Pharmaceuticals Drive Magnesium Levels Lower ....... [ + Reminder: SALE on all Ancient Minerals]

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Pharmaceuticals Drive Magnesium Levels Lower

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Because magnesium deficiency causes all kinds of havoc with our cell physiology

and worsens as we age, appropriate magnesium supplementation will not only help

ensure we don’t age so fast but it also will prevent many of the major

diseases we are facing today. Research published in the American Journal of

Epidemiology in 2002 showed that when the diets of 2,566 children ages 11-19

were studied, less than 14% of boys and 12% of girls had adequate intakes of

magnesium.

When magnesium is deficient, things begin to die, but when our body’s

magnesium levels are topped off, our body physiology tends to hum along like a

race car yielding higher performance along many physiological parameters. Most

doctors do not want to acknowledge that magnesium deficiency can lead directly

to cancer, thus to a significantly shorter life. Same goes for diabetes and

heart disease—magnesium deficiency brings on these diseases.

Magnesium is a vital mineral whose lack leaves us open to not only damage from

radiation but also damage from heavy metals and the thousands of chemicals to

which we are commonly exposed. Without sufficient magnesium, the body

accumulates toxins and acid residues, degenerates rapidly, and ages prematurely.

Magnesium is the **lamp of life**—it operates at the core of physiology

offering us what can only be called scientific miracles in medicine. All of life

collapses around its loss. The realization that magnesium is at the center of

life in chlorophyll should help us place magnesium in the temple where it

deserves to be.

The most perfect medicine in the world is the one you have to have—no matter

what—to continue your life. There are certain substances, all nutritional in

nature, that provide essential lifelines to happy and fully functional cells.

Though contemporary medicine does not want to admit the truth and reality about

diseases and their causes, it is clear that nutritional law holds the key to the

resolution of disease—not pharmaceuticals that are toxic and damaging to

cellular environments.

Anything that drives down magnesium levels is going to hurt us. Many

pharmaceutical drugs drive magnesium levels into dangerous zones and surgery

done without increasing magnesium levels is more dangerous than surgery done

when magnesium is administered before, during and after surgery. Dr. Matthias

Rath says, **Almost all the prescription drugs currently taken by millions of

people lead to a gradual depletion of vitamins and other essential cellular

nutrients in the body.**

Drug/Substance     

Nutrients Depleted

Antibiotics

Vitamins A, B-12, C, E, K, Biotin, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Potassium

Chelators

Copper, Iron, Magnesium, Zinc

Anticonvulsants

Vitamins B-2, B-12, C, F, K, Folic Acid, Calcium, Magnesium

Antidiabetics (Oral)

Vitamins B-2, B-12, C, D, Folic Acid

Antihistamines

Vitamin C

Aspirin

Calcium, Folic Acid, Iron, Potassium, Vitamins C, B Complex

Other drugs or substances that cause loss of body magnesium:

    Cocaine

    Beta-adrenergic agonists (for asthma)

    Corticosteroids (CS) (for asthma)

    Theophylline (for asthma)

    Diuretics

    Thiazide

    Phosphates (found in cola drinks)

    Nicotine

    Insulin

    Alcohol

Proton Pump Inhibitors

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is informing the public  that

prescription proton pump inhibitor (PPI) drugs may cause low serum magnesium

levels (hypomagnesemia) if taken for prolonged periods of time (in most cases,

longer than one year). Information about the potential risk of low serum

magnesium levels from PPIs will be added to the WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS

sections of the labels.

In 2009, approximately 21 million patients filled prescriptions for proton pump

inhibitor (PPI) drugs that drive magnesium serum levels down. In approximately

one-quarter of the cases reviewed, magnesium supplementation alone did not

improve low serum magnesium levels and the PPI drugs had to be discontinued.

This would not have been the case if researchers had been more knowledgeable

about magnesium supplementation and how to more effectively administer it.

Hypomagnesemia is under-recognized and under-reported, yet clinically serious

adverse events are commonly reported symptoms of hypomagnesemia. One of the

hidden dangers of hypomagnesemia is that it produces impaired parathyroid

hormone secretion, which may lead to hypocalcemia.

Information from epidemiological and other studies supports the fact that a low

intake of magnesium increases the risk of developing and/or dying from

cardiovascular disease or stroke. Thus increasing the magnesium intake from

water is beneficial, especially for populations with an insufficient dietary

intake of the mineral, which means everyone.[1],[2] Yet the American government

chooses to put highly toxic fluoride in the public water systems instead of

magnesium.

The UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended that drinking water

contain 25-50 mg of magnesium per liter to prevent deaths from heart attack and

stroke. American bottled water averages & lt; 5 mg of magnesium (Mg) per liter,

while bottled water in the rest of the world averages about 20 mg of magnesium

per liter.

Mason, famously known as the magnesium librarian, wrote, **The evidence has

been overwhelming that Americans are very deficient in Mg, as evidenced by the

23% shortfall from the RDI, yet the FDA and DOJ have covered up keeping silent

about the millions of deaths indicated by over 50 epidemiological studies from

nine countries. Recent studies clearly confirm that water-borne Mg is far, far

better in preventing cardiovascular pathologies than food-borne Mg.**   Mason

is the owner of a water mine  that has the highest levels of magnesium and

bicarbonate in the world!

Drs. Burton and Bella Altura say that ideally water should contain 100 mg of

magnesium per liter. Normally one has to add pure magnesium chloride to one’s

water supply to attain such optimal levels. Personally I just add a few sprays

of Ancient Minerals magnesium oil to a little cup of water and chug it down like

whisky; it can taste pretty strong but it makes an excellent nutritional

supplement. See my essay   on Combining Oral and Transdermal Dose Sensitivity

and Therapeutic Effect.

People who have had magnesium injections for years to prevent spasms in their

arteries and veins have been able to get off of the injections by consuming

enough magnesium-rich water. When treating oneself for magnesium deficiency,

which occurs easily from drinking magnesium-deficient water and eating a host of

processed **white** foods, there is nothing like the transdermal approach to

recover one*s cellular magnesium levels.

Dr. Rath said, **Drugs are generally synthetic, non-natural substances that we

absorb in our bodies. Our bodies recognize these synthetic drugs as ‘toxic,’

just like any other non-natural substance. Thus, all synthetic drugs have to be

*detoxified* by the liver in order to eliminate them from our bodies. This

detoxification process requires vitamin C and other cellular nutrients as

cofactors. Many of these essential nutrients are used up in biological

(enzymatic) reactions during this detoxification process. One of the most common

ways for eliminating drugs from our bodies is called *hydroxylation*. The

strongest *hydroxylating agent* in our body is vitamin C, which is literally

destroyed during this detoxification process. Thus, long-term use of many

synthetic prescription drugs leads to chronic vitamin C depletion in the body, a

form of early scurvy, and the onset of cardiovascular disease.**[3]

IMVA readers should know that there are only a few more days of the Ancient

Minerals  magnesium products promotion. They are offering 40% off their entire

line of magnesium products only to my IMVA readers until midnight July 1st. (The

promo code is IMVA40.)

Dr. Mark Allan Sircus, Ac., OMD, DM (P)

Director International Medical Veritas Association

Doctor of Oriental and Pastoral Medicine

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[1] Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil. 2006 Aug;13(4):495-506.

[2] J Water Health. 2008 Dec;6(4):433-42.

[3] http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/pdf-files/why-book/whybook_09_sep2003.pdf