Magnesium deficiency, Metabolic syndrome, diabetes, obesity prevention.

Ted_Hutchinson · � #1 � 08-15-2011, 06:03 AM

1. WHY IS MAGNESIUM SO IMPORTANT? DID THE OBESITY BATTLE OF THE BLOGS MISS IT?
2. HOW SHOULD YOU THINK ABOUT MAGNESIUM AND HOW TO TEST IT CORRECTLY?
3. WHAT DOES MAGNESIUM REALLY DO?
4. THE MISSING LINK IN TAUBES, GUYENET, LUSTIG, AND EENFELDT�S RECENT COMMENTS?
5. ITS THE BRAIN GUYS��WHEN THE SQUABBLE ENDS WE WILL ALL BE SITTING AT THE HYPOCRETIN NEURONS!

Bear in mind what Jack says "Supplementation generally takes 30-90 days to replete a minor to moderate deficiency. In diabetes the patients need a much higher daily dose until their diabetes can be reversed."
and it should be obvious that unless you continue to take an adequate amount the deficiency state will recur sooner rather than later particularly when people don't also correct vitamin D status, and continue to load their system with too much inflammatory omega 6 industrial seed oils (Soy/corn/cottonseed) and too much inflammatory HFCS.

See also these posts.
Magnesium without fillers
Place to buy magnesium?

Ted_Hutchinson · � #2 � 08-15-2011, 06:14 AM

Oral magnesium supplementation reduces insulin resistance in non-diabetic subjects - a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trial.

Quote:

Abstract

The incidence of insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome correlates with the availability of magnesium (Mg).
We studied the effect of oral Mg supplementation on insulin sensitivity and other characteristics of the metabolic syndrome in normomagnesemic, overweight, insulin resistant, non-diabetic subjects.
Subjects were tested for eligibility using oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and subsequently randomized to receive either Mg-aspartate-hydrochloride (n = 27) or placebo (n = 25) for 6 months.
As trial endpoints, several indices of insulin sensitivity, plasma glucose, serum insulin, blood pressure and lipid profile were determined.
Mg supplementation resulted in a significant improvement of fasting plasma glucose and some insulin sensitivity indices (ISIs) compared to placebo. Blood pressure and lipid profile did not show significant changes.
The results provide significant evidence that oral Mg supplementation improves insulin sensitivity even in normomagnesemic, overweight, non-diabetic subjects emphasizing the need for an early optimization of Mg status to prevent insulin resistance and subsequently type 2 diabetes.

Bluebonnet Nutrition, Magnesium, 400 mg, 200 Vcaps $20.40 Make sure you get the right one if you want to replicate the research findings you need to use Magnesium (reacted magnesium aspartate)
from IHERB used Code WAB666 for initial $5 discount.
I use Iherb as shipping to UK cheapest.
You may find others Google/Amazon cheaper for your destination?
These guys used magnesium at 365 mg per day or placebo for 6 months so these would match the research I'd split the dose to one in the morning with food and the other with my evening meal.
Don't stop at six months, Remember most US adults (and the same applies to the UK because our farmers grow the same dwarf wheats that contain less magnesium than traditional varieties) DON'T meet the current RDA for magnesium (320 mg per day for women and 420 mg per day for men) and that RDA is TOO LOW (hence the increase in diabetes/obesity/metabolic syndrome over recent years.)

pinballdoctor · � #3 � 08-15-2011, 02:33 PM

Most type 2 diabetics are deficient in vitamin D, of that I have no doubt. However, diabetics are also deficient in chromium and vanadium.

To understand present diseases, we must look to the past. Every disease for which a cure was found, can be traced back to being deficient in a vitamin or mineral, bar none.

Scurvy, Rickets, Pellagra, and Beriberi have all been proven to be deficiency diseases. If you fix the deficiency, you reverse the condition.

This, along with eliminating toxins from the body, is the foundation of the Gerson therapy, which has been curing disease of all kinds since the early 1900's.

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