Magnesium Chloride Product Analysis

Magnesium is nothing short of a miracle
 mineral in its healing effect on a wide
 range of diseases as well as in its
 ability to rejuvenate the aging body.

    Magnesium chloride is one of the best kept secrets, not only in naturopathic medicine but in the world of allopathic medicine where it is used in emergency rooms to save lives. Magnesium chloride has a dramatic effect on cell life and is vastly safer to use than aspirin. Why is magnesium chloride so effective in so many medical situations? “Magnesium is necessary for the normal function of over 300 enzyme systems, for muscle relaxation, immune function, cardiac function, clotting, nerve conduction etc. Indeed I cannot think of a bodily department in which magnesium is not essential. It prevents heart disease, cancer, blood pressure, kidney stones and improves energy, sleep etc.” reports Dr. Sara Mayhill.

Those who consumed the most magnesium had about a 31-percent
 reduced risk of developing metabolic syndromes. Metabolic
 syndrome is a collection of conditions, including high blood pressure, high triglycerides, lower levels of HDL, or good cholesterol, higher waist circumference, and higher than normal blood sugar. People with metabolic syndrome are at significant risk for heart disease and diabetes.

    Magnesium chloride is a versatile medicine we can all put in our medicine cabinets. It boosts almost all aspects of cell physiology and can be used orally, intravenously, and transdermally. Magnesium chloride treatments address systemic nutritional deficiencies, act to improve the function of our cells and immune system, and help protect cells from oxidative damage. It’s a systemic medicine as well as a local one bringing new life and energy to the cells wherever it is applied topically. Minerals like magnesium help with everyday body processes, reduce risk of certain cancers, strengthen muscles and tissues, and help develop organs and tissues as well as keeping them from deteriorating.

The biggest benefit of topical/transdermal magnesium
 chloride administration is that the intestines are not
adversely impacted by large doses of oral magnesium.

     According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studies show that as many as two thirds of all Americans do not consume enough magnesium. The latest government study shows a staggering 68% of Americans do not consume the recommended daily intake of magnesium, which is set way too low meaning these statistics are understatements. Even more frightening are data from this study showing that 19% of Americans do not consume even half of the government’s recommended daily intake of magnesium.

     Magnesium chloride is a potent substance that penetrates
 the cells with stunning result on cell biochemistry. 

    There is no mystery in the idea that it’s always good to eat the most pure whole foods we can find and the same can be said about magnesium chloride solutions. There are many magnesium chloride products on the market and some new ones arriving on the scene. Some are natural ones taken from the sea, others are taken from brine flows at certain lakes, and now we find a sea of it 1500 meters underground in the Netherlands that is hundreds of millions of years old and as pure as can be. And then there are the unnatural types that are pharmaceutical powders and crystals that are made by industrial process using hydrochloric acid. These magnesium products come in different grades.[1]

          Magnesium chloride hexahydrate is the manufactured form made with hydrochloric acid, and added to water. In this process magnesium chloride is regenerated from magnesium hydroxide using hydrochloric acid.

Mg(OH)₂(s) + 2 HCl → MgCl₂(aq) + 2 H₂O(l)

Oral magnesium chloride is well tolerated and gets absorbed very
quickly and is inexpensive. Magnesium chloride hexahydrate can be purchased from most chemical supply houses without a prescription.

     What is of concern to us all is the relative purity or level relative level of contamination. My official position on the pharmaceutical stuff, which often contains 25 times the heavy metal pollution than natural seawater evaporation solutions, is that it’s a thousand times better than nothing. Often in many countries it is the only magnesium chloride product one can find and the original transdermal magnesium chloride man, Dr. Norman Shealy, I believe, still uses and sells the pharmaceutical crystals and powders. My complaint against these pharmaceutical materials is that they have high levels of lead. They do not feel the same on the skin as natural solutions but to do without when in need of magnesium supplementation is like not breathing air when living on earth because of the pollution. 

      A typical Magnesium Chloride Hexahydrate solution might have about ten parts per million of heavy metals.[2] - [3] Some synthetic products only have about 5ml/kilo meaning only five parts per million of heavy metals.[4] In general these industrial made magnesium chloride products are inexpensive when purchased in bulk and can be dumped in your bathtub for relaxation and medical treatment. Hexahydrate solutions usually maintain in solution about 25 percent magnesium chloride whereas the natural brines are up at around 32 percent sometimes peaking out at 35 percent before we find magnesium crystals forming at the bottom of the container.

The problem with oral magnesium is that all
magnesium compounds are potentially laxative.

    Lead is a problem not only in children’s toys and household plumbing but also in magnesium products. Jamieson™, Natural Sources Calcium Magnesium is not approved by Consumer Labs because because it contains 1.9 mcg of lead per daily serving. Weil™, Andrew Weil, M.D. Balanced Cal-Mag is also not approved by Consumer Labs because it contains 2.3 mcg of lead per daily serving.[5]

    Mercury is also a problem in some of the available magnesium products and it’s a growing concern on earth today. There is at least one company selling magnesium chloride brine from the Great Salt Lake but federal scientists studying the lake have found some of the highest levels of mercury ever measured anywhere. Concentrations of methylmercury, the element's most poisonous form exceeded 25 nanograms per liter of water. Fish consumption warnings have been issued when there was just 1 nanogram per liter. ``We thought we would find some high levels of methylmercury,'' said David Naftz, the USGS research hydrologist who is heading the Great Salt Lake project, ``but not some of the highest (the USGS) has ever found.''

     The deepest waters of the Great Salt Lake may contain even more toxic mercury than previously known. That's according to water tests done by Kennecott Utah Copper last summer, two years after samples that triggered alarms about mercury throughout Utah.[6] The large surface area of the lake may collect a lot of mercury from atmospheric deposition. Once in the lake, sulfate-reducing bacterial that live in the deep brine layer may facilitate the creation of methylmercury. Preliminary analyses indicate that methylmercury levels in the deep brine layer are among the highest ever measured by the USGS. [7]

     One needs to be seriously concerned about purchasing products coming from the Great Salt Lake and companies making claims about purity and the absence of mercury need to send you their official testing reports. It is not advisable to take someone’s word on such matters.

    Magnesium Oil, a solution gathered by salt water evaporation has been our favorite magnesium chloride solution until now. I have been recommending a product from Global Light Network and I have seen it do miracles, even saving the life of my oldest online friend. But recently I have received hints of problems when I was in the interior of Brazil sitting clinic with Dr. Augusto Vinholis. We had ordered a gallon of magnesium oil and what came in the magnesium oil bottle was magnesium gel. Global Light was very unresponsive and seemed not to think it was important.

     I am aware that Global Light had hired an FDA consultant to put a quality program together, but, instead, after a few months, decided against instituting a full quality assurance program. Without such a program their product does not meet minimum requirements and should be re-filtered before any more is sold.

     It is terribly disturbing to find problems like this especially in the face of something so necessary and positive in terms of furthering the health and recovery of many people from serious disease. Global Light has been a major supporter of the International Medical Verities Association and it has been empowering working together with them to bring Transdermal Magnesium Therapy to the world. But because of this and other events at Global Light the IMVA has to announce a total break with this company.

     The IMVA now only recommend magnesium chloride products that come from certified laboratories and bottling companies though if you presently have magnesium oil on hand and it has no odor or  discoloration I would continue to use it but NEVER drink it. Other companies are coming online who will adhere to strict quality control methods using filtering methods that Global Light’s present inventory seems to be lacking.

      In the last Global Light newsletter (End of August of 2007) one sees:

Question about Magnesium Oil: I have found that the Magnesium Oil makes my daughter's skin itch. Have you ever heard of this? Could she be allergic to an ingredient in this?                                                E.C., Canada

Answer: It is possible that your daughter is allergic to one of the minerals in the Magnesium Oil, but the more likely thing is that she is so deficient in magnesium. We have found that can cause a rash or burning response. One problem may be that she is leaving it on too long. 20 to 30 minutes is long enough, and then she should wash it off completely.

IMVA Analysis: It is apparent that most of the rashes and burning that some people have experienced is neither due to their sensitivities nor their magnesium deficiencies but due to the impurities in the product itself.

     I have requested several people make a comparison between new and extremely pure magnesium oil that I will introduce below, Global Lights oil as it is presently being shipped and the same oil passed through a micron filter.

     In the reference section you will see the protection protocols for the Zechstein Magnesium Oil that is mined from deep below ground in the Nethelands, which is one of the magnesium chloride products that we will recommend.[8] Such standards like lot and quality control are demanded by the FDA and other regulatory agencies.

     For the very purest magnesium oil we now have to turn to Europe. Deep underground is a 250 million old sea of magnesium chloride brine that has never been touched by modern day pollution and there is enough of it down there to last humanity hundreds of years. It is so pure that I use it as a mouthwash and then swallow what is in my mouth for oral supplementation. It is ideal not only for oral intake but practically insures that skin reactions will be absent even at full strength. This is the magnesium chloride the IMVA recommends, along with an atomic state iodine at seven percent solution level, for all skin cancers as well as breast cancer. 

    Special Note for Health Care Practitioners: In critical situations where heavy application is a must, one needs the confidence that patients will be able to tolerate without discomfort the application of the magnesium chloride all over the body. To have an emergency situation where a patient is in desperate need we need the purest available. I know of a little girl of four years old battling brain stem cancer and I know the parents cannot apply as much as I would recommend because of problems with itching.

     Though the small amounts of mercury (0,004 mg/l as originally tested) in sea derived magnesium chloride products are not threatening especially be because of the larger selenium levels, which are more than enough to bind and neutralize the mercury, the underground magnesium chloride has four times less measuring in at Hg  <0.0015. Because of the great strength of the Euro currencies and the greatly weakening dollar, this magnesium oil product will be more expensive meaning it probably will not be appropriate to use in bulk for baths.

     It is my suggestion that people stock and use both seawater magnesium chloride solutions and reserve this superior magnesium solution for application to the oral cavities, face, use in diluted form for eye wash, skin and breast cancer, use for douches for cervical cancer, simple mouth wash with great effect for gum health and tooth strength, and for the use for people with sensitive skin which means all children. It is just heavenly to coat the entire skin with.

  For medical doctors this is something to keep on hand even for intravenous applications and for the home users what one would want to put drops of into their purified water. To gaze on 2.5 liters of it is to gaze on the purest, most powerful medicine obtainable anywhere in the world. Its pure healing power and versatility of its use make it a non-option in every medicine cabinet and in every doctor’s dispensary.

     It certainly would be the product of choice for skin beauty care and for straight oral supplementation. Beauty and health are in reality highly related subjects. Rarely do we see an unhealthy person who is beautiful or a beautiful person who is grossly unhealthy. As we lose our health our beauty is diminished by the diseases we fall victim to. In ancient China magnesium is called the beautiful metal and it will bring nothing but beauty to one’s life, body and skin.

     One of Hawaii's fastest-growing exports is based on a commodity the state is soaking in: seawater. Super-cold water sucked up from thousands of feet below the Pacific Ocean's surface is being marketed as healthy, pure, mineral-rich drinking water. Japanese consumers are paying top dollar for desalinated Hawaiian deep-sea water being marketed as a dietary supplement that aids weight loss, stress reduction, skin tone and digestion. So valuable do they find this that they are willing to pay a cool $2,144 a gallon for a concentrated form of this deep sea water. Two-ounce bottles of Hawaii Deep Marine's Kona Nigari seawater mineral concentrate (to mix with regular water) sell for $33.50 at the Key of Life store in the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center, reported USA Today.[9]

     The magnesium oil from this ancient deposit in the Netherlands will be a hit in the Far East where they appreciate the purity and quality of such products especially because the cost is dramatically lower than the price from Hawaii. If purchased by the half gallon the European product roughly costs $3.76 for two ounces. It gets my vote for all time purest, most powerful useful medicinal substance in the world. Highly filtered seawater magnesium oil would come in at $1.60 for two ounces (when purchased by the gallon) and has been the most useful medicinal agent I have found to date. More toxic industrially created magnesium chloride products would weigh in around 80 cents for two ounces and we readily recommend them when nothing else is available.

     For more information about this Ancient Minerals magnesium oil from Europe contact Rob Behr from the Netherlands.[10] He has the first product for both doctors and patients and also can ship in bulk to all points in the world. For orders in the western hemisphere contact LL Clay [11],  which will also be the first source of filtered sea-water magnesium oil bottled in an FDA approved bottling and filtering facility. Distributors for each country will be supported from both of these companies for both types of natural magnesium chlorides.

     There are many other excellent products high in magnesium content, one of special note is the Dead Sea Salt. It is both high in magnesium and potassium and is good for strong mineral baths. One will not find that it replaces a high potency magnesium chloride but it is a healing agent in its own right. There are actually many such salt and brine works and salt is a huge subject in and of itself. Himalayan Salts, Real Salt, Celtic Salts are some of the finest in the world and are worth their weight in gold.

    Epsom Salts are wonderful for many applications and one can put hundreds of pounds of it in isolation chambers so you can float easily in them. They have soothing but limiting health and healing effect in comparison to magnesium chloride, which could never be put in great quantities in the water you bathe in. For some reason magnesium chloride is hugely more absorbable through transdermal means then magnesium sulfate (Epsom Salt). Though magnesium sulfate is equally effective in the emergency room, saving cardiac arrest patients with ease, it does not come anywhere near to the level of medicinal potency of magnesium chloride in the transdermal world of application and approach. 

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