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There is a power and a force in magnesium that cannot be
equaled anywhere else in the world of medicine. There is
no substitute for magnesium in human physiology; nothing
comes even close to it in terms of its effect on overall
cell physiology. Without sufficient magnesium, the body
accumulates toxins and acid residues, degenerates
rapidly, and ages prematurely. It goes against a gale
wind of medical science to ignore magnesium chloride
used transdermally in the treatment of any chronic or
acute disorder, especially cancer.
Magnesium
repletion produced rapid disappearance of the periosteal
tumors.
Aleksandrowicz et al in Poland
conclude that inadequacy of Mg (Magnesium) and
antioxidants are important risk factors in predisposing
to leukemias. Other researchers found that 46% of the
patients admitted to an ICU (Intensive Care Unit) in a
tertiary cancer center presented
hypomagnesemia.
They concluded that the incidence
of hypomagnesemia in critically ill cancer patients is
high. In animal studies we find that Mg deficiency has
caused lymphopoietic neoplasms in young rats. A study of
rats surviving Mg deficiency sufficient to cause death
in convulsions during early infancy in some, and
cardiorenal lesions weeks later in others, disclosed
that some of survivors had thymic nodules or
lymphosarcoma.
One would not normally think that
Magnesium (Mg) deficiency can paradoxically increase the
risk of, or protect against cancer yet we will find that
just as severe dehydration or asphyxiation can cause
death, magnesium deficiency can
directly lead to cancer. When you consider that over 300
enzymes and ion transport
require magnesium and that its role in fatty acid and
phospholipid acid metabolism affects permeability
and stability of membranes, we can see that magnesium
deficiency would lead to physiological decline in cells
setting the stage for cancer. Anything that weakens cell
physiology will lead to the infections that surround and
penetrate tumor tissues. These infections are proving to
be an integral part of cancer. Magnesium deficiency
poses a direct threat to the health of our cells.
Without sufficient amounts, our cells calcify and rot
in. Breeding grounds for yeast and fungi colonies they
become, invaders all too ready to strangle our life
force and kill us.
Over 300 different enzymes
systems rely upon magnesium to facilitate their
catalytic action, including ATP metabolism,
creatine-kinase activation, adenylate-cyclase, and
sodium-potassium-ATPase.
It is known that
carcinogenesis induces magnesium distribution
disturbances, which cause magnesium mobilization through
blood cells and magnesium depletion in non-neoplastic
tissues. Magnesium deficiency seems to be carcinogenic,
and in case of solid tumors, a high level of
supplemented magnesium inhibits carcinogenesis. Both
carcinogenesis and magnesium deficiency increase the
plasma membrane permeability and fluidity. Scientists
have in fact found out that there is much less Mg++
binding to membrane phospholipids of cancer cells, than to normal
cell membranes.
Magnesium protects cells from
aluminum, mercury, lead, cadmium,
beryllium and nickel.
Magnesium in general is
essential for the survival of our cells but takes on
further importance in the age of toxicity where our
bodies are being bombarded on a daily basis with heavy metals. Glutathione
requires magnesium for its synthesis. Glutathione
synthetase requires y-glutamyl cysteine, glycine, ATP,
and magnesium ions to form glutathione. In magnesium
deficiency, the enzyme y-glutamyl transpeptidase is
lowered. According to Dr. Russell Blaylock, low
magnesium is associated with dramatic increases in free
radical generation as well as glutathione depletion and
this is vital since glutathione is one of the few antioxidant molecules known to
neutralize mercury. Without the cleaning and chelating
work of glutathione (magnesium), cells begin to decay as
cellular filth and heavy metals accumulate; excellent
environments to attract deadly
infection/cancer.
There is drastic change in
ionic flux from the outer and inner cell membranes both
in the impaired
membranes of cancer, and in Mg
deficiency.
Anghileri et al proposed that
modifications of cell membranes are principal triggering
factors in cell transformation leading to cancer. Using
cells from induced cancers, they found that there
is much less magnesium binding to membrane phospholipids
of cancer cells, than to normal cell membranes. It has
been suggested that Mg deficiency may trigger
carcinogenesis by increasing membrane permeability.
Magnesium deficient cell membranes seem to have a
smoother surface than normal, and decreased membrane
viscosity, analogous to changes in human leukemia cells. There is
drastic change in ionic flux from the outer and inner
cell membranes (higher Ca and Na; lower Mg and K
levels), both in the impaired membranes of cancer, and
of Mg deficiency. And we find that lead (Pb) salts are
more leukemogenic when given to Mg deficient rats, than
when they are given to Mg-adequate rats, suggesting that
Mg is protective.
Magnesium has an effect on a
variety of cell membranes through a process involving calcium channels and ion
transport mechanisms. Magnesium is responsible for the
maintenance of the trans-membrane gradients of sodium
and potassium.
Long ago,
researchers postulated that magnesium supplementation of
those who are Mg deficient, like chronic alcoholics, might decrease
emergence of malignancies and now modern researchers
have found that all types of alcohol -- wine, beer or liquor
-- add equally to the risk of developing breast cancer in women. The
researchers, led by Dr. Arthur Klatsky of the Kaiser
Permanente Medical Care Program in Oakland, Calif.,
revealed their findings at a meeting of the European
Cancer Organization in Barcelona in late 2007. It was
found that women who had one or two drinks a day
increased their risk of developing breast cancer by 10
percent. Women who had more than three drinks a day
raised their risk by 30 percent. The more one drinks,
the more one drives down magnesium levels.
Breast
cancer is the second most common cancer killer of women,
after lung cancer. It will be diagnosed in 1.2 million
people globally this year and will kill
500,000.
According to data published in the
British Journal of Cancer in 2002, 4 percent of
all breast cancers -- about 44,000 cases a year -- in
the United Kingdom are due to alcohol consumption. It's
an important question though, and one not asked by
medical or health officials, is it the alcohol itself or
the resultant drop in magnesium levels that is cancer
provoking? Though some studies have shown that light to
moderate alcohol use can protect against heart attacks,
it does us no good to drink if it causes cancer. Perhaps
if magnesium was supplemented in women drinkers who were
studied, there would have been no increase of cancer
from drinking.
Alcohol has always been known to
deplete magnesium, and is one of the first supplements
given to alcoholics when they stop and attempt to
detoxify and withdraw.
Researchers from the
School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota
have just concluded that diets rich in magnesium reduced
the occurrence of colon cancer. A previous study from
Sweden reported that women with the highest magnesium
intake had a 40 per cent lower risk of developing the
cancer than those with the lowest intake of the
mineral.
Pretreatment hypomagnesemia has been
reported in young leukemic children, 78% of whom have
histories
of anorexia, and have excessive gut and
urinary losses of Mg.
Several studies have shown
an increased cancer rate in regions with low magnesium
levels in soil and drinking water, and the same for
selenium. In Egypt, the cancer rate was only about 10%
of that in Europe and America. In the rural fellah,
it was practically non-existent. The main difference was
an extremely high magnesium intake of 2.5 to 3g in these
cancer-free populations, ten times more than in most
western countries.
The School of Public Health at
the Kaohsiung Medical College in Taiwan found that
magnesium also exerts a protective effect against
gastric cancer, but only for the group with the highest
levels.
If we looked, it would probably be very
difficult to find a cancer patient with anywhere near
normal levels of cellular magnesium; meaning cancer
probably does not exist in a physical cellular
environment full of magnesium. It makes perfect medical
sense to saturate the body with magnesium through
transdermal means. Magnesium deficiency has been
implicated in a host of clinical disorders but the
medical establishment just cannot get it through its
thick skull that it is an important medicine.
It
is as if the collective medical profession had just
pulled the plug on medical intelligence. In fact it has
done exactly this and it seems too late for it to
redefine itself, which is a tragedy. Though magnesium
improves the internal production of defensive
substances, such as antibodies and considerably improves
the operational activity of white granulocytic blood
cells (shown by Delbert with magnesium chloride), and
contributes to many other functions that insure the
integrity of cellular metabolism, no one thinks to use
it in cancer as a primary treatment. It is even worse
than this, the medical establishment does not even use
magnesium as a secondary treatment or even use it at all
and gladly uses radiation and chemo therapy, both of
which force magnesium levels down further.
To not
replete cellular magnesium levels would be negligent,
especially in the case of cancer where a person's life
is on the line. An oncologist who ignores his patient's
magnesium levels would be analogous to an emergency room
physician not rushing resuscitation when a person stops
breathing. If one elects to have or has already had
chemotherapy, they have four times the reason to pay
attention to a concentrated protocol aimed at
replenishing full magnesium cellular
stores.
Magnesium chloride is the first and most
important item in any person's cancer treatment
strategy. Put in the clearest terms possible, our
suggestion from the first day on the Survival Medicine
Cancer Protocol is to almost drown oneself in
transdermally applied magnesium chloride. It should be
the first, not the last thing, we think of when it comes
to cancer. It takes about three to four months to drive
up cellular magnesium levels to where they should be
when treated intensely transdermally but within days
patients will commonly experience its life saving
medical/healing effects. For many people whose bodies
are starving for magnesium, the experience is not too
much different than for a person coming out of a desert
desperate for water. It is that basic to life, that
important, that necessary.
That same power found
in magnesium that will save your life in the emergency
room during cardiac arrest, that will diminish damage of
a stroke if administered in a
timely fashion, is the same power that can save one's
life if one has cancer. All a patient has to do is pour
it into their baths or spray it right onto their bodies.
What could be simpler?
Magnesium chloride, when
applied directly to the skin, is transdermally absorbed
and has an
almost immediate effect on chronic and
acute pain.
Special Note on Calcium and
Cancer:
Experts say excessive calcium intake
may be unwise in light of recent studies showing that
high amounts of the mineral may increase risk of prostate cancer. "There is
reasonable evidence to suggest that calcium may play an
important role in the development of prostate cancer,"
says Dr. Carmen Rodriguez, senior epidemiologist in the
epidemiology and surveillance research department of the
American Cancer Society (ACS). Rodriguez says that a
1998 Harvard School of Public Health study of 47,781 men
found those consuming between 1,500 and 1,999 mg of
calcium per day had about double the risk of being
diagnosed with metastatic (cancer that has spread to
other parts of the body) prostate cancer as those
getting 500 mg per day or less. And those taking in
2,000 mg or more had over four times the risk of
developing metastatic prostate cancer as those taking in
less than 500 mg.
Calcium and magnesium are
opposites in their effects on our body structure. As a
general rule, the more rigid and inflexible our body
structure is, the less calcium and the more magnesium we
need.
Later in 1998, Harvard researchers
published a study of dairy product intake among 526 men
diagnosed with prostate cancer and 536 similar men not
diagnosed with the disease. That study found a 50%
increase in prostate cancer risk and a near doubling
of risk of metastatic prostate cancer among men
consuming high amounts of dairy products, likely due, say
the researchers, to the high total amount of calcium in
such a diet. The most recent Harvard study on the topic,
published in October 2001, looked at dairy product
intake among 20,885 men and found men consuming the most
dairy products had about 32% higher risk of developing
prostate cancer than those consuming the
least.
The adverse effects of excessive calcium
intake may include high blood calcium levels, kidney
stone formation and kidney complications. Elevated
calcium levels are also associated with arthritic/joint
and vascular degeneration, calcification of soft tissue,
hypertension and stroke, and increase in VLDL
triglycerides, gastrointestinal disturbances, mood and
depressive disorders, chronic fatigue, and general
mineral imbalances including magnesium, zinc, iron and
phosphorus. High calcium levels interfere with Vitamin D and subsequently
inhibit the vitamin's cancer protective effect unless
extra amounts of Vitamin D are
supplemented.
Magnesium is the mineral of
rejuvenation and prevents the calcification of our
organs and tissues that is characteristic of the old-age
related degeneration of our body.
Recommendations
of magnesium to calcium ratios range from 1:2 to 1:1.
For those interested in preventing cancer, one should
look closely at the 1:1 camp and during the first six
months of treatment, one should be looking at ten parts
magnesium to one part calcium. In reality, one need not
even count the ratio during the first months for the
only real danger of extremely high magnesium levels
comes with patients suffering from kidney failure. If
one is at all concerned about their calcium intake, one
should eat foods high in both calcium and magnesium like
toasted sesame seeds.
Up to 30% of the energy
of cells is used to pump calcium out of the
cells.
Doctors who have used intravenous
magnesium treatments know the benefits of peaking
magnesium levels, even if only temporarily. For the
cancer patient the transdermal approach combined with
oral use offers the opportunity to take magnesium levels
up strongly and quickly. For emergency situations, three
applications a day; for urgent situations, two
treatments would be indicated though one strong
treatment with an ounce of a natural magnesium chloride
solution spread all over the body like a sun screen is a
powerful systemic treatment.
It is medical wisdom
that tells us that magnesium is actually the key to the
body's proper assimilation and use of calcium, as well
as other important nutrients. If we consume too much
calcium, without sufficient magnesium, the excess
calcium is not utilized correctly and may actually
become toxic, causing painful conditions in the body.
Hypocalcemia is a prominent manifestation of magnesium
deficiency in humans (Rude et al., 1976). Even mild
degrees of magnesium depletion significantly decreases
the serum calcium concentration (Fatemi et al.,
1991).
Calcium requirement for men and women is
lower than previously estimated.
This is an
excerpt from Dr. Mark Sircus' excellent new book
"Winning the War On Cancer".
Fully referenced
article available at: (http://www.magnesiumforlife.com/)
.
More alternative cancer information available
at: (http://www.winningcancer.com/)
.
About the authorMark A. Sircus Ac., OMD, is
director of the International Medical Veritas
Association (IMVA)http://www.imva.info/. Dr.
Sircus was trained in acupuncture and oriental medicine
at the Institute of Traditional Medicine in Sante Fe,
N.M., and in the School of Traditional Medicine of New
England in Boston. He served at the Central Public
Hospital of Pochutla, in Mιxico, and was awarded the
title of doctor of oriental medicine for his work. He
was one of the first nationally certified acupuncturists
in the United States. Dr. Sircus's IMVA is dedicated to
unifying the various disciplines in medicine with the
goal of creating a new dawn in healthcare.
He is
particularly concerned about the effect vaccinations
have on vulnerable infants and is identifying the common
thread of many toxic agents that are dramatically
threatening present and future generations of children.
His book The Terror of Pediatric Medicine is a free
e-book one can read. Dr. Sircus is a most prolific and
courageous writer and one can read through hundreds of
pages on his various web sites.
He has most
recently released his Survival Medicine for the 21st
Century compendium (2,200 page ebook) and just released
the Winning the War Against Cancer book. Dr. Sircus is a
pioneer in the area of natural detoxification and
chelation of toxic chemicals and heavy metals. He is
also a champion of the medicinal value of minerals and
is fathering in a new medical approach that uses sea
water and different concentrates taken from it for
health and healing. Transdermal Magnesium Therapy, his
first published work, offers a stunning breakthrough in
medicine, an entirely new way to supplement magnesium
that naturally increases DHEA levels, brings cellular
magnesium levels up quickly, relieves pain, brings down
blood pressure and pushes cell physiology in a positive
direction. Magnesium chloride delivered transdermally
brings a quick release from a broad range of
conditions.
International Medical Veritas
Association: http://www.imva.info/
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