what type Magnessium? High Blood Pressure

[Guest guest]

Hello...what type of Magnessium would I buy to treat high blood pressure? There

are 4-5 different types at the health food stores and I have no idea which one.

There is Oxide, Malate, Taurate among others...which would I use? Thanks Bob

[Guest guest]

It is difficult to treat high blood pressure with oral magnesium. It is

successfully treated with magnesium IVs and transdermal magnesium but I have

never read nor heard of oral magnesium being used alone to treat high blood

pressure. The reason magnesium is used in high doses to treat health conditions

and oral is not absorbed vrey well. First of all you need to know how much

" elemental " magnesium is in the oral magnesium supplements - high quality

supplements will tell you how much elemental magnesium they contain. It usually

seems to be about 1/5 of the total amount of mg. To give an example of how

little elemental magnesium there is in a supplement -- my magnesium supplement

is 600mg, but the amount of elemental magnesium is only 120mg. Elemental

magnesium is the amount of magnesium that is available to be absorbed - this

does not mnean however that you will be capable of absorbing it all. Oral

magnesium has to in your digestive system for 24 hours to be absorbed and also

because most people do not have perfect digestion these days, not very much is

absorbed.

 

A study in 2001 indicated that magnesium oxide, an inexpensive magnesium complex

included in popular dietary supplements could have a fractional absorption in

the gut as small as 4 percent. If one was to ingest the commonly recommended

(albeit modest) adult dosage of 300-400mg elemental magnesium per day, this

would equate to a usable dosage of only 12-16mg. And yet, realistic absorption

rates from oral magnesium supplements are rarely taken into account when dosages

recommendations are given.

 

You would need about 1000mg to 1500 mg of elemental magnesium a day for

magnesium therapy.. Transdermal is the least expensive as well as effective

means of getting magnesium especially in any large amounts.

 

Ancient Minerals is a very clean pure product - pure enough to even be used

internally. It also has a higher concentration of magnesium then more

transdermal magnesium products.

 

But there are a growing number of doctors whom do treat high blood pressue

with magnesium.

blessings

Shan

 

, " wmheene " <wmheene

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> Hello...what type of Magnessium would I buy to treat high blood pressure?

There are 4-5 different types at the health food stores and I have no idea which

one. There is Oxide, Malate, Taurate among others...which would I use?

Thanks Bob

>

[Guest guest]

I am a big fan of Transdermal magnesium... for a maintenance level.

However, even though I make my own oil from Zechstein salts which as

said to contain 47% magnesium chloride as recommended by Mark Sircus'

book, I doubt that anyone could get enough therapeutic magnesium on a

daily basis to reverse a serious condition with transdermal alone. I can

rub in maybe a teaspoonful after a shower. Even at the high levels of

absorbency that Sircus claims, that would amount to less than a 1/2 tsp/

day. One could supplement that with warn footbaths, but it still would

not be that significant.

 

My choice, if I had a life threatening condition would be to first

obtain test results from a health care professional who knows their

stuff and then get it by IV as necessary along with transdermal

applications. Oral is probably useless for this from what I gather.

 

>It is difficult to treat high blood pressure with oral magnesium. It

is successfully treated with magnesium IVs and transdermal >magnesium

but I have never read nor heard of oral magnesium being used alone to

treat high blood pressure. The reason >magnesium is used in high doses

to treat health conditions and oral is not absorbed vrey well. First of

all you need to know how >much " elemental " magnesium is in the oral

magnesium supplements - high quality supplements will tell you how much

elemental >magnesium they contain. It usually seems to be about 1/5 of

the total amount of mg. To give an example of how little elemental

>magnesium there is in a supplement -- my magnesium supplement is

600mg, but the amount of elemental magnesium is only >120mg. Elemental

magnesium is the amount of magnesium that is available to be absorbed -

this does not mnean however that >you will be capable of absorbing it

all. Oral magnesium has to in your digestive system for 24 hours to be

absorbed and also >because most people do not have perfect digestion

these days, not very much is absorbed.