Magnesium Deficiency – A Little Known Killer
Not long ago, my 86 year old grandmother was rushed to the hospital. Although she had never had heart problems, she was experiencing shortness of breath, tightness in her chest and palpitations.
The doctors in the ER thought she was having a heart attack. They monitored her vital signs closely, while administering electrolytes by IV. Three days later, my grandmother was released and referred to a cardiologist for further treatment.
How an Intelligent and Forward-Thinking Doctor Saved My Grandmother’s Life
Instead of putting her on a heart medication and sending her to the cardiologist – as most doctors would do – my grandmother’s physician did something that I believe saved her life.
Dr. Schneider did what is rarely heard of in “mainstream” medicine. She checked my grandmother’s mineral levels.
The result showed that my grandmother was suffering from an acute magnesium deficiency. She left that day with only one prescription – for a daily magnesium supplement.
To think that for less than $0.05 per day, my grandmother could have avoided a near-death experience… and a $20,000 hospital visit.
Thanks to her forward-thinking physician, my grandmother avoided a prescription for dangerous prescription drugs that would have done nothing to solve her underlying condition. And by diagnosing her magnesium deficiency correctly (and quickly!), she probably saved her life.
It is estimated that magnesium deficiency causes 20 million deaths worldwide every year, including nearly 600 per day in the U.S. alone.
In fact, some studies have shown that over 80% of the U.S. population is deficient in magnesium, to one degree or another. That means there is a good chance that YOU are deficient.
This Mineral is Vital to Your Existence…Do You Have Enough of It?
Magnesium plays hundreds of crucial roles in your body. It helps regulate the rhythm of your heartbeat. It helps to control your blood pressure and maintain insulin sensitivity. It controls the uptake and release of many hormones and neurotransmitters and it is vital for more than 300 enzymes to function properly.
Magnesium deficiency can be associated with a long list of illnesses and symptoms including:
- ADHD
- Anxiety
- Asthma
- Autism
- Chronic fatigue
- Constipation
- Cramps
- Diabetes
- Fibromyalgia
- Heart attack
- Headaches
- High blood pressure
- IBS
- Kidney stones
- Metabolic syndrome
- Obesity
- PMS
- Stroke
- Acid reflux
…just to name a few.
A rich, whole foods diet should provide all the magnesium your body requires. On the other hand, processed foods – which make up about 90% of the money Americans spend on food – contain almost none of this vital mineral.
And we further deplete our body’s magnesium stores with the phosphoric acid in colas and coffee, by consuming sugar and carbohydrates, salt, excess alcohol, diuretics (water pills), antibiotics and other drugs. We also lose more magnesium as we age.
Prevent Magnesium Deficiency with Delicious Foods
Be sure to enjoy dark leafy greens (like spinach and Swiss chard), nuts, pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds, wild salmon and halibut, black beans and navy beans… and don’t forget the most decadent source of magnesium – delicious dark cocoa!
And because magnesium deficiency is such a life-threatening problem, you may want to ensure adequate body levels with a supplement. Magnesium citrate and magnesium chloride are the forms that are best absorbed (as opposed to magnesium oxide).
The RDA is 420 mg for adult males and 320 mg for adult females, however, there is solid evidence that these numbers are lower than optimal.
Unfortunately, Life-Threatening Deficiencies Don’t End with Magnesium
There are dozens of vitamin, mineral, enzyme and hormone deficiencies that can put your health and your quality of life at serious risk. Not to mention environmental toxins and malfunctions in your organs and immune system.
The good news is that you can test for all of these things. Most of the tests are quite inexpensive. They are very easy to perform. And in many cases, your insurance will even pay for it.
Unfortunately, most doctors simply don’t test for these critical factors.
That is why I have produced a very special bonus report called 20 Lifesaving Tests Your Doctor Hasn’t Performed (and Should!).
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. That is why the information in this report could literally save your life – or that of a loved one.
Don’t wait – take control of your health today!
I think magnesium saved my life, too. I just suddenly begin with atrial fibrillation, a heart arrhythmia. It was very hard and painful – I could watch my chest jounce around as my heart flopped. I had no insurance so had to live with this for years. I also had exceedingly painful, long-lasting cramps in my legs, ankles and feet, and my toes would stand straight upright for a while, also very painful.
I began to research, and joined an A-fib group, and someone there mentioned the importance of magnesium and that people with heart issues were often lacking it, especially since some heart meds leech it out of you. I began adding magnesium and the cramps and toe spasms stopped. It didn’t help my A-fib, but it helped in other ways. By then I had gone into heart failure and was retaining pounds of fluid. I was in bad shape. I could no longer take walks or even get around the grocery store.
I improved my diet, kept up the magnesium and other supplements, educated myself. Now I don’t retain fluid – I can take long walks and breathe normally! I have to keep it up every day and take a good dose of it, but it is definitely magnesium that turned my world around!