Magnesium

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Trying to knock the value of vitamin and mineral supplements. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote carefully to you all, explain the distortions of studies which ignored the “sick user” effect. It seems like more people are dying of a therapy, whereas in fact they are taking the therapy because they already have a problem. This latest study (Oct 10th 2011) ignored it royally and came to a disastrous conclusion. You might think they INTENDED to make vitamin and mineral substances look bad! At the very least, it’s a childish conclusion.

Trying to knock the value of vitamin and mineral supplements. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote carefully to you all, explain the distortions of studies which ignored the “sick user” effect. It seems like more people are dying of a therapy, whereas in fact they are taking the therapy because they already have a problem. This latest study (Oct 10th 2011) ignored it royally and came to a disastrous conclusion. You might think they INTENDED to make vitamin and mineral substances look bad! At the very least, it’s a childish conclusion.

Magnesium seems to be involved in several hundred enzyme pathways, all essential for optimum health. Not surprisingly, therefore, a lack of magnesium can lead to a great diversity of symptoms. Many of magnesium’s important functions are connected with the nervous system. Lack of magnesium causes a state of over excitability, with twitching, tremors, anxiety, hyperactivity, cramps, convulsions and insomnia. Because it counters such symptoms, magnesium has been christened ‘Nature’s tranquillizer’. Correction of some of these symptoms due to magnesium deficiency may be vital to the allergic patient, who may mis-assign them to am allergy.

Magnesium seems to be involved in several hundred enzyme pathways, all essential for optimum health. Not surprisingly, therefore, a lack of magnesium can lead to a great diversity of symptoms. Many of magnesium’s important functions are connected with the nervous system. Lack of magnesium causes a state of over excitability, with twitching, tremors, anxiety, hyperactivity, cramps, convulsions and insomnia. Because it counters such symptoms, magnesium has been christened ‘Nature’s tranquillizer’. Correction of some of these symptoms due to magnesium deficiency may be vital to the allergic patient, who may mis-assign them to am allergy.