Transdermal Magnesium Therapy - Softcover

Mark Sircus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0978799119 ISBN 13: 9780978799113

Publisher: Phaelos Books & Mediawerks, 2007

Synopsis

Trim size: 6.14 x 9.21 in.Back matter: Appendix, Index Over 300 footnote chapter references

About this title

About the Author

Mark Sircus, Ac., OMD, is an American doctor of Oriental Medicine living near Joao Pessoa, in the easternmost region of Brazil. Foreword by Daniel Reid, author of "The Tao of Detox", and many other holitic health titles.

From the Back Cover

What you don't know about magnesium is probably adversely affecting your health already: * When we're deficient in magnesium over 300 enzymes in our body are unable to function properly. * Magnesium deficiency has been scientifically identified as a critical factor in the onset of a wide variety of diseases, from heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, inflammation and stroke, to Alzheimer's, autism, cancer, and many more. * For various reasons and to varying degree, two-thirds or more of the population is magnesium deficient. * Traditional (allopathic) medical protocols currently do not factor magnesium deficiency or replenishment into standard treatment strategies. * As medicine is currently practiced, Americans today are living longer, but are also living longer with chronic disease, yet scientific studies have confirmed that many chronic diseases respond positively to magnesium replenishment.

From the Inside Flap

As it relates to the state of human health, numerous studies now indicate that magnesium needs to be elevated on the scale of importance to that of oxygen and clean water. This unassuming mineral, most famous for the wheels made out of it for automobiles, fuels the production of over 325 enzymes in our bodies. Needless to say, if we re low on magnesium, our health is also going to be at risk.Magnesium deficiency is one of the most common nutritional problems in the industrialized world today, conservatively affecting 2 out of 3 Americans, and by some estimates, 9 of 10. This deficiency is the result of agricultural practices, food preparation techniques, and dietary trends. The health implications are nothing short of catastrophic. But it need not be. Transdermal Magnesium Therapy, introduces you to the most important overlooked mineral on the planet. It ll help you determine whether you are among the more than 203 million people in America who are magnesium deficient. And just maybe, it ll help you find the gateway to the restoration, or sustainability of your health.

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Magnesium, atomic number 12, is an element essential for normal function of the nervous and cardiovascular systems. Pure magnesium is a silvery-white metal, which burns with a dazzling brilliance. After calcium, phosphorus, and potassium, it is the fourth most abundant mineral in cells. The two ounces or so found in the typical human body is present not as metal but as magnesium ions (positively-charged magnesium atoms found either in solution or complexed with other tissues, such as bone). Magnesium is the second most abundant intracellular and the fourth most abundant cation (i.e., positively charged ion) in the body. It is an essential transmembrane and intracellular modulator of cellular electrical activity. As such, its deficiency in the body is nothing short of disastrous for cell life. Yet, this fact is not widely known. Roughly one quarter of this magnesium is found in muscle tissue and three-fifths in bone; but less than 1% of it is found in blood serum, although that is used as the commonest indicator of magnesium status. This blood serum magnesium can be further subdivided into free ionic, complex-bound and protein-bound portions, but the ionic portion is considered most important in measuring magnesium status, because it is physiologically active. The body works very hard to keep magnesium levels in the blood constant.

Magnesium is the single most important mineral for maintaining proper electrical balance and facilitating smooth metabolism in the cells. One of the major properties of magnesium is that of stabilizing membranes. It has a stabilizing effect not only for the cell membrane, but also for various sub-cellular organelles.

Magnesium deficiency is one of the most common nutritional problems in the industrialized world today. This deficiency is the result of agricultural practices, food preparation techniques, and dietary trends. The health implications are nothing short of catastrophic.

Magnesium is necessary for the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats and amino acids. It is essential for the functions of muscles and nerves and for the formation of bones and teeth. Generally it counteracts and regulates the influence of calcium.

There are basically two classes of minerals: micro-nutrients, which are only needed in trace amounts and macro-nutrients, of which we need fairly significant amounts. Magnesium is a mineral we need fairly large quantities of, but sadly this medical and nutritional fact has yet to be embraced in practice by general medicine.

Magnesium supplementation is grossly under utilized and under prescribed by conventional physicians. Though magnesium deficiency is common, it is usually not looked for, and therefore, not found or corrected, or factored into treatment strategies. In most industrialized countries, magnesium intake has decreased over time and is now marginal in the entire population.

Edition details

• Publisher: Phaelos Books & Mediawerks
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0978799119
• ISBN 13: 9780978799113
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 396