I believe diabetics lose the magnesium whether they are well controlled or not. It is not understood why, that I can find.
The red cells do have a life of about 3 months. This is also true for potassium cycling.
Potassium and magnesium are connected.
Here is a pretty good and complex wiki article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypomagnesemia
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