By Bob Livingston
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Many people have strokes and heart attacks even though they have no high cholesterol and no high blood pressure. However, they do have nutritional deficiencies specific to the human heart.
In his book, Holy Water, Sacred Oil; the Fountain of Youth, C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., explains how low magnesium levels affect our health:
As a single essential (heart and high blood pressure) nutrient, lack of magnesium may be responsible for more diseases than any other nutrient — our diet of white flour, white sugar and prescription drugs destroys magnesium.
Magnesium is the most critical mineral required for the electrical stability of every cell in the body. With few exceptions, low or deficient DHEA magnesium is found in every illness. The majority of Americans lose 80-90% of their DHEA magnesium between the ages 30 and 80, accelerating the aging process.
In perhaps no illness is magnesium deficiency more relevant than myocardial infarction (and high blood pressure) or acute heart attack and aging.
Remember that blood pressure and heart failure (low pumping power of the heart) respond quickly to proper nutrition, and nutrition means specific nutrients, not just food.
That means that proper nutrition for the heart alleviates the “underlying conditions” that you hear about, which have been so deadly for those who have developed the illnesses caused by the pathogens ever-present in our environment, and the junk currently affecting everyone right now.
As I have written to you many times, it’s these underlying conditions themselves that make you vulnerable to sickness, and the true culprit underlying the “underlying conditions,” if you will, is a severe lack of nutrients for the body. As many as 90 percent of us may be magnesium deficient.
What causes magnesium deficiency?
There was time when most of the magnesium the body needed was found in the foods we ate. But the nutrition provided by the crops we consume has declined significantly since then. According to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, the nutrient content of crops had declined by as much as 40 percent between 1950 and 2004 when the study was conducted.
It is one of the best arguments for supplementing our diet — even if we eat lots of vegetables! — with magnesium, potassium and other organic minerals.
Low magnesium levels contribute to heart disease and cardiac arrest, depression, kidneys stones, muscle cramps and twitching, nervous system problems, low kidney function, and a host of other problems. So many of us have these problems that in all likelihood, your magnesium levels are dangerously low.
But Bob, what does this mean for dealing with viruses?
First, make sure you are not ejecting magnesium, because some foods and drinks contribute to leaching magnesium from the body.
- Carbonated beverages contain phosphates that bind with magnesium in the digestive tract, rendering it unavailable to the body.
- Foods processed using refined sugars are “anti-nutrients” that consume nutrients during digestion, resulting in a net loss of nutrients.
- Caffeinated beverages cause the kidneys, which filter and excrete minerals, to release extra magnesium.
- Alcoholic beverages also cause the kidneys to excrete extra magnesium.
- And many prescription medications — particularly heart and asthma medications, birth control pills, estrogen replacement therapies and diuretics — cause the kidneys to excrete magnesium.
Is it any wonder that so many older folks, who take three or more prescriptions a day for underlying conditions, are vulnerable to viruses — the flu, or coronavirus, or any other?
There are also some telltale signs of magnesium deficiency. They are:
- Calcium deficiency
- Poor heart health
- Weakness
- Muscle cramps
- Tremors
- Nausea
- Anxiety
- High blood pressure
- Type II diabetes
- Respiratory issues
- Dizziness
- Fatigue
- Potassium deficiency
- Difficulty swallowing
- Poor memory
- Confusion
Again, these are many of the same symptoms people complain of when they have the coronavirus. Is it such a surprise that people with these underlying conditions have them worsen when getting a virus?
The body needs nutrition for immune defense!
How much?
Adults need at least 400 mg of magnesium daily. It’s best as a gluconate, picolinate, lactate, sulfate or aspartate. But most government dietary surveys indicate that people obtain less than that amount from their diets — sometimes as little as 50 percent of the magnesium they need for good health!
To boost your intake of this beneficial mineral, include more magnesium-rich foods in your daily diet, such as roasted pumpkin and squash seeds, bran cereal, brazil nuts (which also have selenium), almonds, cashews, pine nuts, oil-roasted peanuts, halibut and spinach.
I have talked to you many times about vitamin D, but you must make sure you are getting enough minerals with your vitamin D. Too much vitamin D coupled with insufficient magnesium leads to even greater magnesium deficiency because magnesium is necessary and used by the body as it metabolizes vitamin D.
What about milk for vitamin D? The USDA does not tell you that you need magnesium, and also does not tell you that pasteurized milk is poor in magnesium and that it interferes with magnesium metabolism. The synthetic vitamin D in the store-bought milk binds magnesium making it unavailable to your body.
To increase your magnesium, you are best to avoid milk, and take in 600 milligrams daily of elemental magnesium and eating leafy greens, nuts, seeds and bananas.
Additional magnesium can be obtained in the form of a topical salve. Magnesium liquids rubbed on penetrate the skin, making it possible to get much more magnesium into the body.
There is no fear of overload of magnesium in the diet. Any excess is excreted harmlessly. Magnesium supplementation can bring on diarrhea in some people the first few days, but it does not last long.
