Magnesium – The Lamp of Life  

Inside chlorophyll is the lamp of life and that lamp is magnesium  

The capture of light energy from the sun is magnesium dependent.  Magnesium is the element that causes plants to be able to convert light into energy and chlorophyll is identical to hemoglobin except the magnesium atom at the center has been taken out and iron put in.  Chlorophyll is identical to hemoglobin except iron substitute for magnesium. Chlorophyll is vital for the body’s assimilation of amino acids and for synthesis of enzymes. 

Without magnesium sitting inside the heart of chlorophyll, plants would not be able to take nutrition from the sun because the process of photosynthesis would not go on.  When magnesium is deficient things begin to die.  One cannot take a breath, move a muscle, or think a thought without enough magnesium in our cells. It is considered an essential plant mineral salt. 

Chlorophyll is structured around a magnesium atom, while in animals, magnesium is a key component of cells, bones, tissues and just about every physiological process you can think of.  Magnesium is primarily an intracellular cation; roughly 1% of whole-body magnesium is found extracellularly.

Insulin and Magnesium  

Magnesium is necessary for both the action of insulin and the manufacture of insulin.

Without insulin, magnesium doesn’t get transported from our blood into our cells where it is most needed.  Healthy people who are on magnesium-deficient diets, their insulin became less effective at getting sugar from their blood into their cells, where it’s burned or stored as fuel.

The task of insulin is to store excess nutrition resources, regulate sugar and magnesium entry into cells, storing magnesium in cells, but in insulin resistance it is difficult to store magnesium inside cells. 

Insulin – Magnesium relationship:

• A decrease of magnesium in cells increases insulin resistance
• Decrease in magnesium increases pancreas output of insulin
• Magnesium is important for insulin effectiveness
• Low serum and intracellular magnesium concentrations are associated with insulin resistance, impaired glucose tolerance, and decreased insulin secretion
• When insulin processing becomes problematic magnesium gets excreted through our urine instead and this is the basis of what is called magnesium wasting disease.

Magnesium and DNA  

Magnesium has a critical role in cell division.  It has been suggested that magnesium is necessary for the maintenance of an adequate supple of nucleotides for the synthesis of RNA and DNA.

DHEA – Magnesium – Cholesterol

Cancer and infections are both increasing and one of the reasons is reduced availability of DHEA, which stems from magnesium deficiency.  DHEA appears to restore immune balance and stimulate monocyte production (the cells that attack tumors), B-cell activity (the cells that fight disease causing organisms), T-cell mobilization (infection fighting T-cells have DHEA binding sites), and protection of the thymus gland (which produces T-cells).  The data suggest that DHEA has a role in the neuro-endocrine regulation of the antibacterial immune resistance.

Cholesterol cannot be synthesized without magnesium and cholesterol is a vital component of many hormones.  Aldosterone interestingly needs magnesium to be produced and it also regulates magnesium’s balance.  Magnesium decreases triglycerides , lowers LDL-C and increases HDL-C.

Transdermal is the ultimate way to replenish cellular magnesium levels.  Every cell in the body bathes and feeds in it and even DHEA levels are increases naturally.

Magnesium chloride, when applied transdermally, is reported to increase DHEA.  Studies link low levels of DHEA to chronic inflammation, immune dysfunction, depression, rheumatoid arthritis, type-II diabetic complications, greater risk for certain cancers, heart disease and osteoporosis.

 

Magnesium and Glutathione  

Without sufficient magnesium, the body accumulates toxins and acid residues, degenerates rapidly, and ages prematurely.

Low magnesium is associated with dramatic increases in free radical generation as well as glutathione depletion and this is vital.  Glutathione requires magnesium for its synthesis; glutathione decreases mercury.

Magnesium deficiency causes glutathione loss, which is not affordable because glutathione helps to defend the body against damage from cigarette smoking, exposure to radiation, cancer, chemotherapy, and toxins such as alcohol and just about everything else. 

Medical truth and the test of time

Depression and many other psychological disorders are most readily treated with magnesium. Magnesium is the lamp of life; it operates at the core of physiology.  Though other substances like vitamin C, Alpha lipoic acid, selenium and iodine are powerful competitors they cannot compare in sheer healing horsepower to magnesium, though iodine comes the closest.

Magnesium Medicine

Magnesium chloride treatments address systemic nutritional deficiencies, act to improve the function of our cells and immune system and helps protect cells from oxidative damage.  When used with oral administration, transdermal magnesium therapy offers us the opportunity to get dosages up to the powerful therapeutic range without compromising intestinal comfort through oral use alone. 

There is no wonder drug that can claim, in the clear, what magnesium chloride can do.  Most people will show dramatic improvements in the state of their health when they replete their magnesium levels and the very best way to do that is with magnesium chloride applied transdermally (baths and body spraying), orally, vaporized into the lungs, diluted for use with ones eyes, intravenously, and even in douches and enemas. 

 

References:

-     Paolisso G, Scheen A, D’Onofrio F, Lefebvre p: Magnesium and glucose homeostasis.  Diabetologia 33:511-514.  1990[medline]

-         Nadler, JL, bucjaman T, Matarajan R, Antonipillai, Bergman R, Rude R: magnesium deficiency produces insulin resistance and increased thromboxane synthesis. Hypertension 21: 1024 – 1029, 1993

-         Ma J, Folsom AR, Melnick SL, Eckfeldt JH, Sharrett AR, Nabulso AA, Hutchinson RG, Metcalf PA: Associations of serum and dietary magnesium with cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, insulin, and carotid wall thickness: the ARIC study. J Clin Epidemiol 48:927-940, 1985

-         Rosolove H, Mayer O Jr. Reaven GM: insulin-mediated glucose disposal is decreased in normal subjects with relatively low plasma magnesium concentrations.  Metabolism 49:418-420, 2000 [medline]

-         Critical role of magnesium ions in DNA polymerase closing and active site assembly. Linjing Yang, karunesh Arora, William A. Beard, Sameul H. Wilson, Tamar Schlick.  Department of chemistry and courant institute of mathematical sciences, New York University.

General Uses for Magnesium Oil

For the Skin: Sprayed on sun damaged skin regularly will begin to rejuvenate from the inside out and after a few months will be significantly restored. Helps with wrinkles as well as hair health and growth.

Dental: As a mouthwash sprayed into the mouth it is excellent for the gums and pushes the mouths ph up. Strengthens teeth and is excellent for gingivitis. It is magnesium, not calcium, which helps form hard tooth enamel resistant to decay.

Mucus Membranes: People have used low concentrations for nose and eye washes and even for application in the vagina. (Beware of stimulative effect).

General Tonic: Magnesium Chloride is a strong tonic boosting all aspects of cell physiology and energy production. Magnesium is essential for life as it participates in over 325 enzyme reactions. Expect more energy, strength and endurance and even increased sexual energy.

Sports: Magnesium is perhaps the single most important mineral to sports nutrition. Over 70% of the U.S. population is magnesium deficient. This is true especially of athletes. During vigorous exercise, people loose through their sweat critical minerals, the most important being magnesium. Adequate magnesium level will help your body against fatigue, heat exhaustion, blood sugar control and metabolism.

Pain Relief: Transdermal magnesium chloride treatments are essential in the treatment of sport injuries and the aches and pains of sore muscles.

Natural Immune System Booster: Dr. A. Neveu observed that magnesium chloride has no direct effect on bacteria (i.e. it is not an antibiotic). Thus he thought that its action was a specific, immune-enhancing, so it could be useful against viral diseases.

Memory and Cognitive Function: Magnesium deficit may lead to decreased memory and learning ability, while an abundance of magnesium may improve cognitive function in children and the elderly.