Magnesium: Fundamental, but most people lack it!

Magnesium: Fundamental, but most people lack it!

17 of the SUPPLEMENTS with the most SCIENTIFIC BASIS - MAGNESIUM

Understand a little more about it and its importance:

Magnesium deficiency is a common problem in the world's population, and many patients have normal magnesium levels in their blood, but a lack of magnesium inside their cells and necessary tissues - 99% of our magnesium is inside our cells, so measuring it in the blood is of little help.

FACTORS THAT DEPLETE OUR MAGNESIUM (CAUSING DEFICIENCIES):

• Stress

• Low magnesium diet

• Aging (just by getting older, we absorb less Mg from the diet or supplementation)

• Excessive/inadequate (common nowadays) calcium replacement - excess calcium “pushes” Mg out of the body)

• Intense physical exercise (removes Mg from cells and eliminates it from the blood through the kidneys)

The ratio of Magnesium to Calcium should be 1:1 for replenishment (and not 1:2, as is more common out there). Mg, boron, vitamin D3 and K2 are more important for bone health than overdoses of calcium (I would add that water and proteins are the real basis of any bone).

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In the past, we had much more magnesium in our diet than we do today. Fluoride attaches itself to magnesium and prevents it from being properly utilized by the body.

Magnesium is critical for the functioning of more than 350 enzymes.

When a patient receives intravenous hydration, saline dilutes magnesium, facilitating its depletion, which can even lead to convulsions and death (this is why hydrating the elderly with saline alone, especially repeatedly, without worrying about administering/balancing Mg, is dangerous).

ATP without magnesium is not functional - the center of the ATP molecule is magnesium!

Magnesium prevents abnormal calcification of our organs and tissues.

Most diabetics are deficient in magnesium.

Magnesium deficiency in the hippocampus is associated with Alzheimer's and increased accumulation of aluminum in the brain - Mg deficiency facilitates the entry and intoxication of heavy metals.

Magnesium helps to “chelate” and thus eliminate mercury, cadmium and lead poisoning - the more heavy metals we have, the less magnesium we have inside the body: conversely, the better our Mg levels, the more we eliminate heavy metals and thus help with detoxification.

Magnesium helps improve insulin sensitivity, thus reducing circulating insulin levels - Mg is vital for insulin production, function and transport.

Magnesium is essential for the prevention and treatment of various cardiocirculatory disorders, diabetes, brain disorders, PMS, depression, inflammation in general and even cancer (and dozens of others not mentioned here).

Mg in the preoperative period helps to achieve better results in the surgical procedure.

Mg given during pregnancy reduces the chances of brain disorders in the baby (a pregnant woman should generally use 1.5 times more Mg than a non-pregnant adult).

Mg-threonate is an excellent way to optimize the arrival of Mg in the brain and neurons.

Mg raises DHEA levels.

Mg balances/regulates catecholamines.

Mg activates and balances digestive enzymes.

Mg chloride hexahydrate via the transdermal route is also an excellent way of administering Mg - so it can be applied and absorbed well through the skin, topically (even better for localized inflammation, but also for systemic absorption/replacement of Mg).

EXCELLENT WAY TO REPLENISH MAGNESIUM IN GENERAL: MG-DIMALATE.

All this via Dr. Arnoldo V da Costa, in his brilliant lecture at a course promoted by Farmacotécnica - Farmácia de Manipulação, together with the great doctor Dr. Juarez Callegaro.