Hospital Laboratory Testing Fails to Detect Most Magnesium Deficiencies

[liverock]

http://www.naturalnews.com/026775_ma...tal_blood.html

Routine laboratory tests in a hospital or doctor's office often include a Serum Magnesium Level. But the vast majority of magnesium in the body is not IN the bloodstream but in the cells and the fluid surrounding the cells. Our blood has an amazing ability to keep a balanced magnesium level at all times, and therefore is the last storage area of magnesium in the body. So when a hospital test shows a magnesium deficiency, then it's likely to already be severe and dangerous- with up to 99% of the body's magnesium having already been depleted...............Read on.

[Marilyn]

Excellent information....thanks for posting!

[saved1986]

There are too many reports out there of people having acceptable magnesium levels and then getting positive responses from taking a magnesium supplement. I have found Mg helps you sleep and relaxes you. But the simple fact is too many americans are deficient in Mg and Potassium.