Kidney disease requires magnesium
Highlights from Natural News Dr. Carol Dean (Ms Magnesium)
magnesium is required by about 1300 enzymes systems in the body,
Magnesium also has about 4,000 receptor sites on body proteins.
One doctor said he couldn't understand why there was 5X more cardiovascular hospitalization and cardiovascular events in people with lowered kidney filtration rates but normal blood chemistry..Low Magnesium!!
Use ionized magnesium testing so you know what's really going on with magnesium levels in the body.
- Serum magnesium testing is highly inaccurate. It gives everyone a false sense of security about magnesium levels.
- Only about 1 percent of the total body magnesium is in the serum
people with chronic kidney disease have the highest levels of serum magnesium and in the same sample, the lowest levels of ionized magnesium
There are only 140 labs of 5,000 in the U.S. that do the ionized magnesium test
CLICK HERE for her extensive Magnesium references
See also VitaminDWiki
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