ReMag Carolyn Dean

INVISIBLE MINERALS
PART I
MAGNESIUM
CAROLYN DEAN MD ND
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION TO INVISIBLE MINERALS ...................................................................... 7
WHAT SCIENCE SAYS .............................................................................................................. 9
WHAT IS MAGNESIUM? ......................................................................................................... 11
MINERAL PARTNERS ............................................................................................................. 12
MAGNESIUM BEGINS WITH CHILDREN .......................................................................... 15
EXCESS CALCIUM DEPLETES MAGNESIUM .................................................................. 16
MAGNESIUM DEFICIENCY CONDITIONS ........................................................................ 16
MAGNESIUM AND MUSCLES ............................................................................................... 17
MAGNESIUM AND HEART DISEASE .................................................................................. 18
WHY DIDNT TIM RUSSERT TAKE MAGNESIUM? ......................................................... 19
MAGNESIUM IS NATURES CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKER ..................................... 24
MAGNESIUM FOR ANXIETY AND PANIC ATTACKS ..................................................... 25
MAGNESIUM FOR ASTHMA ................................................................................................. 26
MAGNESIUM FOR BLOOD CLOTS ...................................................................................... 26
MAGNESIUM FOR BONES ..................................................................................................... 28
MAGNESIUM AND BOWEL DISEASE ................................................................................. 28
MAGNESIUM FOR CYSTITIS ................................................................................................ 28
MAGNESIUM FOR DEPRESSION ......................................................................................... 29
MAGNESIUM FOR DETOXIFICATION ............................................................................... 29
MAGNESIUM FOR DIABETES ............................................................................................... 29
MAGNESIUM FOR FATIGUE ................................................................................................. 29
MAGNESIUM FOR HYPERTENSION ................................................................................... 30
MAGNESIUM FOR INSOMNIA .............................................................................................. 30
MAGNESIUM FOR MIGRAINE.............................................................................................. 31
MAGNESIUM FOR NERVE PROBLEMS.............................................................................. 32
MAGNESIUM FOR OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY ................................................. 32

SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF MAGNESIUM DEFICIENCY .............................................. 32
100 MAGNESIUM DEFICIENCY FACTORS ........................................................................ 33
WHERE HAS ALL THE MAGNESIUM GONE? .................................................................. 34
WHY MEDICINE IGNORES MAGNESIUM ......................................................................... 35
DIFFERENT FORMS OF MAGNESIUM ............................................................................... 36
Common Types Of Magnesium .........................................................................................................37
Pico-Ionic Magnesium ReMag ........................................................................................................37
Magnesium oxide ................................................................................................................................39
Magnesium citrate ..............................................................................................................................39
Magnesium chloride............................................................................................................................39
Chelated Magnesium ..........................................................................................................................39
Plant-based Magnesium .....................................................................................................................40
Epsom salts ..........................................................................................................................................41
Magnesium oil .....................................................................................................................................41
Magnesium gel, Magnesium cream ...................................................................................................41
Angstrom Magnesium ........................................................................................................................41
MAGNESIUM DOSAGE ........................................................................................................... 42

COMPLETEMENT FORMULA PROTOCOL....................................................................... 43
ReMag Spray Facts .............................................................................................................................44
ReMag Spray Protocol for local injury, arthritis, muscle pain or joint pain ................................45
Facial Skin Hydration.........................................................................................................................45
Detailed ReMag Dosage ......................................................................................................................45
MAGNESIUM TESTING........................................................................................................... 46
WHEN MAGNESIUM MAKES ME WORSE ......................................................................... 48
MAGNESIUM CONTENT OF COMMON FOODS ............................................................... 52
CALCIUM DOSAGE.................................................................................................................. 53
CALCIUM RICH FOODS ......................................................................................................... 55

MAGNESIUM SUPPLEMENTATION CONTRAINDICATIONS....................................... 56
MAGNESIUM MIRACLE STORIES ....................................................................................... 57
ReMag and Atrial Fibrillation ...........................................................................................................57
Switching from IV Magnesium to ReMag ........................................................................................59
Pico-Ionic Magnesium and Dialysis...................................................................................................60
Pico-Ionic Magnesium and Lung Whiteout ......................................................................................61
Loving Pico-Ionic ................................................................................................................................62
Effects of Pico-Ionic ............................................................................................................................62
Pico-Ionic Magnesium and Arthritis .................................................................................................62
Pico-Ionic Magnesium and Migraines...............................................................................................63
Pico-Ionic Magnesium: Short Vignettes............................................................................................63
Magnesium and The Magnesium Miracle Testimonials ...................................................................64
Magnesium and Janes Top Ten Improvements ..............................................................................65
Magnesium and Alcohol .....................................................................................................................67
Magnesium and Anxiety .....................................................................................................................68
Magnesium and Arrhythmia..............................................................................................................69
Magnesium and Asthma .....................................................................................................................70
Magnesium and Back Spasms ............................................................................................................72
Magnesium and Blepherospasm ........................................................................................................73
Magnesium and Esophageal Spasms .................................................................................................76
Magnesium and the Elderly ...............................................................................................................78
Magnesium and Heart Palpitations ...................................................................................................80
Magnesium and Kidney Stones ..........................................................................................................80
Magnesium and Carpal Tunnel .........................................................................................................81
Magnesium and Chest Pain................................................................................................................82
Magnesium and Diabetes ...................................................................................................................83
Magnesium and Laryngospasms .......................................................................................................83
Magnesium and Healthy Nails ...........................................................................................................85

Magnesium and Insomnia ..................................................................................................................85
Magnesium and Neck Pain .................................................................................................................85
Magnesium and Orgasm ....................................................................................................................86
Magnesium and Perimenopause ........................................................................................................88
Magnesium and Sciatica .....................................................................................................................89
MAGNESIUM FOR THE ATHLETE ...................................................................................... 91

Muscle Cramping ................................................................................................................................92
Medical Treatment for Cramping .....................................................................................................93
Magnesium For The Athlete Stories..................................................................................................94
How Magnesium Instantly Made Me A Better AthleteBen Greenfield.................................................... 95
No Magnesium in the NFL .......................................................................................................................... 97
No Magnesium and Lots of Aspartame........................................................................................................ 97
Chalk It Up To Magnesium ......................................................................................................................... 98
MAGNESIUM Q & A ............................................................................................................... 100

MAGNESIUM PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS ........................................................... 113
LEARNING MORE & ASKING QUESTIONS ..................................................................... 113
APPENDIX A: MANUFACTURERS WORDS ON REMAG AND REMYTE ................. 114
MEET THE DOCTOR OF THE FUTURE ............................................................................ 117
Invisible Minerals: Part I Magnesium
INTRODUCTION TO INVISIBLE MINERALS

This eBook was originally called How to Change Your Life with Magnesium and it has
evolved into an introduction to a type of magnesium that I personally researched,
formulated and recommend. Its a Picometer-Ionic Magnesium called ReMag.
ReMag undergoes a proprietary process where the ions are both stabilized and
rendered small enough to readily enter cells. Mineral compounds break down into ions in
water but immediately bind to another ion. The key to the success of ReMag is a unique
process of stabilizing the magnesium ions making them 100% absorbed at the cellular level
and non-laxative.
NOTE: If you want to immediately skip to the section that tells you how much ReMag to
take and how to take it, go to Detailed ReMag Dosage. To find out how to take all the
Completement Formulas go to Completement Formula Protocol.
Magnesium chloride is the base mineral compound used to make ReMag. The
company that manufactures ReMag buys 99.98 - 99.99% pure magnesium ingots. The
current source is from San Bernardino Co., California, mined as Dolomite. These ingots
are then broken down into picometer ionic liquid soluble minerals. Thus there are as little
as 0.01 - 0.02% impurities in our magnesium chloride. This compares very favorably to
high quality versions of magnesium citrate that are 98% pure, or magnesium chloride from
salt lakes that are 96% pure. The key is that 99.98-99.99% pure is 99.98- 99.99% pure, no
matter the source. ReMag is GRAS (generally regarded as safe) and is free of heavy metals
on rigorous testing.
Magnesium chloride is a mineral salt crystal in its dry state and breaks down into
magnesium ions and chloride ions when dissolved and dispersed in liquid. Thats usually
all it takes to create ions. However, ions only represent the electrical charge of a mineral.
Proprietary processes are used to break magnesium down into a picometer size. Ill
explain more about picometers shortly. You can read my manufacturers words about the
process used to make ReMag and its companion multimineral, ReMyte, in Appendix A.
For personal reasons, Ive been actively seeking a form of magnesium that is fully
absorbed at the cellular level and does not have any laxative effect.
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Let me explain the laxative effect with this mineral. Magnesium has a wonderful
failsafe mechanism that prevents it from building up in the body the laxative effect.
Whats not absorbed into the bloodstream and into the cells after a dose of magnesium goes
through the kidneys into the urine and also through the intestines as loose stool. My
problem is that any form of magnesium in pills or powder gave me a fairly immediate
laxative effect. This means Im unable to get enough magnesium into my blood and cells
to effectively fight my magnesium deficiency symptoms before it explodes out the other
end!! Sorry, a bit dramatic, but thats what happens to a certain percentage of magnesium
users.
When I began using the right type of magnesium I finally found relief for most of
my magnesium deficiency symptoms (heart palpitations, charley horses, insomnia, muscle
twitching) with no laxative effect. Initially, when I encountered this type of magnesium, it
was in a form called angstrom magnesium. Angstrom is simply a word that stands for a
unit of measurement. One angstrom equals one-tenth of a nanometer (0.1nm); or 100
picometers; or 1/10,000,000,000 (one ten billionth) of a meter (11010 m). It even has its
own symbol, which is , in honor of the Swedish scientist Anders Jonas ngstrm who
first named it.
According to Wikipedia, angstrom, as a measurement, is used in the natural
sciences and in technology to express the size of atoms, molecules and microscopic
biological structures, the lengths of chemical bonds, the arrangement of atoms in crystals,
the wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation and the dimensions of integrated circuit parts.
I chose to call the form of magnesium that I now recommend Pico-Ionic to bring
it into the better known scientific metric system and to stay away from the word nano
which has become synonymous with nanotechnology that many people consider
potentially invasive.
Pico-Ionic magnesium came out of my search for a more concentrated form of
angstrom magnesium. The form I was using had 3,000 ppm (parts per million) at a dosage
of 45mg per tablespoon and came in 32oz. bottles. I had to choke back six tablespoons two
to three times a day to get what I required to keep my symptoms under control.
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To make this form of magnesium more accessible, I spent two years working with
various forms of magnesium to find one that was 100 percent absorbed and could fit into a
capsule.
I still havent found it and it may not be possible since minerals require a solution
in order to dissolve into an ionized state. In the meantime, the Pico-Ionic form I use is
60,000 ppm (instead of 3,000ppm) and comes in 8oz. bottles at a dosage of 300mg per
teaspoon. Do the math and you find that Pico-Ionic magnesium is 20 times more powerful
than angstrom.
Back to my story.
I learned about angstrom magnesium immediately after the publication of the
second edition of The Magnesium Miracle (2007). So I wasnt able to write about it in that
book edition but I did put it in the 2014 edition supporting its use with glowing testimonials.
Pico-Ionic magnesium is not a patented product and thus doesnt have the funding
from either government or the drug industry for large clinical trials. But what it does have
is a mounting array of clinical cases that speak to its tremendous ability to reverse
magnesium deficiency and suffering. There is incredible clinical evidence of its amazing
therapeutic properties. People are able to switch from IV magnesium to Pico-Ionic
magnesium and double their magnesium blood levels.
What Science Says

In the past few years physicists have determined that the mineral ion channels that are the
gateways through which minerals enter cells are only 400-500 picometers in diameter.
Ion channels are composed of proteins that form pores through a cell membrane.
These specialized proteins help establish and control the voltage traveling across the cell
membranes by allowing ions to flow along a particular gradient. That may not make a lot
of sense to you but these ion channels are crucial components of the membranes that
surround all biological cells.
When I was first introduced to picometer mineralsand picometer magnesium in
particularI met Dr. Terry Wood, a veterinarian, who was also researching highly
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absorbable forms of minerals. Dr. Wood was looking for a way to save animals suffering
from pneumonia that really needed minerals but their lungs would drown if you gave
them the necessary minerals in intravenous (IV) fluids.
When Dr. Wood began using picometer minerals, he found his answer. Either the
animal patient lapped up the minerals in a water solution or Terry syringed them down
their throats and found they worked even better than IV mineral replacement.
Dr. Wood realized these minerals are almost completely absorbed in the face of a
maldigestion and/or malabsorption as they completely bypass the gut and they do not have
to be attached to carrier protein molecules that must be digested before the mineral is
absorbed.
Dr. Wood told me that another huge point in favor of picometer minerals is that
their available surface area is extremely large. If you take a certain amount of a mineral
and calculate the surface area, by the time it is broken down into picometer size, the surface
area is increased by millions and millions of units. This means there is more mineral surface
area available to do its job. This is why just a few parts per million (ppm) of a molecular
mineral can do a better job than hundreds or thousands of milligrams of the same mineral
in a non-picometer form.
One piece of science that helps validate the efficacy of angstrom and Pico-Ionic
minerals is the electron microscope. A university professor was asked to view the various
stages of these minerals, as they were processed, under a microscope and found that at the
final stage, his viewing field was blank. The minerals were such a tiny size that they could
not be seen.
The professor verbally confirmed that this finding meant that such minerals would
be absorbed 100 percent at the cellular level. However, he was unwilling to sign off on this
observation for fear of a backlash from his peers. More experiments are underway to gain
validation of the size of picometer minerals as well as their efficacy in treating magnesium
deficiency states.
Because picometer-sized minerals are absorbed directly into cells, they improve
cell function immediately. The Pico-Ionic form does even better because with the ionic
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charge, the minerals are magnetically attracted to the cell ion channels and the picometer
size means they just slide in without impedance.
If minerals dont properly get inside cells, because they are too large, then nonmineralized water floods into the cells and the large-sized minerals stay outside. All forms
of edema, including brain edema, are caused by fluid and electrolyte imbalance at the
cellular level. Brain edema is more common than you think. The troops in the Middle East
sweat out gallons of water and most of their electrolytes: sodium, potassium and
magnesium. When they just replace their losses with highly sugared and salted water, they
are subject to brain edema and the errors in judgment that are losing lives in the field.
Pico-Ionic minerals are small enough to enter cells where they are most needed.
Minerals are responsible for the 70-90 millivolts of energy that creates intracellular
communication. A body can only be as healthy as its cells.
Another important aspect about Pico-Ionic minerals is that people who suffer from
IBS-diarrhea, Crohns and colitis can use Pico-Ionic magnesium without causing a laxative
effect.
What is Magnesium?
Magnesium is a necessary cofactor utilized by 700-800 enzyme systems that perform vital
metabolic functions in the body. It took me a whole book, The Magnesium Miracle, to
describe the intricacies of magnesium physiology. After reading that book youll agree that
miracle is the most suitable word to describe a mineral that treats acid reflux, adrenal
fatigue, angina, anxiety, atrial fibrillation, high blood pressure, high cholesterol,
constipation, depression, diabetes type 2, fibromyalgia, headaches, heart attacks, IBS,
insomnia, kidney stones, migraines, muscle spasms, nerve twitches, osteoporosis, PMS,
seizures and more.
Ive just listed many chronic conditions that people are suffering from today, yet
has your doctor ever told you to take magnesium? Probably not. Thats because nutrient
therapy is not taught in medical school. Magnesium is not regarded as a first-line
therapeutic agent in hospitals or doctors offices and its not a patentable drug. For all these
reasons, mainstream medicine remains blind to the extent of magnesium deficiency that is
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reported to be present in 70-80 percent of the population.

In this book, Ill give you an overview of magnesium and how to use it, some
magnesium miracles stories and answer many of the questions that my clients and readers
have had over the years. Lets get started.
Mineral Partners
Before I go any further I want to assure you that even though magnesium is the most
important mineral in my universe, its not the only one.
As soon as ReMag became a reality, I began working on a mineral formula using
the same picometer-ionic process. These minerals are not chelates or colloids or like
anything youve ever heard of before. Using a proprietary process the minerals are broken
down into a soluble form that is the same size as the minerals absorbed through plant
rootlets and the same size as cell mineral ion channels. Direct absorption into our cells does
something quite extraordinary it bypasses the gut.
We hear a lot about faulty gut absorption (called leaky gut) these days. Some
practitioners even counsel their patients to not bother taking nutrient supplements until
their gut is healed because they wont absorb them anyway. Besides the fact that they have
no way of knowing if thats true you cant heal your gut without the right nutrients.
In my experience, a yeast-free diet, ReMag, ReMyte and a good probiotic like
Prescript Assist help treat gut malabsorption and leaky gut. And the beauty of picometerionic minerals is that they dont rely on an intact gut for absorption.
I began creating ReMyte as an electrolyte replacement but it grew into much more.
It includes 12 minerals that go far beyond any electrolyte solution on the market and help
solve many of the chronic disease problems that Ive been seeing over the past three
decades.
Minerals are inorganic substances that your body cant make. You must obtain
minerals from the food you eat or as pills, capsules, or preferably, as liquids.
Ive written extensively about the mineral depletion in the agricultural soil where
our food is grown. Therefore food has become the least effective way to obtain your
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minerals. A normal diet 100 years ago netted you 500mg of magnesium. Today, you are
lucky if you get 200mg.
Water is supposed to carry the minerals that we require but the many forms of
filtration that we put in place to remove toxic chemicals can also remove important
minerals.
Even before medical school, I read everything I could about natural health. After
over 45 years of study, Im convinced that mineral supplementation is the most valuable
healing tool you can use. Its the easiest to implement, the most cost effective and the most
valuable for your health.
However, successful mineral therapy all depends on the bioavailability of the
minerals you use. If a mineral is not absorbed directly into the cells it cannot participate in
cellular functions and is therefore useless. Or it can be harmful as you will see below where
I write about the problem with excess calcium in the diet and in supplements.
I dont call ReMyte and my magnesium formula, ReMag, supplements, I call them
Completement Formulas because they complete the body by providing the right minerals
in the proper form for optimum function. My Completement Formulas are the culmination
of over 45 years of studying the safest, most effective and revolutionary therapies that are
at least 20 years ahead of their time.
Ill explain more throughout this book, and in my ReMyte book. Briefly, the
conditions plaguing the patients I consult every day often have a basis in hormone
imbalance. Thyroid, adrenal and sex hormones are increasingly drained in our stressed-out
society. The best treatment is not hormone replacement; it is mineral replacement. You can
obtain a free copy of my ReMyte book, Invisible Minerals Part II: Multiple Minerals in
the INFO link on the RnA ReSet website. While youre on the site, you can read about my
other amazing products, RnA Drops and ReAline. In a nutshell:
1. ReMag is 100% absorbed at the cellular level, and is non laxative. It
successfully treats heart disease, anxiety, muscle pain and spasms, nerve
problems and much more.
2. ReMyte is a combination of 12 minerals that are picometer in size and also fully
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absorbed at the cellular level balancing the thyroid, adrenals and sex hormones.
3. ReAline is a very powerful, yet gentle, detoxifier because it promotes
glutathione production.
4. And the most amazing product is RnA Drops. Its made from barley sprouts
(but its Non-Gluten). RnA Drops make perfect cells and uncover our hidden
DNA.
5. ReNew is a skin serum that is 25X the concentration of RnA Drops and it's
doing miraculous things for scars, wrinkles and all types of skin conditions.
Im happily amazed at how my Completement Formulas are changing peoples
lives, especially when they are taken together. There are many ways to learn more about
my work. You can hear testimonials about the Completement Formulas on my radio show,
Dr. Carolyn Dean Live! on Achieve Radio, Mondays at 4pm PST. Or you can click on
Studio D on Achieve Radio and hear archives of my show streaming 24/7. On my archive
website Dr. Carolyn Dean Live, you can search years of my shows for the topics that
interest you most.
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Magnesium Begins with Children

Magnesium was not a topic in my two hours of nutrition classes during my four years in
medical school and it never came up in my clinical work in the hospital. Except once. In
my third year, I was observing in obstetrics and a young woman was about to deliver twins.
But her blood pressure was rising, she was bloated with fluid retention, and she was
convulsing with fluid building up in her brain. I wondered what they could give her to stop
the seizures, bring down her blood pressure, and get rid of the edema and not harm the
babies.
Before I knew it, the attending physician ordered an IV bag of magnesium to drip
into her veins and shortly after her blood pressure came down; she stopped having seizures
and started eliminating fluid. It was a monumental experience for me knowing that the
mother and baby were safe and it was due to magnesium! Since I was already studying
nutrition on my own I also began wondering why magnesium wasnt the first line of therapy
for fluid retention, high blood pressure and seizures for everyone.
Magnesium is a vital component of a healthy pregnancy and delivery. Having
enough magnesium during pregnancy can improve the health of our children from day one.
But the need for it begins before birth. Magnesium can prevent premature contractions,
eclampsia and greatly reduce the risk of a child suffering cerebral palsy and sudden infant
death syndrome (SIDS). Magnesium in effective dosages should be a required supplement
for pregnant women.
There are magnesium deficiency symptoms in pregnancy and childbirth that are
thought to be normal: constipation, leg cramps, backaches, fluid retention, irritability, and
insomnia to name a few. Its not normal to have these symptoms; instead it means that these
women are not taking enough magnesium.
Magnesium can even help women with fertility problems because it relieves
fallopian tube spasm that can prevent egg implantation!
So, the requirement for magnesium begins from day one of conception and
continues through life. Lets explore the reasons we arent getting enough of this important
mineral and what we can do about it.
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Excess Calcium Depletes Magnesium

A picture is worth a thousand words. Take a look at the following video explaining the
crucial balance of magnesium and calcium. Its on The Nutritional Magnesium Association
website (where I am on the Medical Advisory Board). The video is called A Look Inside
the Cell by Andrea Rosenoff PhD. (Its the first video under the heading Calcium
Magnesium Balance Videos.)
Were living in a calcified world and Ill tell you why. Magnesium controls
electrical cell-to-cell communication allowing the correct amount of calcium to enter a cell
to create cell contraction. This may be one of the hardest tasks set for magnesium because
the level of calcium outside our cells can be tens of thousands of times the safe level
allowed inside the cell. Magnesiums job is made even more difficult because so many
people take extra calcium in supplement form and ingest it in dozens of fortified foods and
drinks. They dont realize they need equal amounts of magnesium in the body to bring
calcium into proper balance.
See more about calcium dosage in my book on ReMyte called Invisible Minerals
Part II Multiple Minerals.
Magnesium Deficiency Conditions

In The Magnesium Miracle, I listed over twenty conditions that are scientifically proven to
be associated with magnesium deficiency. These conditions affect both sexes but women
seem to suffer more from magnesium deficiency than men.
When I wrote The Magnesium Miracle, Drs. Burton and Bella Altura, two worldrenowned magnesium researchers who wrote the foreword in my book went over this list
and approved it. Together they have produced over 1,000 research papers on magnesium.
The Alturas are scientists who had never written a foreword for a popular press book.
However, when I approached them, they said that in spite of their enormous body of
research, the message about rampant magnesium deficiency in the population has never
translated into clinical application and they wanted the message to get out. They especially
wanted to alert women to the dangers of magnesium deficiency that can begin in the womb.
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Magnesium and Muscles

Magnesium relaxes muscle cells and calcium contracts them. Magnesium allows a small
amount of calcium into a cell and then forces it out. Its a simple dynamic that occurs in
our bodies every millisecond of every minute. And its via the muscles that most people
learn about magnesium.
We have muscle spasms, muscle twitching, painful charley horses that turn our calf
muscles into rocks when we stretch, muscle aches and pains. We learn to live with them.
Then we read about magnesium or hear about it from a friend or a chiropractor and use
Epsom salts in a bath or take a magnesium pill and our muscles sigh in relief.
Magnesium is to plant chlorophyll as iron is to human hemoglobin. In our body,
chlorophyllwith its gift of magnesiumsupplies the means to create life-giving energy
in our cells. On a practical level, this means that magnesium helps oxygenate our muscles.
Also, our cells utilize energy packets called ATP (adenosine triphosphate) with the help of
magnesium. Animal studies proved that decreased exercise capacity could be an early sign
of magnesium deciency. When given magnesium, their endurance was restored. Most
human studies confirm that any form of exercise depletes magnesium. We sweat it out and
stress it out and need extra magnesium to neutralize lactic acid.
In fact, it is the most important nutrient for athletes to enhance performance, prevent
lactic acid build up, and shorten recovery time. Overworked muscles produce free radicals,
however, magnesium aids in the production of glutathione, the bodys super antioxidant. If
muscles are deficient in magnesium, they become irritated and on edge, developing tics,
twitches, and outright spasms. If you are feeling generally irritated and on edge,
magnesium deficiency may be the cause. When you have sufficient magnesium, your
muscles are relaxed and your whole body becomes calm.
Many of my clients are former athletes who have sweated out and not fully replaced
their magnesium stores in years. Even though they are strong competitors and stars in their
field, they become anxious and suffer panic attacks as their bodies develop a level of
tension and irritability that they cant decipher. Taking their symptoms to a doctor, they are
usually given a prescription of Xanax for anxiety, Prozac or Wellbutrin, and an
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antipsychotic. Or in some cases they are given all three.

Musicians are often as active as athletes in their work. Muscle cramps, anxiety,
insomnia, focal dystonia, fatigue, migraines, insomnia, and stress can plague even the most
accomplished musician. And the treatment is magnesium.
In my experience, fibrositis, bromyalgia, chronic neck and back pain may be
caused by magnesium deciency and can be relieved with magnesium supplements, to a
great extent.
Magnesium and Heart Disease

Magnesium deciency is very common in people with heart disease. In hospitals
where doctors understand the important of magnesium, it is administered for acute
myocardial infarction and cardiac arrhythmia. Like any other muscle, the heart requires
magnesium. Magnesium is also used to treat angina, or chest pain.
The epidemic of heart disease in women may have its origins in the excessive intake
of medically prescribed calcium. In fact, several studies in the British Medical Journal
(BMJ) recently proved that very thing. Women who take calcium supplements have a
higher risk of heart disease as calcium deposits in their arteries.
When heart muscle cells have too much calcium on the inside, they can go into a
life-threatening spasm that we call heart attack. When they have enough magnesium, the
heart muscle cells relax. The prescription medication to prevent calcium build-up is called
a calcium channel blocker. Natures calcium channel blocker is magnesium; its the
guardian angel of the heart. The most commonly used drugs in high blood pressure are
diuretics. The irony of using diuretics is that they deplete the body of magnesium.
In June 2008, Tim Russert, a well-known and respected journalist died suddenly
and unexpectedly of a heart attack. I wrote a version of the following article shortly after
his death. I think its an important overview of the current position of modern medicine on
heart disease and its inability to make headway in treating this condition.
Millions of people around the world are in the same position as Russertwith high
cholesterol, high blood pressure and on several medications to avoid having a heart attack.
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Yet the treatments for high blood pressure, high cholesterol and high blood sugar all deplete
magnesium and cause worsening of these three very common conditions.
Many of you will see yourself in this picture and now you know what steps you can
take to prevent yourself from becoming a statistic.
Why Didnt Tim Russert Take Magnesium?

The death of Tim Russert struck a deep cord in the hearts of millions of Americans who
await the seemingly inevitable visit to a cardiac ward.
Lets look at the facts of Russerts death. He was known to have high blood pressure,
high cholesterol and asymptomatic coronary artery disease, which means he had
calcium/cholesterol plaque building up inside the arteries of his heart but no chest pain. He
was on drugs for hypertension, which have a known side effect of draining the body of
magnesium. He was also on statin drugs for high LDL and triglycerides, and low HDL.
On medication, his good cholesterol (HDL) rose from the 20s to 37, which,
according to his doctors was an "acceptable lipid profile. Russert also had minimally
elevated blood sugar but did not have diabetes (yet) and wasnt on drugs for diabetes (yet).
Apparently, Russerts stress test in late April 2008 was normal so his heart was thought to
be in good shape. Two months later, he was dead.
The first question is: why did Russert die if he was in the capable hands of medical
experts and on FDA-approved drugs for his condition? And why, with all their expertise
and all their medical education, did his doctors neglect what the heart and body really
needproper diet and supplements.
Modern medicine thinks its smarter than the human brain and body. It theorizes
that the heart muscle is getting too much calcium and gives it a calcium channel blocker,
when what it needs is magnesium. Modern medicine thinks the body has too much fluid,
so it prescribes a diuretic to lower blood pressure but ends up flushing out magnesium and
potassium, causing a vicious cycle of mineral loss. It thinks cholesterol is the bad guy and
the cause of all our ills (which it is not) and gives drugs that knock out the bodys ability to
make cholesterol while causing numerous side effects.
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In my 200 hours of biochemistry in medical school I learned, and every other doctor
who stayed awake in class learned, that every one of the thousands of metabolic functions
in the body absolutely requires one or more vitamins and minerals in order to proceed to
the next biochemical reaction. Its very simple and very basic and very much forgotten by
most doctors.
Yet, instead of learning about the bodys needs, we were taught to diagnose disease
and treat disease symptoms with drugs or surgery. Thats our mandate and in the past 100
years, no other system of health care has been powerful enough to suggest any other
approach to disease.
However, everyone wants good health. Health is not just the absence of disease.
But health involves the intake of natural vitamins and minerals that are, for the most part,
absent from the soil. If theyre not in the soil then they are absent from our food and
especially absent if we eat fast foods and drink artificially-sweetened beverages. Besides
giving us the necessary building blocks for a healthy body, these nutrients, especially
magnesium, can protect us from high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and high blood
sugar. Why wait until you are symptomatic to take a drug when you can prevent the
condition in the first place?
Magnesium is a natural statin

Magnesium acts by the same mechanisms as statin drugs to lower cholesterol. 1 Every
metabolic activity in the body depends on enzymes. Making cholesterol, for example,
requires a specic enzyme called HMG-CoA reductase. Magnesium slows down this
enzymatic reaction when it is present in sufficient quantities. HMG-CoA reductase is the
same enzyme that statin drugs target and inhibit. The mechanisms are nearly the same;
however, magnesium is the natural way that the body has evolved to control cholesterol
when it reaches a certain level, whereas statin drugs are used to destroy the whole process.
This means that if sufficient magnesium is present in the body, cholesterol will be limited
to its necessary functionsthe production of hormones and the maintenance of cell
Rosanoff A, Seelig MS, Comparison of mechanism and functional effects of magnesium and
statin pharmaceuticals. J Am Coll Nutr, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 501S505S, 2004.
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membranesand will not be produced in excess.

Its only in our present-day circumstances of magnesium-decient soil, little
magnesium in processed foods, and excessive intake of calcium and calcium-rich foods
without supplementation of magnesium that cholesterol has become elevated in the
population.
Magnesium is also responsible for several other lipid-altering functions that are not
even shared by statin drugs. Magnesium is necessary for the activity of an enzyme that
lowers LDL, the bad cholesterol; it also lowers triglycerides and raises the good
cholesterol, HDL. Another magnesium-dependent enzyme converts omega-3 and omega6 essential fatty acids into prostaglandins, which are required for heart and overall health.
At least 18 human studies have veried that magnesium supplements can have an
extremely benecial effect on lipids. In these studies, total cholesterol levels were reduced
by 6 to 23 percent; LDL (bad) cholesterol were lowered by 10 to 18 percent; tryglycerides
fell by 10 to 42 percent; and HDL (good) cholesterol rose by 4 to 11 percent. Furthermore,
the studies showed that low magnesium levels are associated with higher levels of bad
cholesterol and high magnesium levels indicate an increase in good cholesterol.
Do statins prolong life?

The New York Times in January 2008 asked the question on everyones lips Do statins
prolong life? 2 The answer for most people with heart disease isNo, they do not.
Dr. Mark H. Ebell, a professor at the University of Georgia, deputy editor of the
American Family Physician says, Patients at low risk benefit very little if at all. We end
up overtreating a lot of patients.
Doctors are still trying to decide why that is the case. They prescribe statins
because they lower cholesterol and some want these drugs to be used as a preventive
measure for the whole population. One thing they tend to ignore is that the accumulated
side effects are worse than the cure. They are too busy treating the cholesterol and not
the patient. Its like the old medical jokeThe surgery was a success but the patient died.
ParkerPope Tara. "Great Drug, but Does It Prolong Life?" New York Times. January 29, 2008.
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The Times reported that a 2006 report in The Archives of Internal Medicine was an
analysis of seven statin trials in nearly 43,000 patients, mostly middleaged men without
obvious heart disease. In that analysis, statins did not lower mortality. The same results
were found in a misnamed study called Prosper, published in The Lancet in 2002, which
studied statin use in people 70 and older. A third 2004 review in the Journal of the
American Medical Association looked at 13 studies of nearly 20,000 women, both healthy
and with established heart disease and found no benefit. Yes, the cholesterol may go down
but that doesnt guarantee longevity.
The other measure of success with a drug is if it improves a persons quality of life.
Statin critics say there is no evidence that statin users have a better quality of life. In fact
the quality of life may be worsened by statins because most doctors continue to ignore or
dont recognize the side effects of statins and treat them with other drugs. Muscle pain is
treated with antiinflammatories, impotence with Viagra, and mood symptoms with
antidepressants. All these drugs have their own side effects.
The decline of Coenzyme Q-10

A major cause for concern about the use of cholesterol lowering drugs; antihypertensives
such as beta blockers and hydrochlorothiazide diuretics; and diabetes drugs is that they all
inhibit the production of Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ-10). Let me explain with the help of
Wikipedia why all these drugs cause heart disease.
CoQ-10 is a vitaminlike substance that is present in most human cells, inside
mitochondria, the energy factory of the cells. Mitochondria provide the assembly line
where the bodys energy is produced. In human cells, food is converted into body energy
in the mitochondria with the aid of CoQ-10 and magnesium.
Ninetyfive percent of all the human bodys energy requirements (ATP) is
converted with the aid of CoQ-10. Therefore, those organs with the highest energy
requirementssuch as the heart, the lungs, and the liverhave the highest CoQ-10
concentrations. And thats why drug destruction of CoQ-10 leads to muscle weakness and
wasting, which means failure of the heart muscles.
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There is an epidemic of heart failure and nobody seems to know why. But if they
looked at statin use and its destruction of CoQ-10, the answer would be obvious. The drugs
that are being taken to supposedly prevent heart disease are actually causing heart disease.
Since many heart patients and diabetics are taking all three classes of drugs
statins, antihypertensives, and oral diabetic drugs, they are all potentially low in CoQ-10.
More and more of these drugs are being prescribed because drug companies are advising
doctors to put patients on all these drugs preventively, with no studies to prove this
assertion. The end result will be a higher incidence of heart disease, hypertension, high
cholesterol, diabetes and drug side effects in people on this experimental triple therapy.
Not in accord with our bodies

A diabetes trial called ACCORD was halted because people on intensive triple drug
treatment were dying. 3 The trial was designed to test the effects of intensive blood glucose
control, intensive control of blood lipids, and intensive control of blood pressure.
Intensive in this trial meant high-dose medications. Not exercise, not diet, not
supplements, just medications.
After four years, 257 participants in the intensive treatment group had died,
compared with 203 in the standard treatment group. The study was halted because the
treatment was killing people.
Heres a very common story I hear from my clients (lets say its Jack). Jack is 60,
he goes to his doctor for his annual checkup and his blood pressure is a little high (probably
from stress and low magnesium levels) and he is immediately put on a diuretic drug. When
he comes back the next time, his pressure is higher. The doctor doesnt know why, but its
because Jacks magnesium is driven even lower by the diuretic. His doctor just thinks hes
caught Jacks blood pressure early and has to get more aggressive. The doctor puts Jack on
a second antihypertensive drug. A month later, seemingly out of the blue, but because of
lower levels of magnesium, his cholesterol levels are elevated and the doctor puts Jack on
a statin drug.
Major diabetes trial halted after deaths: 257 patients died after intense therapy to lower blood
sugar, NIH reports. Associated Press. Feb. 6, 2008.
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Another month passes and his blood sugar level is starting to climb. Without
anybody even questioning why, Jacks doctor puts him on a diabetic drug. One of the
agreed upon signs of diabetes is low magnesium. But thats not even considered. By now,
Jack is on four drugs to treat an underlying magnesium deficiency, all of which are causing
severe magnesium deficiency. Jack is also scared to death that he has heart disease and is
afraid to come off his drugs.
In this whole sixth-month scenario, magnesium levels are never tested. But even if
some bright young resident runs a magnesium test, it will be the wrong one because only
one percent of the bodys magnesium is in the blood. Magnesium in the blood is crucial
and the amount is guarded by powerful feedback mechanisms so it will usually look normal
unless the levels in the tissues are dangerously low. Because magnesium levels always
seem to be normal its not even a routine test in most hospitals. A more accurate test is
RBC magnesium, which measures 40 percent of the bodys magnesium. The best test is
still only available as a research tool, an ionic magnesium test.
Magnesium is natures calcium channel blocker 4,5,6

Calcium enters the cells of the heart by way of calcium channels that are jealously guarded
by magnesium. Magnesium in the cells is kept at a concentration 10,000 times greater than
that of calcium. It allows only a certain amount of calcium to enter cells to create necessary
electrical transmissions, and then immediately ejects the calcium once the work is done.
Why? If calcium accumulates in the cell, it causes hyperexcitability and calcication, and
disrupts cell function, leading to angina, high blood pressure, and arrhythmia, asthma, or
headaches and even heart attacks.
Levine BS, Coburn JW, Magnesium, the mimic/antagonist of calcium. N Engl J Med, vol. 310,
pp. 12531255, 1984.
5
Iseri LT, French JH, Magnesium: natures physiologic calcium blocker. Am Heart J, vol. 108,
pp. 188193, 1984.
6
Seelig MS, Cardiovascular reactions to stress intensied by magnesium decit in
consequences of magnesium deciency on the enhancement of stress reactions; preventive and
therapeutic implications: a review. J Am Coll Nutr, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 429446, 1994.
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Lets do the obvious

Intensive drug therapy, in case you havent heard, is not working. It didnt work for Tim
Russert and it may not work for you. Wouldnt it make sense to have a study that compares
people on drugs with people on a proper diet, supplements (like Coenzyme Q-10,
magnesium, fish oils), and exercise? However, most clinical trials are funded by drug
companies and simply compare people on different drugs. So, its up to you to take care of
your own health by studying the natural treatments of heart disease, starting with
magnesium!
Magnesium for Anxiety and Panic Attacks

Magnesium deciency can produce manifestations of anxiety that include anger, anorexia,
apathy, apprehension, confusion, eye twitches, fatigue, insomnia, muscle weakness,
nervousness, poor concentration, poor memory, racing heart, and trembling. Ive seen
formerly accomplished and competent people melt into puddles of tears when they develop
anxiety and panic attacks.
One of the main triggers creating panic attacks is low blood sugar. Heres how it
happens. Youre late for work and you grab a coffee and donut. Your blood sugar and
adrenaline soar and propel you into your day. But on the drive to work your blood sugar
crashes. When that happens your adrenal glands are triggered to release adrenaline to break
down sugar stored in your liver to keep your brain from starving and sending you falling
to the floor in a faint. However, the adrenaline surge makes your heart race and your palms
sweat in a fight or flight response. Sitting at the wheel of your car, you cant run off the
feeling, so your mind starts racing instead, spinning into a cycle of worry and panic. If
youre crossing a bridge at the same time, you can even develop a phobia of bridges and
high places. If you go to the doctor, you will be given a prescription for Xanax and a
diagnosis of panic disorder with no mention of your blood sugar. Your life will never be
the same because you feel your mind has betrayed you and you cant trust yourself
anymore.
If your doctor asks you if youve felt down lately, have trouble sleeping and feel
you are under too much stress, you may be offered an antidepressant like Prozac. See the
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section Magnesium for Depression for more information on serotonin and Prozac.
Magnesium for Asthma

Both histamine production and bronchial spasms increase with magnesium deciency.
Magnesium helps reduce histamine levels. And it relaxes the smooth muscles lining the
bronchial tract. Breathlessness, wheezing, sweating are stressful activities; asthma, itself,
is a major stress and all that adds up to more magnesium being lost and increased
symptoms.
Weve probably all had the experience of laughing ourselves to the point of
wheezing. Wheezing is a mechanical function of the bronchial tubes going into spasm. A
lack of magnesium can make muscles cramp and go into spasm. We cant see it happening
directly but we feel it when our bronchial tubes react. If you inhale a substance to which
you are allergic, your nose tries to sneeze it out and your lungs try to cough it out. If you
are magnesium deficient, your bronchial tubes start spasming after a certain amount of
coughing and gasping for air.
The mechanical aspect of asthma can be treated with magnesium. Its that simple.
Its not going to stop you being allergic but your lungs will be stronger and not go into
spasm so easily. Youll be able to take those deep breaths that you need to expel the allergic
substance without your lungs cramping and shutting off your air supply.
Ive been getting reports of people using two ounces of ReMag in their nebulizers.
I havent recommended or prescribed that usage but people who decide to do this on their
own say it has stopped their asthma attacks! I guess we are breathing in so many nasty
things, why not breathe in something that will help!
Magnesium for Blood Clots

Magnesium has an important role to play in preventing blood clots and keeping the blood
thinwithout any side effects. In The Magnesium Miracle I talk about the importance of
balancing calcium and magnesium in the body. Theres a simple experiment you can do to
show this. Stir a half-teaspoon of calcium powder in a glass of water. Youll see that it
wont fully dissolve. Then add a half-teaspoon of magnesium powder and miraculously the
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magnesium dissolves immediately and makes the calcium flakes disappear.

Well, the same thing happens in your blood stream. Calcium doesnt dissolve in the
blood and its a well-known fact that it promotes blood clotting. However, magnesium
dissolves calcium along with the unnecessary blood clots that calcium produces.
Of course blood clotting is a necessary function when you get injured or need to
heal from surgery, and calcium initiating clotting is only one of the factors involved. So, if
you are on magnesium it will never mean that you wont clot anymore. However, having
enough magnesium will prevent abnormal clotting.
The anticoagulant drug, Plavix works on another aspect of blood clotting. It inhibits
platelet aggregation. What you arent told is that platelets are activated by calcium. This
drug stops platelets from functioning when the simplest thing to do would be to cut back
on calcium supplements and balance extra calcium with magnesium.
Plavix, which was only approved by the FDA in 1997 for minimal use in unstable
angina and people who had heart attacks, had its indications expanded very broadly only a
few years ago in 2002. Its now on the long list of drugs that anyone with any sort of heart
problem is prescribed. Patients are being told that it will prevent stroke and heart attack.
However, the post marketing surveillance has finally caught up with it. The side
effects, which number over 80, and the drug interactions, are adding up. The FDA in
November 2009 warned that many drugs interfere with the action of Plavix. These drugs,
so far, include Nexium, Prilosec, Tagamet, Prozac, Sarafem, Symbyax, Luvox, Ticlid,
Diflucan, Nizoral, VFEND, Intelence and Felbatol.
Its the perfect time for the FDA to announce that taking magnesium could probably
do as good a job as Plavix without the side effects. But thats a dreamscape scenario and
will never happen. Modern medicine is wedded to the standard practice of medicine: drugs
and surgery. And unfortunately for unsuspecting millions of patients, supplementing with
magnesium has no part in that fantasy production.
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Magnesium for Bones

Use of calcium with vitamin D to enhance calcium absorption without a balancing amount
of magnesium causes further magnesium deciency, which triggers a cascade of events
leading to bone loss. Yet, every woman past 45 is told that in order to prevent osteoporosis
she should take massive amounts of calcium, and is not offered magnesium. If calcium is
the solution, why do we still have an epidemic of osteoporosis?
Magnesium deciency causes an unhealthy balance of phosphorus and calcium in
saliva, which damages teeth.
Magnesium and Bowel Disease

Magnesium deciency and calcium excess cause the muscles of the intestines to contract
and not relax. Contracting and relaxing of the intestines is the way that food moves through
from mouth to anus. If the intestines are stuck in the contracting phase, the bowels slow
down and cause constipation. The symptoms of constipation include malabsorption of
nutrients, abdominal pain and toxicity symptoms like headache, fogginess, dizziness,
fatigue and depression.
However, its not all about constipation. Painful bowel spasms common in IBSdiarrhea and colitis can also mean a magnesium deficiency. But the type of magnesium
used for those symptoms must be a non-laxative Pico-Ionic magnesium (ReMag).
Magnesium for Cystitis

Bladder spasms are made worse by magnesium deciency and can make a bladder infection
feel like a medical emergency. The lining of the bladder has smooth muscles similarly
affected by magnesium as any other muscle. Lack of magnesium doesnt cause a bladder
infection but if these muscles are cramping it can actually make you think you have a
bladder infection and you may not. One woman in her late seventies reported that after 3
months on magnesium she was able to throw out her adult diapers, she was no longer
incontinent. She praised magnesium for dissolving what she thought was calcium in her
bladder making it too rigid to hold urine properly.
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Magnesium for Depression

Prozac is a serotonin reuptake inhibitor. A fancy way of saying, it stops the breakdown of
serotonin, the brain chemical that enhances mood. However, taking Prozac can actually
give you levels of serotonin that are too high, which is not beneficial. The good news is
that serotonin depends on magnesium for its production and function. So, if you have
enough magnesium, chances are you have enough serotonin.
A magnesium-decient brain is also more susceptible to allergens, chemicals, and
other foreign substances that may cause symptoms similar to mental illness.
Magnesium for Detoxification

Magnesium is crucial for the removal of toxic substances, heavy metals such as aluminum
and lead, and excess minerals like calcium from the body. Detoxification doesnt mean a
visit to the Betty Ford Clinic; its a necessary body activity. The liver has several
detoxification pathways and they depend on magnesium for their proper function.
Magnesium for Diabetes

Magnesium deficiency is a risk factor for diabetes. Magnesium enhances insulin secretion.
Without magnesium, insulin is not able to transfer glucose into cells. In diabetes, glucose
and insulin build up in the blood, causing various types of tissue damage. Magnesium also
facilitates sugar metabolism helping simple and complex carbohydrates to break down.
Medically, magnesium deficiency is a sign of diabetes but most doctors are not
aware of this association. However, many of my clients report that when they start taking
magnesium their blood sugar levels stabilize with no other intervention.
Magnesium for Fatigue

Fatigue is one of the most common complaints that people have. We all seem to want more
energy. If you go to your doctor and say, Im tired, whats wrong with me? Your doctor
may check your blood and tell you youre fine but maybe youre depressed and offer you
an antidepressant. However, if you take magnesium, you may find that its not depression
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at all but a lack of ATP!

An early symptom of magnesium deciency is fatigue. Magnesium-decient
patients commonly experience fatigue because dozens of enzyme systems are under
functioning. The most important one is the ATP system. ATP stands for adenosine
triphosphate, the basic energy molecule in our body. Magnesium attaches to ATP,
stabilizing it, and making it available for use. If you dont have enough magnesium, then
ATP is not properly produced.
Magnesium for Hypertension

All our blood vessels are lined with smooth muscle. When magnesium is in short supply
the blood vessels can go into spasm. The decreased diameter of the blood vessel caused by
this constriction and spasm can automatically cause the most common type of high blood
pressure. The only way to relax that spasm is with magnesium. Taking diuretics to lower
the amount of fluid in the bloodstream doesnt address the real underlying cause of the
problem. Cholesterol build up in the arteries of the body can also decrease their volume
and cause increased blood pressure. And, wouldnt you know it, magnesium helps lower
cholesterol as well! I cover cholesterol in details in the section Why Didnt Tim Russert
Take Magnesium?
Magnesium for Insomnia

There are many causes of insomnia, several of which can be triggered by low magnesium
levels. Low magnesium creates muscle tension and cramping. Going to bed with tight
muscles is more conducive to a restless night than a deep sleep. Also, stress and anxiety
can cause the adrenal glands to misfire and be trigger-happy. You know youre in that
category when you jump at loud noises and your heart starts racing. If thats the case, an
exciting dream can speed up your heart and wake you up. And, even worse, without enough
magnesium your sleep-regulating melatonin production is disturbed and its difficult to get
to sleep or stay asleep.
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Magnesium for Migraine

In medical school I learned that migraines are incurable and can only be symptomatically
treated with strong pain medications. We were also told that migraine patients walked a
fine line between becoming addicted to their pain meds and having some control over their
pain. In my medical practice I remember patients telling me that if they could catch their
migraine soon enough with enough drugs, they might be able to stop the pain. However,
they said they felt zonked out for a day or two after because of the drug side effects.
Even with all our medical advances we still dont know what causes migraines.
They are thought to be due to an imbalance in brain chemicals that can lead to
inflammation. This low-grade inflammation can cause brain blood vessels to swell and
irritate nearby nerves and cause pain. However, what the researchers are not considering is
that magnesium deficiency will make the smooth muscles of blood vessels more irritable
and susceptible to inflammation. The same thing happens with nerves. In magnesium
deficiency, nerve cells become more irritated. It all makes sense if you consider magnesium
deficiency as an underlying trigger to migraines. And as you read in the Magnesium
Miracle Stories below, magnesium can help you get rid of migraine headaches forever.
Serotonin production is magnesium-dependent and deciency of serotonin can
result in migraine headaches and depression. But its a toss-up whether the serotonin
reuptake inhibitors like Prozac actually cause headaches or cure them.
The list of triggers for migraine read like my list of 100 Magnesium Deficiency
Factors below.
Alcohol
Aspartame (NutraSweet and Equal)
Caffeine
Food Additives (nitrates, MSG (monosodium glutamate), tyramine, (found in

aged cheeses, soy products, sausages, smoked fish, and Chianti wine)
Hormonal changes
Skipping meals
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Sleep imbalance (too much or too little)
Strong sensory stimulation (bright lights, loud noises, strong odors)
Stress and anxiety
Weather changes
Magnesium for Nerve problems

Magnesium alleviates peripheral nerve disturbances throughout the body, such as
headaches, muscle contractions, gastrointestinal spasms, and calf, foot, and toe cramps. It
is also used in treating central nervous system symptoms of vertigo and confusion. Diabetic
neuropathy is a very painful aspect of diabetes. Research shows that magnesium can relieve
some of the symptoms of this condition.
Magnesium for Obstetrics and Gynecology

Magnesium helps prevent premenstrual syndrome and dysmenorrhea (cramping pain
during menses), is important in the treatment of infertility, and alleviates premature
contractions, preeclampsia, and eclampsia in pregnancy. Intravenous magnesium is given
in obstetrical wards for pregnancy-induced hypertension and to lessen the risk of cerebral
palsy and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Magnesium should be a required
supplement for pregnant women.
Signs and Symptoms of Magnesium Deficiency

The most frequent questions Im asked about magnesium are: How do I know I need more
magnesium? and Should I take magnesium supplements? I have come to the conclusion
that everyone could benefit from extra supplementation.
The following 100 Magnesium Deficiency Factors in 68 categories can help you
recognize a possible magnesium deciency. If you have any additions to this list, please let
me know. For example, a client recently told me that her chronic hiccoughs went away
when she started supplementing with magnesium. Theres no way of knowing how many
factors correlate with any one persons magnesium deciency, but if you nd yourself
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ticking off more than a dozen, you may want see how many of your symptoms improve
when you take magnesium supplements.
100 Magnesium Deficiency Factors - (The Magnesium Miracle

(2014)
1. Alcohol >7 drinks per
week
2. Anger
3. Angina
4. Anxiety
5. Apathy
6. Arrhythmia
7. Asthma
8. Blood tests
a. Low calcium
b. Low potassium
c. Low magnesium
9. Bowel problems
a. Undigested fat in stool
b. Constipation
c. Diarrhea
d. Alternating constipation
and diarrhea
e. IBS
f. Crohns
g. Colitis
10. Brain trauma
11. Bronchitis, chronic
12. Caffeine (coffee, tea,

choc), > 3 /day
13. CFS (Chronic Fatigue)
14. Cold limbs
15. Concentration difficulties
16. Confusion
17. Convulsions
18. Depression
19. Diabetes
a. Type I
b. Type II
c. Gestational
20. Fibromyalgia
21. Food intake imbalances

a. Limited in green leafy
vegetables, seeds, and fresh
fruit
b. High protein
22. Food cravings

a. Carbohydrates
b. Chocolate
c. Salt
d. Junk food
23. Gagging or choking on

food
24. Hand Tremor
25. Headaches
26. Heart disease
27. Heart raterapid
28. High BP
29. Homocysteinuria
30. Hyperactivity
31. Hyperventilation
32. Infertility
33. Insomnia
34. Irritability
35. Kidney stones
36. Medications
a. Digitalis
b. Diuretics
c. Antibiotics
d. Steroids
e. Oral contraceptives
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f. Indomethacin
g. Cisplatin
h. Amphotericin
i. Cholestyramine
j. Synthetic estrogens
37. Memory impairment
38. Mercury amalgam dental

llings
39. Menstrual pain and

cramps
40. Migraines
41. Mineral supplements

a. Calcium without
magnesium
b. Zinc without Mg
c. Iron without Mg
42. MVP
43. Muscle cramps or spasms
44. Muscle twitching or tics
45. Muscle weakness
46. Numbness of hands or

feet
47. Osteoporosis
48. Paranoia
49. Parathyroid hyperactivity
50. PMS
51. Polycystic ovarian

disease
52. Pregnancy
a. Currently pregnant
b. Pregnant again within one
year
c. Peeclampsia or Eclampsia
d. Postpartum depression
e. Have a cerebral palsy child
53. Radiation therapy
54. Raynauds syndrome
55. Restlessness
56. Sexual energy diminished
57. Short of breath
58. Smoking
59. Startled by noise
60. Stressful life
61. Stroke
62. Sugar, high intake daily
63. Syndrome X
64.Thyroid hyperactivity
65. Tingling of hands or feet
66. Transplants
a. Kidney
b. Liver
67. Water Additives

a. Fluoride
b. Chlorine
c. Calcium
68. Wheezing
Where Has All the Magnesium Gone?

Even though magnesium is the most important mineral in our body, farming practices have
depleted the soil of magnesium, making our food and our bodies magnesium-deficient. One
hundred years ago you could obtain 500mg of magnesium in your diet per day. Now that
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figure has been reduced to 200mg.

Most farmers do not remineralize their soil but mainly just use fertilizers that add
nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium. But the good news is that some farmers do. I read
about one such farm in the online magazine Organic Connections. Its called SEER Center:
Scotlands Remineralized Oasis. The organization Remineralize the Earth is also an
important resource.
Medicine may have advanced technologically, yet its not technology that were
lacking. We are lacking basic nutrients and building blocks that power our bodies and our
cells and give us health. We can eat foods that contain more magnesium but if its not in
the soil its not in the food. Since we dont get enough magnesium from our diet, most
people have to rely on magnesium supplements.
Why Medicine Ignores Magnesium

When asked why doctors dont know more about magnesium and recommend it for all the
conditions I talk about, the answer is simple. Doctors primarily learn how to diagnose
disease and treat disease symptoms with drugs or surgery.
We dont learn about nutrients in medical school, presumably because drug
companies support medical education and patented drugs, not unpatented nutrients. Vested
interests have made nutrient supplementation seem unscientific and unnecessary.
Also, as I mentioned earlier, magnesium is its own worst enemy because its found
in such low concentrations in the blood that its hard to get an accurate measurement of
total body magnesium. Only one percent of the magnesium in the body is found in the
blood. That level is rigorously maintained at the expense of magnesium stores in the
muscles and tissues, therefore most magnesium blood tests will usually be normal. So, if
you dont look at the clinical picture, dozens of conditions and symptoms related to a simple
magnesium deficiency are missed.
Without a test to show doctors that magnesium is necessary, the whole topic is
shelved, patients symptoms are shelved, and patients suffer the consequences.
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In decades past, in France, magnesium was used effectively to treat infection, polio,
epilepsy, alcoholism, prostate inflammation, cancer, and arthritis. Unfortunately, much of
this research has been lost or ignored. Present-day use of magnesium in chronic fatigue
syndrome, fibromyalgia, detoxification, and anti-aging protocols is also being overlooked.
It remains that an educated public is the best defense against magnesium deficiency.
Different Forms of Magnesium

Most of the questions I get from people are about what kind of magnesium and calcium to
take and how much to take. Ive already stated my magnesium preference above, and its
my own product called ReMag. But there are many other magnesium products out there
so, Ill address the whole topic here.
The Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for magnesium is between 350 and
400mg per day, which is just enough to ward off outright deficiency. But for optimal health
and for the conditions that are triggered by magnesium deficiency it is perhaps twice as
much.
The RDA for calcium is 1200-1500mg. In the UK and at the WHO (World Health
Organization), the RDA is a more realistic 500-700mg, which most people can obtain from
their diets because calcium is far less volatile and fragile than magnesium.
Most people want to know exactly how much magnesium to take. Please be aware
that everyone has their own individual requirements. Ill go into Magnesium Dosage below
as well as Detailed ReMag Dosing and information on how to get enough calcium from
your diet under Calcium Dosage.
Many people who approach me for consultations or advice have read my
Magnesium Miracle book and realize they are deficient in magnesium. Often they are
already taking magnesium before we talk but the form they have chosen is not giving them
the results they desire or its giving the laxative effect. But when they switch to my ReMag,
and take slowly, as directed, they say its like night and day and even better than IV
magnesium.
Therefore, the following list of magnesium supplements begins with the best
magnesium ReMag but I also describe the pros and cons of the others.
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Id also like to say, again, that Im very much limited by the lack of research on the
absorption of minerals. The absorption rates that are given for minerals usually refer to
absorption into the blood stream. However, we want to know the cellular absorption
because minerals like magnesium and calcium work at the cellular level. That is another
reason why I promote Pico-Ionic magnesium because it is 100 percent absorbed at the
cellular level.
Common Types Of Magnesium

1. Magnesium in Pico-Ionic form
2. Magnesium oxide
3. Magnesium citrate
4. Magnesium chloride
5. Magnesium chelates: Amino Acid Chelate, Fumarate, Gluconate, Glycinate, LAspartate, Lactate, Lysinate, Malate, Orotate Dihydrate, Ornithine Ketoglutarate,
Pyroglutamate, Succinate, Taurate
6. Plant-based magnesium supplements
7. Epsom Salts
8. Magnesium oil or Magnesium gel
9. Angstrom Magnesium
Pico-Ionic Magnesium ReMag

ReMag consists of stabilized magnesium ions that are small enough in size that they are
fully absorbed at the cellular level. The ionic charge allows ReMag to be attracted to the
cells that require it. Because it is fully absorbed, ReMag has no laxative effect.
Joseph B. Marion in his Anti-Aging Manual (1999) says Most minerals (from
food) are 8-12% absorbable, chelated minerals are 40% absorbable, and liquid Angstrom
minerals are 99% absorbable, being 7,000 times smaller than Red blood cells, 1 million
times smaller than a colloidal mineral, smaller than ionic, with negative-charge for added
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absorption.
Angstrom and Pico-Ionic minerals are similar in size, which means they are 99%
absorbed at the cellular level. The difference between angstrom magnesium and ReMag is
in concentration. Angstrom minerals are concentrated to 3,000ppm. ReMag is vastly more
concentrated at 60,000ppm. Thus it is 20 times more effective.
Some supplement companies sell colloidal minerals and claim they are fully
absorbed. However, colloidal minerals are, by definition, groups of mineral molecules
suspended in a liquid held together by their own natural electrical properties. The mineral
molecules cluster together making them into larger particles that may not get through the
mineral ion channels easily. Again, we are lacking the science behind these minerals that
will tell us the cellular absorption rates. In fact, minerals absorption usually refers to
absorption into the bloodstream where a serum blood test measurement is done. A more
accurate test would be an ionized test.
Also, ionic minerals on their own merely have a particular charge and there is no
reference to their size. Thats why a Pico-Ionic mineral is most effective because it is the
right size and has the right charge.
Our Pico-Ionic magnesium, ReMag, contains 300mg per 5 mls (1 tsp). I personally
have very high requirements for magnesium. I take a dosage of 300mg two or three times
daily, pouring the liquid into the 1 tsp measuring cap on the bottle or into a measuring
spoon. My body feels much more balanced with 2-3 tsp a day.
Some people may only require 1 tsp of ReMag sipped daily in 1 liter of water to
eliminate their symptoms. Everyone is different. Thats why I recommend using the 100
Magnesium Deficiency Factors to see the reasons for your magnesium deficiency and then
take enough ReMag to eliminate your symptoms.
NOTE: ReMag is 100% absorbed at the cellular level and there is No Laxative Effect.
However, once you are saturated, if you take 4-5-6 tsp, you may trigger diarrhea.
And thats a good thing because it is magnesiums failsafe to remove magnesium from the
body when the cells are saturated and you dont need any more at that time.
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Magnesium oxide
Magnesium oxide is the cheapest form of magnesium but its only four percent absorbed,
the rest goes right through the intestines making it a fairly powerful laxative. It is used in
many bowel-cleansing products for its purging effect.
Be wary of having more than two bowel movements a day if you take magnesium
oxide, especially if they are very loose.
Magnesium flushing through the intestines in this way can pull out the very
magnesium you are taking and also other beneficial nutrients because your small intestines
dont have enough time to absorb those nutrients. Flushing of stool contents through the
large intestine can remove vital beneficial bacteria.
Even if you want the laxative effect from magnesium oxide, in order to get enough
magnesium into your cells, take ReMag as well. And it wont be long before you dont
need magnesium oxide anymore because the proper peristaltic action of your intestinal
muscles is improved with ReMag.
Magnesium citrate
Magnesium citrate powder is the most commonly used form of magnesium. Mixed with
water, either warm or room temperature, it is better absorbed than in pill or capsule form.
Magnesium chloride
Magnesium chloride is much like magnesium citrate, but in the powder form it has a very
strong taste and some companies use a lot of sugar to camouflage the bitterness. Its mostly
used as magnesium chloride flakes in baths or foot baths. Make sure you use a safe form
of magnesium chloride flakes free of contaminants.
Chelated Magnesium
Magnesium can be chelated, or bound to, many amino acids. The most common are
glycinate, taurate, malate, and dimagnesium malate. Chelated minerals became popular
when plant scientists found that minerals in plants are chelated which means they are
bound to a protein that supposedly makes them more readily absorbed by the animals and
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humans that eat them. So the supplement formulators decided to mimic nature.
Chelated magnesium is said to have a less laxative effect than magnesium citrate
or magnesium chloride. However, I learned from mineral expert Dr. Parris Kidd that only
a few percentage points of absorption can be obtained from chelating a mineral.
Plants naturally chelate minerals but those minerals are already picometer-size,
broken down by soil bacteria, erosion and water. Plant rootlets are size-dependent and only
absorb picometer-sized minerals. And most importantly, as I mentioned earlier, the size of
the ion channels allowing minerals entrance into a cell are between 400-500 picometers in
diameter. If you take a larger sized mineral and just add an amino acid chelating agent, you
havent really enhanced its absorption at the cellular level.
One company puts dimagnesium malate in a sustained release formula that slows
down the transit time. It may be a good product for people who want a capsule and not the
liquid ReMag, but, for me, I have to take high amounts to get the therapeutic effect
whereupon I get the laxative effect!
Magnesium malate has been studied in fibromyalgia and found to be helpful for
some people with this condition. Again, the amount and absorption of magnesium in a
malate formulation is very low. Magnesium malate 1,300mg gives you 200mg of
magnesium, of which only about 20% may be absorbed. That's a net 40mg. Id have to take
20 pills to get enough magnesium and suffer the laxative effect.
Magnesium taurate is a good supplement for heart disease, the taurine provides
support for the heart. However, much like magnesium malage, 2,000mg of magnesium
taurate supplies only 200mg of magnesium, which is likely only 20% absorbed. Our
ReAline formula contains taurine that will be much more bioavailable to support the heart.
Plant-based Magnesium
Plant-based magnesium supplements can be created by growing one-celled plant organisms
in a medium of magnesium. As mentioned above, plants wont absorb minerals unless they
are small enough to pass through their rootlet or cell walls. So these supplements do have
an absorbable form of magnesium. The supplements are usually low potency, between 3050mg per tablet. I would have to take about 20 a day to treat my symptoms. Thats not only
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a very expensive proposition but far less than that amount has given me a laxative effect.
Epsom salts
The Salts have been used in baths and foot baths for centuries, popularized by midwives
and promoted by grandmothers for relaxing muscles. The magnesium compound is
magnesium sulfate but be wary of cheap forms that may be impure and contain heavy
metals. The skin is highly absorptive to good and bad alike.
Magnesium oil
Magnesium oil is in a liquid form that can be sprayed on the body and absorbed through
the skin. Those who want no laxative effect whatsoever use the oil. Its not actually oil at
all; its magnesium chloride evaporated from seawater and then its supersaturated in
distilled water.
The magnesium oils that Im familiar with contain about 2,000mg of magnesium
per teaspoon. And there are about 40 sprays in one teaspoon. We dont know the exact
absorption of this form of magnesium but many people get relief of their magnesium
deficiency symptoms when using it.
When I was using magnesium oil before I created ReMag, I very quickly developed
rashes and irritation from the saltiness of the product. I now use ReMag as a spray if I
want a transdermal magnesium treatment.
Magnesium gel, Magnesium cream

Magnesium gel and Magnesium cream, are formulations of magnesium oil mixed with
substances that make the oil easier to massage into the body and less irritating. However,
you can also mix ReMag into your favorite body cream and apply it that way. I mix up a
50:50 concentration of ReMag and coconut oil for my masseuse to use when I get a
massage.
Angstrom Magnesium
I thought angstrom magnesium was the last word in magnesium products but I was wrong.
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In my search for a more concentrated form I created Pico-ionic magnesium ReMag,

which is 20 times more powerful.
Magnesium Dosage
The RDA for magnesium is about 400mg of elemental magnesium. However, many people
need much more than that. Im one of them. If I dont take about two to three times the
RDA, I get heart palpitations, leg cramps and twitchy muscles. My main challenge was
that most forms of magnesium give me a laxative effect. It got so bad that I was losing
weight and nutrients while trying to take enough magnesium.
NOTE: The magnesium RDA for children is as follows. Because ReMag is so well
absorbed, you can follow this dosage and add more under a doctors supervision.
1-3 years
80mg/day
4-8 years
9-13 years
130mg/day
240mg/day
When I began using angstrom magnesium I was about 80% better but I needed 3
ounces per day to treat my symptoms. Then finally I had a much more concentrated form
made called ReMag and I only need to take 2 tsp per day and it relieves all my magnesium
deficiency symptoms, with no laxative effect.
When taking magnesium powders and pills, the average dosage is from 400-800mg
per day of the elemental form. It may seem like a wide range but everyones requirements
are different and usually you just have to gauge your magnesium deficiency symptoms and
take magnesium until they disappear. See List of 100 Magnesium Deficiency Factors.
Dont take your magnesium all at once; spreading it out and taking it with meals
will slow down transit time through the intestines and enhance absorption.
Some doctors still tell people that they will know if theyve had enough magnesium
when they get the laxative effect from it. But thats not an accurate way to follow your
magnesium intake at all. I know that method does not work for me or for any other people
who have slightly sensitive intestines and reach the laxative effect long before the
therapeutic effect. I tell people to go by their symptoms to know if they had enough
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magnesium. For example, magnesium is so effective for insomnia, magnesium advocates

tell people that if you are taking magnesium for insomnia and you are still not sleeping as
well as you want, then take more magnesium. To follow your magnesium saturation you
can take the Magnesium RBC test that you can read about below under Magnesium Testing.
However, since I am a clinician, I still go by a persons symptoms instead of just depending
on a blood test, which may be inaccurate due to lab error or if you took magnesium too
close to having your blood drawn.
Completement Formula Protocol

This eBook is about ReMag and although magnesium is the most important nutrient you
can take there are other minerals and nutrients that play a huge role in your health. I find
that people do so much better when they take all the Completement Formulas: ReMag,
ReMyte, ReAline, RnA Drops and topical ReNew. So, Im combining the ReMag dosing
schedule in with the Completement Formula Protocol to give you a better perspective of
the complete health program that works for my clients.
1. While waiting for your Completement Formulas to arrive, begin hydrating your
body by increasing your water intake and adding sea salt or Himalayan salt.
Water Intake Guidelines: Drink your body weight (in pounds) in ounces of
water. If you weigh 150 lbs, you will drink 75 ounces.
Sea salt or Himalayan salt: Add - tsp to every quart of drinking water to
one of those bottles you will later add ReMag and ReMyte.
2. When the products arrive, begin ReAline capsules to assist in detoxing/taking out
the trash. Dosage: 1 per day with or without meals for 1 week then take 1 capsule
twice per day.
3. After 4 days of ReAline, add ReMag Start with tsp per day in a quart of water
and sip through the day. Every 2 days add another tsp. Work up to a therapeutic
dose of 2-3 tsp a day if you are trying to overcome a health condition, if you are
on medications or otherwise have magnesium deficiency symptoms.
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4. After a week of slowly building up ReMag, slowly add ReMyte into the same
quart of water and sip through the day. Every 2 days add another tsp. Work up
to 1 -2 tsp. The ReMag and ReMyte bottles each contain 8 ounces = 48 tsp.
5. After 2 weeks of ReAline, ReMag and ReMyte (from day one of ReAline) add
RnA Drops. Dosage: 1 drop under the tongue twice a day. Add 1-2 drops every
week until you reach 10 drops twice a day, which is the average dose. Of course,
you can begin with RnA Drops alone or add it at any time in your Completement
Formula protocol. However, some people like to do things in sequence.
Note: ReMyte contains 12 minerals several of which support the thyroid: Iodine, Selenium,
Zinc, Molybdenum, Copper and Magnesium. When you take ReMyte it can wake up your
thyroid and improve your metabolism. But be aware that if you are on thyroid medication,
you may find yourself a bit hyperactive because you no longer need as much thyroid
medication as you are taking. Be sure and check with your doctor about reducing your
medication. You can read more in my eBook Invisible Minerals Part II Multiple
Minerals, which is all about ReMyte.
Remember: You can follow your magnesium saturation with a blood test that you can
order online without a doctors prescription. See the section below called Magnesium
Testing for full instructions.
ReMag Spray Facts

1 ml = 8 sprays: 5 mls in a tsp: 1.25 ml in a tsp = 11 sprays
11 sprays 4 times a day would be a good dosage to start with.
ReMag can be sprayed anywhere face arms, legs, belly, back.
Children who refuse ReMag can benefit from ReMag Spray.
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ReMag Spray Protocol for local injury, arthritis, muscle pain

or joint pain
Put ReMag full strength in a spray bottle.
Spray ReMag lightly and dont rub in, just let it sit and dry.
After a few minutes, spray again and do that 4-5 times and let the layers build.
Do this 2-3 times a day for painful injuries to help heal deep tissues.
Facial Skin Hydration

Mix full strength ReMag and ReMyte in a spray bottle and spritz it on your face
and you will notice the benefits of superior skin hydration.
Detailed ReMag Dosage

If you just want to take ReMag and nothing else in the beginning, here are more detailed
instructions. On the ReMag label the maintenance dose is tsp twice a day. However,
many people who gravitate to ReMag are suffering magnesium deficiency conditions and
require therapeutic doses, which can be 2-3 tsp per day. Some individuals who used to
require several IV magnesium injections per week find they do best on 4-5 tsp of ReMag
a day.
I recommend that everyone start slowly when they begin ReMag (or any other drug
or nutrient). You may be toxic from taking medications or from yeast overgrowth so I
recommend starting on a very low dose of ReMag. When ReMag enters a cell, it tends to
kick out heavy metals and toxins. Therefore if you immediately start taking large amounts
of ReMag you can experience detox symptoms or you can wake up your magnesiumdeficient body in ways youre not used to or ready for. Read the section When Magnesium
Makes Me Worse to understand what is actually happening.
I have very specific magnesium deficiency symptoms heart palpitations and
severe Charlie horse, leg cramps so I use them to gauge my magnesium dosage. When I
moved to Maui in June 2008, with all the extra beach-walking and sweating and swimming,
I began to develop leg cramps while snorkeling. I realized I was sweating out and working
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off more magnesium than in New York, so I upped my intake of ReMag and all my
symptoms disappeared.
Magnesium Testing
Magnesium is a very safe supplement. Ask your doctor for a Magnesium RBC blood test
to see if you are retaining magnesium, especially if you are on drugs. Its a more accurate
test than serum magnesium. You can order your own test without a doctors prescription
at Request A Test for only $49.00. Aim for an optimum level of 6.0-6.5mg/dL. The lab
range for our magnesium deficient population is 4.2-6.8mg/dL. NOTE: Do not take or
apply any magnesium for at least 12-24 hours before the test or it will be falsely elevated.
The ExaTest is an even more accurate test than the Magnesium RBC. Scrapings
from under the tongue are sent to a lab, stained with special dyes and viewed under an
electron microscope. Magnesium, calcium, potassium, sodium, chloride, and phosphorus
are measured with this test. This test costs several hundred dollars but it is fully covered
by insurance with a doctors prescription.
The best test is the ionized magnesium test but its only available as a research tool.
Below is an edited excerpt from my book, The Magnesium Miracle describing this test.
Presently there are 5,000 blood testing labs in the U.S. and only 140 of them carry out the
ionized magnesium test. Most of them are hospital or university research labs. This is a test
that we should demand from our doctors who in turn should demand it from their labs.
The blood ionized magnesium test, pioneered and tested extensively at the State
University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn by magnesium
researchers Bella and Burton Altura, is the most accurate and reliable magnesium
blood test available but presently limited to research use.
The Alturas have researched the health effects of magnesium since the 1960s and
did the original research for the test in 1987. To date, they have authored and coauthored 1,000 papers on magnesium!
The ionic magnesium test is a very refined procedure, backed up by results on many
thousands of patients with over 22 different disease states and published in dozens
of journals, including five papers in Science and papers in the prestigious
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Scandinavian Journal of Clinical Laboratory Investigation and Scientific

American. To determine the efficacy and efficiency of the new test, research
included a comparison of magnesium levels found with the Alturas ionized
magnesium test to levels found in various body tissues using expensive and
sensitive digital imaging microscopy, atomic absorption spectroscopy, and the
magnesium fluorescent probe. The blood ionized magnesium test came through as
a highly sensitive, convenient, and relatively inexpensive means of determining
magnesium status in healthy or ill subjects.
Heres how it works. Magnesium exists in the body either as active magnesium ions
bound to nothing or as inactive magnesium complexes (such as magnesium citrate)
bound to proteins or other substances. A magnesium ion is an atom that is missing
two electrons, which makes it search to attach to something that will replace its
missing electrons. Magnesium ions constitute the physiologically active fraction of
magnesium in the body; they are not attached to other substances and are free to
join in biochemical body processes.
Most clinical laboratories assess only total serum magnesium, which includes both
active and inactive types. Since there is only one percent of the bodys magnesium
in the blood, however, the test samples only that one percent. With the blood
ionized magnesium test it is now possible to directly measure the levels of
magnesium ions in whole blood, plasma, and serum using ion-selective electrodes
that gives an accurate accounting of the actual magnesium at work in the body.
For example, ionized magnesium testing on 3,000 migraine patients shows that 90
percent of those with low magnesium ion levels improve with magnesium therapy.
In 85 to 90 percent of all patients tested, low magnesium ion levels match tissue
levels of free magnesium and accurately diagnose magnesium deficiency found in
asthma, brain trauma, coronary artery disease, types I and II diabetes, gestational
diabetes,
eclampsia
and
preeclampsia,
heart
disease,
homocysteinuria,
hypertension, tension headaches, posttraumatic headaches, ischemic heart disease,

liver transplant patients, renal transplant patients, polycystic ovarian disease,
stroke, and syndrome X.
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In many of these conditions, low magnesium ion levels exist in spite of normal
serum magnesium levels, making the ionized magnesium test more reliable for
magnesium deficiency.
Make sure you ask your doctor to look into the ionized magnesium test. Maybe you
live near a university hospital that might have access to magnesium electrodes for ionized
magnesium testing.
However, until the ionized magnesium test is available and affordable use the
Magnesium RBC test and you can also judge how you feel to know if you need more
magnesium. Ive made it easier for you by itemizing 100 Magnesium Deficiency Factors.
Print out these page, check off the symptoms that you are experiencing and the
conditions that apply to you. Having a dozen of those symptoms or conditions qualifies
you as being magnesium deficient.
Then you can perform your own Oral Clinical Trial, which simply means, take
some magnesium and see how you feel! Youll be doing a scientific study with yourself as
the only subject. After your symptoms improve, stop taking magnesium and see if they
come back. If they do, then you have your proof.
Remember, if your symptoms come back, it doesnt mean you are addicted to
magnesium. You cant be addicted to magnesium. Magnesium is like food; its necessary
for the body. In the beginning of treating magnesium-deficiency symptoms, you might
need more magnesium. However, as your symptoms improve and your magnesium stores
build up, you will actually require less magnesium.
Likewise if your body has been missing magnesium for years and you begin to take
it, you may experience a reawakening of hundreds of enzyme systems in your body that
make stir up symptoms. I discuss this occurrence in a blog called When Magnesium Makes
Me Worse that Ill excerpt here.
When Magnesium Makes Me Worse

When people take a drug or a supplement they take it with the expectation that it will make
them feel better. We know thats not always the case with drugs but what about
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supplements? Because so many people are reading my book and hearing about magnesium
more people are taking magnesium than ever before and a few people are wondering why
it makes them feel worse.
Heres how one reader put it. My obvious magnesium deficiency symptoms,
cramping, muscle aches, headaches, etc., are worsening slightly rather than getting better.
Anxiety is the only thing that has gotten better. Is this normal? Im using magnesium oil
and magnesium citrate but not yet able to tolerate more than 200-300mg without getting
diarrhea.
There are fourteen main reasons why you might feel worse after taking magnesium.
(Ive added to this list since first published.)
Actually its usually not magnesium thats making you worse but just the way you
are taking it or other things you are or arent taking along with it.
1. Youre not taking enough: When people feel worse with magnesium, I believe that the
700-800 enzyme systems that require magnesium just get jump-started and They Want
More! (I used to write that magnesium was necessary in 325 enzyme systems but now,
according to many and documented by Dr. Andrea Rosenoff, that number is more than
twice what we previously thought.)
In the above statement, my blog reader said she couldnt take more that 200-300mg.
But all 800 enzyme systems want a piece of the action once theyre been woken up! And
with each enzyme system pumping away they are using up the little magnesium you gave
them and, like I said, They Want More!
This doesnt mean that youll increase your magnesium ad infinitum! You will reach
a saturation point of your magnesium stores and actually be able to decrease your
magnesium intake. However, my blog reader isnt going to get anywhere near the amount
she needs if she keeps getting the laxative effect on 200-300mg. Thats one of the main
reasons I decided to create and promote Pico-Ionic Magnesium, ReMag. Its absorbed
100% at the cellular level and has no laxative effect. So you can take as much as you require
to eliminate all your magnesium deficiency symptoms. To determine your magnesium
saturation point, get a Magnesium RBC test through Request A Test. The range is usually
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given as 4.2-6.9mg/dL; the optimum level is between 6.0-6.5mg/dL.

2. Youre taking too much: You can also feel worse on magnesium if you take too much,
too soon. This usually happens if you have fatigue and weakness from magnesium
deficiency. Anyone in this category should start very slowly on any new supplement or
drug. If you take a high dose of magnesium right from the start its like taking muscles that
powered a bicycle and expect them to power a jet. Your body might just be so weak that
revving up 800 enzyme systems all at once makes you feel jangled and even anxious
because you dont know whats going on. Start with one quarter of the recommended dose
of magnesium and work up as your body adapts.
3. You have low blood pressure from long standing magnesium deficiency and adrenal
fatigue. You may have heard that magnesium can lower your BP so you worry about that
happening when your BP is already low. For magnesium deficiency and adrenal fatigue
you must also begin supplementing sodium as you slowly build up your magnesium
dosage. I recommend tsp of sea salt with in every pint of drinking water. The other
minerals offered in the multiple mineral, ReMyte, are also important to support the adrenals
and thyroid and improve potassium levels.
4. Youre on heart medications and as your health conditions improve, your meds are
becoming toxic. Thats because you may not require them anymore! Check with your
doctor when you are using magnesium to treat health conditions and want to wean off your
meds. For example, magnesium helps lower blood pressure. If you continue to take the
same amounts of BP meds, your BP might get too low. This is not a side effect of
magnesium. Its a side effect of taking drugs when you dont need them. Magnesium
balances blood pressure. If you have low BP to begin with and are not on meds, start
magnesium very slowly because, as I describe in #2, you want your body to slowly adapt
to a mineral you may have been deficient in for a long time.
5. Youre on fluoridated medications that bind up your magnesium and make you
deficient even when youre taking magnesium. See a list of fluoridated medications at the
Fluoride Toxicity Research Collaborative.
6. Youre taking iodine (in doses above the RDA) that speeds up your metabolism giving
you heart palpitations that has nothing to do with magnesium deficiency. However, high
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dose iodine will cause you to become even more magnesium depleted.
7. Youre taking too much Vitamin D: Heres what happens. You feel great on your
magnesium and then you begin to magnesium deficiency symptoms after adding a high
dose Vitamin D supplement. Magnesium is required to transform Vitamin D from its
storage form to its active form and for many other aspects of Vitamin D metabolism. That
means if you take the extremely high doses that allopathic doctors are now recommending
you can plummet into magnesium deficiency and not know what the heck is happening. In
general, I dont recommend more than1,000-2,000 IU of Vitamin D daily for this reason.
And never take Vitamin D without magnesium.
8. You are taking too much calcium and its pushing out your magnesium: Read Why I
Hate Calcium to understand why the most prescribed mineral is actually dangerous because
its causing heart disease in women.
9. Youre just taking magnesium and becoming dehydrated because you dont take any
other trace minerals. Read my blog, The Solution for Dehydration and take 1/8-1/4 tsp of
sea salt in every pint of water you drink. How much water per day? Half your body weight
in ounces of water. My new ReMyte, mineral and electrolyte formula is the next step in
proper mineral balance and an improvement on just using sea salt for mineral
supplementation.
10. Magnesium is getting into your cells and detoxifying chemicals and heavy metals.
Sometimes you can have a healing reaction and develop signs and symptoms like skin
rashes and itching. Thats why with Pico-Ionic magnesium, ReMag, which is 100%
absorbed at the cellular level, I recommend that you build up your dosage slowly as the
cells detoxify and are finally able to work efficiently.
11. You have IBS or you are very toxic and even ReMag gives you symptoms. IBS is a
gut sensitivity of the lining of the gut, specifically the smooth muscles of the gut wall.
ReMag goes directly into the cells and will cause the muscles to relax and that can cause
diarrhea. Also ReMag will detox the chemicals and heavy metals from cells and can cause
diarrhea. That's why I try to "warn" people with "health conditions" to go slowly on ReMag
for all the 11 reasons I've cited.
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12. You're taking a magnesium glutamate or aspartate. I warn against taking these
forms of magnesium in my blog Glutamates in Magnesium Chelates.
13. You are taking high doses of magnesium and not getting enough calcium in your
diet. I talk about the need to balance magnesium and calcium by supplementing with about
700mg of magnesium and getting 700mg of calcium in your diet. However many people
are on a dairy-free diet and just don't get enough calcium. If it's just lactose intolerance, try
yogurt or kefir, make bone broth and non-lactose raw cheese. Read my book - Invisible
Minerals Part II about ReMyte for more information.
14. You are taking thyroid medication and you suddenly feel you are taking too much
(increased pulse, feeling hot, hyperactive). The magnesium in ReMag and the 9 thyroid
minerals in ReMyte can "wake up" your thyroid so that it begins to make its own thyroid
hormone and you don't require as much (or any) thyroid hormone anymore. (Be sure to
check with your doctor and wean off slowly.)
NOTE: If you believe a magnesium product is not working for you or stirring things up or
if you are very toxic, take ReMag more slowly. You can put an ounce or two in a small
dropper bottle and begin taking 5 drops a day to allow your hypervigilant body to get
accustomed to it. Put the drops in a liter of water and sip through the day. That may seem
drastic, but 1 drop of ReMag is equivalent to 2.5mg and even that amount can trigger
biochemical reactions. Increase by 5 drops every few days to reach the maintenance
amount of ReMag (1 tsp a day) and then the therapeutic amount (2-3 tsp a day).
Magnesium Content Of Common Foods

(Source The Magnesium Miracle pg 230)
Magnesium in mg per 3.5 oz. (100g) serving.
Food
Mag
Food
Mag
Kelp
760
Wheat bran
490
Wheat germ
336
Almonds
270
Cashews
267
Molasses
258
Brewers yeast
231
Buckwheat
229
Brazil nuts
225
Dulse
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Filberts
184
Pea nuts
175
Millet
162
Wheat grain
160
Pecan nuts
142
English walnuts
131
Rye
115
Calcium Dosage
Im not a big fan of taking calcium supplements that are not fully absorbed. And recent
research supports my caution. Several studies have shown that women who take calcium
supplements suffer a higher incidence of heart disease. And the supplements, which are
supposed to help build stronger bones dont even do that. The reason for all those side
effects with a high intake of calcium is that magnesium is lost from the body and calcium
builds up in soft tissues (arteries) and not in our bones!
Often clients and readers are taking lots of calcium and, unknown to them, its
driving up their magnesium requirements. We ingest much more calcium in our diet than
we do magnesium, making magnesium relatively deficient. Magnesium makes calcium
work better so people do not need as much if they are just taking calcium alone.
There is a problem of sorting out mineral dosage based on elemental versus the
amount sometimes listed for the magnesium compound. Let me explain. The adult RDA
recommendation for calcium is 1,200-1,500mg of the elemental form. Calcium carbonate
has 40 percent elemental calcium and calcium citrate has 20 percent. Therefore in order to
get 1,000mg of elemental calcium you would have to take about 2,400mg of calcium
carbonate and 4,800mg of calcium citrate. Based solely on numbers, calcium carbonate
looks like the better choice but its basically chalk and very difficult to digest.
There is also a problem in deciding how much and what form of calcium to take
because it is so badly absorbed. And unlike magnesium, it doesnt flush out of the body
with a loose bowel movement. Instead it can solidify in body tissues and cause
constipation.
I have great concerns about the high intake of unabsorbed calcium supplements.
Most women I consult with are on maximum doses of calcium and zero magnesium. Their
symptoms reflect this imbalance and they are textbook cases of magnesium deficiency. The
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more calcium you take without the balancing effect of magnesium the more symptoms of
magnesium deficiency and calcium excess you have. Yes, Im talking about osteoporosis
that we are being told is a calcium deficiency condition. Also about heel spurs, kidney
stones, gall stones, atherosclerosis, fibromyalgia and breast calcification. These are all
symptoms of calcium excess that can be overcome with the right balance of magnesium.
A book written by Dr. Robert Thompson and Kathleen Barnes called The Calcium
Lie goes beyond my list of the dangers of taking too much calcium. They make a case for
calcium being involved in poor protein digestion, sodium pump failure, weight gain,
thyroid and adrenal malfunction, hypothyroidism, and excess problems in pregnancy,
childbirth and menopause.
Also, several recent studies reported in the British Medical Journal proved that
women taking calcium supplements have a higher risk of heart disease.
Whats the answer? If we could get all our calcium from plants that would solve the
problem of calcium build-up in the body. Plants have a unique way of only absorbing
picometer-sized minerals into their rootlets, chelating minerals with certain proteins, and
making them available for direct absorption by animals. Attaching a chelating protein to a
large-sized mineral doesnt enhance absorption dramatically.
I recommend 500-700mg of elemental calcium and magnesium. However, there is
a huge discrepancy in the amount of calcium and magnesium in foods. There is more
calcium in the soil and therefore in foods, and much more magnesium than calcium is lost
when you cook and process foods. I realized that a diligent person could get enough
calcium in their diet but probably not enough magnesium.
I recommend daily intake of fermented dairy or green smoothies but that may not
be enough. Im in the process of creating a Pico-ionic calcium product, called ReCalcia for
people who dont eat any dairy products but want to make sure they are getting enough
calcium.
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Calcium Rich Foods

in Milligrams
(from Hormone Balance-Dean 2005)
Sea Vegetables
Hijiki - 3.5 oz. = 1,400
Wakame - 3.5 oz. = 1,300
Kelp - 3.5 oz. = 1,099
Kombu - 3.5 oz. = 800
Nori - 3.5 oz. = 260
Dairy
Brick cheese - 3.5 oz. = 682
Yogurt - 3.5 oz. = 121
Milk - 3.5 oz. = 119
Fruit
Rhubarb, cooked cup = 200
Blackstrap molasses - 1 Tbsp = 140
Vegetables and Beans
Dry wheat/barley grass - 3.5 oz = 514
Bok choy - 1 cup = 252
Broccoli stalk - 1 medium =158
dandelion green - cup cooked=147
Turnip - 1 cup cooked = 126
Broccoli - 1/2 cup cooked = 72
Beet greens1/2 cup cooked = 70
Collards - 1/2 cup cooked = 110
Kale - 1/2 cup cooked = 103
Beans, cooked (white, kidney, soy) - 1 cup =
95 to 110
Spinach - 1/2 cup cooked = 88
Baked Goods
Corn muffin - 1 medium = 96
Whole wheat bread - 1 slice = 50
Seafood
Sardines w bones - 3.5 oz. = 443
Oysters - 20 medium = 300
Salmon w bones can (220g) =284
Scallops 6 = 115
Clams - can = 62
Nuts and Seeds
Hazelnuts - 3.5 oz = 209
Almonds - cup =175
Brazil nuts - cup = 128

Macadamia cup = 119
Sesame seeds - cup = 76
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Magnesium Supplementation Contraindications

1. Kidney failure
I make the comment in one of my blogs that hearts dont fail, doctors fail. I think
its the same with kidney failure; doctors have failed to properly educate people to
take care of their kidneys. Kidney failure is caused by dehydration, lack of proper
minerals, treating kidney and bladder infections with strong antibiotics and not
using probiotics. Also doctors say there are various degrees of kidney failure but
even in mild cases they might tell people to avoid magnesium. Read my article
Magnesium is Safe and Necessary for Kidney Disease to understand why that is
faulty advice. Also read the section Pico-Ionic Magnesium and Dialysis for an
amazing testimonial.
2. Bowel obstruction
Magnesium is eliminated from the body through the bowel and bladder when there
is excess. Thus, the first two contraindications reflect a persons inability to
eliminate magnesium. However, since low potency Pico-Ionic minerals are
absorbed at the cellular level they may not have a negative effect on the kidneys or
bowel. This is an important aspect of mineral supplementation that needs to be
thoroughly studied.
3. Myasthenia gravis (MG)
IV magnesium could accentuate the muscle relaxation that comes with MG and
collapse the respiratory muscles. However, Ive received reports from people with
MG who swear that magnesium was helpful in their recovery, especially when their
MG was caused by mercury toxicity.
4. Excessively slow heart rate
Slow heart rates can be made even slower, as magnesium relaxes the heart. Slow
heart rates are often due to an electrical imbalance in the heart and require an
articial pacemaker.
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MAGNESIUM MIRACLE STORIES

I know magnesium works, it works for me and it works for my patients, clients and readers.
After taking magnesium supplements, many people have contacted me describing the
reversal of their PMS, painful periods, improvement in symptoms of chronic fatigue and
fibromyalgia, depression, anxiety, muscle spasms, and greater enjoyment of sexual
activity.
It would be nice to take the top 20 chronic diseases and give you a miracle-healing
story from my files but thats not possible. You see, when people have been depleted in
magnesium and begin to take it for one ailment or another they quickly find it has an impact
on many other areas of their lives.
Ill begin with a few Pico-Ionic magnesium (ReMag) miracle stories.
ReMag and Atrial Fibrillation

My name is Steve. At age 57, I was diagnosed with Atrial Fibrillation in October 2013. I
am writing my story four months later.
My symptoms included an irregular heartbeat, shortness of breath, anxiety, and lack
of strength. I was unable to walk up a short flight of stairs without my symptoms kicking
in. Up to this point I had been a very healthy person that did regular workouts and ate
extremely healthy. My second month after diagnosis consisted of a cardioversion and
numerous visits with electrophysiologists and doctors. I was put on 3 different prescription
drugs and told I would need a catheter ablation. During this time, my condition did not
improve.
I kept reading and researching AFib and noticed that while my doctors could never
give me a reason for my symptoms, Dr. Dean wrote that it could be due to a lack of
magnesium. I contacted her and she recommended ReMag (1 tsp twice a day), ReMyte
(1/2 tsp three times a day).
She told me to start slowly on them at tsp a day and working up by tsp every
3 days. She also had me take a Magnesium RBC blood test, which confirmed my
magnesium was low.
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I started to feel more energized shortly after taking the ReMag and ReMyte,
although I was still taking my prescription drugs. I was seeing improvement, but my pulse
was still irregular and anytime I did something physical, my AFib symptoms came back.
During this time, I continued to watch videos and read articles by Dr. Dean. She
mentioned that some drugs can block magnesium from working in your body. It was at that
time that I decided on my own to stop taking my prescription drugs because I decided it
was the magnesium that was making me better.
I asked Dr. Dean how to wean off my prescription drugs, which she said to do one
at a time by cutting the pills in half and then in quarters and reducing every 3-4 days.
I noticed great improvement after getting off the prescription drugs. It was the
breakthrough I had been hoping for. My pulse has been steady; my energy is great; and all
my symptoms disappeared. I am back to doing physical activities; walking on the treadmill,
jumping rope, and shoveling snow!
Getting off the prescription drugs, I feel, allowed my magnesium to work. My
follow up RBC test shows that my magnesium level is back up where it should be. I feel
better and better each day!
After numerous doctors told me I needed prescription drugs and catheter ablations,
it was Dr. Dean who guided me back to health.
An additional improvement occurred several months later when I finally took Dr.
Deans advice to put tsp of sea salt in each pint of my drinking water and to drink my
body weight in ounces of water each day. She also suggested I put my days ReMag and
ReMyte in a liter of salted water and sip through the day. That regimen kept me from
running to the bathroom every hour and gave me more energy!
I cannot express in words how thankful I am for all that Dr. Dean has done for me.
Thank-you, Dr. Dean for giving me a life back that allows me to do all the things I desire
and enjoy!
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Switching from IV Magnesium to ReMag

Thank you Dr. Carolyn Dean and ReMag! My name is Lynn. My husband, Dana has
hypomagnesemia. He is 50 years old and he was diagnosed with malabsorption at the Mayo
Clinic. He loses magnesium through his bowels, therefore oral magnesium was never an
option. We have been told by 40 well known specialists that all they could give him was
IV magnesium.
Dana had a PICC line for over 7 years and required 4 grams of IV magnesium 3
times per week up until September of 2013. In the past 2 years he has had 3 life threatening
events as a direct result of the PICC line (blood infection and on 2 different occasions,
blood clots). When the PICC line stopped working the next step was to put in a permanent
PORT Line in his chest.
In September the PICC line came out for good as a result of another blood clot. We
took a giant leap of faith against all of his doctors advice and he started on ReMag under
the guidance of Dr. Dean. The results were immediate, his magnesium levels are testing
higher on ReMag than they did on weekly IV infusions. The best way to take the ReMag
is by putting 4 tsp a day along with 1.5 tsp of ReMyte in a designated water bottle that he
sips through the day. He also drinks about half his body weight in ounces of water with
added sea salt ( tsp in every pint).
We are forever grateful to Dr. Carolyn Dean and her commitment to helping others.
My husband now has a quality of life he was told was not possible! And we find it quite
amazing that ReMag does not affect his bowels and cause a laxative effect like every other
oral magnesium he has tried.
We still do weekly labs because we have no room for error with his condition but
we know we soon wont need to do them because his blood levels are consistently normal,
especially since he began sipping his minerals throughout the day.
We have paid out of pocket for a home health nurse weekly for over 7 years to take
care of his PICC line. Our insurance would not cover the expense unless he was homebound
and disabled. We have both primary and secondary insurance however, we still paid a small
fortune annually for home health, labs, supplies, medicine etc. But a one-hour consultation
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and a couple of emails with Dr. Dean forever changed the course of our lives.
The timing of all of this coming together is no coincidence either. Our phone call
with Dr. Dean was one week prior to the unexpected issue with the PICC line. Had I not
spoken with her on that particular day and things fallen into place like they did, my husband
would have a PORT and be sitting in a hospital infusion center 3 times a week. I still can't
believe the answer was so simple. I have given Dr. Deans book to several of his doctors. I
wonder how many people are not as lucky as we are?
The PICC line was his lifeline to magnesium however it also almost cost him his
life more than once. I refused to believe that was his path and that is how I found Dr.
Carolyn Dean. Dr. Dean not only gave him a better quality of life, there is no doubt that
she saved his life! As the Holidays approach and I think of the things I am most grateful
for, it would be the answer to Prayer and many hours of research - Dr. Carolyn Dean!
Pico-Ionic Magnesium and Dialysis

The following story I have included in my Future Health Now! Online Wellness Program.
It illustrates the importance of absorption versus consumption. One client (I'll call her
Susan) is a dialysis patient. Her kidneys have failed completely. She requires a machine to
clean her blood. She barely urinates).
Dialysis machines, however, are very poor at cleaning out excess minerals. Dialysis
patients usually go on a strict diet where they limit their intake of potassium, sodium and
phosphates to avoid build-up in their bloodstream. No dietary restrictions, however, are
given about magnesiumbecause there is so little available in our diet its difficult to
overdose.
(Just to clarify: If your kidneys function properly, dietary overdosing on
magnesium is usually not a problemyou will simply urinate it out or it will be eliminated
by having increased bowel movements.)
Susan started taking magnesium citrate before she consulted me. She took about
700mg a day because she had classic magnesium deficiency symptoms. She quickly began
to feel welcome relief once she went on the magnesium citrate. A week later, however, her
condition worsened. She started to become very weak, nauseous, sleepless and suffered
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horrible headaches. She felt awful.

Her nurse ran a blood test and found that her magnesium levels were dangerously
high. (Again, if your kidneys work fine, this will not happen to you. Magnesium is one of
those minerals that will be released by your kidneys and your bowels when there is too
much.)
But Susan wasnt really taking all that much magnesiumonly 700mgless than
she probably needed. When she consulted me, I suspected that her body cells were not
absorbing all the magnesium citrate. The rest was left circulating in the blood stream,
unable to pass through her kidneys into her bladder. I immediately took her off the
magnesium citrate. All her symptoms went away in a few days.
We then tried Pico-Ionic magnesium. This type of magnesium has been broken
down to 5 billionth of a meter in width. Several days later she felt much better, had no more
magnesium deficiency symptoms and a week later her blood work showed that her
magnesium levels were fineno excess build-up.
In Susans case, at least, the Pico-Ionic magnesium absorbed a lot better than the
magnesium citrate. The evidence (albeit in this one anecdotal case) is in the blood work
and in how she feels.
Pico-Ionic Magnesium and Lung Whiteout

A manufacturer of Pico-Ionic minerals has a friend whose wife came down with H1N1.
She had a night-time fever and a dry cough and within a few days, she was in intensive
care on life support. On Friday her chest x-ray showed her lungs were completely filled
with fluid. Its called whiteout. The fluid was partly from the virus but mostly from the
IV fluids filled with electrolyte minerals that werent getting into the cells. This is common
in human and veterinarian medicine because the size of the minerals keeps them outside
the cells and a person can be cell dehydrated but have tissue edema. They didnt expect her
to live. Her liver and kidney blood tests showed that they were beginning to fail.
My friend suggested that her husband rub some Pico-Ionic magnesium on her feet
to make her more comfortable. He massaged a half teaspoon of magnesium liquid on her
feet every hour. The next day she seemed to be doing better and they x-rayed her lungs
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again. The fluid had diminished by 35 percent and her liver enzymes started stabilizing.
On the second day after beginning the Pico-Ionic minerals her doctors agreed she was
recovering but it would take two weeks to a month or more before she could breathe
without the ventilator. However, on day five after beginning the Pico-Ionic minerals, she
was taken off the ventilator. All her vital signs had leveled out and her lungs were clear,
and she was sitting up and talking to people.
My veterinarian friend, Dr. Wood tells me that he clears pig lung whiteout within
hours just by using Pico-Ionic minerals. I tell this doctor that he is providing the animal
research that shows the benefits of these minerals.
Loving Pico-Ionic
I just picked up my Pico-Ionic magnesium and calcium. I took a dose of each. A couple
of hours later I felt my shoulder muscles (my stress area lately) relax and felt more
energetic. I thought this was impossible, wishful thinking. I phoned the company to ask
and the owner laughed. He said yes because it enters the cell directly. I am going to love
this.
Effects of Pico-Ionic
I have been using Pico-Ionic magnesium for only five days and I am so impressed with it.
I could feel it acting within a couple of hours. Im more alert, less tense in my muscles,
more relaxed, sleeping better, falling asleep faster, waking up less, sleeping sounder.
Magnesium taurate made a lot of improvement in my sleeping but this liquid is 10 times
better. I am still taking magnesium taurate 625mg, plus Pico-Ionic magnesium. My Mom
is 89 and she is more alert during the day and sleeping even better at night, not getting up
much at night. Dr. Dean, this is the best thing for us. Thank you so much for telling us
about it.
Pico-Ionic Magnesium and Arthritis

I am 68 years old. I was having a great deal of muscle pain and joint discomfort. I began
taking pill forms of magnesium and calcium supplements. For the first month I could not
handle the calcium but the magnesium helped lessen my discomfort. Then I found out
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about Pico-Ionic minerals. Still thinking I needed calcium, I took it and my symptoms
worsened. Then I just took magnesium and it only took about two months to see a
remarkable difference. I now take about two to three times more magnesium than calcium.
I realized I had so much calcium built up in my system that when I took more calcium it
made me worse. And I believe Im getting more calcium than magnesium in my diet
anyway.
Pico-Ionic Magnesium and Migraines

I have had bad migraines for a numbers of years but when I began taking Pico-Ionic
magnesium it fully takes them away. Other times it will reduce the migraines so I
can function and make it through the day. Every day I take 75mg and sometimes up to
150mg. This has become a daily routine for me. Its a lot cheaper than the medication I had
been taking.
Pico-Ionic Magnesium: Short Vignettes

a. Because Pico-Ionic magnesium is more concentrated than other liquid minerals, they
are less expensive and you end up with more for your money. For someone who hates
swallowing pills, its a godsend.
b. We see the results far more than with the capsules we used to use.
c. I couldnt believe how much better I felt; it gave me energy almost immediately. No
question it has improved the quality of my life.
d. "I have more energy and feel fantastic! I have tried everything for my chronic fatigue
and this is the answer to my prayers!
e. After a few days my energy level was up considerably. My sleep is deeper and I have
fewer headaches. Due to a car accident and whiplash, I had pain in my neck for 12
years and now it has improved.
f. I am 80 years old and I have suffered from aching muscles and stiff, sore joints for a
few years. I just thought it was old age so I didnt bother going to a doctor and was
becoming a grouchy old couch potato. Then my son talked me into trying Pico-Ionic
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magnesium. Before I knew it, I was bending down and stooping whenever I needed to
without grunting. My wife was so impressed she started taking it too and its helping
her.
g. Within two weeks of taking this magnesium, I felt a difference in my energy level. In
the past Ive tried multi-vitamins, exercising and getting enough sleep. But now there
is a noticeable difference and I am able to stay up on weekends till midnight. My skin
is even glowing and I feel great! I got my mother taking it and her arthritis aches and
pains are gone.
h. Pico-Ionic minerals give me more energy during the day and it the best nights sleep!
How cool is that? Im in my 40s and was experiencing chronic low energy and
disrupted sleep but not anymore.
i. Friends told me to try Pico-Ionic magnesium but I thought their results were too good
to be true. But I was pleasantly surprised that I really feel good. Im on my feet all day
at work and by lunch Im usually tired but now Im feeling energized all day.
j. Im amazed at how clear my mind is and my niggling aches and pains seem to be
diminishing. Im really impressed.
k. As a senior citizen I was becoming resigned to being housebound because it was
exhausting and painful to even go out shopping. The Pico-Ionic minerals have made
me feel like a new person. I not only shock my friends that Im out shopping but I
recently went to a party where I danced and sang.
l. "As a professional athlete, Pico-Ionic minerals give me a serious competitive edge; its
really quite amazing.
Magnesium and The Magnesium Miracle Testimonials

The remaining stories and testimonials are not exclusively about ReMag. As I mentioned
earlier, if you are taking other magnesium products, be sure to add ReMag for the added
therapeutic effect.
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Magnesium and Janes Top Ten Improvements

One woman in her early 50s, well call her Jane, filled out her client symptom survey and
scored 275. A healthy person would have no symptoms or maybe a score of 10. After three
months on magnesium citrate Jane sent me her top 10 improvements.
1. Less knee pain.
Our knees take the brunt of our weight. The knee is just a simple ball and socket joint that
is held in place by the thigh and leg muscles. If those muscles are tight or in spasm, that
alone can cause slight displacement of the knee that over time can turn into what medicine
calls knee arthritis. However, instead of immediately going on pain medication or
undergoing knee surgery to clean out the joint, magnesium is the treatment of choice.
2. Carbohydrate/sugar cravings down from 90 to 5on a scale of 100.
Magnesium is a necessary cofactor in the proper metabolism of carbohydrates. It also helps
insulin work properly to put sugar inside cells where it belongs and not leave it in the
bloodstream where it can continue to cause sugar cravings.
3. Facial wrinkles and crevices diminishing.
Jane is a very observant lady and Im sure others are receiving the benefit of magnesium in
this way but arent taking note. Its likely to do with tissue integrity, hydration, and cell
health, all of which are important effects of magnesium balance.
4. Dramatic reduction in migraines.
Migraines can cause the most severe pain known to humans. They are debilitating and said
to be incurable. Life-long pain medications seem to be the only option that doctors can
offer. However, Jane and thousands of other readers of my Magnesium Miracle book have
found relief from migraines and headaches with magnesium. In the book, I talk about also
using the herb feverfew and some Vitamin B6 (25mg twice a day) if magnesium alone
doesnt give full relief.
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5. Periods went from dark to bright red, from severe clots to minimal.
Magnesium works in several ways in lessening the intensity of menstrual flow. It
oxygenates the blood and detoxifies it changing from a dark toxic flow to bright red. It also
thins the blood naturally, breaking up clots.
6. Able to exercise intensely for the first time in years.
Prior to this, Jane would be exhausted for at least three days after any exercise.
See the section on Magnesium and Muscles to understand the effect of exercise on
magnesium. In Janes case, it was probably a combination of things. She likely didnt have
enough magnesium to neutralize the lactic acid she was building up and instead got aches
and pains. Also, one of the first symptoms of magnesium deficiency is fatigue. When you
lack ATP, the energy packets that are formed with the help of magnesium just doesnt have
the oomph that you want. For some, exercise gives them energy, but they have to have
enough ATP to give them that boost.
7. Sleep has improved from minimal to poor and restless all night.
When your body is magnesium deficient, its as if your cells and nerves are all on edge.
They are tight and contracted and ready to snap. If you lie down in that state your body
cant relax, your mind cant relax and you toss and turn. Simply having your muscles relax
with the proper amount of magnesium turns off that tension and allows you to slip into
sleep.
8. Able to keep going to some extent past 6:30pm at night.
Without enough magnesium the necessary energy the body gets from ATP is diminished
and people have no staying power.
9. Less sound sensitivity/hypersensitivity.
Studies done in the cockpit on pilots showed an increased sound sensitivity in the face of
magnesium deficiency. Once on a radio talk show a woman phoned in and asked about her
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son who was in a rock band. I had been talking about tics and spasms being a sign of
magnesium deficiency. She said that her son had developed a tic below one eye and
wondered if it could be magnesium deficiency. I said it absolutely could.
10. Better able to concentrate when someone is speaking to her.
Janes concentration would be hampered especially if there was a lot of background noise.
Poor concentration is not something you will find in a magnesium deficiency list.
However, it makes sense that if your body is tense and irritable and you are sound sensitive,
then you can have trouble concentrating.
All in all, the list that Jane provides lends great credibility to the benefits of
magnesium. Clinical medicine is based on cases like Janes, where she is a one-person
experiment. Many of my clients have said that they have proven the benefits of magnesium
over and over because when they run out of their supplements, their symptoms return.
Someone critical of taking supplements may say that these people are addicted to
magnesium. My response is that magnesium is a vital nutrient that we cant live without
and unfortunately, because of the lack in our diet and our stressed-out lifestyle, we do have
to supplement with this mineral.
Often, its not until you read something about your specific problem that you put
two and two together. For example, many people dont know that choking can be an
indication of a muscle spasm in your esophagus. One of the most dramatic magnesium
stories I ever heard became a popular post on my blog. See the section: Magnesium and
Esophageal Spasms.
Magnesium and Alcohol

Shauna wrote about something she said was downright weird.
I like wine, and, gee, almost any kind of alcohol. I cook a lot garlic, butter,
salmon, crab cakes, etc. and [find it] hard to drink a glass of water with good food. If its
Mexican food, I prefer a beer. Some nights as much as a half bottle of wine, but most of
the time just a glass or two. And being the type A that I am, and with the muscle tension, I
really looked forward to that 5 oclock hour for that drink to bring me down.
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I was pretty sure I wasnt an alcoholic, that it was just a bad habit one I needed to
break. So for the past few weeks I would tell myself that was the week I would be alcohol
free but never stuck to it. In fact, I was getting a little nervous that I could not have that
drink!
Enter magnesium. After, I guess, about two weeks on magnesium, I told my
husband that this was the week I was going to quit. So out of the past eight nights, I have
had only a beer on Valentines when we went to a barbeque house. Seven nights alcohol
free for the first time in four years. So good for me. But the weird thing is, I dont even
want a drink, and Saturday night I made homemade pizza and thought I should open a
bottle of red wine (which I really love) but I popped a non-alcoholic beer instead, not as
many calories as pop, and not as bland as water. The weird thing is that I do not even want
a glass of red wine. Im beginning to think the magnesium has altered my body chemistry
to the point where I dont have a taste for it. Either that or my husband had me hypnotized
without my knowing it. Have you heard of this phenomenon? Thanks.
As Shauna said herself, shes a type A and was using alcohol to relax her body.
When you have magnesium to do the relaxing, you dont need alcohol.
Magnesium and Anxiety

Anxiety is an enormous problem for many people. I address this condition in my
Magnesium Miracle book and receive many emails from people who have managed to
overcome their problem and get off addictive medications with the help of magnesium.
Veronica wrote about her symptoms and wanted reassurance that they would be eliminated
by magnesium.
I recently purchased The Magnesium Miracle and must begin by telling you that
this book has begun to answer some questions about my health. My symptoms have
included stress, anxiousness, sweating, mild depression, and spasms all over the body,
often during the course of the day. I was diagnosed as a child with IBS, and the associated
symptoms have only increased as I passed into adulthood. I have been to several doctors
who have told me that the problem is not a physical one (I have had a colonoscopy, which
was clear).
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Nonetheless, the symptoms cause me great difficulty, making it very difficult for
me to work, or to interact socially comfortably. In reading your book I have noticed that
all of these symptoms are related to the lack of magnesium.
Magnesium and Arrhythmia

Nancy wrote a very long story to me, some of which Ill include here to highlight the use
of magnesium in abnormal heart rhythm.
Dr. Abram Hoffer told me about your to-be-published book last fall. I could hardly
wait for your book to come out.
A year ago my cardiologist had me wear a Holter for 24 hours to determine what
kinds of arrhythmia I had. I had been taking more potassium and B6, which seemed to
relieve the arrhythmia. Then I began to suspect that I might be losing potassiumthat
maybe I was losing it almost as fast as I was taking it. So a nutritional MD ordered a 24hour urine test to check excreted minerals, and [found] I was passing large amounts of
magnesium, potassium and lithium. While the larger amounts of magnesium and potassium
could have come from my supplements, I was not taking any form of lithium.
To look into it further, I had a White Blood Cell test for magnesium and a Red
Blood Cell test for potassium. I was low in magnesium, not potassium! And, as my doctor
pointed out, magnesium is needed for metabolizing potassium.
The moment your book was available, I picked up a copy and read it as well as an
article by you in the Natural Health magazine, in which you wrote about your water fast
in the morning. I began making changestoo numerous to list hereand with those
changes I noticed a sudden increase in energy, verified by counting my RPMs on our
reclining exercycle while recording my pulse and pedaling at the same resistance.
This week my cardiologist ran a treadmill test and said he could find no
abnormalities in my heart rhythm! In fact, just a couple of weeks ago after I gave him
copies of pages from your book focusing on arrhythmias, he ordered a copy of your book
and plans to include information from it in a lecture he will be giving.
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Magnesium and Asthma

I have many stories about magnesium and asthma. Ill include three here to give you an
idea of the miraculous power of this mineral.
a. Charles wrote about a relative who probably needs more magnesium.
A relative of mine (lady in her 70s) suffered from asthma all her life. Had to have
the ambulance on a number of occasions. Now diagnosed with COPD (chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease). She had tinnitus about twice a week too. I got her to take 150mg of
Magnesium Citrate every day. Her breathing has greatly improved and her tinnitus has now
completely gone.
I take 400mg per day. No more laryngospasms and no more leg cramps. My wife
takes 200mg, no more cramps and no more insomnia!
I know a number of people, including my wife and myself, who eat a well-balanced
diet of fruit/vegetables/fish/meat etc. If food contained all that our bodies required, we
would
not
need
to
take
magnesium
supplements
to
cure
our
spasms/tinnitus/cramps/breathing.
b. Violet writes a very instructive testimonial about her husbands magnesium treatment
for several chronic conditions. They mostly use magnesium oxide, which I dont
recommend because of the strong laxative effect. But it obviously seems to be working
for them. I told Violet to continue the magnesium oxide but add ReMag to get more
magnesium into their cells and cut back on magnesium oxide if there are more than two
bowel movements a day so they dont lose valuable nutrients.
My 62-year-old husband is a severe asthmatic or rather he WAS, until he found
out about magnesium. We take pure powdered magnesium oxide and sometimes
magnesium chloride in water. The first tastes better.
Before that, two years ago, our medical doctor told him he was in danger of dying
from 1) asthma, 2) heart attack and 3) high blood pressure. The doctor prescribed blood
pressure and asthma meds.
He had leg cramps that night that woke him up. He prayed and asked the Lord why.
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He heard the words, low magnesium. We studied this on the Internet, bought your book
and before it arrived started taking magnesium oxide.
He also took apple cider vinegar (ACV), at least a dessertspoon full, with crushed
garlic and thyme added every day, drank 10 10-ounce glasses of water a day with tsp of
sea salt with every four glasses. We also eat lots of cayenne pepper (a vasodilator) and take
homemade Haw sauce daily. Haw sauce is also a vasodilator and strengthens the heart.
In 10 days his blood pressure dropped so low he was having fainting spells. He
called the doctor who shouted, Stop taking the blood pressure meds! Now he takes no
blood pressure meds at all and is off all meds except one for asthma prevention, Flixotide.
His health has changed so dramatically for the better the doctor has changed his attitude
about natural health.
If there is an asthma attack, which is very rare these days, he can stop it within
minutes by taking two glasses of water and a tsp of sea salt and a tsp of magnesium
oxide as well as Ester C and calcium. The only time he has relapses is when he doesnt take
enough magnesium in a day.
His condition may have started because we used to drink six to eight mugs of coffee
a day and hardly any water. Dr. Batmanghelidj said that asthma starts as a dehydration
disease, coffee is a diuretic, and taking water and sea salt corrects the condition. We add
that magnesium deficiency is a major contributor to asthma.
Medical doctors err by prescribing drugs that further dehydrate the patient, like the
diuretics for blood pressure! Magnesium relaxes the lungs, improves air flow and dissolves
the calcium which is laid down in the soft tissues while being magnesium deficient.
Magnesium balances calcium.
We have a friend who had severe gout over many years. We suggested some of the
above and gave him a bottle of magnesium oxide. He called 18 hours later to say Thank
You because his symptoms had disappeared completely.
Also I gave magnesium oxide to my neutered cat that suffers with Feline Urinary
Syndrome (FUS), which are crystals in the urinary tract. He was cured permanently in three
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days. I keep magnesium oxide in a saltshaker now and put it over the dog and cat food. It
also calms down horses, including our thoroughbreds, which are supposed to be flighty but
arent really. Its just magnesium deficiency.
(Note: Flixotide is a drug that has fluoride inserted into the compound to make it stronger.
Fluoride is very damaging to magnesium, binding it up and making it unavailable to the
body.)
c. Heres another asthma story that I highlighted in one of my blog posts. Its from Bill,
an asthma sufferer, in Florida. The boys he refers to are two new kittens he adopted
recently.
I was having so much allergy/asthma trouble, I was sure I would have to give these
boys back to the shelter. That was making me sad.
Since beginning the magnesium supplements, I have had very little trouble. A bit
sniffley some days, but no asthma troubles at all. Among the worst things that happen when
you experience allergic symptoms that develop into an asthma attack is the anticipation
moment to momentof what will happen with the next breath. For me, my lungs can close
up in a matter of a few breaths. Very scary stuff. It gets to where your entire existence is
all about each breath, literally. Nothing else matters then. And my lungs can close up in a
matter of a few breaths.
I am happy to say I wont have to deal with that any more and I will be able to keep
these kittens! This is making me very happy! Thanks so much for the suggestion. I cant
believe this is real. I need to do something to make other asthmatics aware of this. It is
amazing!
The reason magnesium helped Bill was most likely because it relaxed the muscles
in his bronchial tract so they dont close down.
Magnesium and Back Spasms

Ive received many stories about the relief that people get from taking magnesium either in
Epsom salts baths or from oral magnesium. Ill highlight Sarah, who wanted to share her
magnesium miracle story, which reads like another top 10.
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A year-and-a-half ago I had a back spasm that wouldnt quit. Three chiropractic
adjustments and a massage would not make it let go, so the chiropractor gave me some
magnesium citrate powder to take. Fifteen minutes after taking a teaspoon of the powder,
the spasm started to relax. I immediately went to the Internet to do some research on
magnesium deficiency and I bumped into myself. All the little cramps, the eye tic, the
mitral valve prolapse, the high blood pressure, the pre-eclampsia of pregnancy, and the
PMS seemed to be related to one thinga need for magnesium. Also, I realized I was overdosing on calcium, which exacerbated the magnesium deficiency.
Supplementation has made such a difference in my life that I only wish I had known
about it 25 years earlier when my child was born. Then in August your book came out and
I was amazed all over again. Nobody believes that such a simple thing has such far-reaching
implications. However, a friend who is a competitive long-distance runner has gotten relief
from her migraine headaches after I told her about magnesium.
Thank you for your informative book. It explained so much. Truly a miracle.
Magnesium and Blepherospasm

A woman dentist from Mexico actually had 20 symptoms that have improved with
magnesium but the most dramatic is her incurable eye blinking.
Hello Dr. Dean. I'm a Mexican dentist, 42 years old. In June 2002, I started feeling
sand in my eyes and went to an ophthalmologist whose diagnosis was allergic
dermatoconjuntivitis and [was] prescribed some ointments and drops for my eyes. They
didnt work so I went to see another four ophthalmologists and they changed the diagnosis
to keratitis. In the meantime I started to develop eye blinking that got worse and worse
until it became a severe spasm that I couldn't open my eyes. I also started having tetany.
From the first doctor until this point, two months had passed. Needless to say that I was
desperate and very depressed. I couldn't work, drive or even walk! Then I went to see a
neuro-ophthalmologist who gave me the terrible diagnosis of essential blepharospasm:
essential, because this means that they don't know what causes it and of course there is
no cure. He also told me that this was known as Meige Syndrome and he offered me three
options:
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1. To take neurological prescriptions (sedatives for life) that had to be changed every
three months because they lose their effect.
2. Botox injections, with the risk that the eyelid could drop.
3. A facial nerve blockage (the motor part) in my face (its a horrible treatment where
they give you shots all around the forehead and eyelids with an alcohol-derived
substance; the injections goes to the depth of the bone.)
He recommended that I try number 3 first, so I accepted the treatment. This was in
August 2002. Let me tell you that it was a HORRIBLE experience. My face was swollen
at least five times the normal size and he definitively did something wrong because he left
me with facial paralysis on the left side. So, my right eye couldnt close and my left eye
was still closed because it didnt respond to the shots. He prescribed me cortisone and told
me that we had to wait and see what happened. I was feeling miserable.
And then, the miracle happened: I needed something to be fixed in my kitchen so
the person who came to do the job brought this book about magnesium and it caught my
attention because I had started to take a calcium/magnesium supplement because someone
told me that it was very good for stress. By this time I couldnt read because the eye drops
I was using caused mydriasis (excessively dilated pupils). I asked him to lend me the book
so I could make a copy to read it later.
The next day he arrived with my copy, and since I could do absolutely nothing else,
I made a huge effort and started to read the book, line by line. As I got further and further,
I realized that almost everything that I was reading was about the health problems Ive had
my whole life, so I started to take magnesium.
I got magnesium chloride in drops, I started to take it in November 2002 and began
to improve week by week. Four weeks later the paralysis was gone and the blepharospasm
was improving beautifully. Then I started research on the Internet (thats where I knew
about your book). In December, I went to US and bought magnesium glycinate and started
taking 600mg per day in three doses. And besides the blepharospasm and paralysis these
are all my other symptoms that are diminishing day by day:
1. Blepharospasm
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2. Paralysis
3. Chronic fatigue syndrome
4. PMS syndrome
5. Excessive emotional stress
6. Joint pain
7. Back and neck pain
8. Constipation
9. Anxiety
10. Nervousness
11. Arrhythmia
12. Cystitis
13. Colitis
14. Bad circulation
15. Cold hands and feet
16. Feeling disoriented in space and time
17. Depression without apparent cause and unable to cope with everyday things
18. Flatulence
19. Mood swings
20. Hormonal imbalance
They are not all 100 percent gone but almost!!!!!!!! The incurable blepharospasm
has almost disappeared and I feel that it will very soon be gone completely. I wanted you
to know my story because if someone has had the same diagnosis, I want them to know
that there is hope that IS CURABLE with the Miracle of Magnesium. Thank you very
much!!!
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Magnesium and Esophageal Spasms

This was a story that I sent out in my blog with the title A Magnesium Miracle: Man Saved
from Gagging.
The moment the waiter served the meal, Jeff jumped up from the table and ran for
the restaurants emergency exit. Jeff could feel the little bit of appetizer hed eaten backing
up into his throat causing tremendous pressure. Jeffs brother, Chris, quickly followed him
into the back alley. Lucy, Jeffs wife, explained to the other guests that her husband had a
long-standing problem with his gastroesophageal junction (the stricture where his
esophagus meets his stomach) clamping shut. Usually he can feel it coming on and drink
some water and it goes away, she explained.
Chris found his brother outside vomiting. Jeff couldnt even swallow his own saliva.
Go back in and finish your dinner, Jeff said, Ill be okay. Chris went back inside. When
Jeff didnt return, Lucy went out to the back alley. She found Jeff choking. Do you want
to go to the hospital? she asked. No, he gagged.
Lucy gave him water. He just choked it back up. She started massaging his chest.
When that didnt work she began pounding and pushing his chest against handrails. They
even tried handstands. (None of these treatments, I recommend.) Nothing helped. The
stricture above his stomach wouldnt relax. Thats when Lucy suddenly remembered: My
sister swears magnesium has helped so many times whenever there was a weird body
problem. Magnesium might work, Lucy told her friends, too bad we don't have any. The
magnesium angels, however, were with Jeff that day one of Lucys friends remembered
she had a bunch of magnesium citrate powder packets in the trunk of her car.
Lucy
grabbed
the
magnesium,
added
water,
and
made
a super-
concentrated serving. She went out and found Jeff gagging on his spit. Hold this in your
mouth, Lucy said. Don't worry about swallowing. Jeff sipped a mouthful holding the
drink in his mouth. About a minute later his face relaxed. Spitting it out, he said, I want to
try swallowing some. It's pretty concentrated, Lucy warned. Jeff took the glass and
swallowed a gulp. In two minutes he smiled and walked back into the restaurant to finish
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his meal.
I sent out this post in two parts. While waiting for the second part I had a contest to
see who of my blog readers knew what was happening to Jeff. Who but my blog readers
would even know that he was choking due to muscle spasms around his esophagus/stomach
junction? And many who wrote in gave that answer. Any muscle or nerve problem can be
caused or worsened by a magnesium deficiency.
One of the most in-depth answers was:

Magnesium relaxes the involuntary muscles including the bowel (which is why
overdosing causes diarrhea) and magnesium deficiency could block the esophagus.
Holding magnesium in the mouth will cause it to be absorbed sublingually. Magnesium
chloride would be absorbed faster, but tastes bad. Magnesium oxide will work in water and
is tasteless. Further, sheep farmers give sheep magnesium blocks. Animals that are
magnesium deficient become aggressive and hard to handle, just like over-active kids. Kids
should have magnesium, not Ritalin. Racehorses get a shaking disease if they are deficient
in magnesium. The answer is to add magnesium, not meds.
One gentleman wrote about magnesium/calcium physiology: Magnesium is a
muscle relaxant and calcium is a muscle contractor, this is very important to a normal
heartbeat. All heartbeat irregularities start with a magnesium deficiency. Magnesium is the
ion responsible for muscle relaxation. When calcium gets into empty magnesium channels,
you get a contract (calcium) / contract (calcium) signal instead of a contract (calcium) /
relax (magnesium) signal. If there is a deficiency of magnesium any muscle could contract
and magnesium will relax it as the body comes back into a balanced state. This is why
Jeffs esophagus relaxed after the magnesium treatment.
Another reader said, I would guess that Jeff was also having anxiety about the
situationthe magnesium also calmed his nerves.
A reader took the opportunity to share her story about esophageal spasms.
I am very interested in this article. I have had similar experiences (have probably
left hundreds of tables) over the years. My remedy was always to drink gallons of water to
force food down. I would have loved to have known about thisinstead I had some major
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surgery, which has caused other problems, for which I refuse to take medication. I think
the magnesium probably relaxes the muscles in the throat. I discovered magnesium for my
restless legs and have never had a problem with my throat or legs since. Thank youam
looking forward to your book on magnesiumI do think it is a miracle!
Most fascinating about this whole story was how Jeff saw fast results simply from
holding the magnesium drink in his mouth. When your body needs something, it knows
how to get it. It must have been absorbed through the pores of his tongue and the interior
of his mouth. His bloodstream transported the desperately needed mineral straight down to
his esophagus. Once absorbed into the muscle cells, the gastro-esophageal junction could
relax.
Magnesium and the Elderly

Here is a short burst of excitement from one of my blog readers.
My 89-year-old mother and I, every day, are taking 1375mg of magnesium; 650mg
magnesium taurate and 750mg Pico-Ionic magnesium. Our sleep is fantastic, we have no
more cramps, good bowels, no wheezing, more relaxed and because of all that we are much
happier!
Another reader had the following experience with her mother.

As a retired Registered Nurse, I have always appreciated your writings. The lifesaving advice regarding magnesium is priceless. My mother had suffered for years with
COLD, hurting legs. I had a battle ROYAL with the nursing home physician, but
FINALLY convinced her to TRY magnesium taurate. It not only stopped the leg cramping,
it lessened the heart arrhythmias. I believe it lengthened her life.
I call this wonderful email The Zest for Life. This gentleman writes to me like a long-lost
friend exuding confidence and energy that is palpable. He praises magnesium as a major
factor in his new way of living.
I loved your informative article! You are a godsend! Fortunately, Ive been using
magnesium for a few months now, and I've benefited immensely.
Unexpectedly, my toxic peripheral neuropathy is almost completely gone. I no
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longer need to take ALA and acetyl l-carnitine at all.

My irregular heartbeat is no longer pounding like a Swiss watch.
My lower back and joint pains are gone, and I can work out in the fitness center to
my heart's delight, despite being 67 years old.
Even my eyesight has sharpened.
I do focus on my bone health by balancing my alkalinity levels (with diet and
bicarbonate of soda) to maintain 7.5 more or less. (Checking with litmus paper.)
I take calcium and other minerals in early morning, and strontium citrate before
bed. I imagine strontium and magnesium are synergistic. If I had my druthers, I'd take
strontium over calcium.
I stick to what I call my caveman diet, avoiding sugar, dairy, and wheat, especially
baked goods. I also avoid restaurant foods because of soy-derived chemicals, among other
things, and prefer a simple diet cooked from scratch.
My exercise program includes 50 miles of mountain bike riding and Ive had a
resting heart rate of 45 for a couple of years. Actually, my cardiologist insisted I might
have some hidden heart problems, and talked me into another nuclear stress test last
February.
My health was nearly flawless before the test, but it took me eight months to recover
from a return to heart rhythm irregularity, painful joints and lower back pains. It was so
bad I quit working out at the fitness center, though my muscles were unaffected and
remained strong. I couldnt have muscular strength adding stress to my painful joints.
With my rather simplified health program, I was surprised to find that my bodys
natural alkalinizing processes have kicked back in, and I rarely check my alkalinity levels
with the litmus paper. I also have been skipping the baking soda supplementation since
now I'm feeling as fit as a fiddle!
Despite the disconcerting nuclear stress test setback, Ive come through it a better
man since I found it necessary to uncover health breakthroughs in order to meet the
challenge.
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Now I call my approach my new way of living program. People are always asking
me how Ive done it, but when I tell them, I sense that theyre predestined to remain
entrenched in their old ways.
Like the old saying goes, you can lead a horse to water, but you cant make em
drink". Nonetheless, I still continue to champion magnesium, strontium, alkaline balance,
exercise, and a simple diet prepared from scratch.
Love ya.
Magnesium and Heart Palpitations

I have just purchased your book and cannot wait to read it. For months I had foot
and toe cramps, anxiety, my body was nervous and tense. (My doctor commented on how
wired I was.) I wanted to unzip my skin and jump out. I thought it was my age of 52. I
then developed PVC heart palpitations and was told to live with them. Finally, I hit a wall
and could not sleep! I found magnesium citrate powder and have been on it for two weeks.
The heart palpitations went first, then the foot cramps. I still have night-time awakenings
but it is getting better. I take the magnesium three times a day for a total of four teaspoons.
I just ordered the magnesium oil. I forgot to mention I was under intense stress for three
months. I think I really depleted any magnesium I had in reserve!
Magnesium and Kidney Stones

George emailed the following story about his painful bout with kidney stones.
Last Fall, I was passing stones almost on a daily basis. All the usual
recommendations did not help. In desperation, I bought your book about magnesium
because it had some information about kidney stones. I started taking 250mg of magnesium
and 50mg of B6 daily. The stones stopped the day after I started taking magnesium and
B6. The last stones I passed were on 10/31/06. Since then, no more stones have passed. I
am hoping that this amazing health improvement continues. Keep up the good work.
Kevin emailed me about his experience with kidney stones.
About 20 years ago, I passed a kidney stone which stuck in the urethra halfway
between the kidney and the bladder. The consultant recommended plenty to drink. No
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movement of the stone. He then suggested an operation to remove the stone. At this time,
I had a book, Lets Get Well by the American nutritionist, Adele Davis, in which she had
a chapter entitled, How to dissolve kidney stones in which she recommended magnesium
and vitamin B6.
I wrote to the consultant to see what his reaction was, which was to call the
treatment positively dangerous and I should come in for an operation immediately. I
ignored his advice, and started on the magnesium and B6. Three weeks later, whilst
urinating, I passed a spherical kidney stone. I made an appointment to see the consultant,
and presented him with the stone. There was no comment, except a stony silence. He was
not happy.
I expect he was thinking that it was not in his interest to follow that course of
treatment with his patients, as he would soon be out of a job.
Since then, I have recommended magnesium and Vitamin B6 to people who have
had kidney stones, but they seem very dubious about the treatment, and only want to have
orthodox medical treatments.
I notice that there is a lot more publicity now to the alternative treatment, and,
hopefully, people will listen.
Magnesium and Carpal Tunnel

At one point a friend said he wondered if I was writing too many magnesium stories in my
blog. Many readers probably found my blog through my magnesium book. He thought they
must be saturated with magnesium information. But when I did the statistics, I found that
every time I blogged about magnesium, readership went up 30-50 percent with people
forwarding the post to friends and family.
I told him, its like watching ads for something you already ownit reinforces how
smart you are to have purchased that product but even then it doesnt mean you take the
advice.
A short while later he said in passing, My left wrist is really hurting. Too much
work on the keyboard, I guess.
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Don't forget to put magnesium oil on it, I automatically replied. Itll help stop the
muscles from cramping.
I hadnt even thought of that, he said. I guess you still need more magnesium
stories after all.
Even though you may know enough about magnesium to write your own book, are
you using it for all the possibilities?
Magnesium and Chest Pain

Nell wrote about her husbands chest pain experience.
I am writing to you today because I have just finished reading your very
informative new book, The Magnesium Miracle. One month ago, my husband was having
all of the symptoms of a heart attack. He had chest pain, arm pain, jaw pain, was sweating
and could hardly take a breath. He was rushed to hospital and they immediately started
doing tests on him. They kept him for two days and could find nothing wrong with him
other than a small lesion on one of his heart vessels after performing a catheter. But they
said it was nothing to worry about. They released him while he was still having chest pain
and told him to take an aspirin a day and also to continue his blood pressure medicine.
Needless to say, I was not satisfied with this whole situation (what if he had another
attack?), and I started to do my own research on the Internet. I knew that magnesium was
a relaxant for muscle spasms and so I started looking at the benefits of magnesium and the
heart. I then came upon your book and ordered it and was so pleased with it being the
wealth of information that it is.
I started my husband on a chelated calcium/magnesium supplement and within a
few days, he was no longer having spasms. He also told this to his family doctor and his
doctor agreed that a lack of magnesium was most likely indeed the problem. Now with all
of the technology and other tests that they did on my husband, why could they have not
ordered a simple ion magnesium test? Why did they send him home without this simple
test? I think that every doctor in America needs to read your book and become educated on
the miracles of this vital mineral. It could benefit so many people!
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I would also like to add that we do eat a very healthy diet with a lot of raw fruits
and veggies and brown rice etc, but I believe that we also do need to take supplements
because our soils are so depleted here. Thank you for writing this book and I hope that your
email box becomes flooded with other success stories! In good health.
Magnesium and Diabetes

Harriet wrote about her discovery of magnesium for her symptoms.
Dear Dr. Dean, I have been taking calcium, magnesium and zinc in combination
for years with time off for bad behavior. I rediscovered this miracle when I was diagnosed
with diabetes. Im 62 and have been diabetic for approximately seven years. When the
neuropathy hit my feet I was reading Maureen Salamans book, All Your Health Questions
Answered and noticed that magnesium was mentioned as beneficial in almost all of the
chapters, even though she does not have a chapter on neuropathy. It was quite obvious that
magnesium is a mineral for all nerve-related problems. While doing some research on
vitamins and minerals, I came across your Magnesium Miracle book and immediately
bought a copy. It is fascinating. I first became interested in vitamins in the 70s when I read
Linda Clarks book, Know Your Nutrition, so Im not new to the subject.
The calcium, magnesium and zinc combination has greatly helped my neuropathy.
And without it, I wouldnt be able to sleep. Neuropathy gets so much worse when I lay
down. I have been on the Neuropathy Association message boards touting its benefits. I
am a believer, believe me.
Magnesium and Laryngospasms

This story follows along the lines of Jeffs esophageal spasms. Laryngospasms occur higher
up in the chest.
I have read your website and you may find my story interesting. About four years
ago I suffered three laryngospasms within about 12 months. The last two were within six
weeks of each other. I was then referred to the hospital clinic. A doctor there said my
laryngospasms could be caused by my goiter and the only advice given was to breathe in
slowly during an attack. Not a cure.
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I quickly found on the Internet that calcium deficiency can cause muscle spasms so
I asked my doctor to check my calcium level. It was okay but as a precaution, I started to
take calcium anywaytaking just of the RDA (400mg).
Very, very fortunately for me, the supplement I bought, in addition to calcium and
vitamin D, also contained magnesium, copper, boron and zinc. I had no further attacks for
nearly three years. But after about 2 years I began to purchase most of my supplements
in supermarkets. The one I found contained calcium and vitamin D but no magnesium.
Approximately four months after using mostly that supermarket supplement, I had three
very slight, short attacks within about a four-week period. Foolishly, I ignored them. Five
days after that third attack I had a full frightening laryngospasm. Immediately I returned to
taking my original supplement and finally realized it contained magnesium.
I have not suffered any further laryngospasms. The RDA for magnesium for the
older man is about 400mg. Im finding that foods containing the most magnesium are not
those eaten every day, if at all, by most people. (Halibut, Almonds, Soybeans, Spinach) So
to absorb 400mg RDA may be quite a task for me to achieve, being 75 years of age.
Magnesium deficiency can cause muscle spasms and cramps etc. Although I may
not be deficient, I believe that my voice box muscles are being kept relaxed simply by
taking the RDA and this prevents laryngospasms. Also an occasional early morning leg
cramp seems to have abated since taking magnesium.
I have started to write to ENT specialists etc, found on the Internet, trying to get
them to consider magnesium when patients present to them. So far I havent had any replies,
except from Dr. Dean, of course!
BUT, I wrote to my own doctor and he found my magnesium cure, interesting
and would consider this when his patients present with muscle cramp problems. So I have
made a tiny, tiny start to get the magnesium message over.
Every time I meet someone now, I ask if they suffer from either leg/muscle cramps
of any kind or tinnitus. I do get odd looks, but if they do suffer, I tell em what to get!
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Magnesium and Healthy Nails

Joan is taking very low dose magnesium supplementation but still finds that its helping
her in interesting ways.
Thank you Dr Dean for all of your information. I began taking more magnesium
after reading that it may help Fibromyalgia. I am not sure that I have that actually but with
Type 1 Diabetes for 40 years, I do have stiffness that I thought might be remedied
somewhat by it. I take 200mg of magnesium oxide, citrate, gluconate and another 100mg
with my chewable calcium. An unexpected outcome: my nails are growing like wildfire!
They have been brittle for years and I am sure it is from the magnesium. I think I can safely
assume that my internal organs are benefitting also. Thank you for the confirmation and
for your excellent work and vigilance!
Magnesium and Insomnia

I have been reading from your book The Magnesium Miracle. For years I have
been troubled with insomnia. I have absolutely no sleep in me at night and I cant sleep
even during the day. I have tried lots of home remedies like melatonin, valerian, all the B
vitamins, tryptophan, calming teas, all to no avail. Ive done exercise and read a lot about
relaxing and did it all. I had been on sleeping pills to get maybe three to four hours sleep
at night. But they have had side effects that made me nervous.
So I stopped the Ambien (and at one time was on Lunesta) the first of February
2009. I have been taking a multi-mineral formula with boron since the middle of February
2009. This has 1,000mg of calcium and 500mg of magnesium, plus iron and other things.
Im already able to sleep at night. Every night is getting better. Now, about four days after
I started taking 600mg. of magnesium a day I really am enjoying sleep. It is so wonderful
to just fall asleep. I still wake up every two hours or so, but I can fall back to sleep again.
Before magnesium, I hadnt been sleeping without the aid of Ambien. Thank you for the
good news about magnesium. Wish I had read your book sooner.
Magnesium and Neck Pain

Sophie got a new lease on life when she discovers magnesium.
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I started feeling different two days ago when I noticed the pain in my neck was
gone. This had to be a miracle. I was buying everything for neck pain and nothing was
working. I didnt know magnesium would help this problem but I was just trying it to help
my high blood pressure. I have started using magnesium oil and ordered magnesium
supplements. I got up with so much energy, I thought something was wrong. I feel young
again and very different, very calm, nothing bothers me. Im sleeping better. This is so
amazing. Im going online and ordering your book for my friends with high blood pressure.
I don't see how this is not on Oprah or mainstream TV. I feel like I have been
handed a new life. I cant wait until spring with all this energy and see what I get done.
And Ive discovered something else that is blowing my mind. We go out to eat every
Saturday night with family. This time I noticed that all they were saying was how tired
they were and I felt like a million dollars. I almost felt like I was with the wrong group. Im
61 and my husband is 65, and they are two and three years older than us.
I watched them and they walked slow and ate slow. I have also noticed I am not as
hungry but the thing is in my mindIm sitting in this restaurant and I am so happy and
loving everybody and just want to talk to everyone. Other times I just want them to give
me my food and leave me alone. But last night I was actually laughing with the waitress
and other people at the restaurant. I feel so different. How can this be from one thing,
magnesium?
My husband said, Give me some of that stuff you are taking; he could see a
difference in me. I am so happy and feel so good, so I spray him with the oil when he gets
out of the shower and put the gel on his feet and then give him the magnesium supplement.
Thank you so much for your work and your book.
Magnesium and Orgasm

One amazing story was sent to me since the release of The Magnesium Miracle. A woman
says its helped her overly active gag reflex, insomnia, irritability, and chronic muscle
aches, which magically disappeared. She says its also responsible for her being able to
reach orgasm! But after the fourth time she was convinced it had to be the magnesium. And
this could be true because magnesium is a natural muscle relaxant!
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I discovered magnesium two weeks ago and there is a benefit that you may not
have even discovered. I had severe TMJ (tempromandibular joint syndrome) and it seemed
to spread to my whole body and I ached all over. I was miserable. I was on Paxil to keep
my sanity but I wanted to lose weight and I pulled out my college nutrition textbook,
Introductory Nutrition, Guthrie, Pennsylvania State, 1971. This book devoted more than
three pages of fine print to the need for magnesium. Here are some of the things Guthrie
published about magnesium in 1971.
Low serum magnesium levels are associated with irritability, nervousness adequate magnesium may increase the stability of calcium in tooth enamel
alcohol increases the rate of magnesium excretion
the absence of magnesium deficiency symptoms in the American population,
which apparently consumes too little to meet its needs, may be explained by the
fact that it experiences a very slight deficit that becomes significant only when
a condition of stress is superimposed. Such situations may be the increased
excretion that occurs with alcohol consumption, the impaired absorption
accompanying the increased use of diuretics.
My TMJ writer continued.
I am skeptical of diet books, but I am not skeptical of university research. I
immediately went to the Internet and began magnesium research, and then I went to the
health food store. They did not have Slow-Mag or the magnesium chloride (for insomnia)
recommended in the Internet articles, so I picked up two different magnesium supplements,
one with malic acid, and one with calcium and Vitamin D.
Both bottles prescribed about six tablets a day, but I calculated out the magnesium
in each and took about 500mg. the first few days. My muscle aches magically disappeared
except for my sore jaw, which I suspect will take a while to heal. I feel better than ever.
Not only does my body feel better, I am smiling more and being friendlier in those grocery
store situations. And this in only two weeks. I have cut my Paxil in half, down to 5mg a
night, and now will try taking them every other night to wean myself from them and see if
I see a change. If I need the Paxil, I will continue, but I suspect that the magnesium will do
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the trick.
This week in my continuing research I found your book listed on Amazon and went
down to my local independent bookseller to order it. The good news for you is that it was
actually on the shelf!!!! I bought the book, have underlined parts and will be loaning and
recommending it to my friends. My cousin suffers from fibromyalgia and panic attacks,
another friend is frustrated in finding an answer to her migraines, and a male friend suffered
a heart scare a couple of years ago, and I think magnesium might be beneficial for all of
them as well. My father died at the age of 50 from a heart attack. He was a guy who loved
life, but was very uptight, often barked at us for stupid reasons, used to get the same
gagging reflex I had problems with, had become increasingly anxious and insecure, and
used alcohol as a relaxant at the end of his day not an alcoholic, but definitely a regular
user. Magnesium might have saved his life as well.
And now for the undocumented side effect, perhaps a surprise to even you. I am
sure this has to do with the muscle relaxation, but for the first time in my life I am having
orgasms every time!!!! Well, at least four in a row and still counting.
Yes, this is embarrassing, but it is also amazing and I think you should know. After
a week on magnesium I had an 'easy' orgasm. I never know whether I am going to go 'over
the top' or not. Second time, I think, ' Gee, this is nice. Third time, I think, ' This is weird.
' Fourth time,' Its the magnesium!!!!!!!'
And I am on my third alcohol-free day, breaking a very bad habit. I feel great!!!
And it all happened so quickly. Spread the word, Dr. Dean Magnesium is a Miracle!!!
Magnesium and Perimenopause

Rita almost couldnt believe it. She had been suffering heart palpitations for 10 years along
with hormone imbalance. She was amazed that her palpitations were gone in a few days.
When I started reading your Future Health Now! module on magnesium, I could
clearly see the vicious cycle. Along with perimenopausal palpitations, I started to have
retinal migraines as well as eye twitching. When I read your information a light bulb went
on its all related to a magnesium deficiency.
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I see it this way: you have too little magnesium, your adrenals drop, which triggers
hormones to go out of whack, and now were unable to handle stress; suddenly your heart
starts palpitating, which only adds more stress. Now you cant sleep, which all prompts
magnesium to get even more depleted. Around and around it goes. Wow.
Its fascinating. I went on the forums at Power Surge and the amount of women in
premenopause or in menopause having adrenal rushes, palpitations, tremors, shaking, is
epidemic. To think it may be possible that this simple use of magnesium could help
prevent this . . . is incredible.
And youre right, I do think the form matters. I cannot take most magnesium as it
gives me diarrhea so I've avoided it. The transdermal and also glycinate in a pill form are
really doing the trick perfectly.
I'm SO relieved to see these enormous health benefits. Its really frightening to
have your heart beating abnormally, which then sets off a whole chain reaction with stress,
adrenals, hormones, etc, etc!
I think it criminal that the medical community is not informing their patients of
this simple mineral supplement . . . or that they are not even up to speed on this vital
information. I just want to say to you again, Dr. Deanthank you from the bottom of my
heart. Literally! :-)
Magnesium and Sciatica

Annie shared the following story about her experience with magnesium.
My name is Nancy and I have had a lot of trouble with the sciatic nerve which
included my foot. I felt like my foot was swollen and many times I needed to remove my
shoe. I had been to a foot doctor plus have had physical therapy but nothing seemed to
help. I see a chiropractor on a regular basis.
It was my chiropractor who got me started on calcium/magnesium in powder form.
I started taking it slowly, the amounts that were listed were one heaping teaspoon twice a
day. But with my chiropractors advice, I started with a half teaspoon and gradually added
more until I was taking the amount that was recommended. I couldnt believe that it had
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helped the pain I was having with the sciatic nerve as well as the pain in my back, arm and
shoulder area.
My husband was also having a lot of pain in his arm and shoulder area from a
separated shoulder he had had surgery on many years ago. I started him on the powder and
his pain went away. He couldnt believe how much better he felt. My husband is 67 years
old and Im 60. I recently ordered your book, The Magnesium Miracle and have started
reading it. I find it very interesting in the fact that so many problems can occur from the
lack of magnesium.
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MAGNESIUM FOR THE ATHLETE

When you read about famous athletes from the past, you dont get the sense that they were
following a healthy diet and lifestyle. Living large as a celebrity often means eating,
drinking, and partying to excess eat, drink, and be merry seemed to be their ultimate
goal. Adding to the abuse on the body, intense competition led to the use and abuse of
steroid drugs. In my consulting practice, I see the aftermath of years of steroid useadrenal
fatigue, obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
The age of processed food made some athletes more aware of the lack of whole
foods in their diet. Were still in the middle of the whole foods movement and all manner
of diets are now promoted to enhance athletic performance. The supplement industry,
which is only about 30 years old, also became involved in promoting products to athletes.
I dont know enough about all the ins and outs of sports supplements to say yea or nay
but I do know about magnesium. Its the starting place for enhancing athletic performance.
Magnesium is a simple mineral that is often overlooked for the more sensational,
sexy and expensive supplements. A chiropractor, Dr. David Pascal, was interviewed in
Organic Connections magazine in the Jan-Feb 2009 issue. He was a gold medalist
in the 1983 World Games for the 1,500-meter run and has been in private practice since
1987. His clients include athletes at two Olympic Games, three World Championships
and 25 US Championships. Dr. Pascals Beijing athletes won 20 medals: 10 gold, 5 silver
and 5 bronze.
Dr. Pascals secret weapon is nutrition and a hefty dose of magnesium. His program
is individualized, of course, but magnesium is the key nutrient that he recommends. Pascal
says:
Magnesium is actually the stress mineral and is needed for about 350 different
chemical processes within the body. By stress mineral, I mean that a body uses a lot
of magnesium to handle physical stress, chemical stress and mental stress.
Of course, athletes are under a tremendous amount of physical, chemical
and mental stress, and so magnesium is absolutely vital for them to perform at their
best.
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Muscle Cramping
What do you find if you search for information about muscle cramping? Symptoms can
range from a slight twitch, a joint pulled out of place, bruising on the skin, and may require
manual stretching to help release its hold. The most common cramping is found in the calf
and the thigh.
Finding the cause of muscle cramping is still in the theoretical stage. Current
theories include:
Neuromuscular control imbalance
New activity
Muscle fatigue
Dehydration
Electrolyte depletion or imbalance
Poor conditioning
Of course, I know that muscle cramping in athletes is mostly due to a lack of
magnesium and so does Dr. Pascal. As I mentioned earlier, magnesium is not recognized
as an important electrolyte that needs to be replaced when there are losses due to stress,
sweat, and poor diet. There is no accurate blood testing method to properly measure
magnesium. Its not even recognized as a life-and-death factor in heart attacks, which are
an extreme cramping of the heart muscle.
Presently, altered neuromuscular control (causing muscle fatigue and disruption of
muscle coordination and control) is the prime candidate for the research funding in
cramping. Dr. Martin Schwellnus, in an extensive 2009 literature review of muscle
cramping, says that evidence supporting both the electrolyte depletion and dehydration
hypotheses as the cause of muscle cramps is not convincing. 7 Its not convincing because
there just isnt enough research available. Unfortunately, Dr. Schwellnus, who wrote The
Schwellnus M.P. Cause of Exercise Associated Muscle Cramps (EAMC) altered

neuromuscular control, dehydration or electrolyte depletion? British Journal of Sports Medicine
2009; 43:401-408.
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Olympic Textbook of Medicine in Sport, is considered a sports expert and his review will
continue to prevent doctors and coaches from exploring magnesium for the prevention and
treatment of muscle cramping.
In the meantime, Dr. Pascal, myself and thousands of other doctors and athletes are
convinced that magnesium works.
Each day we do experiments on our own bodies and prove its effectiveness. When
I moved to Maui and started walking 1 hours a day along the beach and swimming for
a half hour to 45 minutes, I started to get calf cramping and heart palpitations that were
previously under control with magnesium supplementation. I realized I was utilizing more
magnesium with my extra activities and sweating more in the hot climate. I immediately
increased my levels of magnesium and my symptoms were gone overnight.
Medical Treatment for Cramping

If youve suffered cramping, youve probably been told that:
1. They go away on their own,
2. Stop your activitybut it may have already thrown you to the floor,
3. Gently stretch out or massage the affected muscle.
But if youre an athlete who has fallen during a competition due to muscle
cramping, thats not good enough. Its not good enough to be told that since we dont know
the true cause of cramping we just dont know how to treat it.
Stretching and warm ups arent going to improve your magnesium stores, only
magnesium can do that. Dr. Pascal says that many of the athletes that come to him have a
history of muscle cramping. For him its the first clue that they are deficient in magnesium.
And because he addresses the problem with magnesium, none of his clients suffer from
cramping issues. Dr. Pascal says, When I was in Eugene, Oregon, this summer
for the Olympic Trials, I treated 40 of my athletes. One of the things I really had to be
concerned about was the heat and muscle cramping, and so I used magnesium
preventatively. Take your magnesium. Thats the first thing I said when I saw the athletes
in the morning and the last thing I told them at the end of the day. None of my athletes
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had muscle crampsbefore, during or after their races. Many others did. Its the worst
thing that can happen to an athlete and can result in muscle tears that can take them out of
competition for a season.
Dr. Pascal is aware that Heat affects you because you will be sweating more.
As you sweat, youre going to be losing magnesium, which is water-soluble. In addition,
youll be sweating out electrolytes, and, of course, water too. These losses mean that
the ratio of calcium to magnesium will be changing in the body: the percentage of calcium
will increase; and since calcium is a muscle contractor, the muscles cramp and thats it.
You may sweat out a tiny bit of calcium but you sweat out much more magnesiumthats
where the problem lies.
When you consider that water losses can be one to two liters per hour when training
intensely in the heat, you can lose enough sodium, potassium and magnesium that your
clothes are encrusted with minerals. In military postings in the Middle East soldiers talk
about their T-shirts drying hard as boards with all the minerals they sweat out.
Any information on sweating just seems to focus on the salt losses. But its not just
about replacing water and sodium and sugar, which is the content of most sports drinks.
You also have to look at magnesium and potassium as being necessary elements in
electrolyte replacement.
Dr Pascal discusses the importance of minerals in general. He says, most people
think that they have a problem with heat due to the high temperature or humidity. This isnt
true. Heat builds up in the cells primarily because there are not enough minerals
and electrolytes to carry the heat out of the cells. If there are enough of these elements
along with water, it wouldnt matter how hot it wasthe cells would never overheat
and people would never get heat stroke, because the minerals would transfer the heat out
of the cells.
My sources of magnesium are in the section Different Forms of Magnesium.
Magnesium For The Athlete Stories

The following is an inspiring magnesium story contributed by Ben Greenfield - MS, CSCS,
C-ISSN. Ben is one of the top fitness, triathlon, nutrition and metabolism experts in the
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nation and hes fallen in love with magnesium. See Ben at his website Ben Green Fitness.
How Magnesium Instantly Made Me A Better AthleteBen Greenfield

I must admit that I was skeptical during the spring of 2009, when I first heard that more
than half of American adults are deficient in magnesium, and even a greater percentage of
athletes are deficient.
I was also skeptical when it was pointed out to me that a good number of
cardiovascular incidents during exercise could be traced back to a magnesium deficiency,
and that muscular fatigue, failure and cramping during exercise are not only related to
sodium sweat loss or low calcium levels, but are just as a much a function of magnesium
deficiency.
After all, aside from using magnesium to produce brightly glowing flames during
my undergraduate chemistry classes, my chief experience with this mineral had been
glancing at the nutrition label of my vitamins and supplements, and seeing that the sparse
50-100mg I was consuming would be close to 100 percent of my daily needs. Therefore, I
must be getting enough magnesium.
No matter that myself and the large number of endurance athletes who I coach were
frequently experiencing severe post-workout soreness, problematic muscle cramping
during endurance events, and increased tightness, spasms and injury by the end of a long
triathlon or marathon season. Sadly, none of my sports nutrition certifications, coaching
certifications or classes had placed any amount of emphasis on the fact that magnesium
may be one of the contributing factors to these issues. All that was ever mentioned was
sodium and water.
It wasn't until nearly a dozen of the nation's top natural physicians, sports nutrition
experts, and alternative medicine practitioners, including Dr. Dean, consistently mentioned
magnesium during my interviews with them on my online fitness blog and podcast that I
began to pay closer attention. If this many respected medical experts were singing the
praises of this miracle mineral, and warning of the deficiency dangers, then could there
perhaps be an actual benefit of introducing magnesium into the nutrition protocols of
myself and my athletes?
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So, in the beginning of the 2009 race season, via topical application and oral
supplementation, I gradually began to gradually increase my magnesium intake to 400500mg/day, and recommended this change to each of the athletes that I coach. I began
taking magnesium baths after the more difficult workouts, and especially focused on
increasing magnesium consumption during my high volume and high intensity training in
the hot summer months.
As the 2009 season progressed and September approached, I personally came to the
realization that I had not experienced a single muscle cramp in any race during the entire
summer season. In contrast, previous years had seen me nearly withdraw from competition
with severe calf and thigh spasms during longer competitions in the heat. Myself and my
athletes who practiced my magnesium intake recommendations began to bounce back day
after day for difficult back-to-back workouts that we never would have been able to
accomplish. We were even sleeping better!
My most powerful realization of the importance of magnesium occurred at the end
of the 2009 race season, when I literally laid it all out on the line in my final race, and
crossed the finish line completely drained of all energy. This was the hardest I had ever
worked in any competition during the entire year. My breath began to come in short spurts,
and my heartbeats felt irregular. My eyesight was blurry, and I was both nauseous and
dizzy. I was scared. My single goal suddenly became to find a medical tent and IV as
quickly as possible.
It was at this point that I remembered that in my race bag was my bottle of topical
magnesium, which I typically only had applied prior to competition. I stumbled to my bag,
found the bottle, and immediately began rubbing the solution onto my chest and across all
my extremities. Within just 90 seconds, I could feel my body re-stabilizing and my energy
returning. Just five minutes later, I was completely restored. The following day, my
soreness was minimala very atypical feeling after having spent nearly five hours of highintensity triathlon with my heart rate near 90 percent of maximum values!
Given magnesiums vital role in energy production and metabolism, it only makes
sense that my performance and recovery instantly soared after I began magnesium
supplementation. Fortunately, I stumbled upon this magic mineral early in my athletic
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career, and I can now look forward to many successful years of drawing upon magnesium
as one of my secret weapons. To whoever is reading this personal anecdote: I encourage
you to increase your magnesium intake prior to and after athletic competition. I guarantee
that it will instantly make you a more successful athlete.
No Magnesium in the NFL

Simon was a body builder before he became an NFL football player. He was sidelined
because he began experiencing disabling muscle cramping. When I first began to see him
as a client he had transferred his high stress athletic career to business. He probably
experienced the same amount of stress in his executive position, with two teenage sons and
a hectic travel schedule. He still had frequent muscle cramping as well as high blood
pressure, obesity, and headaches.
I explained the importance of magnesium in stress and intense athletic performance
that involves a lot of sweating. Simon said he sweated buckets playing sports and still does.
Simon understood intellectually what I was telling him but he said he had seen some of the
best doctors and coaches and nobody could help him. I think he had trouble believing
someone he could bench press with one arm had the answer to his life-long problem. When
Simon took magnesium he become a believer. A good regimen of food-based supplements,
Pico-Ionic magnesium and Pico-Ionic multiple minerals got rid of his cramping, headaches
and high blood pressure. Of course, he wondered what would have happened if hed learned
about magnesium when he was still playing ball.
No Magnesium and Lots of Aspartame

Marjorie was a research scientist, a former athlete, and a very sick woman. Her previous
athletic activity included running marathons and training nearly every day. Almost 15 years
later, she came to me as a client with daily migraines, constant painful muscle cramping
and chronic paresthesia (a sensation of tingling, pricking and numbness in her legs).
I explained to Marjorie about magnesium and she got the picture. But from her
history I found out she was drinking quarts of aspartame-sweetened iced tea every day.
Because she sweat so much she got used to drinking lots of liquids and now thought she
was addicted to aspartame. I told her about the neurological damage that can result from
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aspartame so she stopped it immediately and began taking a homeopathic aspartame

remedy.
Marjories doctors told her she had a rare neurological condition and would need to
take strong medications to see if the symptoms could be controlled. There was no guarantee
that the medications would even work so she decided to do an ExaTest to check her levels.
Marjorie did have very low levels of magnesium and high levels of calcium. As soon as
she began taking magnesium, her migraines improved. Next her muscle cramping stopped
and more slowly, her paresthesias began to heal.
Chalk It Up To Magnesium
Sid sent me a brief history of his success with magnesium and I found it so fascinating I
asked for the whole story.
Basically, I had insomnia for about 15 years and was painfully tired for about 350
days/year. I remember in 1972, I was Most Valuable Player all-around gymnast and in
perfect health. In 1976 I was the A+ top Organic Chemistry student out of about 300
students in my class. About that time I quit gymnastics to concentrate more on my studies.
But I started to develop insomnia and often felt very tired. In the 80s my insomnia became
severe and I tried everything to sleep, but nothing fixed the problem.
I always thought my body needed that gymnastics-type workout. So, whenever I
had enough energy, I would work out for hours. I tried medicine, vitamins, and improved
my diet, but nothing cured the insomnia. After six sleep clinics, I became the so called 1
percent that cant be cured.
After trying almost every medication available, my favorite sleeping meds were
Remeron 30mg and a very low dose of Seroquel 25mg. Actually, they work pretty good
but have some minor side effects. Like Remeron makes you want to eat the bark off a tree
so youll gain weight. However, it feels like these meds only partially fixed the problem
and partially masked the problem. I just wished I was healthy like when I did gymnastics.
A couple years ago, when I went for my 50-year colonoscopy, the anesthesiologist
told me he had to give me more anesthetic because of the sleep meds I was taking. He also
told me he had insomnia for years and cured it with magnesium. Then I remembered years
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ago a chiropractor recommended a very high dose of magnesium for my insomnia, but the
next days diarrhea put an end to that suggestion. I threw that magnesium powder in the
trash.
After my colonoscopy, I googled about magnesium and insomnia, and found people
had success with approx. 300mg three times/day. I tried a variety of magnesium tablets,
capsules and powders. My sleeping improved within two days and I didnt mind suffering
through a little diarrhea. Then my sleep kept improving and I just couldn't believe it! I
could sleep. I had energy. I could work out like I was 18 again. I increased my workouts to
include a rigorous regime of weightlifting, aerobics, karate, running and a variety of other
exercises. I just wished I could find access to gymnastics equipment.
Recently, one of my friends opened up a gym for tumbling. I picked up a nice pair
of wooden rings on eBay and we hung them up in his gym. Of course we needed chalk so
I got online and ordered a few blocks of gymnastics chalk.
I ordered three pounds of premium grade, Taiwanese magnesium carbonate white
chalk, which comes in soft cubes that are easily crushed to make powder. Suddenly, I knew
the rest of the story - OMG gymnastics chalk is magnesium and that magnesium powder
in health food stores is just like gymnastics chalk.
So why was I so healthy when I was a MVP gymnast? Was it the great gymnastics
workouts or was it the chalk or both? I remember inhaling that stuff for hours on end during
my gymnastics workouts. My black hair, my clothes, hands, feet, eyes, everything was
covered with a thin layer of powdered chalk. I ate snacks with chalk on my hands; I just
got so used to the daily smell and taste of gymnastics chalk.
For about 30 years, I thought my insomnia was partially due to the lack gymnastics.
But now I know; my insomnia was due to the lack of gymnastics chalk!! Im chalking up
all the time now!!
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MAGNESIUM Q & A
1. Can magnesium make low blood pressure even lower since it can relax muscles and
blood vessels?
Answer: In the 10 years that Ive been researching and writing about magnesium, Ive had
two young female athletes tell me that they felt faint after beginning to take magnesium.
One woman, after taking one of her first doses of magnesium, went to the gym to work out.
She said she experienced light-headedness and faintness. When one of the trainers took
her blood pressure it was 90/60. Her normal blood pressure is 100/70. She was sure the low
blood pressure and faintness were from the magnesium.
Id like to hear if any other people have had this experience. As I mentioned, it
doesnt seem to be a common experience. Doing a Medline search for magnesium and low
blood pressure brings up studies that show the benefits of magnesium in people with high
blood pressure. In my experience, people with low blood pressure are sensitive to fluid
intake, supplements, changes in their diet and medication. So, when beginning any new
supplement, go slowly. With a supplement like magnesium that affects all the muscles in
the body, it was probably not a good idea to take a dose and work out without knowing the
bodys reaction. However, magnesium is a necessity for athletes. The stress of athletic
activity, sweating, and muscle exertion can cause magnesium depletion.
As a practical solution for people with low blood pressure, I recommend taking
magnesium and calcium together or taking magnesium oil instead of an oral magnesium to
minimize the immediate relaxing impact of magnesium in the blood.
2. In the first edition of your book, Magnesium Miracle" you say not to take magnesium
with a meal. My bottle of magnesium (as magnesium oxide) tells me to take it with a
meal. What is the correct thing to do?
Answer: Magnesium oxide is only four percent absorbed. Therefore 96 percent of it
flushes through the intestines as a laxative. The suggestion to take it with a meal will slow
it down somewhat so more can be absorbed. However, I dont normally recommend
magnesium oxide in the amount you have to take in order to get enough magnesium
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absorbed to take care of symptoms will usually give you a laxative effect. That may be
beneficial to someone with constipation but having two to three loose bowel movements a
day can flush out other nutrients.
3. I have a question about magnesium oil: the only place I can spray it where it doesnt
sting more than I can stand is on the soles of my feet but when I do this I break out in
an itchy rash all over my upper legs and abdomen. Even when I dilute the oil several
times, I get this response. It calms down after several hours but Im wondering if I should
I be concerned about this or is this normal for someone who is apparently very (based
on what Ive read in your book and in other sources) magnesium deficient?
Answer: Magnesium oil isnt oil at all. Its magnesium chloride (from sea water)
supersaturated in distilled water. The concentration of this oil can be up to 3,000mg per
teaspoon. Thats pretty concentrated; its like salt brine. And it can sting like a very strong
salt solution. When people have this reaction they may have to use 10 parts water to one
part magnesium oil to see if its just the concentration thats the problem. Getting an itchy
rash away from the soles of the feet on the thighs and abdomen is very unusual. An itchy
rash implies an allergy but it can also be the detoxification of heavy metals or yeast
overgrowth caused by magnesium.
I dont think Ive seen any allergic reactions to magnesium but the human body is
so amazing, anything is possible. What most people experience with magnesium is often
an immediate (within 48 hours) improvement in one or more symptoms. And other
improvements often continue. However, there can be detox reactions or healing reactions
that occur such as the following:
1. If a person has mercury fillings, its possible that magnesium is detoxing mercury
from mouth tissues and that can show up on the skin but should be short lived (one to two
weeks). An individual can hasten the detox by using magnesium oil or having salts baths
and taking oral bentonite clay to absorb toxins.
2. If a person has acne or acne rosacea for which they are taking medication, the
skin could react with rashes and itching as the skin is acting as a detox organ.
3. In a more general sense, magnesium can start revving up the bodys motors in
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all the 325 enzyme systems for which magnesium is the ignition key. When that happens,
things can look very rosy for a short time, then the body can slump because it actually
wants more and more magnesium.
4. If you take more magnesium but get loose stools from it, you can be losing as
much as you take. At that point you should cut back on oral magnesium and add ReMag,
which you can take orally and use transdermally as a spray.
5. If after a few months you feel a slump or some twitching or cramping comes
back, that can be an indication of a need for calcium. Then you should add a calcium
magnesium product that has more magnesium than calcium.
4. Hi Dr. Dean, I bought your book and have started taking a magnesium citrate powder
this past week. I am also taking a prescription for Pristiq, for anxiety. Is it safe to be
taking the magnesium with the Pristiq since both are supposed to produce serotonin? Id
love to stop taking the Pristiq, but as you know you cant suddenly stop taking it. Thanks.
Answer: When I looked up Pristiq in an online drug manual it is an SSRI (serotonin
reuptake inhibitor) antidepressant with an off-label indication for anxiety. About 90 side
effects are listed.
Magnesium helps in the production of serotonin only when it is needed. Magnesium
and serotonin work on a feedback mechanism so serotonin is not made if there is already
enough in the body.
SSRI drugs kill the enzyme that breaks down serotonin, allowing it to build up in
the body. If an SSRI drug causes an elevation of serotonin, magnesium wont make more
because of the feedback loop. The same cant be said for the SSRI. Magnesium does many
things beyond helping to make serotonin to balance your mood. It supports the adrenals,
slows down the nervous system and creates muscle relaxation. Magnesium is very
beneficial for someone with anxiety - on or off drugs.
5. Can children and pregnant women take the mineral magnesium?
Answer: This is a great question. Magnesium is absolutely necessary for a healthy
pregnancy. It should be a requirement like folic acid, which prevents spina bifida.
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Magnesium prevents constipation, fluid retention, high blood pressure and all the
symptoms of eclampsia. Midwives used to call magnesium the salts. They probably used
Epsom salts in baths. However, its not safe to take Epsom salts by mouth; its not food
grade and can be contaminated with heavy metals. For children, you can put to 1 cup of
Epsom salts in a bath or if you want a completely pure source of magnesium use 1-2 ounces
of magnesium oil in a bath. The magnesium in Epsom salts and magnesium oil will be
absorbed through the skin.
6. I recently read your book The Magnesium Miracle and began implementing
magnesium oil supplementation. Huge change! I feel great, my energy levels are much
higher and I have an overall feeling of wellbeing. Thank you. Just had a quick question
though. Would magnesium chloride (in powder form) absorb in the skin the same way
magnesium oil does? Just trying to think of creative ways to give magnesium to the kiddo.
Maybe Ill add it to the baby powder.
Answer: For children, its probably best to put magnesium in a bath. Powder on the skin
is not likely to be absorbed.
7. I have a question. Can taking magnesium (about 200mg) two hours before bedtime
cause insomnia at first? I have had a real difficult time falling to sleep the last two nights
since I began taking magnesium citrate in a powder form.
Answer: If magnesium has been deficient for some time, when you begin to take
magnesium it can start can start revving up the bodys motors in all the 325 enzyme
systems for which magnesium is the ignition key. If you take your magnesium at night
hoping for sleep, it might give you more energy as the 325 enzyme systems are activated
as your body is trying to slow down for sleep. But that will pass.
8. I was told if I take Ativan (half a .05 pill a day) that I cannot take magnesium because
it will interact. Is this true? I would like to take magnesium.
Answer: I looked up Ativan in my online drug book and searched three areas: Doses, Uses
and Warnings; Detailed Monograph; and Patient Handout. Nothing was said about an
interaction between magnesium and Ativan. I did see a list of 56 side effects however.
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The only possible interaction I can see is that if you take magnesium with Ativan
you would end up needing less Ativan. And hopefully you would eventually need no
Ativan if you take magnesium to calm anxiety and nervousness.
9. In February I was given a prescription for a heartburn medication that has made me
anxious and ill ever since. I thought I was losing my mind. Until yesterday I had no idea
that it could be related to the medication. I purchased your book and I was searching for
information online and stumbled across many people struggling with the same
symptoms. I believe that due to the medicine (a proton pump inhibitor) my body has not
been properly absorbing vitamins and minerals, including magnesium. I also suspect I
have yeast because of taking lots of antibiotics. It could be the culprit for the heartburn
Ive been experiencing that the medication was supposed to correct in the first place. I
have struggled with panic attacks off and on since I was a teenager and Im not in my
early thirties. Off and on through that time I was taking some sort of prescribed stomach
medication. Could these drugs be making me anxious?
Answer: Ive had more clients in their twenties and thirties consulting me for symptoms
of anxiety and panic attacks. Their stories include years of antibiotics, antacids and proton
pump inhibitors that have thrown their bodies completely off balance. At this stage it takes
more than just a few doses of magnesium to undo the damage. Proton pump inhibitors shut
down the acid-making ability of the stomach. Without acid, the stomach contents dont get
digested properly. The food begins to ferment in the stomach and causes reflux and
heartburn. Minerals arent properly converted to an absorbable form in the absence of
stomach acid, so the deficiencies begin. Symptoms worsen when drugs are used to treat
more symptoms as most of these young people end up on antidepressants and anti-anxiety
medication.
On top of all that most of the commonly prescribed drugs contain fluoride to try
and make the drug stronger. It may do that but it also binds up magnesium making it
unavailable to the body! You have to take much more magnesium in order to overcome the
losses caused by these prescription drugs.
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10. Ive started using magnesium oxide capsules and I could not keep my eyes open. It
made me tired all day.
Answer: Ive gotten many variations of this question throughout the last 10 years. I think
that people who really need magnesium, as shown by their symptoms and checking off
several of the magnesium factors, can have such a deficit that in the beginning its like they
cant get enough of it.
However, taking magnesium oxide, which is only four percent absorbed is like
teasing your body. Its not going to get as much as it wants without causing a laxative
effect. You begin to prime the pump with magnesium oxide, you turn on the 700-800
magnesium enzyme systems, the body starts gearing up, but then there isnt enough
magnesium being absorbed to follow through on all the jobs you just started. See the
various types of magnesium in the section Different Forms of Magnesium. Taking
magnesium citrate powder in water throughout the day will give you a higher absorption.
Taking Pico-Ionic magnesium will give almost 100 percent absorption and should help
break through the initial tiredness as your magnesium stores build up.
Another way to look at initial tiredness with magnesium is that since its a
detoxifying cofactor for the liver, you could be going through a natural healing reaction
phase. As your body is eliminating toxins you feel tired and just want to sleep. The best
way to handle this type of reaction is to sleep as much as possible, drink lots of water, and
encourage detoxification through the bowels by using psyllium seed powder and foodgrade bentonite clay.
11. Ive developed an arrhythmia. My doctor started me on Bystolic for my blood pressure
and [is] suggesting Coumadin. I usually take magnesium with my calcium. Ive started
taking a magnesium supplement separately. Do you think it will help with the
arrhythmia? What do you think of the Bystolic and Coumadin? Bystolic is lowering my
blood pressure, but not helping the arrhythmia. Any input would be appreciated.
Answer: Although I cant answer personal health questions, I will give some general
answers. Bystolic is a beta blocker that slows the heart rate and decreases the muscle
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contractility; it also relaxes blood vessels and is mostly used for blood pressure.
Magnesium does all these thingsand more. Magnesium should always be the first line of
treatment for arrhythmia and blood pressure. At the Nutritional Magnesium Association,
you can view the video called The Balance Between Calcium and Magnesium at
http://www.nutritionalmagnesium.org. When there is too much calcium relative to
magnesium, the heart gets irritable and can produce an irregular heartbeat.
Coumadin is the treatment doctors use to prevent blood clotting. Magnesium also
works on this level by detoxifying the blood to keep it from becoming too thick. It is also
a mild blood thinner, but doesnt work the same way as Coumadin, so people can take both
without side effects.
12. Im writing about my husband. He has all the symptoms of being magnesium
deficient and I would like to have him start taking it. My concern is the medicine he is
already taking for his problems. The doctors say he has heart failure, which was
diagnosed two years ago. He is diabetic (insulin dependent) and has always had a lot of
fluid retention in his legs. These are the medications he is taking: Protonox, Furosemide
(lasix), Digoxin, Diovan, Potassium, Coreg CR, Simvastatin, Coumadin, Aspirin, Insulin
Humalin and Humalog. I wish you had a practice here in our area so we could go and
talk with you.
I wrote to you about my sleep problem three weeks ago.
Hope to hear from you about my husbands dilemma with all the meds he is taking.
Answer: Im sorry to hear that your husband is having such a hard time and on almost a
dozen medications. If someone is taking potassium then they surely need magnesium. They
are both kicked out of the body by diuretics like Lasix. You notice I say someone. I cant
diagnose or prescribe in my writing but I do know that magnesium is a very safe mineral
and a life-saving mineral. Its as safe as taking potassium. Its probably safer than
potassium, actually, because if you take too much magnesium orally, then your body gets
rid of it by giving you loose bowel movements. When people are on so many meds they
start taking magnesium very slowly and then find their doctor can lower their drug intake.
As you know from reading my book, magnesium can strengthen the heart, lower blood
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pressure, lower blood sugar, lower cholesterol, and thin the blood. Since it can do all those
things, people who are on so many meds should inform their doctor that they are going to
take magnesium to help their body and help reduce their drug intake.
13. Please remind me of the physiologically desirable ratio of calcium to magnesium.
Most people are consuming drinking water that comes from either surface sources
which are relatively depleted in both calcium and magnesiumor deep groundwater
sources which tend to contain too much calcium (depending on the geochemistry of the
specific bedrock unit) or too much sodium from the exchange of both calcium and
magnesium that takes place in water softeners and that is harmful to the heart.
Answer: Many of the epidemiological studies about the benefits of magnesium come from
studying peoples health and what kind of water they were drinking. In areas where the
water is high in magnesium, there is less heart disease. In areas where calcium is high,
there is more heart disease. As for the best ratio for the intake of calcium and magnesium,
the jury is still out. There are so many factors involved that its very difficult to set a
standard ratio. As I wrote in The Magnesium Miracle, magnesium comprises about two
percent of the earths crust and 1.14 percent of seawater. Calcium makes up three percent
of the earths crust but only 0.05 percent of seawater. So, right there we know that calcium
is a much harder mineral because it doesnt dissolve in seawater nearly as readily as
magnesium. Ive made the point many times that calcium doesnt dissolve in the
bloodstream without the help of magnesium.
Magnesium makes up about 0.05 percent of the bodys weight but the proportion is
much larger for calcium at two percent. The amount of magnesium in bone is only 2-2.5
percent.
Approximately 70 percent of bone weight is accounted for by calcium phosphate
crystals. Calcium constitutes a larger proportion of the body weight (about two percent)
than does any other of the inorganic elements. It is very unevenly distributed in the body;
over 99 percent of the total amount being in the bones.
14. Thank you, Carolynyou are truly an inspiration! I am learning so muchwhere
else can one find such valuable information and be able to trust it? I have one question
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about magnesium: I started several years ago taking magnesium chloride for restless
legs (believe it or not a doctor recommended it) and realized it was also a good laxative
so have continued taking it (they grind it at my drug store). Everyone seems to refer to
magnesium oxide so Im wondering if this is a good idea to continue taking this form?
Answer: Magnesium chloride is a very good source of magnesium, much like magnesium
citrate but the taste is stronger so its not used as much as magnesium citrate in the US.
A doctor friend of mine in Peru has a magnesium company and he uses magnesium
chloride in his products exclusively. Magnesium oxide is only absorbed about four percent.
Magnesium chloride and citrate, about 15 percent. Whats not absorbed becomes laxative.
When people get too much of a laxative effect, I recommend oral ReMag and
ReMag spray. Because its 100 % absorbed at the cellular level it has no laxative effect.
More research should be done on the absorption rates and percentages of all the forms of
magnesium. But thankfully people are hearing about magnesium and using it and finding
out about its health benefits.
15. I think I used too much transdermal oil last night for the first time. I could not fall
asleep. I did not have this problem with magnesium citrate powder. I took them both
together last night. I have not taken calcium in a while. I thought maybe that I had taken
too much magnesium without calcium so I took 300mg calcium citrate. I woke up with
a leg cramp! That has not happened in weeks. Should I just get my calcium from food
for now?
Answer: Read the section When Magnesium Makes Me Worse and read my ReMyte book
for the food list that will show you how to get all the calcium you need from your diet. My
ReMyte book is called Invisible Minerals Part II Multiple Minerals and is available as a
free download under the INFO section at RnA Reset.
16. Thanks for a great book. I have read it over and over to make sure I dont miss a
thing. I am a little confused on when to add calcium after starting on magnesium. In
your book you recommend to start calcium after three months on the magnesium. I am
afraid to take calcium. Last week I took two antacids (a calcium carbonate), not realizing
the high dose of calcium, and my feet and legs cramped for days. Could you please give
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me advice on introducing calcium again? And can they be taken together? For now I
have been trying to do eat food sources with calcium and keeping a log.
Answer: Calcium and magnesium intake is very individual and there hasnt been enough
research on this or on the various rates of absorption of magnesium from foods and
supplements to give a definitive answer.
Also, in our diet we obtain much more calcium from foods than we do magnesium.
In produce, calcium and magnesium are found together, so I dont hold to the notion that
as supplements they should be taken apart.
You can check lists of calcium-rich foods and get an estimate of how much you
might be getting in your diet. Its usually in the order of 500mg per day for calcium in a
good diet but only about 150mg per day for magnesium. Thats why I often recommend
that people start by taking a magnesium supplement and just eat enough calcium-rich foods
to meet their calcium requirements of 500-700mg per day.
Its very difficult to judge symptom relief when you just take calcium; when you
first begin to take it you can actually feel its helping your magnesium deficiency symptoms
because, to keep a balance, the extra calcium is forcing magnesium out of storage.
However, after a few months on magnesium alone, if you dont feel you are getting enough
calcium from your diet, you can start taking calcium but in a ratio of two to three parts
magnesium to one part calcium. I mainly recommend angstrom calcium in an effort to
avoid the build-up of calcium that can occur with other forms.
17. Magnesium seems to bother my stomach, giving me diarrhea. I mostly use
magnesium malate. I tried magnesium gel, but it is sticky and doesnt feel like it absorbs.
I was diagnosed with ulcerated colitis and before that any NSAID bothered my stomach.
MSM is the only pain supplement that helps. Any suggestions for another magnesium?
Answer: Personally, I have a problem with oral magnesium causing loose stools. Also,
when I was researching for my book, IBS for Dummies, I realized I had to find some form
of magnesium that would not cause a laxative effect. I found magnesium oil applied to the
skin to be a non-laxative product and wrote about it in the second edition of The Magnesium
Miracle. Then I discovered Pico-Ionic minerals. You can read about these two non-laxative
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forms of magnesium in the section Different Forms of Magnesium.

18. I came across your book and website and started taking magnesium (250mg x 2 per
day). However, one of the side effects that I am getting is a flushing and redness of my
face. Is that normal? Will this go away?
And a similar question:
I just finished reading your book, The Magnesium Miracle and loved it. I started taking
magnesium citrate powder but after the second day, my face got red and blotchy.
Nowhere in the book could I find any information on possible negative or allergic
reactions to magnesium. On a good note, my foot cramps and twitching are gone!
Answer: I dont know specifically whats causing the flushing/redness of your face with
magnesium but I do know that when Ive had IV magnesium, I get that reaction and many
people do. When flushing is specific to a certain body part, I wonder if its the magnesium
flushing out toxins from that particular area. The face is often targeted because of old dental
anesthetic stored in tissues or dental amalgams with mercury.
19. I have read a lot of information lately about the importance and benefit of taking
malic acid with magnesium for fibromyalgia. You havent mentioned it in your blog.
What is your comment on malic acid?
Answer: I speak about the magnesium malate studies in my book. The malate part of the
compound is derived from malic acid, which comes from apples or can be made in a lab.
Malic acid is a chemical that is involved with energy production. It seems to be helpful to
some people but Ive never seen great improvements in fibromyalgia in patients using malic
acid as a supplement. Whereas I have seen great improvements when people are taking
enough magnesium.
20. Please comment on the effects of magnesium stearate as a filler in so many
supplements.
Answer: Magnesium stearate is a compound created by combining stearic acid (a product
of coconut oil or palm oil) and magnesium. Its a white substance and just like coconut oil
it melts at about 88C. Its regarded as entirely harmless, is not absorbed and really has no
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effects on the body in the small amounts that are present. Magnesium stearate is used for
its lubricating and no-stick properties to prevent manufacturing ingredients from sticking
to equipment during the process of compressing of solid tablets. So, youll often see the
name on your supplement labels.
22. I have a question relating to magnesium citrate powder. A friend is going through
thyroid balancing with her doctor. She would like to take magnesium but was told not to
have any mineral supplements until the thyroid was balanced. Why would it matter if
she does?
Answer: I cant think of any reason why a person on thyroid medication should be denied
minerals. However, in spite of the epidemic of iodine deficiency and hypothyroidism in
the U.S. and possibly around the world, doctors seem to be afraid of iodine. So her doctor
may have wanted to warn her against iodine but cast his net over all minerals, instead.
23. My question is, I have a mom that is in the nursing home and her doctors dont
believe in supplements, much less fungus in the intestinal tract, even though after being
scoped the doctor said she has yeast all the way down her esophageal tract. My question
is: would it be okay to give her olive leaf extract, grapefruit seed extract, garlic, fish oil,
probiotics etc? She takes meds for numerous health issues, diabetes which is out of
control and the doctor says its fine in the 200s and 300s! She [also] has heart problems,
angina, and anxiety. She takes Paxil, Zantac, and Remeron. Whoa, right!! She also takes
Digoxin and Mylanta and drinks Pepto like its going out of style. And takes Advair
because she cant breathe. She currently is being treated for Clostridia. Her stomach
really hurts. I think all the meds and intestinal fungus are to blame. I tried to get her
doctor to prescribe Nystatin but he wont. Any suggestions? She needs help. I really think
they are trying to kill her. She is 78 years old.
Answer: Most people in nursing homes need magnesium, iodine (Iodorol), and the
antifungal Nystatin. I cant tell you whether it will be okay or not to use the supplements
you suggested with your Mom. Even with all the meds, be prepared to be accused of
causing side effects when you start taking natural supplements. Magnesium is the safest
and most beneficial supplement to introduce first and you can use the transdermal
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magnesium oil or gel. When family members are put in this terrible position, I just tell them
to go slowly and watch improvements happen and try to get the doctors to cut back on your
prescription medications.
24. I take my magnesium citrate at mealtimes with my food. Is this the best way to take
it to receive the maximum absorption?
Answer: Magnesium citrate is probably best taken with meals because being combined
with food slows down its digestion and therefore absorption, so more gets absorbed into
your tissues and less stays in your intestines to cause a laxative effect.
25. Last and least, Id like to address a critique from the comment section on
Amazon.com.
This book offers only weak anecdotal evidence and interlaces it with medical studies
which are outdated. Very few of the references are from reliable sources.
Answer: The Magnesium Miracle is a book that can easily be read by the layperson with
its many case histories. A case history is a clinical trial of One and is a perfectly valid way
for a person or a doctor to assess treatment. I also include over 400 references all from
peer-reviewed journals with all the scientific backup that may be required by a health
practitioner to understand the importance of magnesium. The forward to the book is written
by The Top Two magnesium researchers in the world. Together they have written 1,000
scientific papers about magnesium. Their work is cited throughout. I dont think you can
ask for anything better than that.
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MAGNESIUM PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS

Companies and products change, sometimes overnight. In March 2014, my distributor
stopped carrying my products but within 6 weeks I had a new Fulfillment House, a new
website and complete control over my Completement Formulas. You can always find
updated product recommendations on my Dr. Carolyn Dean website under Resources.
Pico-Ionic magnesium - ReMag and its companion product, ReMyte, are found at the RnA
Reset website.
LEARNING MORE & ASKING QUESTIONS

Every day I learn more that Id like to share about ReMag. I will keep updating the book;
this is Version 7. For more about ReMag as well as ReMyte, RnA Drops, ReAline and
ReNew join me on Dr. Carolyn Dean Live for my weekly two-hour radio show. Its on
Mondays at 4pm PST on Achieve Radio; just click on Studio A. Listen for the best way to
use these products and hear amazing personal testimonials. You may even become an
amazing testimonial yourself!
You can search the archives of my radio show on the Dr. Carolyn Dean Live
website and find complimentary copies of my ReMag and ReMyte books at RnA Reset
under the INFO Link.
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APPENDIX A: Manufacturers Words on ReMag and

ReMyte
To understand how ReMag and ReMyte are created requires a basic knowledge of the
chemistry of ions, ionization, ionization potential and mineral absorption. Some basic
Google searches using the above key words will provide the necessary background
information.
ReMag magnesium and ReMyte minerals are in the same form as found naturally
in our food. All these minerals are liquid, ionic, monatomic (individual ions of minerals in
solution) and can be described as picometer in size. There is no nanotechnology involved.
Picometers are units of measurement, nothing else. (There are one quadrillion,
1,000,000,000,000 picometers in a meter.)
ReMag and ReMyte are not just ionic solutions. Ions are a charge, not a size. Ions
in solution can still form large complexes or lattice structures, which increases their size
beyond that of an individual ion. They also have the tendency to bond with hydrogen and
oxygen to form magnesium oxides and hydroxides, both of which act as antacids
neutralizing stomach acid. They are also laxatives and difficult to digest, requiring
digestive energy to be absorbed.
Our technology ensures individual ions in solution remain individual (monoatomic)
and thus we distinguish them from weak complex ionic solutions by calling them picometer
minerals. The size of an individual ion, when ionic and not bound as a compound or to
other ions, falls in the picometer units of measurement. The size of the individual ion is
determined by the nature of the element in question and its atomic weight. An ion of
magnesium for example can only be as small as is allowed by the laws of Mother Nature.
For example, we cannot make a single atom of magnesium smaller; we can only ensure
that the atom does not combine with other atoms to form larger groups of atoms. Its the
same with ions. The size of a single monoatomic ion of magnesium is approximately 86
picometers. Our process ensures magnesium stays picometer-sized for maximum
absorption.
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The real secret of our process is that we control all the factors in the ionization
process so that the finished product is a monoatomic picometer-sized ionic form of
magnesium (as absorbed by roots systems of plants, released in our digestive system and
absorbed into cells). The ionization process itself is complex but is no different than what
occurs in nature every minute of the day.
To repeat, we dont allow the ions to bond into complex ionic groups or compounds
that require digestive energy to break down.
How does nature provide minerals to the human body? When we eat food (the ideal
most natural source of minerals) minerals are released from our food by the action of
hydrochloric acid and gastric juices in the stomach. Essentially the digestive juices ionize
the minerals in the food forming individual ions, not chelates or compounds or large
clusters of ions. Ions are the basis of biological energy and function.
It is only after the ions are freed from food, that ionized minerals, which carry a
positive electrical charge, will attach themselves to a very strong negatively charged
carrier, via chelation, or a carrier protein. They are then either passed through the body or
absorbed by the protein sites. Or they can pass into the intestine as unattached, positively
charged mineral ions for absorption by ionic receptor sites.
An ion is any atom or group of atoms that holds a positive or negative electrical
charge. Positively charged ions are known as cations (minerals form cations) while
negatively charged ions are called anions. Ions are formed by the addition of electrons to,
or the removal of electrons from, neutral atoms or molecules or other ions. It is generally
known that in order for a body to effectively and completely absorb minerals, they must
have an electrical charge attached in order to penetrate cellular barriers. We want the
mineral to be absorbed into the cell, not just into the blood stream.
This electrical charge exists surrounding the atom because the atom is either
missing an electron or has additional electrons within its surrounding area. This charge
causes the ions to interact, attracting or repelling each other in a search for another ion to
contribute or remove additional electrons. It is the charge on the particle that allows
minerals to activate the many functions they carry out within the body. But remember, an
ionically charged mineral can still be in a complex that makes it too big to enter into cells.
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Minerals are fundamentally catalysts, (reaction starters) and cofactors in metabolic

processes because of their electrical charge. The fluid surrounding our cells is saturated
with both cations and anions, as is the fluid inside our cells. Because of this separation of
atoms with specific electrical charges, an electrical gradient, or current, is formed across
the cell membrane. Because of this current that charged mineral IONIC particles can flow
more easily across the cell membrane. The mineral must be in an ionic state for this to
happen!
Ionic monoatomic minerals, of picometer size, are already have a charge and size
that the body recognizes and understands so they can be easily assimilated through the
selectively permeable cell membranes from head to toe. Ionic monoatomic minerals are
also easily transported across the highly selective cell membranes of the human digestive
tract. Because ionic minerals are charged, the body has to employ less energy in order to
absorb these minerals. However, some ions are bound to carrier proteins, or chelated, or
complexed to amino acids and must be dismantled into smaller parts and obtain an
electrical charge in order to cross the intestinal membrane.
The electrical (charged ions) gradient allows for the easy flow of ionic minerals
from an area of higher concentration (digestive tract from mouth to intestines) to an area
of lesser concentration (cells of the body).
The body absorbs monoatomic picometer ionic minerals with greater efficacy than
other forms of minerals, as most other minerals must undergo the complete processes of
digestion into smaller charged particles. In fact, the membranes lining our digestive tract
maintain their own specific electrical charge in the form of ionic receptors. The body
maintains this charge on the lining of membranes in order to facilitate the absorption of
nutrients. Different receptor areas maintain different charge qualities, allowing for the
attraction of the multitudes of nutrients that pass through the digestive tract.
It is our belief that supplying the body with minerals in the form that is equivalent
to minerals in food makes the most sense since the stomach makes ionic minerals from
food.
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Meet The Doctor of the Future

Dr. Dean is a medical doctor, naturopath, herbalist, acupuncturist, researcher and
formulator. Shes authored and co-authored over 33 books including The Magnesium
Miracle, IBS for Dummies, Hormone Balance and Death by Modern Medicine and 108
Kindle books. Dr. Dean is on the Medical Advisory Board of the non-profit Nutritional
Magnesium Association. She maintains an active Wellness Telephone Consulting Practice.
Dr. Dean won The Arrhythmia Alliance Outstanding Medical Contribution to Cardiac
Rhythm Management Services Award 2012 presented at The Heart Rhythm Congress
organized by the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), Sept 23-26, 2012. In September 2014 she
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Invisible Minerals Part I - Magnesium
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INVISIBLE MINERALS

MAGNESIUM FOR OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY ................................................. 32

MAGNESIUM DOSAGE ........................................................................................................... 42

CALCIUM RICH FOODS ......................................................................................................... 55

Magnesium and Healthy Nails ...........................................................................................................85

MAGNESIUM FOR THE ATHLETE ...................................................................................... 91

MAGNESIUM Q & A ............................................................................................................... 100

Invisible Minerals: Part I Magnesium

INTRODUCTION TO INVISIBLE MINERALS

Invisible Minerals: Part I Magnesium

Invisible Minerals: Part I Magnesium

What Science Says

Invisible Minerals: Part I Magnesium

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reported to be present in 70-80 percent of the population.

Invisible Minerals: Part I Magnesium

Invisible Minerals: Part I Magnesium

Invisible Minerals: Part I Magnesium

Magnesium Begins with Children

Invisible Minerals: Part I Magnesium

Excess Calcium Depletes Magnesium

Magnesium Deficiency Conditions

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Magnesium and Muscles

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antipsychotic. Or in some cases they are given all three.

Magnesium and Heart Disease

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Why Didnt Tim Russert Take Magnesium?

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Magnesium is a natural statin

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membranesand will not be produced in excess.

Do statins prolong life?

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The decline of Coenzyme Q-10

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Not in accord with our bodies

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Magnesium is natures calcium channel blocker 4,5,6

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Lets do the obvious

Magnesium for Anxiety and Panic Attacks

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Magnesium for Asthma

Magnesium for Blood Clots

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magnesium dissolves immediately and makes the calcium flakes disappear.

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Magnesium for Bones

Magnesium and Bowel Disease

Magnesium for Cystitis

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Magnesium for Depression

Magnesium for Detoxification

Magnesium for Diabetes

Magnesium for Fatigue

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at all but a lack of ATP!