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MAGNESIUM-DEFICIENT AMERICA

• Presented at the Healthy Harvest Natural Product
  Retailers Convention September 27, 2008.
• Dr. Carolyn Dean MD ND
• Phone Consultations for Health
• www.carolyndean.com

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OR The BUSINESS OF Health

• Are you in
• THE HEALTH BUSINESS

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If you want to help people plus build your
business

• Recommend Magnesium!
• The safest supplement
• Does not build up in the body
• Its only side effect is loose BMsa benefit to
  most people
• Inexpensive
• Delivers results
• Often immediately relieving cramps, improving
  sleep and energy, migraines, and intestinal
  motility

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Minerals Cant Be Made

• Our body can make some vitamins but it cant make
• Minerals
• We are dependant on food, water, supplements
  for our mineral requirements.

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American Soil is Magnesium Deficient

• Minerals from the mountains wash into rivers
  which flood the banks in the spring and enrich
  the soil.
• Soil organisms (bacteria and mycelia mushrooms)
  make minerals smaller so they can be absorbed by
  plant rootlets.
• Minerals are enveloped by plant proteins in a
  process called chelation, and become a water
  soluble mineral with plant access
• The minerals are now the correct size and
  electrical charge, perfect for absorption and
  assimilation by any animal/human

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The Magnesium Miracle

• Use this book as your third party tool to promote
  magnesium.
• Visit me at the Natural Vitality Booth all day
  Saturday.

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Magnesium a daily fact of life

• Magnesium is an essential cofactor in 325
  different enzymes in thousands of chemical
  reactions.
• Energy production
• Control of digestion, absorption, and the
  utilization of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.
  
• Cholesterol production and breakdown
• Temperature regulation
• Nerve and muscle firing

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How Magnesium Works!

• A unique video produced and narrated by Andrea
  Rosanoff PhD normally accompanies this slide show
  but has to be accessed through youtube.com. It is
  called Balancing Calcium and Magnesium.
• Dr. Rosanoff is co-author of the book "The
  Magnesium Factor" and is the Directing Scholar of
  the Center for Magnesium Education Research.
• What is shown on this video is cutting-edge
  science and has been validated by leading science
  experts in magnesium and cellular research.

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Magnesium creates energy

• Ask your customers - Are you fatigued?
• The most important magnesium enzyme creates
  energy by activating adenosine triphosphate
  (ATP), the fundamental energy molecule of the
  body.
• ATP may be what the Chinese refer to as Qi or
  life force.
• Magnesium is required for the body to be able to
  produce and store energy.

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Magnesium relaxes muscles

• Ask your customers - Do you have muscle cramps?
• Calcium causes contraction in skeletal muscle
  fibers, and magnesium causes relaxation.
• Too much calcium inside a cell causes muscle
  contraction-twitches, spasms, and convulsions.
• Smooth muscles with too much calcium and
  insufficient magnesium can affect
• The bronchial tract, causing asthma
• Muscles in the blood vessels, resulting in
  hypertension
• The fallopian tubes causing infertility
• The bladder causing frequency and pain
• Interstitial cystitis
• Painful periods

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Magnesium and the Heart

• Ask your Customers Do you want to prevent
  heart disease?
• Heart Disease and Stroke account for 40-50 of
  the annual death rate.
• Magnesium deficiency common in heart disease.
• Women have a higher death rate from heart disease
  than men.
• Women seem to require more magnesium than men.
• 30 of angina patients do not have badly blocked
  arteries but may be suffering from an
  electrical imbalance that is driven by mineral
  deficiency.

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Magnesium and the Heart

• 40-60 of MI sudden deaths are due to artery
  spasms. There is no artery blockage, clot
  formation or heart rhythm abnormalities.
• Magnesium is a natural anti-spasmodic.
• Magnesium deficiency has been linked to sudden
  cardiac deaths in the US for the past three
  decades.
• Magnesium is a natural calcium channel blocker.
  It should be the first line of treatment for
  hypertension.
• An analysis of seven major clinical studies
  showed that intravenous magnesium after acute
  heart attack reduced the risk of death by 55.

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Magnesium versus Statins

• Magnesium-ATP is the controlling factor for the
  enzyme that makes cholesterol and that enzyme is
  targeted for destruction by the statin
  pharmaceutical drugs.
• Andrea Rosanoff, PhD and Mildred S. Seelig, MD.
  Comparison of Mechanism and Functional Effects of
  Magnesium and Statin Pharmaceuticals Journal of
  the American College of Nutrition, Vol. 23, No.
  5, 501S-505S (2004)
• Magnesium is a natural statin.
• Statins affect formation of cholesterol in blood,
  but this cholesterol is required to make
  hormones, and to make cell membranes for all the
  cells in the body, including brain nerve cells.
• Side effects of statins muscle pain, impotence,
  memory loss, global amnesia, depletion of
  Coenzyme Q10.

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Goals of this lecture

• Dr. Dean will outline a magnesium eating plan and
  supplementation plan to treat
• heart disease
• anxiety
• muscle cramps
• diabetes
• women's health issues.

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Magnesium deficiency conditions

• Anxiety and Panic attacks
• Stress reaction, low blood sugar attack, fear,
  performance anxiety.
• Adrenaline and noradrenaline from the adrenal
  glands require Magnesium for production.
• Magnesium deficiency leads to erratic production
  and erratic release of these powerful hormones
• Chronic Magnesium deficiency leads to adrenal
  exhaustion

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Magnesium deficiency conditions

• 2. Asthma
• Spasming of the bronchial tubes.
• Bronchial spasms and histamine production (due to
  allergies) increase with Magnesium deficiency.
• Magnesium relaxes bronchial muscles.
• Musicians suffer exercise-induced asthma, like
  athletes.
• Triggers Dust, dampness, and mold.

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Magnesium deficiency conditions

• 3. Blood clots
• Magnesium prevents blood clots and keeps the
  blood thin - much like aspirin but without the
  side effects.
• Blood clots in the legs can travel to the heart,
  lungs, or brain.
• The most common trigger for blood clots in the
  legs is long periods of time sitting confined in
  airplanes.

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Magnesium deficiency conditions

• 4. Bowel disease
• Magnesium deficiency causes constipation
  (toxicity, malabsorption, colitis).
• Travel upsets diet, sleep, and the normal
  routine and is a trigger for constipation. More
  magnesium is needed when traveling.

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Magnesium deficiency conditions

• 5. Depression
• Serotonin-the feel-good hormone is dependent on
  Magnesium for its production. Prozac stops the
  breakdown of serotonin in the brain and allows it
  to build up.
• A Magnesium-deficient brain is more susceptible
  to allergens, excitotoxins (MSG, aspartame),
  chemicals, heavy metals, and foreign substances
  that can cause symptoms of irritability and
  depression.

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Magnesium deficiency conditions

• 6. Detoxification
• Magnesium is crucial for the removal of toxic
  substances including heavy metals such as
  mercury, aluminum and lead.

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Magnesium deficiency conditions

• 7. Diabetes
• Magnesium enhances insulin secretion,
  facilitating sugar metabolism. Without Magnesium
  insulin is not able to transfer glucose into
  cells.
• Glucose and insulin build up in the blood causing
  various types of tissue damage.
• Magnesium improves insulin sensitivity and
  metabolic control in diabetes.

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Magnesium deficiency conditions

• 8. Fatigue
• An early symptom of Magnesium deficiency is
  fatigue.
• Magnesium is required for the production of ATP,
  the basic energy source in the body.
• Magnesium deficiency reduces ATP and the power is
  turned off.

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Magnesium deficiency conditions

• 9. Heart disease
• 30 of angina patients do not have blocked
  arteries but may have an electrical imbalance
  that is driven by Magnesium deficiency.
• 40-60 of sudden deaths from heart attack occur
  without artery blockage, clot formation or heart
  rhythm abnormalities, from spasms in the arteries
  (magnesium is a natural anti-spasmodic)
• IV Magnesium should be used in hospitals for
  acute myocardial infarction and cardiac
  arrhythmia.
• Magnesium is natures calcium channel blocker.

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Magnesium deficiency conditions

• 10. Hypertension
• Magnesium deficiency causes spasms of blood
  vessels leading to high blood pressure.
• Diuretics, often the first treatment for BP,
  drain Magnesium as well as potassium.

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Magnesium deficiency conditions

• 11. Hypoglycemia-low blood sugar
• Magnesium is involved with the secretion of
  insulin from the pancreas and its action on
  blood sugar
• Insulin is overworked and acts erratically if the
  diet high in sugar and simple carbs.
• High sugar meal causes high insulin output
  leading to hypoglycemia

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Magnesium deficiency conditions

• 12. Insomnia
• Sleep-regulating melatonin production is
  disturbed without sufficient Magnesium.
• Magnesium relaxes muscles.
• Magnesium enhances a deeper level of sleep and
  dream production.

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Magnesium deficiency conditions

• 14. Migraine
• Serotonin balance is Magnesium-dependent. And
  deficiency of serotonin can result in migraine
  headaches and depression.
• IV Magnesium quickly reverses migraines.
• Magnesium, either alone or with B6 and feverfew
  treat most migraines.

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Magnesium deficiency conditions

• 15. Musculoskeletal conditions
• Magnesium Prevents and Treats
• Charlie horse
• Chronic neck and back pain
• Fibrositis
• Fibromyalgia
• Focal Dystonia
• Muscle spasms
• Muscle cramps
• Muscle twitches
• Restless Leg Syndrome

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Magnesium deficiency conditions

• 16. Nerve problems
• Magnesium Prevents and Treats
• Numbness and tingling
• Diabetic neuropathy
• Idiopathic neuropathy
• Central nervous symptoms of vertigo
• Central nervous symptoms of confusion

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Magnesium deficiency conditions

• 17. Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Magnesium Prevents and Treats
• Premenstrual Syndrome
• Dysmenorrhea (cramping pain during menses
• Premature contractions
• Preeclampsia, and eclampsia in pregnancy
• Pregnancy causes depleted magnesium
• Lessens the risk of cerebral palsy
• Lessens the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
  (SIDS).
• Infertility

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Magnesium deficiency conditions

• 18. Raynauds Syndrome
• Magnesium helps relax the spastic blood vessels
  that cause pain and numbness of the fingers.

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Magnesium deficiency conditions

• 19. Tooth decay
• Magnesium deficiency causes an unhealthy balance
  of phosphorus and calcium in saliva, which
  damages teeth.

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Magnesium deficiency conditions

• 20. Osteoporosis
• Calcium is not deposited into bone in the absence
  of sufficient Magnesium and Vitamin D
• Bisulphonate drugs like Fosamax destroy
  osteoclasts, which removes the repair and
  remodeling cells of the bone making them brittle
  and MORE susceptible to fracture.
• Fosamax is associated with osteonecrosis of the
  jawbone

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Calcium Overload

• The calcium-magnesium ratio is out of balance in
  our modern diet, creating greater magnesium
  deficiency
• Foods have more calcium than magnesium because of
  soil depletion
• Magnesium is depleted by processing and cooking
• High dose calcium supplements makes it even worse
• 61 ratio of calcium to magnesium is standard
• 21 ratio of calcium to magnesium is textbook
  advice
• 2 parts calcium3 parts magnesium ratio is
  necessary for treating a magnesium deficiency

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Calcium Toxicity

• Calcium is promoted to the exclusion of all other
  minerals
• Is excess calcium the cause of an increase in
  heart disease in women?
• Calcium toxicity causes gall stones, kidney
  stones, heel spurs, fibromyalgia, calcification
  in breast cysts because there is not enough
  magnesium to keep calcium in solution
• At the Bristol Cancer Center in England, on
  autopsy, every woman dying of bowel cancer had
  the lumen of the bowel full of toxic carbonate
  from calcium carbonate.

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The Consequences of Magnesium Deficiency
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Mg Deficiency Unrecognized

• In medical school the biochemistry of magnesium
  was very clear but we were not told to apply this
  knowledge clinically.
• Only 1 of the total body magnesium is in the
  blood
• That level is guarded closely to maintain a
  healthy heart beat making blood tests inaccurate
• A ionized magnesium test is not available to the
  public
• With the safety margin of magnesium, people can
  take it for symptoms and watch for improvement

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100 Symptoms of Magnesium Deficiency

• On page 16 of The Magnesium Miracle Ive
  outlined 100 factors in 68 categories that help
  identify magnesium deficiency.
• Symptoms range from alcohol intake, anger,
  angina, anxiety, arrhythmia and asthma to
  wheezing.
• Drop by the Natural Vitality booth to pick up a
  brochure listing these important magnesium
  deficiency factors as a guide for you and your
  customers.

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Magnesium Requirements

• Amount of Magnesium in the diet then and now
• 500 mg of magnesium in 1900
• 150 mg of magnesium in 2008
• RDA is 350-400 mg. Its too low!
• Double and triple amounts of magnesium are needed
  by
• People with high stress People in
  hospital
• Type A personalities People on poor diets
• Athletes and musicians Coffee Drinkers
• People on medications People eating sugar
• People having surgery People drinking alcohol

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Magnesium Eating Plan

• Eat significant amounts of magnesium rich foods
  that are organic, uncooked, unprocessed
• Seaweed
• Collards and kale (deep leafy greens)
• Whole grains
• Nuts and seeds
• Make a blender salad with water, collards, sea
  salt and sunflower seeds for a high magnesium
  snack.

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Take Oral Magnesium

• In the health food market, according to Dr. Paris
  Kidd, chelated magnesium is only 2 better
  absorbed than oral
• Magnesium is best absorbed if it is dissolved in
  water-especially warm water
• Take magnesium in divided doses to avoid the
  laxative effect
• Take 200 mg of magnesium citrate one to four
  times per day
• It is almost impossible to overdose on magnesium

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Magnesium Side effects

• Loose stool when taking too much at one time
• Contraindications
• It lowers blood pressurehigh amounts may not be
  good for someone with extremely low blood
  pressure or extremely low pulse rate (someone
  needing a pacemaker)
• Kidney failure

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