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Magnesium, Homoeostasis, and Ageing
December 30th, 2009 | 
Author: | Author(s) : Mario Barbagallo, Mario Belvedere, Ligia J Dominguez | |
| Summary : Aging is very often associated with magnesium (Mg) deficit. Total plasma magnesium concentrations are remarkably constant in healthy subjects throughout life, while total body Mg and Mg in the intracellular compartment tend to decrease with age. Dietary Mg deficiencies are common in the elderly population. Other frequent causes of Mg deficits in the elderly include reduced Mg intestinal absorption, reduced Mg bone stores, and excess urinary loss. Secondary Mg deficit in aging may result from different conditions and diseases often observed in the elderly (i.e. insulin resistance and/or type 2 diabetes mellitus) and drugs (i.e. use of hypermagnesuric diuretics). Chronic Mg deficits have been linked to an increased risk of numerous preclinical and clinical outcomes, mostly observed in the elderly population, including hypertension, stroke, atherosclerosis, ischemic heart disease, cardiac arrhythmias, glucose intolerance, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes mellitus, endothelial dysfunction, vascular remodeling, alterations in lipid metabolism, platelet aggregation/thrombosis, inflammation, oxidative stress, cardiovascular mortality, asthma, chronic fatigue, as well as depression and other neuropsychiatric disorders. Both aging and Mg deficiency have been associated to excessive production of oxygen-derived free radicals and low-grade inflammation. Chronic inflammation and oxidative stress are also present in several age-related diseases, such as many vascular and metabolic conditions, as well as frailty, muscle loss and sarcopenia, and altered immune responses, among others. Mg deficit associated to aging may be at least one of the pathophysiological links that may help to explain the interactions between inflammation and oxidative stress with the aging process and many age-related diseases. | |
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Magnesium & Depression Video
One of the benefits I found after only a week or so of getting more magnesium into my system, by using Magnesium chloride transdermally (in my case, using a footbath containing about 150 grams of magnesium chloride flakes dissolved in about 4 litres of water) was a stabilisation of what others had referred to over the years as my “moodiness”.
Here’s a video about the symptoms caused by magnesium deficiency, that Magnesium Chloride can eradicate.
Treating these symptoms can be very economical, if you make your own magnesium oil using the flakes I sell. You could of course, use a footbath like I did, but that may work out a little more expensive.
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Magnesium in general is a potent nervous system regulator
That probable solution is magnesium oil. It’s actually just magnesium chloride in water, but it has an oil-like texture, hence the name. This is for topical (transdermal) magnesium supplementation, which is good because oral magnesium isn’t absorbed very well at all and usually just leaves your system unabsorbed. (It attaches to water in the colon and goes bye bye.) This is a relatively new method, so I’ve heard. Magnesium in general is a potent nervous system regulator. It’s nature’s calcium channel blocker, and it has relaxing effects. It soothes muscle and back pain, relieves arthritis, and may also help with insomnia and depression due to its serotonin-raising activity. It gives you more energy and endurance and makes you more impervious to stress. (You lose magnesium when experiencing stress, so people under much stress could especially use it to restore levels.) I read that most Americans are deficient in magnesium, but this deficiency is difficult to detect because blood tests are useless. It’s better to just experiment and see if you feel any better, since the stuff is quite safe.
Depression Treatment: A Cure for Depression using Magnesium?
Forward: Although this depression treatment by magnesium essay was written originally to address the role of magnesium as a depression treatment, the role of magnesium deficiency as cause of vast other morbidity and mortality is also addressed. This essay is my “notes to myself”, and you are welcome to visit and explore what I am finding and to discuss it with me by phone or e-mail. As much as possible, all depression treatment research presented is from primary medical research by others and personal observation. I am just a reporter who was very ill from depression and was interested in seeing why things are going wrong in American medicine. I am not a physician and, obviously, I do not practice medicine or give medical advice. I have researched nutrients as medicine since 1979 on a daily basis, and I have come to think that much is wrong with American medicine, but not American medical science. We need to look into the vast library of medical research to see our paths better, and not wait until organized medicine catches up. From this research, I am forced to believe that much of what is wrong stems from our practice of eating refined grain products and reliance on drugs for health, not nutrition. In centuries prior to the twentieth, bread was the “staff of life” primarily due to its mineral, protein and caloric content. Today, perhaps we need to think of bread and other refined grain products as the “staff of death” due to the absence or near absence of life-sustaining minerals and vitmins. As you read this essay, please ask yourself if it is actually possible that the entire foundation of modern medicine is built upon a foundation of quicksand (low magnesium and high calcium)? You may find some answers