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MAGNESIUM'S EFFECT ON BODY ODORS

 

In this book on magnesium we are more or less of a compiler, but we are

proud of what we have compiled There is no value in a bunch of

researches done in various parts of the world, and reported in dozens of

medical journals, lying dormant, moldering in the archives so to speak,

and not being used by practicing physicians. Our function is to find

everything pertinent to magnesium and publish it in one place--in one

book--so that doctors can see at one glance what a wonderful weapon they

have in this mineral.

 

The foremost pioneer in this field was Pierre Delbet, M.D., who sent

many communications on his experiences with magnesium to the French

Academy of Medicine. One of them dealing with body odors was dated June

5, 1928. Here is a translation of a portion of it.

 

" The surgeon must endeavor to bring his patients to the operating table

with the maximum resistance of which each is capable: resistance to the

nervous upset of emotion, resistance to the toxicity of anesthetics,

resistance to hemorrhage, resistance to infection. It is a gigantic

program whose solution will demand the full play not only of what one

knows about biology, but also of what one doesn't know about it.

 

" I have touched only two small points.

 

" I give my patients who are to be operated on some magnesium chloride

while they receive the preoperative vaccination. Each day they take 100

grams of the solution . . . (containing 1,020 mg. anhydrous magnesium

chloride), a solution which I determined in 1915 acts on the white

corpuscles (an action that I have called cytophylactic).

 

" During this period, thirteen years ago, I began to administer this

solution, either by the digestive or subcutaneous route, to infected

individuals.

 

" After a few days, they experienced a sensation of euphoria and energy

which they called to my attention. At first, I wondered if it weren't a

case of those illusions which are so frequent in sick persons who have

been prescribed a new medication. Then, when the constancy of the effect

had forced itself on my attention, I recalled the relative richness in

magnesium of the grey matter of the brain in comparison with all organs

of highly differentiated functions, and I wondered if humanity, a great

consumer of an elevated order of energy, didn't have a magnesium

deficiency. Then I took it myself as a chloride, and had several members

of my entourage take it, and during thirteen years, I've made a great

number of observations and experiments.

 

" Today, I will speak only of the preparation of sick persons for the

operation.

 

" At a dose of I gram 20 mg. magnesium chloride can be considered only as

a purgative, but it regularizes salts as a matter of course. Taken

continuously, it brings them out in many persons who are chronically

constipated, and reduces them in many who are diarrhetic. In a few days,

if their diets contain nothing particularly toxic, it deodorizes them.

It is a very striking phenomenon: their fecal matter loses all of its

disagreeable odor. That can be due only to a modification of the

intestinal flora, but I haven't succeeded in noting what the

modification consists of. Even though it seems a little puerile to

establish a relationship between fetidity and toxicity, we do it

instinctively; so this deodorization seems advantageous, particularly in

patients who won't evacuate stercoral matter for two or three days after

the operation.

 

" Magnesium chloride stimulates the biliary system. Perhaps this is the

mechanism by which it regularizes salts.

 

" The head of my clinic, M. de Vadder, who makes duodenal tubage in my

service, has observed at my request that the injection of magnesium

chloride into the duodenum brings out a wave of vesical bile. "

 

 

A Personal Note by J. I. Rodale

 

In the first paragraph of this chapter, I admitted to being a compiler,

but on the subject of magnesium's effect on body odor, I went a step

further. I made myself a guinea pig. Here are some, of my experiences:

 

For eight or nine months I took magnesium in the form of dolomite

tablets. I wanted to see its effects on me before I recommended it to

others. Within a few clays, exactly as Delbet had said, I noticed that

it deodorized my stool.

 

But may I say that this deodorization process began with me many years

ago, after a few years of being on the Prevention system, cutting out

bread, salt, sugar, and milk and taking the many vitamins and minerals,

exercising, etc. But with the addition of dolomite the process of

deodorization was made almost complete--let us say 99.4 percent

complete.

 

But when I started to take dolomite tablets, I was not prepared for

another change it produced, something that took about six months. This

was an almost complete disappearance of underarm odor! Unbelievable, you

might say! But perhaps the unbelievable is about to come true. Wouldn't

that be something--something as basic as the purification of the inner

body, by a simple little tablet?

 

Delbet in the above quotation says that magnesium's effect on body odor

is no doubt due to a modification of the intestinal flora, the

beneficial intestinal bacteria that take part in the process of breaking

down the food. I came to this conclusion independently owing to several

experiences I had with magnesium.

 

Normally when I ate cooked beets, my stool would be red the next

morning. There was not complete digestion, with reference especially to

the red coloring matter. But when I ate raw beets, there was no red in

the stool the next morning.

 

It is a known fact that ordinary cooking temperatures kill all the

enzymes in foods. But when you eat raw beets, with all their enzymes

available to aid in their complete digestion, everything is absorbed and

used up in the body.

 

Now here is an astonishing fact: when I began to take dolomite tablets

and would eat cooked beets, with their enzymes destroyed, my stool was

not red the next morning. Evidently magnesium either has the property of

acting in the place of enzymes, or increases the intestinal flora to

such an extent that they could do the job of digestion completely by

themselves. The ideal situation would be to eat raw beets and take

dolomite tablets. I often eat raw beets in thin slices and find them

very palatable.

 

I had a similar experience with asparagus. Many persons have found that

when they eat asparagus, it gives their urine a characteristic odor. I

always found this to be so when I ate cooked asparagus, but not when I

ate raw asparagus. But after being on dolomite for a while, I could

consume this vegetable cooked or raw with no odor resulting in the

urine.

 

In the matter of the effect of magnesium on body odor, while the latter

is important, the question of what is behind this, that is, what happens

in the body that neutralizes odor-producing chemicals, is more

important! And science should start experiments to learn exactly what

goes on in the digestive process when magnesium is introduced.

 

In this book we have shown how effective magnesium is in curing certain

diseases. Could this be because of the fact that magnesium increases the

intestinal flora and enables the body to absorb more nutrients from the

food, and thus improve the nutrition to a particular organ that is sick

or in a process that is defective?

 

 

Magnesium in Chlorophyll

 

We found a clue next in a study that was subsequently made of

chlorophyll as a deodorizer. For many years there have been conflicting

reports about the " green blood " of plants, and utterly contradictory

laboratory results arising from tests of the deodorant properties of

chlorophyll.

 

Yet there had been enough confirmation that chlorophyll is a deodorizer,

so that we felt it deserved further investigation. We even found one

research man, Dr. J. C. Munch, who headed a research laboratory in

Mexico City, who found in relation to a study of the effect of

water-soluble chlorophyll on Mexican boys and girls " direct application

to the armpits has confirmed its properties as a deodorant. " And many

other doctors writing in various medical journals either confirmed or

accepted as a matter of course the deodorant properties of

chlorophyllin. Yet the highly respected Dr. F. C. Lu of the Food and

Drug Laboratories of the Canadian Department of National Health and

Welfare tested chlorophyllin on both dogs and human beings and found no

appreciable change in odors. Moreover, there were other research

scientists who felt the same as Dr. Lu.

 

Finally, by close reading of the research reports, we were able to

isolate what we consider the significant difference. Chlorophyllin is

defined by the Merck Index as sodium magnesium chlorophyllin. But the

chlorophyllin used by Dr. Lu and others who got negative results was a

special form in which the magnesium had been removed. This is done on

the assumption, made by many, that any deodorizing effect of chlorophyll

is due -to its tendency to absorb carbon dioxide and convert it to free

oxygen. Such conversion is performed quite as well by chlorophyllin

without magnesium as it is by chlorophyllin with magnesium. The

researchers assumed that the commercially refined product would have

just the same deodorant effect, if any, as the natural product.

 

But it did not have the same effect, and the difference, of course, was

magnesium. This study left us convinced that chlorophyll is a good

natural deodorizer, but only in the magnesium-containing form and only

because of the magnesium. In other words, for the deodorizing effect you

might as well use the magnesium without the sodium and the green pigment.

 

Lately we have gotten another clue. There is now much reason to believe

that magnesium in large quantities is essential to the healthy

functioning of the pituitary gland. This gland, in turn, regulates the

functions of all the other glands. And, when there is a noticeable

unpleasant odor about anyone's body that cannot be traced to a specific

disease condition, it is most often a malfunction of a particular set of

glands -the apocrine glands-that gets the blame.

 

Is it possible that, by regulating and improving the function of the

pituitary, magnesium acts through the pituitary to regulate the apocrine

glands so that they will no longer release enough of their secretions to

form unpleasant odors?

 

We do not know yet, though we feel we are coming closer to the answer.

What we do know is that, for reasons not yet established, magnesium

consumed in sufficient quantity to avert any possible deficiency does

definitely seem to reduce or altogether eliminate any tendency an

otherwise healthy person might have to unpleasant body odors.

 

Thirty years ago, when I was not on any health system, I had my share of

stool and underarm odor. At various times they were unusually offensive,

if you will excuse me. But gradually as I stopped taking drugs and began

following a good nutritional program, they became less offensive.

Formerly on the average my stool was a very dark color, but gradually as

I became healthier, it assumed a bland light brown appearance, which is

as it should be.

 

There can be no question that what we eat can affect the odor of our

stool and our bodies generally. The seven-month-old infant of a friend

of mine, who was being breast fed, was placed on a bottle formula.

Immediately his stool began to smell!

 

I have often read that Orientals claim that Westerners have an offensive

smell. When I mentioned this to an artist friend, he confirmed it. Years

ago, in Japan, he was married to a Japanese girl who claimed he smelled

bad!

 

The odor of Westerners' might come from wheat (the Oriental eats rice);

it might also come from dairy products. Until very recently the

Orientals had no dairy industry. It may also come from toxic additives

in Western food, and from patent medicines. Possibly, also, the

Oriental's diet may contain more magnesium than ours.

 

You will recall from Delbet's quotation that he could not deodorize the

body of a person with magnesium unless his diet did not contain anything

that was toxic. I imagine that the stools of people who take certain

medicines must smell badly, unless sledgehammered with deodorant

products.

 

In this respect the taking of antibiotics is a sure way to start the

" body-smell " process, because the antibiotic is a bacteria killer,

killing indiscriminately, the good with the bad, seriously reducing the

population of intestinal flora. In other words, the more antibiotics

people take the more they will smell; that is, under the cloak of the

chemical deodorant.

 

That magnesium acts to improve the digestion was discussed in The

Medical Tribune of June 3, 1964. It was a case described by Dr. Maurice

E. Shils of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research--a 74-

year-old man who developed gastrointestinal symptoms after the

fifty-third day of a magnesium-deficient diet. His symptoms cleared up

in four days after magnesium was added to his diet.

 

Note that it took 53 days of getting very little magnesium to show an

ill effect. This might be because it took that long to reduce the

population of intestinal flora. I found this to be the case once when I

purposely stopped taking the dolomite tablets. The advantages held for

quite a while. But the buildup process, starting low, is much faster.

 

I did a little experimental work, eating certain forbidden foods to

observe their effect on my stool, but the results were confusing because

I did not stop taking dolomite. But when I ate some thin-walled

chocolate Easter eggs that we brought from Italy, there was an odor the

next morning. Evidently a certain chemical or emulsifier must have been

used in the chocolate to enable the thin wall to withstand breakage. I

noted that it took quite an effort to break it.

 

Science must launch a longtime study on the effects on the body odor of

eating various kinds of foods and the taking of various kinds of drugs,

exercise, etc. I am sure that many drugs are so toxic that they kill

intestinal flora. Thus the doctor is substituting one form of illness

for another, the remedy in many cases worse than the disease.

 

In my premagnesium era I discovered that, when I walked for two hours a

day (at two sessions of one hour each), my foot odor vanished

completely. But one hour of this exercise a day did not do it. Today

without any walking at all (during the winter), my dolomite tablets keep

my feet completely free of odor. How about athlete's foot? I don't know.

I haven't had it for many years. I was cured of it about seven or eight

years ago by the Prevention system. But perhaps the taking of dolomite

might cure it.

 

As I have said, I take nine tablets of dolomite a day. At the beginning,

I had a few days of light diarrhea, but soon everything set itself in

the proper order. Delbet says the same thing in his communication to the

French Academy of Medicine, July 10, 1928: " In persons who have normally

active bowels, it brings on a diarrhea in the first days, but it does

not last. "

 

It would seem, therefore, that with dolomite, good nutrition, and

sufficient exercise, and without certain organic disease conditions,

most underarm, stool, and foot odor could be eliminated. I believe there

is another factor, namely, the emotions, which must be considered. In

emergencies and under tensions there might be a temporary return of b.o.

 

Delbet put himself on record on this subject in 1928, or 40 years ago,

and his work has been completely ignored ever since. No regular medical

checking tests a person's status in regard to blood magnesium. It is

time this is changed.

 

It is not merely a matter of body odor, but if what is behind it means a

better digestion, a better absorption of vitamins and minerals from our

food, a better feeding of the glands and organs of the body, then it

would be an important part of the process of preventing disease in

general-from a toothache to cancer.

 

Here is a new field for medical research-a place where some of the

government's three billion research dollars can be invested to great

advantage. Medical science must be alerted! Breathtaking accomplishments

might come of it! What medical organization will be the first to test

Pierre Delbet's claims?

 

 

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