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15 Dec 2013, 9:27 am

Don't know if any body has come across this before but am trying it myself and it seems to be helping with the migraines

http://drsircus.com/medicine/magnesium/ ... -diagnosis


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15 Dec 2013, 10:03 am

1. Not published in a peer-review journal. / Not vetted by peer-group review.

2. Pitched by the same person selling Magnesium supplements.

3. Not worth injuring your child to find out that it doesn't work.



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15 Dec 2013, 10:04 am

Magnesium deficiency is a global issue. Mineral depletion of the soil means that even dark green leafy veg doesnt contain nearly enough Mg to be of any in vivo significance.

You'll need to buy one of the amino acid chelates (Orotate,Taurate,Lactate etc) or Carbonate. Threonate is delivered straight to the brain. Magnesium oxide is utterly useless as its bioavailability is next to nothing.

Its been implicated in the treatment of virtually every mental/neurophysiological illness too. For a start it guards against excitotoxicity from calcium and glutamate. Excitotoxicitty is among the greatest risks to neural health


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15 Dec 2013, 10:05 am

"Implication" is not proof of culpability.

Correlation is not causation.



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15 Dec 2013, 6:56 pm

Noone said they were. Im merely referring to the fact that there is a long history of peer reviewed journals which point to magnesium deficiency being a worldwide problem. You're not going to ruin a child's health by supplementing with magnesium thats utterly preposterous. Its an essential mineral. Keep well within the RDA and no harm will come of it.

Magnesium is not going to cure migraines - well it may it just depends what's causing the migraines in the first place. I believe (and the entire scientific community believes) that magnesium supplementation is highly highly beneficial.


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15 Dec 2013, 11:21 pm

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21530095



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16 Dec 2013, 10:23 am

Fnord wrote:
"Implication" is not proof of culpability.

Correlation is not causation.



http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22426836

Culpability and causation

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Both oral and intravenous magnesium are widely available, extremely safe, very inexpensive and for patients who are magnesium deficient can be highly effective


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16 Dec 2013, 10:45 am

I was as well questioning myself, what the problem about adding magnesium was. I have actually because of my pregnancy some problems with "hard and slow digestion" and was recommended by my doc to simply get myself an magnesium additive, because of it having a "natural softening effect" on digestion if overused (by far less possible negative effects then "real" medication). ^^ There were plenty of them in the pharmacie available that have very high magnesium amounts in it, just as more moderate ones are easy available in drug shops and supermarkets.

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Magnesium oxide is utterly useless as its bioavailability is next to nothing.
I cant say anything about Magnesium oxid effects on general physical processes in the body, but at least in my medication its one of the three magnesium sources, and it works for me, so there must be some impact to body processes.



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16 Dec 2013, 11:12 am

Schneekugel wrote:
I was as well questioning myself, what the problem about adding magnesium was. I have actually because of my pregnancy some problems with "hard and slow digestion" and was recommended by my doc to simply get myself an magnesium additive, because of it having a "natural softening effect" on digestion if overused (by far less possible negative effects then "real" medication). ^^ There were plenty of them in the pharmacie available that have very high magnesium amounts in it, just as more moderate ones are easy available in drug shops and supermarkets.

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Magnesium oxide is utterly useless as its bioavailability is next to nothing.
I cant say anything about Magnesium oxid effects on general physical processes in the body, but at least in my medication its one of the three magnesium sources, and it works for me, so there must be some impact to body processes.


Magnesium oxide is not absorbed by the body. It may have an effect on your digestion but it isnt being taken into cells. Itsa total waste of money to use a sub par form of magnesium. You're still deficient in magnesium and this will result in you being more susceptible to just about everything given that your cells need mg for just about every process.

If you go online and purchase any form of magnesium other* than oxide your digestive system and* your cells will thankyou.

In addition you mentioned three magnesium sources what are the other two?


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16 Dec 2013, 11:38 am

I have during pregnancy some blood test, according to them I had some deficiency on iron and fol-acid, but magnesium was not mentioned. (But dont know, if thats as well tested.) I simply got it, because of the doctor trying on purpose to get me the "negative side effect" of easened digestion, when you overdo magnesium, before he would try to find a "real" medical solution by an medication, that could have negative effects on the pregnancy as well.

The other two stuffs are Magnesium carbonicum praecipitatum and Magnesium-ions and some additives, that finally shall turn that stuff into "Magnesium-citrat" when being mixed in water.