Magnesium plays many important roles in the structure and the function of the human body. The adult human body contains about 25 grams of magnesium. Over 60% of all the magnesium in the body is found in the skeleton, about 27% is found in muscle, 6% to 7% is found in other cells, and less than 1% is found outside of cells.

WOW – why does the body require so much darned magnesium? Well, it turns out that magnesium is not only producing necessary enzymes and working in the mitochondria to make ATP but magnesium is also necessary for protein synthesis at the ribosomal level. The ribosomes are the cellular organelles where proteins are synthesized. Magnesium “activates” the amino acids involved and allows the mRNA to attach to the ribosomes. Magnesium is also found in the nucleus of the cell and is essential for the stability of the nucleic acids RNA and DNA. If DNA and RNA structure do not remain stable you may have mutations in the codes and produce incorrect peptides are none at all during protein synthesis. Energy for the production of proteins must come from ATP as well. Without magnesium available in many areas of the cell, protein synthesis cannot occur.

Okay- so magnesium is super critical! BUT – how do you know if you have enough magnesium in your body to perform all the essential functions for human health? One way to be certain your levels of magnesium are well within the normal range is to get a magnesium RBC red blood cell (RBC) essential mineral test. If you are in a part of the US or the world when you can take this action for yourself, please do so! Just visit requestatest.com and complete the online registration, order the test, and visit a local lab to have the procedure completed.

Tonight on her internet based radio show, Dr. Dean will be talking about GETTING SATURATED - STRATEGIES FOR MAGNESIUM SUFFICIENCY 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.

This evening Dr. Dean will be talking with Dr. Andrew W. Saul best known for his work Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed Orthomolecular Medicine News Service.  He was on the faculty of the State University of New York for nine years, and taught nutrition, health science and cell biology at the college level. Saul has studied in Africa and Australia, holds three state certificates in science education, and has twice won New York Empire State Fellowships for teaching.

Andrew W. Saul was inducted into the Orthomolecular Medicine Hall of Fame in 2013. He has been awarded the Citizens for Health Outstanding Health Freedom Activist Award, was named one of seven natural health pioneers by Psychology Today, and is featured in the movie FoodMatters.

Saul says, \"Medical doctors ignore vitamin research, claiming it isn\'t science. They also typically ignore case histories, saying it isn\'t research. So why not take the information directly to the people, and let them decide for themselves?\"

As a pioneer and thought-leader in the health freedom movement herself, Dr. Dean is well aware of Andrew Saul’s impact on education and advocacy and is thrilled that Andrew W. Saul has accepted her invitation to join us on her weekly radio show this evening. 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.

In January 2018 we introduced a new feature in our two-hour radio show: The Doctor to Doctor Series.  On the first Monday of each month,  Dr. Carolyn Dean will be joined by powerful, passionate, and committed professionals and health care advocates who bring much light and information to the natural health community with their approach to wellness, diet, exercise, and supplementation.

This month Dr. Dean will be talking with Dr. Andrew W. Saul best known for his work Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed Orthomolecular Medicine News Service.  He was on the faculty of the State University of New York for nine years, and taught nutrition, health science and cell biology at the college level. Saul has studied in Africa and Australia, holds three state certificates in science education, and has twice won New York Empire State Fellowships for teaching.

Andrew W. Saul was inducted into the Orthomolecular Medicine Hall of Fame in 2013. He has been awarded the Citizens for Health Outstanding Health Freedom Activist Award, was named one of seven natural health pioneers by Psychology Today, and is featured in the movie FoodMatters.

Saul says, \"Medical doctors ignore vitamin research, claiming it isn\'t science. They also typically ignore case histories, saying it isn\'t research. So why not take the information directly to the people, and let them decide for themselves?\"

As a pioneer and thought-leader in the health freedom movement herself, Dr. Dean is well aware of Andrew Saul’s impact on education and advocacy and is thrilled that Andrew W. Saul has accepted her invitation to join us on her weekly radio show this evening. 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!!

According to a March 30, 2017 press release by the WHO, depression is the leading cause of ill health and disability worldwide with more than 300 million people living with depression. This is an increase of more than 18% between 2005 and 2015.

Trauma, grief, financial troubles, unemployment, SAD, smoking, thyroid disease, poor sleep habits, Facebook/Instagram overload, the end of a TV series or movie, urban environments, too many choices, lack of omega-3 fatty acids, BCP, anxiety and insomnia drugs, including Valium and Xanax; Lopressor, for high blood pressure; cholesterol-lowering drugs including Lipitor; and Premarin for menopausal symptoms are all cited as possible causes of depression.

Wow.

Fortunately, there is such a simple, elegant solution for many who suffer from depression! A breakthrough nutritional study conducted at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont and published in PLoS ONE has found that just 248mg of magnesium per day leads to an astounding reversal of depression symptoms in study subjects.

“New clinical research results show magnesium is effective at addressing symptoms and is safer and easier on the wallet than prescription therapies,” reports Science Daily, echoing information that Dr. Carolyn Dean has published in her landmark thesis on magnesium deficiency, The Magnesium Miracle, published in 2004 and recently updated [2017 Edition]. Today, even mainstream science is now confirming that magnesium is a safe, affordable and effective treatment for depression.

As Dr. Dean has written in her many books, blogs and seminars, stress, hypothyroidism, insomnia, anxiety, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and menopausal symptoms can all be related to magnesium deficiency. What if magnesium deficiency is the underlying cause of what eventually develops into depression? Let’s look at the symptoms of depression and how they relate to magnesium deficiency:

* Seep disturbance – definitely a symptom of magnesium deficiency

* Fatigue or loss of energy – definitely symptoms of magnesium deficiency

* Psychomotor agitation or retardation – definitely symptoms of magnesium deficiency

* Diminished ability to think or concentrate – definitely symptoms of magnesium deficiency

When you fail to treat the above symptoms with magnesium, then the following symptoms can develop:

* Diminished interest or loss of pleasure in most activities

* Depressed mood

* Appetite disturbance

* Feelings of worthlessness

* Recurrent thoughts of death or suicide

Around 2008 several studies reported that antidepressant medication might only work 40% of the time, which is little better than placebo. Even so, allopathic medicine continues to tell us that antidepressant medication, with or without psychotherapy, is the best treatment for depression. But from our vantage point, for or mild to moderate depression Dr. Dean recommends ReMag Magnesium Solution. Just 1 teaspoon will give you 248 mg highly absorbed picometer elemental magnesium recommended within the parameters of the clinical study. Dr. Dean also urges you to use ReMag in appropriate doses for stress, insomnia, fatigue, agitation, and poor concentration and not succumb to the temptation of quick-fix drugs for these magnesium deficiency problems.

Did you know that there are approximately seventeen nutrients essential for healthy bones, including magnesium, the most important mineral, along with calcium? Susan Brown, Ph.D., director of the Osteoporosis Education Project in Syracuse, New York, warns that “the use of calcium supplementation in the face of magnesium deficiency can lead to a deposition of calcium in the soft tissue such as the joints, promoting arthritis, or in the kidney, contributing to kidney stones.”1 Dr. Brown recommends a daily dose of 450 mg of magnesium for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis.

Women with osteoporosis have lower-than-average levels of magnesium in their diets, according to survey reports. Magnesium deficiency can compromise calcium metabolism and also hinder the body’s production of vitamin D, further weakening bones.

In the 2017 Edition of The Magnesium Miracle, Dr. Carolyn Dean outlines magnesium’s multi-factoral role in the structure and function of healthy bones:

Adequate levels of magnesium are essential for the absorption and metabolism of calcium.

Magnesium stimulates a particular hormone, calcitonin, that helps to preserve bone structure and draws calcium out of the blood and soft tissues back into the bones, preventing some forms of arthritis and kidney stones.

Magnesium suppresses another bone hormone called parathyroid hormone, preventing it from breaking down bone.

Magnesium converts vitamin D into its active form so that it can help calcium absorption.

Magnesium is required to activate an enzyme that is necessary to form new bone.

Magnesium regulates active calcium transport.

It is also important to mention that vitamin K2, along with magnesium, plays an important role in helping direct calcium to the bones where it belongs.

With all these roles for magnesium to play, it is no wonder that even a mild deficiency can be a risk factor for osteoporosis. Furthermore, if there is too much calcium in the body, especially from calcium supplementation, magnesium absorption can be greatly impaired, resulting in worsening osteoporosis and the likelihood of kidney stones, arthritis, and heart disease as well as gallstones, heel spurs, and breast tissue calcification.

Tonight we talk about loving and taking care of your bones.

Did you know that there are approximately seventeen nutrients essential for healthy bones, including magnesium, the most important mineral, along with calcium? Susan Brown, Ph.D., director of the Osteoporosis Education Project in Syracuse, New York, warns that “the use of calcium supplementation in the face of magnesium deficiency can lead to a deposition of calcium in the soft tissue such as the joints, promoting arthritis, or in the kidney, contributing to kidney stones.”1 Dr. Brown recommends a daily dose of 450 mg of magnesium for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis.

Women with osteoporosis have lower-than-average levels of magnesium in their diets, according to survey reports. Magnesium deficiency can compromise calcium metabolism and also hinder the body’s production of vitamin D, further weakening bones.

In the 2017 Edition of The Magnesium Miracle, Dr. Carolyn Dean outlines magnesium’s multi-factoral role in the structure and function of healthy bones:

Adequate levels of magnesium are essential for the absorption and metabolism of calcium.

Magnesium stimulates a particular hormone, calcitonin, that helps to preserve bone structure and draws calcium out of the blood and soft tissues back into the bones, preventing some forms of arthritis and kidney stones.

Magnesium suppresses another bone hormone called parathyroid hormone, preventing it from breaking down bone.

Magnesium converts vitamin D into its active form so that it can help calcium absorption.

Magnesium is required to activate an enzyme that is necessary to form new bone.

Magnesium regulates active calcium transport.

It is also important to mention that vitamin K2, along with magnesium, plays an important role in helping direct calcium to the bones where it belongs.

With all these roles for magnesium to play, it is no wonder that even a mild deficiency can be a risk factor for osteoporosis. Furthermore, if there is too much calcium in the body, especially from calcium supplementation, magnesium absorption can be greatly impaired, resulting in worsening osteoporosis and the likelihood of kidney stones, arthritis, and heart disease as well as gallstones, heel spurs, and breast tissue calcification.

Tonight we talk about loving and taking care of your bones.

Millions of people are suffering—trying all kinds of diets, pills, and treatments to clear their mental fog, to boost energy and lose weight. Unfortunately, there is little success to be had until the thyroid and adrenals are restored at a cellular level.

Folks with thyroid and adrenal fatigue may suffer all these associated symptoms but it’s not necessarily because of thyroid disease, itself. From Dr. Dean’s 50 years of study and experience, the cause of many issues within the endocrine system can be taken down to their true root causes: mineral deficiency and yeast overgrowth.

AND…when the thyroid is low, the adrenals are not far behind and vice versa! The three major hormone systems: adrenals, thyroid and sex hormones are like a three-legged stool. When one of the legs of the stool is shortened, it affects the other two. This can be seen in blood testing; when cortisol levels go up, thyroid hormone levels go down.

There is an ongoing debate among natural medicine practitioners about what comes first, adrenal fatigue or thyroid insufficiency and what do you treat first? But what if Dr. Dean is right and the main cause of both is mineral deficiency – then you can remedy both conditions simultaneously.

In January 2018 we introduced a new feature in our two-hour radio show: The Doctor to Doctor Series.  On the first Monday of each month,  Dr. Carolyn Dean will be joined by powerful, passionate, and committed doctors and health care practitioners who bring much light and information to the natural health community with their approach to wellness, diet, exercise, and supplementation.

As we usher in the month of March, the tides turn from winter to spring and many people start thinking about their health in terms of body cosmetics and appearance - getting back outside and heading for the beach. Like many people, you may want to know is the best diet for humans? Many of us actually have an opinion about this question - some people are of the opinion that a vegan diet is the best anti-inflammatory diet, or that a ketogenic diet of healthy fats and carbs sourced from plants is perfect for diabetics, or that a vegetarian diet may be the noblest of them all. Others have opinions about sugars, egg, dairy, etc and everyone has their own experience which may or may not serve them well.

Yet, what is clear is that if the best diet for humans does exist it\'s not being recommended by allopathetic doctors because the incidents of dietary disease keep climbing up and up!  So why do we keep getting nutritional advice from allopathetic doctors? What do doctors know about diet and nutrition?

Did you know that in the U.S. medical schools offer only 19.6 hours of nutrition education across four years of medical school, according to a 2010 report in Academic Medicine? In a 2016 study, researchers at Case Western Reserve University examined data from 25 family medicine, internal medicine and OB-GYN medical residency programs throughout Ohio: What they found is that these programs averaged 2.8 hours of instruction on obesity, nutrition, and physical activity counseling, and only 42 percent of them taught the residents techniques for how to perform health behavior counseling.

Given this, it\'s not exactly shocking that many doctors would receive a failing grade on nutritional know-how. So, perhaps for this segment, it’s best to turn to a professional nutritionist, registered nurse, and clinician to talk about how nutrition and its impact on your health.

Tonight, on Dr. Carolyn Dean Live, Carolyn will be joined by Research Investigator and Nutritionist Barbara Schiltz, RN, MS, CN to talk about Optimizing YOUR Nutrition.