How Diet and Lifestyle Can Create a Dangerous Magnesium Deficiency

According to Dr. Norman Shealy, every known illness is associated with a magnesium deficiency and low levels of the hormone DHEA. DHEA is the health and youth hormone. If DHEA is low, magnesium is low.

They go together. Even a 10% increase in magnesium and DHEA levels is associated with a 48% decrease in death from cardiovascular disease and a 36% decrease in mortality: from all causes. The human being has the only body that has a significant level of DHEA.

There is a long list of DHEA/magnesium deficiency symptoms. They are anxiety, hyperactivity, confusion, depression, diarrhea or constipation, faintness, fatigue, hyperventilation, lack of coordination, insomnia, intestinal problems, muscle cramps, muscle tightness, pain, poor memory, seizures, tinnitus and vertigo; and these are just the symptoms!

Diseases associated with DHEA/ magnesium deficiency include asthma, atherosclerosis, cancer, chronic fatigue, chronic bronchitis, congestive heart failure, depression, diabetes, emphysema, hypertension, intermittent claudication (leg calf pain), kidney stones, migraine, osteoporosis, panic attacks, PMS (premenstrual syndrome), benign prostate hypertrophy and strokes.

Here’s an insert for my interview  with Dr. Norman Shealy

First of all, most people don’t eat enough green vegetables, which are a major source of magnesium. Second, our soil is rather highly depleted, except here on our farm and a few like it. It’s just not in the soil. In fact, cattle farmers have known for many decades that if they do not add magnesium to the feed of their cattle, the cattle will die of something called grass staggers, which looks almost like epilepsy. It just isn’t that available.

In addition, the absorption of magnesium takes place mostly in the large intestine, so if your gut transit time, the time from mouth to out, is less than 12 hours, you don’t absorb it well. There are other things that interfere with the absorption of magnesium, like too much calcium and fat. Do you know how you make lye soap? You mix fat with lye, calcium, and magnesium. You have what I call an internal soap-suds enema if you have a lot of fat in your diet when you’re getting your magnesium in.

Magnesium absorption: We’ve found that orally, it’s extremely poorly absorbed. It takes up to 12 months to get your cell levels back up to normal trying any of the oral preparations. The best one is magnesium taurate, which is magnesium attached to a taurine molecule. For over 10 years, we gave every patient 10 shots IV, two grams of magnesium chloride.

Then we discovered about 10 years ago that if we actually use magnesium chloride in a lotion on the skin, within four to six weeks, you can replace your intercellular magnesium levels. That is 10 to 12 times faster than doing it orally. The other thing that’s really interesting is that giving it IV or orally does not raise DHEA, or Dehydroepiandrosterone. Giving it through the skin does raise DHEA as well as magnesium levels. In fact, that’s one of my patents. 

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