Aloha from Carolyn Dean, MD ND,

I talk all day and every day about magnesium but many people are
focused on calcium. Women especially are led to believe that
calcium, and lots of it, is necessary to keep their bones from
crumbling away. Medically we just imagine that bones are made of
calcium and don’t realize the importance of the interplay between
calcium and magnesium.

However, if you’ve read anything I’ve written about magnesium, such as
you’ll know that magnesium is the dynamo behind calcium. They are
both necessary and equally important for strong bones and many
other processes in the body.

Here are the words of one of my clients.

“It was news to me and might be a shock to your readers, too,
when you say to take 1/3 as much calcium as magnesium. All the
magnesium/calcium pills I could find had twice as much calcium
and magnesium in them.”

Calcium (in the carbonate, citrate and gluconate forms) is only
4-10% absorbed. Unlike magnesium, calcium doesn’t flush itself out
with diarrhea if you take too much. Calcium, instead, causes
constipation and builds up in the body. Some researchers are saying
calcium supplements are responsible for an increase in
calcification causing heart disease, kidney stones, gall stones,
heel spurs and fibromyalgia. Part of that buildup has to do with
the fact that few people take magnesium with their calcium. It also
has to do with the type of calcium taken.

Now, as usual, I’m leaping into the abyss here. But I can’t
“unknow” what I know about calcium. And what I know is that most of
the calcium being used is the wrong kind.

What’s the solution? We should try to get as much calcium as we
possibly can from food sources. Go to The World’s Healthiest Foods
website www.whfoods.org,
type in calcium to get a list of calcium-rich foods. If you do the math,
you’ll see that we get much more calcium in our diet than magnesium.
But if you need extra calcium, take it in the form of Angstrom Calcium

Angstrom-sized calcium is at a particle size between a nanometer
and picometer and fully absorbed at the cellular level. It’s taken
in small dosages and there is nothing left over to calcify any part
of the body.

I’m often asked about ionic minerals. Ionic means a charge, not a
size, so an ionic supplement is not necessarily smaller than any
other minerals on the shelf. I asked the last person who inquired
if her ionic magnesium gave her a laxative effect. She said it did.
Therefore it can’t be an angstrom-sized product.

I don’t sell supplements but my current recommendation for angstrom
minerals at a good price is Angstrom Magnesium from the Culture of Life Store.

Carolyn Dean MD ND
The Doctor of the Future

Many major media outlets are reporting an ‘Outbreak’ of a new ‘Deadly’ strain of fungus called Cryptococcus gattii. They are calling it ‘Potentially Lethal’ and saying that many of the victims have been ‘Healthy’ and so this new fungus could be a big problem.
 
Well, the media MUST be bored because this new fungal strain is HARDLY deadly and the ‘healthy’ people that they are reporting are dying like flies from this problem are anything but. This is simply propaganda that no one should be worried about in the LEAST! Here are the facts:

270 CASES have been identified in the past 11 years

40 people have died in that time period
 

That is HARDLY something to worry about. More people die of heart attack or breast [...] Continue Reading…

Lately, I’ve been getting people writing in asking if they should worry if they Store Vitamin D. Now, I’m not sure where people have got the idea that storing vitamin d is something that is worrisome or something harmful, but let me set the record straight that you should not worry if you store vitamin d.

Vitamin d is a FAT SOLUBLE vitamin and you do not excrete it through the sweat, urine or stool as you would if it were a Water Soluble vitamin. Vitamins and minerals such as the B vitamins, magnesium and Vitamin C Supplements must be taken on a daily basis because they get excreted if you do not use them in a short period of time (a few hours to a few days depending upon [...] Continue Reading…

Television ads featuring heart inventor, Dr. Robert Jarvik, who, by the way, cannot row a skull and never practiced medicine, claims that Lipitor will lower heart attack risk by 36%. Now, who wouldn’t want that but let’s look at the fine print. The fine print required says:

 
“In a large clinical study 3% of people taking a placebo
had a heart attack and 2% of those taking Lipitor had a heart attack.”
 

Let’s do the math.

For every 100 people in the trial that lasted 3 l/2 years, 3 people on the placebo and 2 people on Lipitor had heart attacks. That is one less heart attack for every 100 people. In other words, 100 people had to take Lipitor for 3 l/2 years to prevent one heart attack. What [...] Continue Reading…

The experiences of pain and stress are not only experienced more acutely in people with
Symptoms of Fibromyalgia but they very often are part of the CAUSE of Fibromyalgia as well. In fact, fibromyalgia most often occurs after a serious emotional event and has been compared to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. There are likely underlying metabolic problems such as Adrenal Gland Fatigue and nutritional problems that may contribute to the development of Fibromyalgia- and stress becomes the ‘Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back’ that pushes you over the edge into having chronic pain and fatigue.

Those who have fibromyalgia seem to have a weak stress response, possibly because the adrenal glands have a genetic predisposition to be weak [...] Continue Reading…

What Causes Multiple Sclerosis in Children seems like a huge mystery, and the disease is a tragedy in and of itself. But what if that tragedy could be prevented and that neurologists have admittedly known for some time what causes MS in children and adults- and that it can be prevented- yet they refuse to do anything about it?

Well, that IS the sad state of affairs in our country at this time- and in countries around the world. This statement came out today after the results of a new vitamin d study on Children with MS:

 
“We have known for some time that vitamin D insufficiency
is a risk factor for developing MS, but this is the first study
to assess whether vitamin D levels influence the disease
course [...] Continue Reading…

Doctors and insurance companies have brainwashed us into believing that screening exams or early detection exams are the same thing as prevention. This is absolute nonsense. In fact the idea for this article came about by hearing an ad for an insurance company that offered “Free Prevention Screening Exams”. A “Prevention Screening” is an oxymoron like “Jumbo Shrimp”. The only way that the term “Prevention Screening” would make sense would be if you saw people in order to make sure that they were doing all that they could to prevent disease. But that is NOT what happens at a disease screening.

Disease Screening is much like pregnancy testing. A friend of mine is trying to get pregnant right now and about 2 weeks after she ovulates, she does a [...] Continue Reading…

If you are a woman who has ‘Female Hormone Imbalance Symptoms’ its likely that your ovaries have not simply decided to turn against you, but that the underlying cause of your hormonal problems lies somewhere entirely different. The adrenal glands are the ‘master glands’ that control whether you make stress hormones or you make female hormones. Under normal circumstances, women are able to make adequate amounts of both sex hormones AND stress hormones, but so many women are under such constant stress, or at least PERCEIVE that they are under constant stress, that they are continually in a ‘fight or flight’ response that leads to Adrenal Gland Fatigue.

And whenever we perceive that we under a stressful situation, our adrenal glands produce stress hormones such as cortisol. But cortisol [...] Continue Reading…

The Mayo Clinic discovered that Parkinson’s Disease is Related to Constipation, but they miss the boat entirely when they say WHY they think that this is so. Again, western medicine is all about making it NOT UNDER YOUR CONTROL that you are sick. So, they claim that the reason constipation is related to Parkinson’s is because of a faulty autonomic nervous system functioning!?
 
This hypothesis is almost ridiculous since there is SO much published information about Parkinson’s being related to toxin intake. And HOW do you think toxins get removed from the body? In part, many toxins are removed by the BOWELS. And actual ‘Health Oriented’ physicians have said for decades (maybe even centuries) that “Death Begins in the Bowels”. Certainly this study suggests that, at least, poor health [...] Continue Reading…

The Journal of the American Medical Association reported the results of a study that says that the Elderly With Chronic Pain Fall More. This is NOT news at all, and while they claim, “Despite a growing body of scientific evidence supporting associations between a number of risk factors and falls, efforts to translate these findings into effective fall prevention strategies have been limited.”
 
Are they just not reading the literature? There is a LARGE body of evidence from peer-reviewed double blind placebo controlled trials that Vitamin D Helps to Relieve Pain in those who are Vitamin D Deficient- which is nearly ALL elderly, and also that Vitamin D Prevents Falls.

While that sounds CRAZY that these older people who have pain and are falling could be helped by the [...] Continue Reading…