Can Magnesium Improve Health? Can Oil in your Car Help You Make It Up Mountains?

Mainstream medicine often asks stupid questions and says ridiculous things. “We need adequate amounts of magnesium for healthy muscle, nerve, and cardiovascular system function.” (Of this, there is no doubt) “Most people get enough of it in their everyday diet.” (This is not true at all.) Most people are deficient in magnesium, and this is more than true for anyone with a chronic illness.

“Some uses of magnesium are strongly supported by scientific evidence, while others are not.” There is a century, a mountain range of scientific evidence supporting magnesium as one of the main supports of life both for plants and humans. Magnesium is a perfect, necessary medicine, offering a first line of defense against almost everything.

“If you’re struggling to sleep, try trusted sleep hygiene methods, such as maintaining a consistent bedtime and reducing screen time and caffeine, before turning to magnesium supplements. If you want to try magnesium as a sleep aid, stay as close as you can to about 300 milligrams per day, which is a little less than the recommended daily intake for adults.” Some sound advice mixed with some terrible advice. There is a world of difference, medically speaking, between taking magnesium as a supplement and taking it as a medicine.

“There is also limited evidence that magnesium can improve cardiovascular health.” It is practically a crime to say this. It is a violent untruth with grave consequences. There is so much evidence it becomes a tragedy that cardiologists rarely prescribe magnesium. I recently saw five cardiologists, and none said anything about magnesium. (I am just beginning to edit Curing Cardiovascular Disease with Natural Cardiology. This week, we will announce an extraordinary discovery: how to pull cholesterol from plaque in the arteries.)

“The risk of taking magnesium supplements is low.” (The risks are nonexistent.) Side effects mainly include diarrhea, and there are no known long-term effects of taking magnesium supplements.

Magnesium is an essential mineral used for hundreds of biochemical reactions, making it crucial for health. Massive magnesium deficiencies in the general population have led to a tidal wave of sudden coronary deaths, diabetes, strokes, and cancer. Even a mild deficiency of magnesium can cause increased sensitivity to noise, nervousness, irritability, mental depression, confusion, twitching, trembling, apprehension, and insomnia.