In two huge long term studies it was also recently concluded that 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. Magnesium deficiency commonly occurs in critical illness and correlates with a higher mortality and worse clinical outcome in intensive care units. Studies are now underway that have emergency crew personnel authorized to administer IV magnesium immediately in the ambulance. Preliminary trials found "promising" effects of magnesium sulfate on stroke victims if given early enough, before getting to emergency rooms[ii].

According to Dr. Sarah Mayhill in acute stroke, function can be restored within a few minutes with magnesium injections. Intravenous magnesium is safe and effective in acute severe asthma and is commonly used by emergency medical personnel. And Mauskop et al[iii] demonstrated relief of headache within 15 minutes of intravenous magnesium in 32 of 40 patients with migraine, cluster headache, or tension headache.

When used correctly, magnesium chloride is a weapon against infectious diseases. Between its power to stimulate white blood cells and glutathione production, and its basic role in producing energy, which is needed for detoxification, we have a heavyweight non-toxic medicine we can use without a prescription.

Magnesium chloride, when concentrated, is a powerful universal medicine that we can turn to in many clinical situations. “Magnesium is necessary for the normal function of over 300 enzyme systems, for muscle relaxation, immune function, cardiac function, clotting, nerve conduction etc. Indeed I cannot think of a bodily department in which magnesium is not essential. It prevents heart disease, cancer, blood pressure, kidney stones and improves energy, sleep etc.” reports Dr. Mayhill.

Magnesium chloride is a versatile medicine we can all put in our medicine cabinets. It boosts almost all aspects of cell physiology and is what you want around if you are having a heart attack or stroke. It is safer and less toxic and acts as a much better preventive medicine than aspirin for these disorders. Magnesium chloride is a basic mineral nutrient supplied by the food industry that can be used orally, intravenously, and transdermally.

Only about 15 to 25 percent of children eat

the recommended amount of magnesium.

We need no further information to conclude that the American public consumes less magnesium than necessary for good health and that magnesium supplementation is indicated for practically everyone. Magnesium supplementation is the single greatest thing we can do to help people avoid serious diseases or recover from the ones they already have. There is a long list of reasons, piles of evidence and studies, and no shortage of professional medical and scientific opinions that sustain this statement.

Deficiencies in magnesium affect all people leaving them vulnerable to developing acute and chronic conditions. Using magnesium as a preventive medicine starts in pregnancy for there is great benefit of magnesium for preeclampsia and eclampsia. Eclampsia and preeclampsia are the leading causes of death for pregnant women and their fetuses, particularly in developing countries.[iv] Women receiving magnesium sulfate had a 27%

lower risk of premature detachment of the placenta.

Magnesium and Cancer

It certainly is time to get serious about cancer prevention, with the disease predicted to surge in the next 15 years. Researchers from the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota have just concluded that diets rich in magnesium reduced the occurrence of colon cancer.[v] A previous study from Sweden[vi] reported that women with the highest magnesium intake had a 40 per cent lower risk of developing the cancer than those with the lowest intake of the mineral.

Several studies have shown an increased cancer rate in regions with low magnesium levels in soil and drinking water, and the same for selenium. In Egypt the cancer rate was only about 10% of that in Europe and America. In the rural fellah it was practically non-existent. The main difference was an extremely high magnesium intake of 2.5 to 3 g in these cancer-free populations, ten times more than in most western countries.[vii]

The School of Public Health at the Kaohsiung Medical College in,

Taiwan, found that magnesium also exerts a protective effect

against gastric cancer, but only for the group with the highest levels.[viii]

It is known that carcinogenesis induces magnesium distribution disturbances which cause magnesium mobilization through blood cells and magnesium depletion in non-neoplastic tissues. Magnesium deficiency seems to be carcinogenic and in cases of solid tumors, high levels of magnesium inhibits carcinogenesis.[ix] Both carcinogenesis and magnesium deficiency increase the plasma membrane permeability and fluidity.

In almost all clinical situations today, and certainly when we think of preventive medicine, doctors’ first reflex action should be to put their patients immediately on magnesium. If they had done that earlier as a preventive action the chances are much greater they would not have their patients sitting in their offices with so many complaints. It should become clear that as breathing is vital to life magnesium is fundamental to medicine.

Magnesium is perfect preventive medicine for the 21st century. There are a lot of unknowns when it comes to staying healthy and there is little, if any, evidence that many of the therapies people use today work. When it comes to magnesium this is not the case at all.

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[i] - J Nutr Environ Med, 1999;9:513

[ii] - http://www.fastmag.info/sci_bkg.htm http://www.fastmag.info/index.htm

[iii] - Mauskop A, Altura BT, Cracco RQ, et al. Intravenous magnesium sulfate rapidly alleviates headaches of various types. Headache 1996;36:154–60.[Medline]

[iv] Physicians believe the high blood pressure, swelling, and protein in the urine associated with preeclampsia lead to the convulsions and coma of eclampsia. Magnesium is a most effective drug at preventing eclamptic seizures. Now magnesium sulfate is being used increasingly to treat preeclampsia as well, with the hope it will prevent eclampsia. A study published in the June 1, 2002, issue of The Lancet confirms this hope.The study, dubbed the Magpie Trial, was a large international effort aimed at discovering the effects of magnesium sulfate on women with preeclampsia and their children. Close to 10,000 women with preeclampsia from 33 developed and developing countries were involved. Roughly half of the women were randomly assigned to receive magnesium sulfate while the other half received a placebo. Use of magnesium sulfate resulted in a 58% decrease in risk of eclampsia compared to use of the placebo. This translates to 11 fewer women in 1,000 suffering from eclampsia. The preventive effect of magnesium was consistent regardless of the severity of the preeclampsia, the stage of pregnancy, whether an anticonvulsant had been given prior to the trial, and whether the woman had delivered before entry into the trial. Women receiving magnesium sulfate also had a 45% lower risk of death than women receiving the placebo. There appeared to be no difference in the risk of fetal or infant death related to the use of either the drug or the placebo.

[v] American Journal of Epidemiology (Vol. 163, pp. 232-235)

[vi] Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 293, pp. 86-89

[vii] MAY 19, 1931, Dr. P. Schrumpf-Pierron presented a paper entitled "On the Cause Of the Rarity of Cancer in Egypt," which was printed in the Bulletin of the Academy of Medicine, and the Bulletin of the French Association for the Study of Cancer in July, 1931. http://www.mgwater.com/rod02.shtml

[viii] Yang CY et al. Jpn J Cancer Res.1998 Feb;89 (2):124-30. Calcium, magnesium, and nitrate in drinking water and gastric cancer mortality.

[ix] Durlach J, Bara M, Guiet-Bara A, Collery P. Relationship between magnesium, cancer and carcinogenic or anticancer metals. Anticancer Res. 1986 Nov-Dec;6(6):1353-61.