Benefits of Magnesium

I (Dr. Sircus) recommend high intake of magnesium for many reasons, and it has appeared as the lead or most important component of my Natural Allopathic protocol until the appearance of molecular hydrogen, which now competes with it, in terms of importance and priority. In reality, they work together and amplify each other for immediate and often great medical effect.

Hospitals in China and Japan have recently discovered hydrogen and are already using it in their hospitals. Magnesium however, continues to be underutilized in medicine, even though it is the ultimate cardio medicine, crucial for diabetics and suffers of metabolic syndrome and essential for patients with cancer.

Magnesium is basic to cancer treatment and its avoidance. Several studies have shown an increased cancer rate in regions with low magnesium levels in soil and drinking water. In Egypt, the cancer rate was only about 10% of that in Europe and America. In the rural fellah, it was practically nonexistent. The main difference was an extremely high magnesium intake of 2.5-3 g in these cancer-free populations, ten times more than in most western countries.[1]

An inverse relationship between cancer prevalence and the magnesium content of water and of soil is reported in studies, starting more than 50 years ago. A Russian report showed that stomach cancer is four times more common in the Ukraine where the magnesium content of soil and drinking water is low, than it is in Armenia where the magnesium content is more than twice as high. A more recent morphologic and statistical analysis of neoplastic deaths in two Polish communities disclosed a nearly three-fold higher death rate in the community with Mg-poor soil than in the one with Mg-rich soil (10%).

Flooding the body with magnesium increases a person’s chance of surviving cancer and living a longer pain free life. When I say flood it behooves a cancer patient to simultaneously use different forms of magnesium and different forms of administration.

One can take magnesium orally; nebulize it into the lungs, and use transdermally through either direct application to the skin or in baths. Moreover, in emergency rooms and intensive care wards they give magnesium intravenously and by subcutaneous injection for cardiac arrest when all their pharmaceutical drugs fail.

One would use magnesium chloride in its purest form for many of these applications but there is also magnesium bicarbonate that is perfect to add to one’s water. Drinking high concentrated molecular hydrogen water part of the day and magnesium bicarbonate at other times would greatly boost cellular recovery, extend life, boost sports performance, reduce pain and do a host of heavy lifting in medical terms.

For oral use of magnesium to be used with hydrogen, I am recommending MYO-MAG as an advanced, formula that contains ingredients known to participate in the production of ATP in the body. It provides magnesium in the form of malate and diglycinate, as well as Vitamins B1, B2, and B6 (including coenzyme forms of these vitamins). One capsule contains 100 mg of magnesium and 300 mg of malic acid. In practice, I have used magnesium oil orally, which does wonders to move the intestines if one is constipated.

Magnesium baths using bath flakes, Epson salts or Dead Sea Salt (have received occasional reports about toxicity of materials coming from the Dead Sea) would greatly augment ones recovery and help usher cancer remissions, especially when used in conjunction with hyperthermia and other essential treatment components like sodium bicarbonate, iodine, selenium, oxygen, carbon dioxide, medical marijuana and super foods.

Researchers from Japan’s National Cancer Center in Tokyo have found that an increased intake of magnesium reduces a man’s risk of colon cancer by over 50 percent. Men with the highest average intakes of magnesium (at least 327 mg/d) were associated with a 52 percent lower risk of colon cancer, compared to men who consumed the lowest average intakes. Published in the Journal of Nutrition,[2] the research studied 87,117 people with an average age of 57 and followed them for about eight years. Dietary intakes were assessed using a food frequency questionnaire. Average intakes of magnesium for men and women were 284 and 279 milligrams per day.

My suggestion, especially for late stage cancer patients would be constant oral intake with magnesium in conjunction with daily magnesium massages and daily baths to pump in as much magnesium as possible. One does not have to worry about taking too much magnesium unless the kidneys, which functions to eliminate excess magnesium, are failing. When used with the hydrogen and instant acting bicarbonate one should expect to move some medical mountains.
Diabetics Will See Results

Many doctors today understand the relationship between cancer and diabetes so it should come as no surprise that the above suggestions would work for diabetic patients. In fact, a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies by researchers at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institutet reported that for every 100-milligram increase in magnesium intake, the risk of developing type 2 diabetes decreased by 15 percent. One of the reason insulin is so important is that without insulin magnesium is not transported from our blood into our cells where it is most needed. It is a deadly loop. Low serum and intracellular magnesium concentrations are associated with insulin resistance, impaired glucose tolerance, and decreased insulin secretion.

In the U.S., combined annual costs for treating diabetes along with additional factors such as lost productivity amount to $174 billion, according to the American Heart Association. Heart experts worry that without better ways to prevent and treat diabetes, the disease threatens to reverse nearly a half-century of advances against cardiovascular disease, which remains the world’s leading killer. We can add hundreds of billions of dollars more to cover the costs of cancer.