excitable tissues that give off electrical energy, and both must have magnesium.

In spite of all these potential outcomes, protecting your brain power can be simple! Tonight on our internet based radio show, we\\\'ll be talking with Dr. Carolyn Dean about Magnesium - How It Protects Your Brain along with a wide range of health topics and safe solutions. You will love hearing the beneficial interactions with our callers and hosts alike including the body/mind connection, identifying the \\\'conflict\\\' in the \\\'conflict basis\\\' of disease and much more!!

Increasing magnesium intake may be a valid strategy to enhance cognitive abilities. This comes on the heels of much research and speculation that inadequate levels of magnesium could impair cognitive function, leading to faster deterioration of memory in aging humans.

In fact, because of how magnesium deficiency affects the brain, world-renown magnesium expert  Dr. Carolyn Dean thoroughly researched and provided over 600 medical and scientific references in her newest edition of The Magnesium Miracle 2017 Edition, many of which refer directly to the function of the central nervous system!

The following excerpts citing magnesium\'s role in the brain function and cognition is taken from The Magnesium Miracle, 2017 Edition:

* Stroke: The U.S. population, deficient in magnesium, is at greater risk for stroke with severe post-stroke complications. There can be poor recovery from head injury and escalating neurological damage. Lack of magnesium can enhance neurotoxin damage from vast numbers of chemicals in our air, food, and water.

* Brain Trauma: Higher magnesium levels are associated with a better recovery, and giving magnesium will create a better healing outcome. IV magnesium sulfate significantly reduces brain edema following brain injury and is used to treat patients with severe TBI without adverse effects. This is crucial information to give your doctor if your child suffers a head injury or any family member is involved in a motor vehicle accident. Good Neurosurgeons give IV magnesium to all their surgical patients.

* Diuretics Dry Out The Brain: A journal case study reported that an elderly woman’s Serum Magnesium level became depleted due to a diuretic she was taking for hypertension. She was admitted to the hospital with severe weakness and developed an overt psychosis with paranoid delusions. Following large intravenous doses of magnesium, her symptoms disappeared within twenty-four hours. However, her symptoms returned as long as she was taking the diuretic. People who are prescribed diuretics should check with their doctor about taking at least 600 mg a day of supplemental magnesium in divided doses. In that way, many of the side effects of diuretics can be avoided.

* Aging: French magnesium researcher Dr. Pierre Delbet, who practiced in the early 1900s, was convinced that the aging body’s tissues have three times more calcium than magnesium. He knew that calcium precipitates out into tissues that are deficient in magnesium. He observed the toxicity of excess calcium in the testicles, brain, and other tissues and concluded almost a century ago that magnesium deficiency plays a role in senility.

* Memory: Research at MIT, however, produced a study in 2004 that elevates magnesium to the position of memory enhancer. Particular brain receptors important for learning and memory depend on magnesium for their regulation. The researchers describe magnesium as an absolutely necessary component of the cerebrospinal fluid in order to keep these learning and memory receptors active. The term they use for this activity, interactivity, and changeability is plasticity.

* Fear: MIT researcher found that “As predicted by our theory, increasing the concentration of magnesium and reducing the background level of noise led to the largest increases of plasticity ever reported in scientific literature.” In English, that statement simply means that magnesium reduces the physical reaction to fear, which can only be a good thing!

* Treating Telomeres: A telomere is an essential part of chromosomes that affect how our cells age. Telomeres are the caps at the ends of chromosomes that protect them from unraveling or getting attached to another chromosome. The current research on aging is firmly tied up with telomeres. It should come as no surprise that magnesium is tightly wrapped up with telomeres. But the real shock is how few researchers are focusing on the miracle of magnesium in keeping telomeres from unraveling. Instead, they are looking for drugs or formulating expensive supplements to save the telomeres – ignoring the solution that’s right before their eyes.

* Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s: There is evidence that magnesium deficiency can trigger or worsen Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.[i] These conditions are the neurological equivalent of heart disease. After all, both heart and brain are excitable tissues that give off electrical energy, and both must have magnesium.

In spite of all these potential outcomes, protecting your brain power can be simple! Tonight on our internet based radio show, we\'ll be talking with Dr. Carolyn Dean about Magnesium - How It Protects Your Brain along with a wide range of health topics and safe solutions. You will love hearing the beneficial interactions with our callers and hosts alike including the body/mind connection, identifying the \'conflict\' in the \'conflict basis\' of disease and much more!!

Everyone knows that exercise is good for them but is it possible to get too much of a good thing? While exercise provides many health benefits, at some point working out too hard or too long can increase the risk of magnesium and mineral depletion engendering a whole slew of health complications. In fact, intense exercise like training for marathons or endurance could be an admirable endeavor or it could put you on the sidelines.

Consider Len’s recent correspondence with our Customer Service team:

I happened to receive a copy of the book “The Magnesium Miracle” about a week ago and upon reading it was very, very impressed.   I have ordered my first bottle of ReMag. 

I am 81 years of age and kept very fit all my life by running 100 kms every week up and down the mountains where I live.   In my 50’s I started running marathons (always in less than three hours) but in my 60’s I was forced to start bike riding because my knees had worn out.   In my 70’s I engaged in four quite challenging bike rides for various charities in Cambodia, Vietnam, Mongolia, and Myanmar.   Last year at age 80 I was starting to train for a 3,000 kilometre ride across Southern Australia with a friend and a group from his church when I was hit badly by A. Fib. which had bothered me with occasional episodes for some 20 years (once in the middle of Mongolia).   However this episode last year didn’t go away as had the others and eventually it resulted in a heart disease called Idiopathic Cardiomyopathy which I am told is incurable.   I was hospitalized and now have been advised by my cardiologist to avoid any strenuous exercise – a short bike ride or walk each day is all I am allowed to do.

I purchased magnesium powder, but the problem of diarrhea hit me badly.   So when I read the book I was quite elated and to learn about ReMag and experience the relief so many people speak of – Len M, Australia

In The Magnesium Miracle, Dr. Dean cites a study of young, healthy, well-conditioned men, noting that “strenuous effort was reported to give rise to persistent magnesium deficiency and a related long-term increase in cholesterol, triglycerides, and blood sugar.” The study results suggest “the decline of athletes and other intensely training individuals during  exertion is triggered by the detrimental effects of persistent magnesium deficiency on the cardiovascular system.” (The Magnesium Miracle, Kindle page 2133)

Your personal trainer is unlikely to tell you about magnesium supplementation as part of your overall training program but Dr. Carolyn Dean will be happy to tell you all you need to know! With years of research and success behind her, Dr. Dean has proven to herself and many others than an effective regime of magnesium and mineral supplementation, along with amino acids like taurine, are a true game changer for any athlete - amateur or professional.

Tonight on our internet based radio show, we\'ll be talking with Dr. Carolyn Dean about how to avoid becoming Sidelined by Magnesium Deficiency along with a wide range of health topics and safe solutions. You will love hearing the beneficial interactions with our callers and hosts alike including the body/mind connection, identifying the \'conflict\' in the \'conflict basis\' of disease and much more!!

Everyone knows that exercise is good for them but is it possible to get too much of a good thing? While exercise provides many health benefits, at some point working out too hard or too long can increase the risk of magnesium and mineral depletion engendering a whole slew of health complications. In fact, intense exercise like training for marathons or endurance could be an admirable endeavor or it could put you on the sidelines.

Consider Len’s recent correspondence with our Customer Service team:

I happened to receive a copy of the book “The Magnesium Miracle” about a week ago and upon reading it was very, very impressed.   I have ordered my first bottle of ReMag. 

I am 81 years of age and kept very fit all my life by running 100 kms every week up and down the mountains where I live.   In my 50’s I started running marathons (always in less than three hours) but in my 60’s I was forced to start bike riding because my knees had worn out.   In my 70’s I engaged in four quite challenging bike rides for various charities in Cambodia, Vietnam, Mongolia, and Myanmar.   Last year at age 80 I was starting to train for a 3,000 kilometre ride across Southern Australia with a friend and a group from his church when I was hit badly by A. Fib. which had bothered me with occasional episodes for some 20 years (once in the middle of Mongolia).   However this episode last year didn’t go away as had the others and eventually it resulted in a heart disease called Idiopathic Cardiomyopathy which I am told is incurable.   I was hospitalized and now have been advised by my cardiologist to avoid any strenuous exercise – a short bike ride or walk each day is all I am allowed to do.

I purchased magnesium powder, but the problem of diarrhea hit me badly.   So when I read the book I was quite elated and to learn about ReMag and experience the relief so many people speak of – Len M, Australia

In The Magnesium Miracle, Dr. Dean cites a study of young, healthy, well-conditioned men, noting that “strenuous effort was reported to give rise to persistent magnesium deficiency and a related long-term increase in cholesterol, triglycerides, and blood sugar.” The study results suggest “the decline of athletes and other intensely training individuals during  exertion is triggered by the detrimental effects of persistent magnesium deficiency on the cardiovascular system.” (The Magnesium Miracle, Kindle page 2133)

Your personal trainer is unlikely to tell you about magnesium supplementation as part of your overall training program but Dr. Carolyn Dean will be happy to tell you all you need to know! With years of research and success behind her, Dr. Dean has proven to herself and many others than an effective regime of magnesium and mineral supplementation, along with amino acids like taurine, are a true game changer for any athlete - amateur or professional.

Tonight on our internet based radio show, we\'ll be talking with Dr. Carolyn Dean about how to avoid becoming Sidelined by Magnesium Deficiency along with a wide range of health topics and safe solutions. You will love hearing the beneficial interactions with our callers and hosts alike including the body/mind connection, identifying the \'conflict\' in the \'conflict basis\' of disease and much more!!

Tonight Dr. Dean will be talking with Dr. Stephen Sinatra, a visionary pioneer and a leading authority in the field of heart health and wellness. Dr. Sinatra is a board-certified cardiologist who is also board certified in internal medicine and has additional certifications in nutrition, bioenergetic psychotherapy, and anti-aging medicine.

Dr. Sinatra has lectured and facilitated workshops worldwide and has authored several publications and medical periodicals. He has been a featured guest on many national radio and television shows including CNN, MSNBC, Fox on Health, the Dr. Oz, The Doctors, and 700 Club shows, and The Today Show.

Since opening his own private practice in Manchester, CT in 1977, Dr. Sinatra has become well-known for his integration of conventional medicine with complementary nutritional and psychological therapies that help heal the heart. He is a fellow in the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Nutrition and served two four-year terms as the Chief of Cardiology at Manchester Memorial Hospital, where he had previously been Director of Medical Education for 18 years.

Just like our very own Dr. Carolyn Dean,  Dr. Sinatra is an advocate for the integrative medicine model is which is geared to preventing illness through proactive lifestyle changes such as eating a healthy diet, supplementing with nutraceuticals, reducing stress through various mind-body techniques, engaging in regular exercise and making choices that cultivate emotional health.

As a doctor, health advocate, educator and visionary leader in the health community for many years, Dr. Dean is thrilled to have Dr. Stephen Sinatra on the show for the Doctor to Doctor segment. With so much in common and so much to share this show is going to be wonderfully informative and inspiring, to say the least!

Magnesium’s role in preventing heart disease and strokes is accepted yet cardiologists have not gotten up to speed with its use. Magnesium was first shown to be of value in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias in 1935 and since then there have been numerous double-blind studies showing magnesium to be of benefit for many types of arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation, ventricular premature contractions, ventricular tachycardia, and severe ventricular arrhythmias. Magnesium supplementation has also been shown to be helpful in angina due either to a spasm of the coronary artery or atherosclerosis. And yet cardiologists still do not use it to a meaningful degree in their protocols.

While doctors lag behind modern understanding,  in 2017 cardiovascular researchers James J DiNicolantonio, James H O’Keefe, and William Wilson have updated the cardiac community with their research demonstrating, once again, the correlation between magnesium deficiency and heart disease.

Research Paper - Subclinical Mg Def & Heart

In the abstract of the paper, the research team makes these comments:

Because serum magnesium does not reflect intracellular magnesium, the latter making up more than 99% of total body magnesium, most cases of magnesium deficiency are undiagnosed. Furthermore, because of chronic diseases, medications decreases in food crop magnesium contents, and the availability of refined and processed foods, the vast majority of people in modern societies are at risk for magnesium deficiency. Certain individuals will need to supplement with magnesium in order to prevent suboptimal magnesium deficiency, especially if trying to obtain an optimal magnesium status to prevent chronic disease. Subclinical magnesium deficiency increases the risk of numerous types of cardiovascular disease, costs nations around the world an incalculable amount of health care costs and suffering, and should be a considered a public health crisis.

However compelling this research is, the sad fact is that your doctor is unlikely to tell you about magnesium supplementation for heart rhythm issues BUT Dr. Carolyn Dean will be happy to do it for them. With years of research and success behind her, Dr. Dean has proven to herself and many others than an effective regime of magnesium and mineral supplementation, along with amino acids like taurine, are a true game changer for individuals that struggle with A-Fib, PVC\'s and other heart rhythm issues.

Tonight on our internet based radio show, we\'ll be talking with Dr. Carolyn Dean about her protocol to ReMineralize Your Heart along with a wide range of health topics and safe solutions. You will love hearing the beneficial interactions with our callers and hosts alike including the body/mind connection, identifying the \'conflict\' in the \'conflict basis\' of disease and much more!!