Magnesium Deficiency in Autoimmune Disease

By Elaine Moore, MT – Magnesium deficiency can trigger disease development and worsen symptoms in hyperthyroidism, fibromyalgia, Raynaud’s and other autoimmune disorders. Magnesium is a mineral essential for life. Magnesium is found in our blood cells and in our muscles, including heart muscle. Magnesium is also found in the central nervous system and in blood [...]

Magnesium: The Missing Health Supplement

By Laura Owens – Magnesium can help attack anxiety and depression, is less expensive than mood medications, has no side effects and treats a long list of critical health conditions. You won’t find magnesium flashed all over the news as some exotic cure-all. It doesn’t have multi-million dollar marketing fanfare surrounding it, and it’s not [...]

Weight loss and diets of the day

By James Fedich, D.C. Today, more than ever, diet fads are becoming a part of everyone’s life. Diets are based on everything from a person’s blood type; skin color, eye color, and some are based on nothing at all. Many of these diets are about deprivation. The basic idea behind many of these diets is [...]

The Impact of Magnesium Deficiency on Well-Being

By Jennifer Flaten – Have you been feeling fatigued and moody lately? How about anxious, with bouts of insomnia? Before you blame it on menopause or chalk it up to Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS), you should consider whether you may have a magnesium deficiency. Being deficient in magnesium can have a dramatically negative impact on your [...]

Magnesium Depletion In Your Body

By Piper Gutierrez – Beware of these medicines and substances that deplete the nutrients in your body! Have you wondered why you are deficient in vitamins and minerals in spite of your daily supplement? Is your supplement ineffective and not able to give you the vigor and vitality you need, or is there something depleting [...]

Magnesium Deficiency – Diet and Lifestyle

How Diets and Lifestyle Can Create a Dangerous Magnesium Deficiency Excerpted from Nancy Desjardins’ (www.HealthLady.com) Interview with Dr. Carolyn Dean, MD., ND. Dr. Carolyn Dean: …it’s about lifestyle and diet. I went to med school in the mid-70s, so I’ve been at this a while. I was reading before med school. I was very interested [...]

Magnesium Deficiency Reduces Vitamin D Effectiveness

Extensive research has shown that Vitamin D deficiencies play a role in the development of dozens of diseases – everything from a variety of cancers such as breast, prostate and colon cancer to diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, psoriasis and mental illness. While many people are beginning to experience the tremendous health benefits that Vitamin [...]

The Epidemic Of Magnesium Deficiency

By Michael McEvoy, FDN, CNC, CMTA – One of the most essential electrolyte minerals is one that is increasingly deficient among people today. Magnesium deficiency is so common, one could write several volumes of books about it. Magnesium is essential for initiating more than 300 enzymatic reactions in the body. Magnesium deficiency has been cited [...]

Magnesium Deficiency and Absorption

Magnesium Deficiency By Coach Jonathan Wong, Personal Trainer and Performance Expert Take the following quiz… * Do you have trouble falling asleep? * Do you wake up feeling un-rested/quality of sleep is low? * Do you have high stress or consume large amounts of carbohydrates (these lower magnesium levels) * Do you exercise a great [...]

Natural Sleeping Aids

By Evita Ochel, CHN It is estimated that 25% of Americans take some type of medication every year to help them sleep. And about 40% of Americans with insomnia self-medicate with over the counter sleep medication. This is not good news for most, as sleeping pills can severely hurt one’s health and sleep cycles, both [...]