Inflammation and Pain Management with Magnesium - Information from Dr.
Mark Sircus, Waking Times
Inflammation plays a pivotal role in all stages of
atherosclerosis, which is the progressive narrowing and hardening of the
arteries over time.
Inflammation is the activation of the immune system in response to
infection, irritation, or injury.
Characterized by an influx
of white blood cells, redness, heat, swelling, pain, and dysfunction of the
organs involved, inflammation has different names when it appears in different
parts of the body. Most allergy and asthma sufferers are familiar with
rhinitis (inflammation of the nose), sinusitis (inflammation of the sinuses),
and asthma (inflammation of the airways), but inflammation is also behind
arthritis (inflammation of the joints), dermatitis (inflammation of the skin),
and so on.
The primary objective of acute inflammation is to localize
and to get rid of the irritant and repair the surrounding tissue. Chronic
inflammation is one of the characteristics of the metabolic syndrome that we
see in Biofeedback stress and it interferes with insulin in the body. Allopathic medical system’s ignorance has
prevailed over the relationship between muscular lipid accumulation, chronic
inflammation and insulin resistance.
They should know this, but continually close their eyes to this. The simple supplement and central factor to
all this is magnesium. Magnesium is the
factor in all this, or at least the deficiency of Magnesium which is involved
with inflammation.
What triggers
inflammation???
There are many factors that trigger inflammation. They are
found in both our internal and external environments and include excessive
levels of the hormone insulin (insulin resistance), emotional stress, environmental
toxins (heavy metals), free-radical damage, viral, bacterial, fungal other
pathogenic infections, obesity, overconsumption of hydrogenated oils,
periodontal disease, radiation exposure, smoking, spirochetes such as the
Borrelia that causes Lyme disease, and certain pharmacological drugs.
Magnesium deficiency causes chronic inflammatory build ups.
This concept is intriguing because it suggests a fundamentally simpler
way of warding off disease. Instead of different treatments for heart
disease, Alzheimer's and colon cancer, we apply a single, inflammation-reducing
remedy that would prevent or treat these and other deadly diseases. The key
words here are 'prevent' or 'treat' but please notice the word is not cure. Though magnesium is a cure for many of our
ailments … full treatment protocols are recommended with magnesium chloride as
the top protocol item. It is a protocol of basic items like magnesium, iodine, Alpha Lipoic Acid, sodium
bicarbonate, sodium thiosulfate, whole food vitamin C, natural vitamin D from
the sun, spirulina and some other important items like purified water that
will make a difference in a host of chronic diseases.
Another reason that
chronic inflammations can take us into the hell fires of pain is that magnesium
gets depleted in conditions of inflammation. Magnesium is central to
immunocompetence and plays a crucial role in natural and adaptive immunity.
Magnesium literally puts the chill on inflammation.
Heart disease begins with inflammation that rages like a
fever through your blood vessels. Cool the heat by getting the recommended
daily minimum of magnesium suggests Medical University of South Carolina
researchers. They measured blood inflammation levels-using the C-reactive
protein (CRP) test-in 3,800 men and women and found that those who got less
than 50% of the RDA (310 to 420 mg) for magnesium were almost
three times as likely to have dangerously high CRP levels as those who
consumed enough. Being over age 40 and overweight and consuming less than 50%
of the RDA more than doubled the risk of blood vessel-damaging inflammation.
This new view of inflammation is changing the way some
doctors' practice but most cardiologists are still not ready to recommend that
the general population be screened for inflammation levels. Cardiologists don't
know it but when in rare instances they test for serum magnesium levels they
are not measuring anything but strictly controlled magnesium levels in the
blood. There continues to be a blind spot the size of the Gulf of Mexico in
cardiologists' perceptions. They just are not able to get to the bottom of the
inflammation story - which is magnesium deficiency.
Modern medicine is just starting to admit that chronic
inflammation is the main contributing factor to heart disease and it is just
about to discover magnesium chloride as a supremely safe and effective anti
inflammatory. Magnesium chloride safely reduces inflammation and systemic
stress because magnesium deficiencies are in great part the cause of both conditions.
What is essential to remember about treating pain with magnesium is
that it treats both the symptom and the cause of pain. Meaning the cause of the
pain can often be traced back to a magnesium deficiency. There are not too many medicinal
substances or medicines that can make this claim. It should be noted that pain
management with magnesium employs magnesium chloride applied transdermally
to the skin.
Dr. Linda Rapson, who
specializes in treating chronic pain, believes that about 70 per cent of her
patients who complain of muscle pain, cramps and fatigue are showing signs of
magnesium deficiency. "Virtually all of them improve when I put them on
magnesium," says Rapson, who runs a busy Toronto pain clinic. "It may
sound too good to be true, but it's a fact." She's seen the mineral work
in those with fibromyalgia, migraines and constipation. "The scientific
community should take a good hard look at this."
In the final analysis there is no single medicine or
nutritional agent that has the power to both treat and prevent chronic
inflammatory conditions. Magnesium acts
as a general cell tonic while it reduces
inflammation and systemic stress. Equally it is important in overall energy
(ATP) production, hormonal and enzyme production and function which all reflect
powerfully on the process of inflammation.
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