Magnesium: several reviews.

[aspergerian]

The Importance of Magnesium in Clinical Healthcare.

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Magnesium: Are We Consuming Enough?

Magnesium is essential for maintaining normal cellular and organ function. In-adequate magnesium balance is associated with various disorders, such as skeletal deformities, cardiovascular diseases, and metabolic syndrome. Unfortunately, routinely measured serum magnesium levels do not always reflect total body magnesium status. Thus, normal blood magnesium levels eclipse the wide-spread magnesium deficiency. Other magnesium measuring methods, including the magnesium loading test, may provide more accurate reflections of total body magnesium status and thus improve identification of magnesium-deficient individuals, and prevent magnesium deficiency related complications.

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[rescuema]

Why do we need to supplement all of sudden? - it's because the soil is depleted of Mg (along with other minerals) with the use of a patented chelator such as glyphosate. The crops are deficient of valuable nutrients so now we must supplement. The issue is not limited to GMO crops since glyphosate has been used as pre-harvest desiccant for many important crops since around 2002. Glyphosate is also present in every bowl of oatmeal, even some organic brands.

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[aspergerian in reply to rescuema]

Well said, rescuema.

I can't help but wonder that the heirs and largest stockholders know that soil depletion etc increase rates of pathology.

[rescuema in reply to aspergerian]

they're too shortsighted to admit that, and absolutely disregard the importance of the gut microbiome for human health.