This thread is almost 6 yrs old now. Some links below may be outdated, since online sites do not last forever, get updated, moved, and closed. I've fixed the first 5 pages, so that is where the few outdated ones were located.
Most of the important information on this thread is in the first 5 pages, and some new things at the end, with some discussions in between.
I've been posting online for just over a decade now on magnesium and its importance in so many health conditions.
It is estimated that 70% of the American population is deficient in magnesium in the diet. Magnesium is a cofactor in mitochondrial functions, metabolism of fatty acids from the diet, and hundreds of other biochemical reactions in the body that we cannot live without.
Low Magnesium can occur during certain therapies as well. Chemo for cancer is notorius for lowering magnesium. Also diuretics, estrogens and progestins in hormone/birth control treatment, digoxin, steroids, some antibiotics.
Stress, alcohol, and caffeine also deplete magnesium. As would chronic diarrhea.
Diabetics are typically deficient in magnesium as well.
The Linus Pauling Institute has a good monograph about this mineral.
http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocente...ium/index.html
Magnesium is useful in patients with ADD/ADHD and is essential for the
biochemisty of Omega-3s.
People who become depleted of magnesium may succumb to a cardiac event called prolonged Q-T. This is where the heart rhythm becomes stalled,
and the heart stops beating. Many drugs cause Q-T events, and I will post that later on this thread. Chronic pain patients using Methadone need to be watchful, as well as those using amphetamine or methylphenidate for ADHD.
The withdrawn common antihistamines Seldane and Hismanal were taken off the market because of Q-T events occurring when other drugs were used
with them. Propulsid was removed for the same reason when diuretics lowered magnesium in patients, who then died of cardiac arrest while using Propulsid for GERD.
Later on in this thread I will post about which types of magnesium are best to use, and which (magnesium oxide) are not good choices.
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