This After our preliminary excursion into the awareness aspect of healing, we now return to the biochemical. Just as vitamin D is probably the most versatile, safe, and cost effective vitamin, I nominate magnesium has the most versatile, safe, and cost-effective mineral. Magnesium is an area essential cofactor in 80% of the biochemical reactions that constantly go on in the body. This means that if you are magnesium deficient, 80% of your biochemistry is impaired.
Tony was in his late 20s when I first saw him. He had not been able to sleep well for seven years because he had restless legs syndrome. He was very fatigued. An intravenous infusion of magnesium and vitamin B6 stopped the restless legs like hanging stops a horse thief. Tony began to take magnesium and B6 by mouth. Restless legs started again after a few days. I gave him another IV which was the last one he needed. When I heard from him several months later he was free of restless legs syndrome but it started to return if he forgot to take magnesium and B6.
How may magnesium deficiency show up in your life? As you might suspect, since 80% of your biochemistry is impaired, there can be many symptoms. Some of the more his common are:
Restless legs syndromeWeakness
Inappropriate fatigue
Muscle twitching
Muscle pain and soreness
Shooting pains
Sound sensitivity
Light sensitivity
Irritability
Delayed recovery from from exercise
Magnesium deficiency may also be a complicating factor in:
Congestive heart failure
Arrhythmias
Asthma
Migraine
Hypertension
Increased risk of death from heart attack
There is a hidden epidemic of magnesium deficiency because:
there is very little magnesium in food produced by agribusiness. Analysis has shown that organically grown food has 10 times the magnesium content of agribusiness food.
Magnesium is difficult to absorb even when taken in adequate quantities.
Overstress causes increased loss of magnesium through the kidneys while at the same time interfering with absorption from the gut.
Another hidden epidemic, gluten sensitivity, causes gut damage that further impairs absorption.
Eating large quantities of sugar increases renal loss of magnesium.
Jennifer was in her 50s when she began to have a esophageal spasms when she ate. These were painful and frightening because she could not swallow and she felt she was strangling. Magnesium injections quickly relieved the spasms. She started taking magnesium and B6 by mouth which reduced her need for injections from once or twice a week to once every several weeks.
