Re: Diabetes and Magnesium

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I have tested out as being very low in magnesium! The oral pills

didn't seem to help but using CALMS, a combination of calcium and

magnesium in powder form, which has to be dissolved in water and

drunk, does! Unfortunately, in normal dosage, it also gives me

severe diarrhea, so I am working up to the full dose, little by

little. I got CALMS thrugh my chiropractor, but it is made by

Gillium, who is an old time Scientologist, and who used to own a

great health food store in Los Angeles on Fountain Blvd. (He may

still have it, I just haven't lived nearby for many years now.)

Love, Sherrie

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> Diabetes and Magnesium: The Emerging Role of Oral Magnesium

Supplementation

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> Jerry L. Nadler, MD - The link between diabetes mellitus and

magnesium deficiency is well known. A growing body of evidence

suggests that magnesium plays a pivotal role in reducing

cardiovascular risks and may be involved in the pathogenesis of

diabetes itself. While the benefits of oral magnesium

supplementation on glycemic control have yet to be demonstrated in

patients, magnesium supplementation has been shown to improve

insulin sensitivity. Based on current knowledge, clinicians have

good reason to believe that magnesium repletion may play a role in

delaying type 2 diabetes onset and potentially in warding off its

devastating complications -- cardiovascular disease, retinopathy,

and nephropathy.

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> Magnesium deficiency creates resistance to insulin, Insulin

resistance increases levels of insulin, which may result in a form

of diabetes. Additionally, insulin resistance by itself can

distrupt intracellular magnesium levels, as PubMed studies

explains.

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> Magnesium deficiency is a predictor of diabetes; diabetics both

need more magnesium and lose more magnesium than most people. In two

new studies, in 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. Until now, very few large studies have

directly examined the long-term effects of dietary magnesium on

diabetes. Dr. Simin Liu of the Harvard Medical School and School of

Public Health in Boston says, " Our studies provided some direct

evidence that greater intake of dietary magnesium may have a long-

term protective effect on lowering risk, " said Liu, who was involved

in both studies. See Magnesium and Diabetic Neuropathy, which

introduces the concept of administering mega doses of magnesium to

heal Diabetic Neuropathy.

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> Learn how the prolonged use of Magnesium can prevent chronic

complications from diabetes

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> Dr. Mansmann " I have had diabetic neuropathy for over 10 years.

The most significant symptom is my neuropathic pain of burning feet,

called erythromelalgia. With the aid of Mg (magnesium)I can

completely suppress the symptom, but if my blood glucose level is

acutely elevated, because of a dietary indiscretion, the pain flares

in spite of an apparent adequate dose of Mg. It goes away with extra

Mg gluconate (Magonate) in an hour or so in either case. Without the

Mg it will last for six plus hours, even though the blood glucose

level is normal in about two hours. " " It is my belief that every one

with diabetes should be taking Mg supplementation to the point of

one's Maximum Tolerated Dose, which is until one has soft-semi,

formed stools. In addition, anyone with neuropathy, without a known

cause, must be adequately evaluated for diabetes and especially

those with poorly, slowly, healing foot sores of any kind. Since the

use of Mg is safe I see no reason that this should not be " the

standard of care " . Dr. Herbert Mansmann Jr., Director of the

Magenesium Research Lab,[xi] who is a diabetic with congenital

magnesium deficiency and severe peripheral neuropathy, shares that

he was able to reverse the neuropathy and nerve degeneration with a

year of using oral magnesium preparations at very high doses.

Magnesium and Diabetic Neuropathy

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> Is a lack of magnesium related to type 2 Diabetes in Obese

Children?

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