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If you know or are a diabetic, have it in your family, PLEASE share and READ!! Magnesium WILL CURE diabetes, atherosclerosis, peripheral neuropathy, etc! This is HOW Chelation therapy HEALS!!!!
As you will see below and on the IMVA site, our big push right now is into the nightmarish realm of diabetes, which in a medical sense is hitting the world's population in a much more intense way than the tidal waves that reached around the Indian Ocean. We intend to kick many doors down on this issue though this does not diminish our commitment in the area of autism and childhood immunization. Please see our new presentations on these subjects
on the new IMVA site.
Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
Director International Medical Veritas Association
Magnesium and Diabetic Neuropathy
International Medical Veritas Association
If diabetes has no cure,
if its like a wind that never ends,
at least we can slow that
wind down and even make it stop.
Introduction
Diabetes is commonly thought to have no cure. It is progressive and
often fatal, and while the patient lives, the mass of medical complications
it sets off can attack every major organ. Though public health officials
acknowledge that their ability to slow the disease is limited, and though
doctors fear a huge wave of new cases will overwhelm public health systems,
"Public health authorities around the country have all but ignored chronic
illnesses like diabetes, focusing instead on communicable diseases, which
kill far fewer people," according to the New York Times. Hospitals around
New York City are full of diabetic patients and on any given day, nearly
half the patients are there for some trouble precipitated by the disease.
Type two diabetes is being declared
an epidemic in New York City.
With one in three children born in the United States expected to become
diabetic in their lifetimes, a close look at its surge in New York City
offers a disturbing glimpse of where the city, and the rest of the world is
headed. Diabetes has swept through families, entire neighborhoods in the
Bronx and broad slices of Brooklyn. While the ranks of American diabetics
have exploded by an extremely painful 80 percent in the last decade, New York has seen a devastating explosion of 140 percent. New York is not the
only place where the disease is exploding. "Half of Texas children born after the year 2000 will develop diabetes," said Department of State Health
Services Commissioner Dr. Eduardo Sanchez.[ii]
Type 2 Diabetes is sweeping so rapidly through
America we need not waste time giving
children bicycles. Just roll them a wheelchair.
Boston Globe[iii]
This medical review of diabetic neuropathy introduces a much needed
medical intervention for the prevention and treatment of diabetes and the
many complications that come from it. Though safe effective treatments are
desperately needed there is something strange in the medical establishments
approach to diabetic care. The New York Times says in this regard, "In the
Treatment of Diabetes, Success Often Does Not Pay." "It's almost as though
the system encourages people to get sick and then people get paid to treat
them," said Dr. Matthew E. Fink, a former president of Beth Israel Medical
Center in Manhattan. The Times bemoans "a medical system so focused on acute
illnesses that it is struggling to respond to diabetes, a chronic disease
that looms as the largest health crisis facing the city."[iv] Something is
wrong with the way allopathic medicine is dealing with diabetes and that starts with its refusal to look honestly at what is causing the disease.
Diabetes gives us a clear picture of how the human race is being caught
between a rock and a hard place, a kind of devils anvil of our own corporate
making. The human body is failing to deal with massive chemical exposure in
the face of hugely increasing deficiencies in basic nutrients like
magnesium. Malnutrition is now in full bloom in the first world even among
the obese.
Magnesium and Diabetic Neuropathy
Magnesium is necessary for the
production, function & transport of insulin.
Magnesium is known to be necessary for nerve conduction; deficiency is
known to cause peripheral neuropathy symptoms and studies suggest that a
deficiency in magnesium may worsen blood glucose control in type 2 diabetes.
Scientists believe that a deficiency of magnesium interrupts insulin
secretion in the pancreas and increases insulin resistance in the body's
tissues.
Magnesium deficiency played a role in the constriction of arteries and
enhanced injury to the cellular tissues lining the blood vessels.
Peripheral artery disease, or peripheral vascular disease, refers to
diseases of the arteries and veins of the extremities, especially
atherosclerosis with narrowing of the arteries. This opens the door to the
development and progression of atherosclerosis and sets the stage for the
development of neurological events such as strokes. These same conditions
set the stage for the development of peripheral diabetic neuropathy. This
entire scenario described here also sets the stage for the development of
peripheral neuropathy even when diabetes is not present.
A recent analysis showed that people with higher dietary intakes of
magnesium (through consumption of whole grains, nuts, and green leafy
vegetables) had a decreased risk of type 2 diabetes.[ii] Magnesium has
potentially beneficial effects at several key steps of glucose and insulin
metabolism. In animal studies, dietary magnesium supplementation can prevent
fructose-induced insulin resistance and elevations of blood pressure in
rats. [iii]
The convergence of large drops in cellular magnesium, which offers protective coverage against chemical toxicity, with increasing poisoning of
people's blood streams with heavy metals like arsenic[chemtrails www.bariumblues.com], mercury and lead, as
well as a literal host of other chemical toxins in the environment, are teaming up to disrupt normal cell phsyiological. Eating junk food fits into an alarming picture for modern diets of highly processed foods translates into magnesium deficiencies, and processed food are also high in chemical preservatives, pesticides, and food additives that are harmful to health and put further strains on magneisum reserves in the body.
Magnesium deficiency is associated with insulin
resistance and increased platelet reactivity.
An abstract from Disorders of Magnesium Metabolism[iv] concludes,
"Magnesium depletion is more common than previously thought. It seems to be
especially prevalent in patients with diabetes mellitus. It is usually
caused by losses from the kidney or gastrointestinal tract. A patient with
magnesium depletion may present with neuromuscular symptoms, hypokalemia,
hypocalcemia, or cardiovascular complication. Physicians should maintain a
high index of suspicion for magnesium depletion in patients at high risk and
should implement therapy early."
A separate Gallup survey (in 1995) of 500 adults with diabetes
reported that 83 percent of those with diabetes are consuming
insufficient magnesium from food, with many by significant margins.[v]
Diabetic neuropathy and other complications of diabetes are made worse
as a result of concurrent magnesium deficiency. Magnesium is known to be
deficient in over 68% of the US population, and more so in diabetics who
waste magnesium more than others when blood sugars are out of control. Up to
80% of type 2 diabetics have a magnesium deficiency.[vi] Children labeled
"pre diabetic" (now 41 million) are in great need of magnesium, which has
been linked to preventing the development of type 2 diabetes.[vii] In a
series of papers, Dr. L. M. Resnick has shown in the test tube that an
increase in glucose in the fluid leads to the release and/or displacement of
Magnesium from the red blood cells, thus in the body hyperglycemia, high
blood sugar, will cause a total body Magnesium deficiency.[viii]
A more recent study shows us that "Serum magnesium depletion is present
and shows a strong relationship with foot ulcers in subjects with type 2
diabetes and foot ulcers, a relationship not previously reported."
Hypomagnesemia is associated with the development of neuropathy and abnormal
platelet activity, both of which are risk factors for the progression of
ulcers of the feet.[ix]
Lower serum magnesium levels are associated
with more rapid decline of renal function.
Thus we can expect to find that magnesium can be used to prevent and
treat both diabetes and the complications that come from it including severe
peripheral neuropathy. Dr. S. E. Browne makes a strong case for intravenous
magnesium treatment of arterial disease and has used magnesium sulphate in
his general practice for over three decades. "Magnesium sulphate (MgSO4) in
a 50% solution was injected initially intramuscularly and later
intravenously into patients with peripheral vascular disease (including
gangrene, claudication, leg ulcers and thrombophlebitis), angina, acute
myocardial infarction (AMI), non-haemorrhagic cerebral vascular disease and
congestive cardiac failure. A powerful vasodilator effect with marked
flushing was noted after intravenous (IV) injection of 4-12 mmol of
magnesium (Mg) and excellent therapeutic results were noted in all forms of
arterial disease."[x]
Dr. Herbert Mansmann Jr., Director of the Magenesium Research Lab,[xi]
who is a diabetic with congenital magnesium deficiency and severe peripheral
neuropathy, shares that he was able to reverse the neuropathy and nerve
degeneration with a year of using oral magnesium preparations at very high
doses. "For example it took me 6 tabs of each of the following every 4
hours, Maginex, MgOxide, Mag-Tab SR and Magonate to get in positive Mg
balance. I tell people this not to scare them, but to illustrate how much I
needed to saturate myself. Most will only need 10% of this amount. I was
doing an experiment on myself to see if it helped my diabetic neuropathy. It
worked so I did it for one year, and I have had significant nerve
regeneration. I could never have been able to do this with MgSO4 baths
(Epsom Salt), since I could not get into and out of a bath tub" [xii]
"I was saturated at about 3 grams of elemental Mg per day, but went to 20
grams for over a year. I now take 5 grams, and stools are semi-formed, and
the surrounding water is clear, 3-4 per day." "Mg is very safe, since the
gut absorption is regulated by serum Mg levels, and then the Mg stays in the
gut and results in varying degrees of diarrhea. Then the dose is too high.
Want soft semi-formed stools. Mine, while on high dosages of magnesium were
liquid every 2-4 hours for 2 years, the electrolytes every month were
normal, but for low potassium, part of my urinary Mg wasting, both," wrote
Mansmann.
Dr. Mansmann concludes, "I have had diabetic neuropathy for over 10
years. The most significant symptom is my neuropathic pain of burning feet,
called erythromelalgia. With the aid of Mg I can completely suppress the
symptom, but if my blood glucose level is acutely elevated, because of a
dietary indiscretion, the pain flares in spite of an apparent adequate dose
of Mg. It goes away with extra Mg gluconate (Magonate) in an hour or so in
either case. Without the Mg it will last for six plus hours, even though the
blood glucose level is normal in about two hours." "It is my belief that
every one with diabetes should be taking Mg supplementation to the point of no one's Maximum Tolerated Dose, which is until one has soft-semi, formed stools. In addition, anyone with neuropathy, without a known cause, must be
adequately evaluated for diabetes and especially those with poorly, slowly,
healing foot sores of any kind. Since the use of Mg is safe I see no reason that this should not be "the standard of care".[xiii]
Conclusion
Prolonged use of Magnesium will prevent
chronic complications from diabetes.[xiv]
"The current "party line" on this subject is not universally accepted,
but many of us believe the establishment is too conservative and will some
day change. While admitting its importance, for some unknown reason they
remain reluctant to recommend magnesium supplements. They just do not know
how poor the American diet is in Mg and the frequency of magnesium
deficiency" says Dr. Mansmann.[xv]
Poorly controlled diabetes increases loss of magnesium in urine.
It would be prudent for physicians who treat diabetic patients to consider magnesium deficiency as a contributing factor in many diabetic complications and as a main factor in exacerbation of the disease itself.
Recent research from many sources suggests that magnesium for the treatment of diabetes should be paramount in physicians' minds. The most recent
example, after only 8 weeks of oral magnesium, thermal hyperalgesia was normalized and plasma magnesium and glucose levels were restored towards normal in rats.[xvi]
Repletion of the deficiency with transdermal magnesium chloride mineral therapy[xvii] is the ideal way of administering magnesium in medically
therapeutic doses. Such treatments will, in all likelihood, help avoid or ameliorate such complications as diabetic peripheral neuropathy, arrhythmias, hypertension, and sudden cardiac death and will even improve the course of the diabetic condition in general.[xviii]
Once doctors, primary healthcare providers and the public are made aware of the role of magnesium in diabetes there will be no excuse to not increase
public magnesium consumption, which can even be added to water supplies[xix] instead of poisonous fluoride[xx] and dangerous statins[xxi],[xxii],[xxiii] which are also known to cause peripheral neuropathy with long term use.
During a stroke or heart attack it would be cruel, medically incompetent and life threatening to not use magnesium chloride or magnesium sulfate
immediately. The same kind of treatment that saves lives in dramatic life threatening situations is urgently needed in the treatment of diabetes and diabetic neuropathy.
Medically things would rarely progress to this
point if magnesium chloride is used in prevention and treatment of such problems. Magnesium chloride has the added advantage over other magnesium forms in that it is antiseptic as well as cytophilactic.
Rapid increase of magnesium stores are necessary in some cases and may be lifesaving for diabetics as they are for other patients in emergency rooms.
Preventative effects of magnesium may go a long way to protecting the children of the future from early onset of both diabetes and the complications that come from it. The safety profile of magnesium chloride is extraordinary compared to today's pharmaceutical drugs.
It is only with severe renal insufficiency that problems have been observed with magnesium treatments. The elderly are at risk of magnesium toxicity only because of possible decreased renal function so caution is necessary.
Special Note: While Dr. Mansmann makes a strong case for high doses of
magnesium, it cannot be ignored that GLA has also been recognized for it's ability to stop and/or reverse peripheral neuropathy and is endorsed by Dr. Atkins, of the famous Atkins diet, which many diabetics follow. Dr. Atkins says, "Science has established rather conclusively that GLA halts the otherwise inevitable advance of nerve damage caused by diabetes. GLA helps
the nerves to heal. As one study of 111 patients showed, people with either form of diabetes, Type I or Type II, can benefit, using a dose as small as 480 mg of GLA per day.[xxvii] Other research suggests that the fatty acid
may even prevent the nerve deterioration from starting up.[xxviii] Some kind of abnormality in fatty acid metabolism is very likely involved in the development of diabetic complications and maybe even the development of diabetes itself. People who have the disease seem unable to make GLA from dietary fats and therefore may suffer from an insufficiency of PGE1, (Prostaglandin E1, a beneficial hormone-like compound). Coincidentally
enough, this substance can potentiate the work of insulin and exerts insulin like actions of its own. Therefore diabetics need all the PGE1 that GLA can
help them make." Spirulina is very high in both magnesium and GLA.
Copywrite International Medical Veritas Association 2006. All rights
reserved.
The International Medical Veritas Association is now two years old. If you visit the IMVA site you will see the new face we are putting out into the world with our focus in seven areas:
1) The Rising Tide of Mercury (Dental, Vaccines, Environmental)
2) Diabetes and Diabetic Neuropathy
3) Transdermal Magnesium Mineral Therapy
4) Sports Medicine
5) Childhood Immunization & Autism
6) Natural Detoxification and Chelation of heavy metals.
7) Natural Child Birth
Below find the beginning of a series on diabetes. The International Medical Veritas Association (IMVA) introduces a much needed medical intervention for
the prevention and treatment of diabetes and the many complications that come from it. There are two mammoth factors that the IMVA has discovered are
linked to the horrendous rise in diabetes in adults and children that the western medical establishment is not willing to acknowledge. The first is chemical poisoning and the second is magnesium deficiency. When we confront the fact that every 30 seconds a leg is lost because of diabetes somewhere
in the world, there is much to get excited about in our safe and natural treatment for Diabetic Neuropathy.
Thus a great way to support our work is to stock up your medicine cabinets with magnesium chloride.
We also are intimately involved with FEBICO, a fine producer of spirulina and chlorella at the very southern tip of Taiwan, Natural Body Beautiful, a company that deals in the finest calcium bentonite clay, and with Science Formulas, which produces Chelorex, a natural chelation product for adults. All these companies have donated their products to facilitate our work in
helping others recover from chemical poisoning.
Replacing billions of dollars of pharmaceuticals with a safe mineral/medicine like magnesium chloride is now one of our primary goals. It's our medical revolution in progress. We need people to work with us.
New York Times. January 9, 2006
[ii]http://www.dailytexanonline.com/media/paper410/news/2005/04/18/TopStories/State.Recognizes.Need.For.Diabetes.Prevention.Plan-927680.shtml
[iii] Derrick Z. Jackson, Diabetes and the trash food industry. Boston
Globe. January 11, 2006
[iv] NY Times. January 11, 2006.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/11/nyregion/nyregionspecial5/11diabetes.html?th&emc=th
Amighi J, Sabeti S, Schlager O, Mlekusch W, Exner M, Lalouschek W, Ahmadi
R, Minar E, Schillinger M. Low serum magnesium predicts neurological events
in patients with advanced atherosclerosis. Stroke. 2004 Jan; 35(1): 22-7.
Epub 2003 Dec 04. Researchers conducted the study to see if magnesium levels
were associated with stroke risk in patients with peripheral artery disease.
The study authors followed 323 patients with symptomatic peripheral artery
disease and intermittent claudication (www. age was 68 years) for 12 to 25
months. Thirty-five of the subjects (11%) developed neurologic events such
as strokes. Subjects who had the lowest magnesium serum levels had triple
the risk for stroke and other harmful neurologic events compared to the
patients with the highest serum magnesium levels.
[ii] http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/alternativetherapies/
[iii] Total serum magnesium was reduced in the high-fructose group compared
with control or high-fructose plus magnesium-supplemented groups. Blood
pressure and fasting insulin levels were also lower in the
magnesium-supplemented group. These results suggest that magnesium
deficiency and not fructose ingestion per se leads to insulin insensitivity
in skeletal muscle and changes in blood pressure. Dietary magnesium prevents
fructose-induced insulin insensitivity in rats.Batan et.al; Hypertension.
1994 Jun;23(6 Pt 2):1036-9.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/...tool=iconabstr&query_hl=7&itool=pubmed_docsum
[iv] Endocrinology & Metabolism Clinics of North America. 24(3):623-41, 1995
Sep.
[v] v57, Better Nutrition for Today's Living, March '95, p34.
http://www.mgwater.com/articles.shtml
[vi] Carper, J. Mighty Magnesium. USA Weekend. 2002 Aug 30-Sept 1.
[vii]Magnesium Deficiency Linked to Type 2 Diabetes
http://www.newstarget.com/006121.html
Studies conducted at Harvard University indicate that people who have high
levels of magnesium in their blood are less likely to develop type 2
diabetes or insulin resistance than those with lower levels. Studies in
Mexico have also found an alleviation of diabetes symptoms in patients who
took dietary supplements containing magnesium. Original Source:
http://www.health24.com/dietnfood/General/15-742-775,31268.asp
[viii] Diabetologia" 36
767-70, 1993
[ix] Low serum magnesium levels and foot ulcers in subjects with type 2
diabetes. Rodriguez-Moran M, Guerrero-Romero F. Arch Med Res. 2001
Jul-Aug;32(4):300-3.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/...tool=iconabstr&query_hl=3&itool=pubmed_docsum
[x] S. E. BROWNE. The Case for Intravenous Magnesium Treatment of Arterial
Disease in General Practice. Journal of Nutritional Medicine (1994) 4,
169-177
[xi] Herbert C. Mansmann Jr. MD. Honorary Professor of Pediatrics. P.O. Box
791, Rangeley, ME 04970 Associate Professor of Medicine (1968-03) Director
of the Magnesium Research. Laboratory (1989-03) Thomas Jefferson University
http://www.magnesiumresearchlab.com
[xii] http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/MagnesiumResearchLab/message/2863
[xiii] http://magnesiumresearchlab.com/Diabetes-and-Mg-5-11-04.htm
[xiv] The effect of magnesium supplementation in increasing doses on the
control of type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care. 1998 May;21(5):682-6.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/...itool=iconfft&query_hl=34&itool=pubmed_docsum
[xv] http://magnesiumresearchlab.com/Diabetes-and-Mg-5-11-04.htm
[xvi] Hasanein P. et al. Oral magnesium administration prevents thermal
hyperalgesia induced by diabetes in rats. Department of Biology, Bu-Ali Sina
University, Hamadan, Iran. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2006 Jan 14
[xvii] See http://www.MagnesiumForLife.com for full information on
transdermal magnesium chloride mineral therapy. And go to
http://www.globallight.net to see the recommended natural seawater product
with the highest concentration and lowest toxicity that the International
Medical Veritas Association endorses.
[xviii] Long term magnesium supplementation influences favourably the
natural evolution of neuropathy in Mg-depleted type 1 diabetic patients
(T1dm); De Leeuw et al; Magnes Res. 2004 Jun; 17(2):109-14
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/...ool=iconabstr&query_hl=12&itool=pubmed_docsum
[xix] http://mgwater.com/
[xx] Because fluoride is excreted through the kidney, people with renal
insufficiency would have impaired renal clearance of fluoride (Juncos and
Donadio 1972). Elderly people are more susceptible to fluoride toxicity.
[xxi] Statins and peripheral neuropathy; U. Jeppesen , D. Gaist , T. Smith
S. H. Sindrup European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology Volume 54, Number
11;835 - 838 January 1999
[xxii] The Peripheral Neuropathy Caused by Statins Petition to
Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America and companies listed
was created by DrugIntel Statin Users with Neuropathy and written by John
Lehmann. "We users of statin drugs have experienced some of the symptoms
listed below [1] that characterize peripheral neuropathy (damage to nerves
outside the brain). Medical research published in peer-reviewed journals has
shown that statins are able to cause peripheral neuropathy or a syndrome
that is very similar to it. We petition the pharmaceutical manufacturers of
statins [2] to: 1. Notify patients (past, current, and prospective users of
statins) and healthcare professionals (physicians, pharmacists, nurses,
physicians' assistants) of the risk associated with statin use and what to
do once the first signs and symptoms of neuropathy have appeared. 2. Sponsor
and perform research on how statins cause neuropathy. 3. Sponsor and perform
clinical research on how to cure and reverse the neuropathy caused by
statins. 4. Perform clinical research and recommend the best drug treatments
to mitigate the pain and make other symptoms of statin-induced neuropathy
more tolerable.
5.Proactively offer reparation to statin users who have suffered neuropathy.
The petition will be presented to the Pharmaceutical Researchers and
Manufactuers Association and to the Medical Affairs Departments of the
companies listed, as well as any additional companies that may be identified
as relevant over time http://www.petitiononline.com/Statins/petition.html
[xxiii] Statins and risk of polyneuropathy
D Gaist, MD PhD, U Jeppesen, M Andersen, LAG Neurology 2002;58:1333-1337 ©
2002 American Academy of Neurology
Statins and risk of polyneuropathy.
[xxiv] Participants receive injections of the toxin in six places in the
calf muscle and then the leg is put into a cast. The idea is that this will
help prevent pressure on the ball of the foot during walking. The ball if
the foot is the area most affected by foot ulcers and allowing an ulcer to
heal completely helps prevent recurrence.
http://www.diabetes-and-diabetics.com/about-diabetes/diabetic-complications-02.php
[xxv] Botulinum toxin has been a concern as a potential biological warfare
agent since World War II. In response to concerns about Germany's botulinum
toxin research, the United States and Great Britain developed
countermeasures against the toxin before the invasion of Europe. More
recently, Iraq has been accused of producing large amounts of botulinum
toxin for use as a biological warfare agent. The extreme toxicity of
botulinum toxins and the ease of production, transport, and delivery make
this an agent of extreme bioterrorism concern.
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/publications/botulism.htm
[xxvi] Overview of Botulism:
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/bt/botulism/biofacts/botulismfactsheet.html
Maggot Therapy Speeds Healing of Diabetic Foot Ulcers.
http://bastyrcenter.org/content/view/757/
http://www.larve.com/copy_of_maggot_manual/docs/current_status.html
[xxvii] Keen, H., et al., Diabetes Care, 1993; 16: 8-15.
[xxviii] Jamal, G., Diabetic Medicine, 1994; 11(2): 145-49.
http://www.diabeteslibrary.org/news/news_item.cfm?NewsID=241
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If you know or are a diabetic, have it in your family, PLEASE share and READ!! Magnesium WILL CURE diabetes, atherosclerosis, peripheral neuropathy, etc! This is HOW Chelation therapy HEALS!!!!
As you will see below and on the IMVA site, our big push right now is into the nightmarish realm of diabetes, which in a medical sense is hitting the world's population in a much more intense way than the tidal waves that reached around the Indian Ocean. We intend to kick many doors down on this issue though this does not diminish our commitment in the area of autism and childhood immunization. Please see our new presentations on these subjects
on the new IMVA site.
Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
Director International Medical Veritas Association
Magnesium and Diabetic Neuropathy
International Medical Veritas Association
If diabetes has no cure,
if its like a wind that never ends,
at least we can slow that
wind down and even make it stop.
Introduction
Diabetes is commonly thought to have no cure. It is progressive and
often fatal, and while the patient lives, the mass of medical complications
it sets off can attack every major organ. Though public health officials
acknowledge that their ability to slow the disease is limited, and though
doctors fear a huge wave of new cases will overwhelm public health systems,
"Public health authorities around the country have all but ignored chronic
illnesses like diabetes, focusing instead on communicable diseases, which
kill far fewer people," according to the New York Times. Hospitals around
New York City are full of diabetic patients and on any given day, nearly
half the patients are there for some trouble precipitated by the disease.
Type two diabetes is being declared
an epidemic in New York City.
With one in three children born in the United States expected to become
diabetic in their lifetimes, a close look at its surge in New York City
offers a disturbing glimpse of where the city, and the rest of the world is
headed. Diabetes has swept through families, entire neighborhoods in the
Bronx and broad slices of Brooklyn. While the ranks of American diabetics
have exploded by an extremely painful 80 percent in the last decade, New York has seen a devastating explosion of 140 percent. New York is not the
only place where the disease is exploding. "Half of Texas children born after the year 2000 will develop diabetes," said Department of State Health
Services Commissioner Dr. Eduardo Sanchez.[ii]
Type 2 Diabetes is sweeping so rapidly through
America we need not waste time giving
children bicycles. Just roll them a wheelchair.
Boston Globe[iii]
This medical review of diabetic neuropathy introduces a much needed
medical intervention for the prevention and treatment of diabetes and the
many complications that come from it. Though safe effective treatments are
desperately needed there is something strange in the medical establishments
approach to diabetic care. The New York Times says in this regard, "In the
Treatment of Diabetes, Success Often Does Not Pay." "It's almost as though
the system encourages people to get sick and then people get paid to treat
them," said Dr. Matthew E. Fink, a former president of Beth Israel Medical
Center in Manhattan. The Times bemoans "a medical system so focused on acute
illnesses that it is struggling to respond to diabetes, a chronic disease
that looms as the largest health crisis facing the city."[iv] Something is
wrong with the way allopathic medicine is dealing with diabetes and that starts with its refusal to look honestly at what is causing the disease.
Diabetes gives us a clear picture of how the human race is being caught
between a rock and a hard place, a kind of devils anvil of our own corporate
making. The human body is failing to deal with massive chemical exposure in
the face of hugely increasing deficiencies in basic nutrients like
magnesium. Malnutrition is now in full bloom in the first world even among
the obese.
Magnesium and Diabetic Neuropathy
Magnesium is necessary for the
production, function & transport of insulin.
Magnesium is known to be necessary for nerve conduction; deficiency is
known to cause peripheral neuropathy symptoms and studies suggest that a
deficiency in magnesium may worsen blood glucose control in type 2 diabetes.
Scientists believe that a deficiency of magnesium interrupts insulin
secretion in the pancreas and increases insulin resistance in the body's
tissues.
Magnesium deficiency played a role in the constriction of arteries and
enhanced injury to the cellular tissues lining the blood vessels.
Peripheral artery disease, or peripheral vascular disease, refers to
diseases of the arteries and veins of the extremities, especially
atherosclerosis with narrowing of the arteries. This opens the door to the
development and progression of atherosclerosis and sets the stage for the
development of neurological events such as strokes. These same conditions
set the stage for the development of peripheral diabetic neuropathy. This
entire scenario described here also sets the stage for the development of
peripheral neuropathy even when diabetes is not present.
A recent analysis showed that people with higher dietary intakes of
magnesium (through consumption of whole grains, nuts, and green leafy
vegetables) had a decreased risk of type 2 diabetes.[ii] Magnesium has
potentially beneficial effects at several key steps of glucose and insulin
metabolism. In animal studies, dietary magnesium supplementation can prevent
fructose-induced insulin resistance and elevations of blood pressure in
rats. [iii]
The convergence of large drops in cellular magnesium, which offers protective coverage against chemical toxicity, with increasing poisoning of
people's blood streams with heavy metals like arsenic[chemtrails www.bariumblues.com], mercury and lead, as
well as a literal host of other chemical toxins in the environment, are teaming up to disrupt normal cell phsyiological. Eating junk food fits into an alarming picture for modern diets of highly processed foods translates into magnesium deficiencies, and processed food are also high in chemical preservatives, pesticides, and food additives that are harmful to health and put further strains on magneisum reserves in the body.
Magnesium deficiency is associated with insulin
resistance and increased platelet reactivity.
An abstract from Disorders of Magnesium Metabolism[iv] concludes,
"Magnesium depletion is more common than previously thought. It seems to be
especially prevalent in patients with diabetes mellitus. It is usually
caused by losses from the kidney or gastrointestinal tract. A patient with
magnesium depletion may present with neuromuscular symptoms, hypokalemia,
hypocalcemia, or cardiovascular complication. Physicians should maintain a
high index of suspicion for magnesium depletion in patients at high risk and
should implement therapy early."
A separate Gallup survey (in 1995) of 500 adults with diabetes
reported that 83 percent of those with diabetes are consuming
insufficient magnesium from food, with many by significant margins.[v]
Diabetic neuropathy and other complications of diabetes are made worse
as a result of concurrent magnesium deficiency. Magnesium is known to be
deficient in over 68% of the US population, and more so in diabetics who
waste magnesium more than others when blood sugars are out of control. Up to
80% of type 2 diabetics have a magnesium deficiency.[vi] Children labeled
"pre diabetic" (now 41 million) are in great need of magnesium, which has
been linked to preventing the development of type 2 diabetes.[vii] In a
series of papers, Dr. L. M. Resnick has shown in the test tube that an
increase in glucose in the fluid leads to the release and/or displacement of
Magnesium from the red blood cells, thus in the body hyperglycemia, high
blood sugar, will cause a total body Magnesium deficiency.[viii]
A more recent study shows us that "Serum magnesium depletion is present
and shows a strong relationship with foot ulcers in subjects with type 2
diabetes and foot ulcers, a relationship not previously reported."
Hypomagnesemia is associated with the development of neuropathy and abnormal
platelet activity, both of which are risk factors for the progression of
ulcers of the feet.[ix]
Lower serum magnesium levels are associated
with more rapid decline of renal function.
Thus we can expect to find that magnesium can be used to prevent and
treat both diabetes and the complications that come from it including severe
peripheral neuropathy. Dr. S. E. Browne makes a strong case for intravenous
magnesium treatment of arterial disease and has used magnesium sulphate in
his general practice for over three decades. "Magnesium sulphate (MgSO4) in
a 50% solution was injected initially intramuscularly and later
intravenously into patients with peripheral vascular disease (including
gangrene, claudication, leg ulcers and thrombophlebitis), angina, acute
myocardial infarction (AMI), non-haemorrhagic cerebral vascular disease and
congestive cardiac failure. A powerful vasodilator effect with marked
flushing was noted after intravenous (IV) injection of 4-12 mmol of
magnesium (Mg) and excellent therapeutic results were noted in all forms of
arterial disease."[x]
Dr. Herbert Mansmann Jr., Director of the Magenesium Research Lab,[xi]
who is a diabetic with congenital magnesium deficiency and severe peripheral
neuropathy, shares that he was able to reverse the neuropathy and nerve
degeneration with a year of using oral magnesium preparations at very high
doses. "For example it took me 6 tabs of each of the following every 4
hours, Maginex, MgOxide, Mag-Tab SR and Magonate to get in positive Mg
balance. I tell people this not to scare them, but to illustrate how much I
needed to saturate myself. Most will only need 10% of this amount. I was
doing an experiment on myself to see if it helped my diabetic neuropathy. It
worked so I did it for one year, and I have had significant nerve
regeneration. I could never have been able to do this with MgSO4 baths
(Epsom Salt), since I could not get into and out of a bath tub" [xii]
"I was saturated at about 3 grams of elemental Mg per day, but went to 20
grams for over a year. I now take 5 grams, and stools are semi-formed, and
the surrounding water is clear, 3-4 per day." "Mg is very safe, since the
gut absorption is regulated by serum Mg levels, and then the Mg stays in the
gut and results in varying degrees of diarrhea. Then the dose is too high.
Want soft semi-formed stools. Mine, while on high dosages of magnesium were
liquid every 2-4 hours for 2 years, the electrolytes every month were
normal, but for low potassium, part of my urinary Mg wasting, both," wrote
Mansmann.
Dr. Mansmann concludes, "I have had diabetic neuropathy for over 10
years. The most significant symptom is my neuropathic pain of burning feet,
called erythromelalgia. With the aid of Mg I can completely suppress the
symptom, but if my blood glucose level is acutely elevated, because of a
dietary indiscretion, the pain flares in spite of an apparent adequate dose
of Mg. It goes away with extra Mg gluconate (Magonate) in an hour or so in
either case. Without the Mg it will last for six plus hours, even though the
blood glucose level is normal in about two hours." "It is my belief that
every one with diabetes should be taking Mg supplementation to the point of no one's Maximum Tolerated Dose, which is until one has soft-semi, formed stools. In addition, anyone with neuropathy, without a known cause, must be
adequately evaluated for diabetes and especially those with poorly, slowly,
healing foot sores of any kind. Since the use of Mg is safe I see no reason that this should not be "the standard of care".[xiii]
Conclusion
Prolonged use of Magnesium will prevent
chronic complications from diabetes.[xiv]
"The current "party line" on this subject is not universally accepted,
but many of us believe the establishment is too conservative and will some
day change. While admitting its importance, for some unknown reason they
remain reluctant to recommend magnesium supplements. They just do not know
how poor the American diet is in Mg and the frequency of magnesium
deficiency" says Dr. Mansmann.[xv]
Poorly controlled diabetes increases loss of magnesium in urine.
It would be prudent for physicians who treat diabetic patients to consider magnesium deficiency as a contributing factor in many diabetic complications and as a main factor in exacerbation of the disease itself.
Recent research from many sources suggests that magnesium for the treatment of diabetes should be paramount in physicians' minds. The most recent
example, after only 8 weeks of oral magnesium, thermal hyperalgesia was normalized and plasma magnesium and glucose levels were restored towards normal in rats.[xvi]
Repletion of the deficiency with transdermal magnesium chloride mineral therapy[xvii] is the ideal way of administering magnesium in medically
therapeutic doses. Such treatments will, in all likelihood, help avoid or ameliorate such complications as diabetic peripheral neuropathy, arrhythmias, hypertension, and sudden cardiac death and will even improve the course of the diabetic condition in general.[xviii]
Once doctors, primary healthcare providers and the public are made aware of the role of magnesium in diabetes there will be no excuse to not increase
public magnesium consumption, which can even be added to water supplies[xix] instead of poisonous fluoride[xx] and dangerous statins[xxi],[xxii],[xxiii] which are also known to cause peripheral neuropathy with long term use.
During a stroke or heart attack it would be cruel, medically incompetent and life threatening to not use magnesium chloride or magnesium sulfate
immediately. The same kind of treatment that saves lives in dramatic life threatening situations is urgently needed in the treatment of diabetes and diabetic neuropathy.
Medically things would rarely progress to this
point if magnesium chloride is used in prevention and treatment of such problems. Magnesium chloride has the added advantage over other magnesium forms in that it is antiseptic as well as cytophilactic.
Rapid increase of magnesium stores are necessary in some cases and may be lifesaving for diabetics as they are for other patients in emergency rooms.
Preventative effects of magnesium may go a long way to protecting the children of the future from early onset of both diabetes and the complications that come from it. The safety profile of magnesium chloride is extraordinary compared to today's pharmaceutical drugs.
It is only with severe renal insufficiency that problems have been observed with magnesium treatments. The elderly are at risk of magnesium toxicity only because of possible decreased renal function so caution is necessary.
Special Note: While Dr. Mansmann makes a strong case for high doses of
magnesium, it cannot be ignored that GLA has also been recognized for it's ability to stop and/or reverse peripheral neuropathy and is endorsed by Dr. Atkins, of the famous Atkins diet, which many diabetics follow. Dr. Atkins says, "Science has established rather conclusively that GLA halts the otherwise inevitable advance of nerve damage caused by diabetes. GLA helps
the nerves to heal. As one study of 111 patients showed, people with either form of diabetes, Type I or Type II, can benefit, using a dose as small as 480 mg of GLA per day.[xxvii] Other research suggests that the fatty acid
may even prevent the nerve deterioration from starting up.[xxviii] Some kind of abnormality in fatty acid metabolism is very likely involved in the development of diabetic complications and maybe even the development of diabetes itself. People who have the disease seem unable to make GLA from dietary fats and therefore may suffer from an insufficiency of PGE1, (Prostaglandin E1, a beneficial hormone-like compound). Coincidentally
enough, this substance can potentiate the work of insulin and exerts insulin like actions of its own. Therefore diabetics need all the PGE1 that GLA can
help them make." Spirulina is very high in both magnesium and GLA.
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The International Medical Veritas Association is now two years old. If you visit the IMVA site you will see the new face we are putting out into the world with our focus in seven areas:
1) The Rising Tide of Mercury (Dental, Vaccines, Environmental)
2) Diabetes and Diabetic Neuropathy
3) Transdermal Magnesium Mineral Therapy
4) Sports Medicine
5) Childhood Immunization & Autism
6) Natural Detoxification and Chelation of heavy metals.
7) Natural Child Birth
Below find the beginning of a series on diabetes. The International Medical Veritas Association (IMVA) introduces a much needed medical intervention for
the prevention and treatment of diabetes and the many complications that come from it. There are two mammoth factors that the IMVA has discovered are
linked to the horrendous rise in diabetes in adults and children that the western medical establishment is not willing to acknowledge. The first is chemical poisoning and the second is magnesium deficiency. When we confront the fact that every 30 seconds a leg is lost because of diabetes somewhere
in the world, there is much to get excited about in our safe and natural treatment for Diabetic Neuropathy.
Thus a great way to support our work is to stock up your medicine cabinets with magnesium chloride.
We also are intimately involved with FEBICO, a fine producer of spirulina and chlorella at the very southern tip of Taiwan, Natural Body Beautiful, a company that deals in the finest calcium bentonite clay, and with Science Formulas, which produces Chelorex, a natural chelation product for adults. All these companies have donated their products to facilitate our work in
helping others recover from chemical poisoning.
Replacing billions of dollars of pharmaceuticals with a safe mineral/medicine like magnesium chloride is now one of our primary goals. It's our medical revolution in progress. We need people to work with us.
New York Times. January 9, 2006
[ii]http://www.dailytexanonline.com/media/paper410/news/2005/04/18/TopStories/State.Recognizes.Need.For.Diabetes.Prevention.Plan-927680.shtml
[iii] Derrick Z. Jackson, Diabetes and the trash food industry. Boston
Globe. January 11, 2006
[iv] NY Times. January 11, 2006.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/11/nyregion/nyregionspecial5/11diabetes.html?th&emc=th
Amighi J, Sabeti S, Schlager O, Mlekusch W, Exner M, Lalouschek W, Ahmadi
R, Minar E, Schillinger M. Low serum magnesium predicts neurological events
in patients with advanced atherosclerosis. Stroke. 2004 Jan; 35(1): 22-7.
Epub 2003 Dec 04. Researchers conducted the study to see if magnesium levels
were associated with stroke risk in patients with peripheral artery disease.
The study authors followed 323 patients with symptomatic peripheral artery
disease and intermittent claudication (www. age was 68 years) for 12 to 25
months. Thirty-five of the subjects (11%) developed neurologic events such
as strokes. Subjects who had the lowest magnesium serum levels had triple
the risk for stroke and other harmful neurologic events compared to the
patients with the highest serum magnesium levels.
[ii] http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/alternativetherapies/
[iii] Total serum magnesium was reduced in the high-fructose group compared
with control or high-fructose plus magnesium-supplemented groups. Blood
pressure and fasting insulin levels were also lower in the
magnesium-supplemented group. These results suggest that magnesium
deficiency and not fructose ingestion per se leads to insulin insensitivity
in skeletal muscle and changes in blood pressure. Dietary magnesium prevents
fructose-induced insulin insensitivity in rats.Batan et.al; Hypertension.
1994 Jun;23(6 Pt 2):1036-9.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/...tool=iconabstr&query_hl=7&itool=pubmed_docsum
[iv] Endocrinology & Metabolism Clinics of North America. 24(3):623-41, 1995
Sep.
[v] v57, Better Nutrition for Today's Living, March '95, p34.
http://www.mgwater.com/articles.shtml
[vi] Carper, J. Mighty Magnesium. USA Weekend. 2002 Aug 30-Sept 1.
[vii]Magnesium Deficiency Linked to Type 2 Diabetes
http://www.newstarget.com/006121.html
Studies conducted at Harvard University indicate that people who have high
levels of magnesium in their blood are less likely to develop type 2
diabetes or insulin resistance than those with lower levels. Studies in
Mexico have also found an alleviation of diabetes symptoms in patients who
took dietary supplements containing magnesium. Original Source:
http://www.health24.com/dietnfood/General/15-742-775,31268.asp
[viii] Diabetologia" 36
767-70, 1993 [ix] Low serum magnesium levels and foot ulcers in subjects with type 2
diabetes. Rodriguez-Moran M, Guerrero-Romero F. Arch Med Res. 2001
Jul-Aug;32(4):300-3.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/...tool=iconabstr&query_hl=3&itool=pubmed_docsum
[x] S. E. BROWNE. The Case for Intravenous Magnesium Treatment of Arterial
Disease in General Practice. Journal of Nutritional Medicine (1994) 4,
169-177
[xi] Herbert C. Mansmann Jr. MD. Honorary Professor of Pediatrics. P.O. Box
791, Rangeley, ME 04970 Associate Professor of Medicine (1968-03) Director
of the Magnesium Research. Laboratory (1989-03) Thomas Jefferson University
http://www.magnesiumresearchlab.com
[xii] http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/MagnesiumResearchLab/message/2863
[xiii] http://magnesiumresearchlab.com/Diabetes-and-Mg-5-11-04.htm
[xiv] The effect of magnesium supplementation in increasing doses on the
control of type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care. 1998 May;21(5):682-6.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/...itool=iconfft&query_hl=34&itool=pubmed_docsum
[xv] http://magnesiumresearchlab.com/Diabetes-and-Mg-5-11-04.htm
[xvi] Hasanein P. et al. Oral magnesium administration prevents thermal
hyperalgesia induced by diabetes in rats. Department of Biology, Bu-Ali Sina
University, Hamadan, Iran. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2006 Jan 14
[xvii] See http://www.MagnesiumForLife.com for full information on
transdermal magnesium chloride mineral therapy. And go to
http://www.globallight.net to see the recommended natural seawater product
with the highest concentration and lowest toxicity that the International
Medical Veritas Association endorses.
[xviii] Long term magnesium supplementation influences favourably the
natural evolution of neuropathy in Mg-depleted type 1 diabetic patients
(T1dm); De Leeuw et al; Magnes Res. 2004 Jun; 17(2):109-14
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/...ool=iconabstr&query_hl=12&itool=pubmed_docsum
[xix] http://mgwater.com/
[xx] Because fluoride is excreted through the kidney, people with renal
insufficiency would have impaired renal clearance of fluoride (Juncos and
Donadio 1972). Elderly people are more susceptible to fluoride toxicity.
[xxi] Statins and peripheral neuropathy; U. Jeppesen , D. Gaist , T. Smith
S. H. Sindrup European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology Volume 54, Number
11;835 - 838 January 1999
[xxii] The Peripheral Neuropathy Caused by Statins Petition to
Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America and companies listed
was created by DrugIntel Statin Users with Neuropathy and written by John
Lehmann. "We users of statin drugs have experienced some of the symptoms
listed below [1] that characterize peripheral neuropathy (damage to nerves
outside the brain). Medical research published in peer-reviewed journals has
shown that statins are able to cause peripheral neuropathy or a syndrome
that is very similar to it. We petition the pharmaceutical manufacturers of
statins [2] to: 1. Notify patients (past, current, and prospective users of
statins) and healthcare professionals (physicians, pharmacists, nurses,
physicians' assistants) of the risk associated with statin use and what to
do once the first signs and symptoms of neuropathy have appeared. 2. Sponsor
and perform research on how statins cause neuropathy. 3. Sponsor and perform
clinical research on how to cure and reverse the neuropathy caused by
statins. 4. Perform clinical research and recommend the best drug treatments
to mitigate the pain and make other symptoms of statin-induced neuropathy
more tolerable.
5.Proactively offer reparation to statin users who have suffered neuropathy.
The petition will be presented to the Pharmaceutical Researchers and
Manufactuers Association and to the Medical Affairs Departments of the
companies listed, as well as any additional companies that may be identified
as relevant over time http://www.petitiononline.com/Statins/petition.html
[xxiii] Statins and risk of polyneuropathy
D Gaist, MD PhD, U Jeppesen, M Andersen, LAG Neurology 2002;58:1333-1337 ©
2002 American Academy of Neurology
Statins and risk of polyneuropathy.
[xxiv] Participants receive injections of the toxin in six places in the
calf muscle and then the leg is put into a cast. The idea is that this will
help prevent pressure on the ball of the foot during walking. The ball if
the foot is the area most affected by foot ulcers and allowing an ulcer to
heal completely helps prevent recurrence.
http://www.diabetes-and-diabetics.com/about-diabetes/diabetic-complications-02.php
[xxv] Botulinum toxin has been a concern as a potential biological warfare
agent since World War II. In response to concerns about Germany's botulinum
toxin research, the United States and Great Britain developed
countermeasures against the toxin before the invasion of Europe. More
recently, Iraq has been accused of producing large amounts of botulinum
toxin for use as a biological warfare agent. The extreme toxicity of
botulinum toxins and the ease of production, transport, and delivery make
this an agent of extreme bioterrorism concern.
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/publications/botulism.htm
[xxvi] Overview of Botulism:
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/bt/botulism/biofacts/botulismfactsheet.html
Maggot Therapy Speeds Healing of Diabetic Foot Ulcers.
http://bastyrcenter.org/content/view/757/
http://www.larve.com/copy_of_maggot_manual/docs/current_status.html
[xxvii] Keen, H., et al., Diabetes Care, 1993; 16: 8-15.
[xxviii] Jamal, G., Diabetic Medicine, 1994; 11(2): 145-49.
http://www.diabeteslibrary.org/news/news_item.cfm?NewsID=241
