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Dr. Mildred S. Seelig, MD, MPH - Author of "The Magnesium Factor"
High Blood Pressure and Heart Disease
A Magnesium Deficiency Problem
800 million people worldwide and approximately 50 million Americans have high blood pressure (hypertension). Hypertension is a dangerous disease which damages blood vessels and leads to heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular diseases. Today, heart disease is America's number two cause of death.
Between 1900 and 1930 heart disease had virtually no medical specialists in the US. There was little interest in cardiology because so few people had any heart problems. Deaths from heart disease rose from 30,000 in 1900 to 700,000 in 1970.
The chart above maps the last 100 years of American heart disease. As magnesium intake fell during this period, death from heart disease skyrocketed. Is this a coincidence? Many doctors don't think so.
In his book "The Magnesium Solution for High Blood Pressure", Dr Jay S. Cohen, MD, states "Since the 1960s, more than 1,000 articles on magnesium have been published in medical journals. The results are clear: Magnesium is essential for normal vascular functioning. Blood vessels require magnesium to operate properly. Deficiencies of magnesium are common and underlie many common disorders today. One of these disorders is hypertension. It is shocking, frankly, how little people know - how little doctors know - about this vital mineral."
Dr. Julian Whitaker, MD, well known doctor of integrative medicine
Magnesium helps blood vessels to relax, calcium helps them to constrict. When there is a magnesium deficit, too much calcium enters the blood vessel cells. This excess calcium causes the cells lining our arteries to contrict, and blood pressure increases.
There is a large group of drugs prescribed by doctors for high blood pressure called "calcium channel blockers." Doctors prescribe these drugs to block the flow of calcium into blood vessel cells, thereby reducing hypertention. These drugs are costly and have many side effects.
Dr. Cohen describes this process: "In short, excess calcium in vascular smooth muscle cells causes constriction of the blood vessels. Magnesium is the natural element your body uses to prevent excess calcium from entering these cells and to maintain normal blood pressure. Magnesium is indeed our natural calcium blocker."
Published Studies
In a double-blind, placebo-controlled study, published in the British Journal of Nutrition in 1997, people who took 411 to 548 milligrams of magnesium daily achieved a reduction in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure.
Source: Itoh, K., Kawasaki, T., Nakamura, M. "The effects of high oral magnesium supplementation on blood pressure, serum lipids and related variables in apparently healthy Japanese subjects." British Journal of Nutrition, 1997;78(5):737-50.
A study of over 10,000 people in the United States found that 79% were not consuming the US RDA daily intake of magnesium in their diet. Further, the study showed that 26 percent of the people in the study were taking magnesium supplements and it was this group of people that demonstrated lower levels of C-Reactive protein. Elevated C-Reactive protein is quickly becoming one of the most powerful predictors of heart disease.
Source: US Study, reported in the July 2006 issue of the journal Nutrition Research.
An analysis of seven major clinical studies shows that intravenous magnesium reduced the risk of death by 55 percent after acute heart attack. These results were published in the prestigious "British Medical Journal" and the widely read journal "Drugs".
Source: Teo KK et al., "Effects of intravenous magnesium in suspected acute myocardial infarction: overview of randomized trials." Brit Med J, vol. 303, pp. 1499-1503, 1991.
Source: Teo KK, Yusuf S, "Role of magnesium in reducing mortality in acute myocardial infarction. A review of the evidence." Drugs, vol. 46, pp. 347-359, 1993.
In studies of natives from Greenland, the Bantu peoples of southern Africa, Bedouin people of the middle east and Aborigines of Australia, incidences of high blood pressure and heart disease were low due to high levels of magnesium in their drinking water and food. When these people moved to urban areas and began eating a modern diet, they developed high blood pressure and heart disease as often as those in the industrialized western countries.
Source: Altura, B.M., B.T. "Magnesium in Cardiovascular Biology." Scientific American, Science & Medicine, May/June 1995:28-37.
“Magnesium deficiency appears to have caused 8 million sudden coronary deaths in America during the period 1940-1994 . . . The needless drag on the US economy from magnesium deficiency exceeds $86 billion per year . . . the American rate of death from magnesium deficiency is likely to be above the benchmark average because the American diet is particularly magnesium deficient; American beer contains only a fraction of the magnesium contained in European beers; American bottled water contains only 10% as much magnesium as bottled water in the rest of the world; and American processed foods and snack foods are magnesium-deficient because processing often removes magnesium."
Paul Mason, President of the Healthy Water Association
IMPORTANT NOTE: Always consult with your doctor about treatment for hypertension and cardiovascular disease. For many people, the right solution is to continue with their current doctor-prescribed medication, but to also ensure proper levels of magnesium intake.
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or mitigate any disease. If you are pregnant, suffering from any medical condition, or are taking medication, consult a healthcare practitioner before use. |
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