Mag Lowers Cholesterol? + Senior Health- High Cholesterol and Magnesium Health

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Mag Lowers Cholesterol? http://www.nutritionalconcepts.com/Newsletters/09152007.htm

After separately reviewing 18 different studies related to magnesium and cholesterol, here is what was discovered:

-- Magnesium may lower total cholesterol 6 to 20%

-- Magnesium may lower LDL (bad cholesterol) 10 to 18%

-- Magnesium may reduce triglycerides 10 to 42%

-- Magnesium may raise HDL (good cholesterol) 4 to 11%

How can magnesium at times achieve similar results to statin therapy?

1. Magnesium regulates enzymes that control cholesterol production. In particular, magnesium targets the same enzyme, HMG-CoH reductase, as statin medication.

2. Magnesium raises levels of HDL while lowering LDL. Albeit not lowering LDL as dramatically as statins, the rise in HDL offsets this.

Safety?

While synthetic statin therapy blocks the entire enzymatic function of cholesterol absorption, magnesium is a natural inhibitor, which either blocks its function, or allows it to continue, based upon the body's needs at the time. This is why you will not see the following while taking magnesium: elevated liver enzymes, muscle pain, myopathy, and other side effects associated with statins.

How Do I Know if I Need Magnesium?

About 72% of the US population is deficient. The RDA's are too low. Beyond that, you really need a licensed health professional to gauge what is your optimal intake. Blood magnesium levels do not reflect true magnesium status. Other available tests are extremely expensive or very time-consuming.

Note: supplemental magnesium has a laxative effect that may cause intestinal discomfort or loose stools; however, the bis-glycinate (amino acid chelate) form does not produce these side effects.

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Senior Health - High Cholesterol and Magnesium Health http://www.nutritionalmagnesium.org/health/seniors-health/78-senior-health-high-cholesterol-and-magnesium-health.html

Another problem related to heart health, and one that has received considerable attention over the years, is cholesterol.

A fatty substance found in many areas of the body, cholesterol in large quantities can be dangerous to health. Over time, it can build up on the walls of the arteries and can cause narrowing or hardening, leading to serious heart problems. Because cholesterol has obtained such a bad name, many may not know that it is actually produced in all cells naturally and has important bodily functions. Cholesterol comes about through a series of chemical reactions.

Dr. noff explains, **Cholesterol is important because it is a steppingstone to the body's manufacture of sex hormones like testosterone and estrogen. One of the reactions involved in cholesterol production is called the rate-limiting reaction because it keeps control of the amount of cholesterol manufactured. The rate-limiting reaction requires magnesium.

**The enzyme for the rate-limiting reaction has two phases: an active phase and an inactive phase, says Dr. noff. The inactive phase has to have magnesium tied to it. If you don't have enough magnesium in the cell, that enzyme cannot be deactivated. As a result, that control point is weakened or absent; cholesterol continues to be manufactured and the cell cannot slow or stop it. This can result in a cholesterol buildup. This leads to heart disease.

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Book: Magnesium, The Nutrient That Could Change Your Life Chapter 12: Cholesterol

http://www.mgwater.com/rod12.shtml

[Guest guest]

Now if you were saying that Magnesium raises cholesterol, you get my

attention. But lowering cholesterol....mine is already too low, I

need something to raise it

Lee...

Mag Lowers

Cholesterol?

http://www.nutritionalconcepts.com/Newsletters/09152007.htm

After separately reviewing 18 different studies related to

magnesium and cholesterol, here is what was discovered:

-- Magnesium may lower total cholesterol 6 to 20%

-- Magnesium may lower LDL (bad cholesterol) 10 to 18%

-- Magnesium may reduce triglycerides 10 to 42%

-- Magnesium may raise HDL (good cholesterol) 4 to 11%

How can magnesium at times achieve

similar results to statin therapy?

1. Magnesium regulates enzymes that

control cholesterol production. In particular, magnesium

targets the same enzyme, HMG-CoH reductase, as statin

medication.

2. Magnesium raises levels of HDL while

lowering LDL. Albeit not lowering LDL as dramatically as

statins, the rise in HDL offsets this.

Safety?

While synthetic statin therapy blocks

the entire enzymatic function of cholesterol absorption,

magnesium is a natural inhibitor, which either blocks its

function, or allows it to continue, based upon the body's

needs at the time. This is why you will not see the

following while taking magnesium: elevated liver enzymes,

muscle pain, myopathy, and other side effects associated

with statins.

How Do I Know if I Need

Magnesium?

About 72% of the US population is

deficient. The RDA's are too low. Beyond that, you really

need a licensed health professional to gauge what is your

optimal intake. Blood magnesium levels do not reflect true

magnesium status. Other available tests are extremely

expensive or very time-consuming.

Note: supplemental magnesium has a

laxative effect that may cause intestinal discomfort or

loose stools; however, the bis-glycinate (amino acid

chelate) form does not produce these side effects.

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Senior Health - High

Cholesterol and Magnesium Health

http://www.nutritionalmagnesium.org/health/seniors-health/78-senior-health-high-cholesterol-and-magnesium-health.html

Another problem related to heart health,

and one that has received considerable attention over the

years, is cholesterol.

A fatty substance found in many areas of

the body, cholesterol in large quantities can be dangerous

to health. Over time, it can build up on the walls of the

arteries and can cause narrowing or hardening, leading to

serious heart problems. Because cholesterol has obtained

such a bad name, many may not know that it is actually

produced in all cells naturally and has important bodily

functions. Cholesterol comes about through a series of

chemical reactions.

Dr. noff explains,

**Cholesterol is important because it is a steppingstone to

the body's manufacture of sex hormones like testosterone and

estrogen. One of the reactions involved in cholesterol

production is called the rate-limiting reaction because it

keeps control of the amount of cholesterol manufactured. The

rate-limiting reaction requires magnesium.

**The enzyme for the rate-limiting

reaction has two phases: an active phase and an inactive

phase, says Dr. noff. The inactive phase has to have

magnesium tied to it. If you don't have enough magnesium in

the cell, that enzyme cannot be deactivated. As a result,

that control point is weakened or absent; cholesterol

continues to be manufactured and the cell cannot slow or

stop it. This can result in a cholesterol buildup. This

leads to heart disease.

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Book: Magnesium, The Nutrient That

Could Change Your Life

Chapter 12: Cholesterol

http://www.mgwater.com/rod12.shtml