As Magnesium Ions Go, So Goes Our Health
As a function of turning a collection of ideas in manuscript form into a new book, I have spent the better part of this year living with the subject of magnesium. I’ve learned its critical importance to our health, some of the consequences of magnesium deficiency (and there are many), the fact that food sources today make it virtually impossible to provide the body with sufficient magnesium, making supplementation necessary, not optional.
I’ve also learned about the various forms of supplementation, and how they relate to the one that our body responds best to, that is, when, as a result of availability of magnesium chloride, magnesium is passed into the body through the skin, or in a word, transdermal.
My learning came as a result of reading the manuscript of Mark Allan Sircus, Ac., OMD, whom I met in 2000 through mutual membership in a Yahoo Group called GIATI (meaning “God Is All That Is”).
A renegade, sometimes combative thinker, and passionate feeler for humanity, Mark was an ideological lightning rod amongst the community of New Thought ministers, metaphysicians, and resonant thinkers. Not being ministers, Mark, as well as myself were among the contingent of resonant thinkers.
Passion sometimes runs close to the line of civility, sometimes crossing over into combative interactions, particularly when some are drawn to activism, while others are not. Mark was, and is an activist at heart. However, we operated in an implicitly passive environment. While minds opted to come together in openness to the ideas that came through cyberspace to our computer screens, it was difficult to translate and organize common interests into common purposes. I believe this became a source of frustration for Mark, and sometimes irritation to the people whose “positions” he may have awakened or challenged.
He eventually left the mailing list, which has been a much quieter, and so some extent, less energetic place since then. I won’t say it’s all because of Mark’s leaving; many other factors have been at work, but it would probably liven up if he returned. However, he busied himself with other issues and opportunities.After leaving the GIATI group in 2002, Mark founded his own, called, The Oneness Project.
Again, it was a cyber gathering of like minded people in disparate locations around the world, with Mark himself residing for a time in a remote location in the interior of Brazil. He has since moved to a more “urban” town near the coast, but he’s still far removed from mainstream centers of influence. However, one beauty of the internet is the ease with which it allows people to stay in touch. Although we did not find a way to affect some form of mass awakening or change, we knew of each other. The Oneness Project also became mostly quiet, but its persistence is why I became aware of Mark’s manuscript in the first place.
In 2005 Mark wrote a series of articles on mercury poisoning through mandatory vaccination policies; particularly its impact on children. He also spoke out against the use of dental amalgam fillings, which slowly seep mercury into the bloodstream and lodge itself in various parts of the body. The effects of these practices, combined with the steady decline in nutritional value of our foods, has shown itself in the earlier onset and steady rise in chronic diseases, including autism and type II diabetes in children. Yet, while they got my attention and compassionate interest, it was not enough to pull my attention away from events going on in my own life. So there’s much more all ready in the works from Mark Sircus.
His magnesium manuscript struck me differently because instead of being angry and outraged, as some of his mercury essays had struck me, it had a hopeful voice. This is not to say that outrage about mercury practices and politics today was not warranted. He uses plenty of reference citations to back up his claims. However, it became evident that this information on magnesium, and particularly the intake of magnesium through the skin, or transdermally, could in fact counteract, if not supersede, the effects of mercury and other forms of intoxication, even while re-igniting many other bio-beneficial processes that have deteriorated due to the sub-nutritional value of our food.
The importance of magnesium intake is not new. It was the availability of magnesium in a form that the body could absorb transdermally, that made his manuscript a potential paradigm shifter for me. Magnesium chloride is a natural residual product of the process of producing sea salt. Any time we are in the ocean, we experience, and benefit from the transdermal intake of the mineral nutrients that the sea water contains, including magnesium.
What makes the transdermal entry of magnesium so important is a physiological response that happens no other way. During its conversion to ionic form while passing through the fatty tissue of the skin, magnesium sets off a cascading chain of events that result in natural DHEA production. Discovered by Dr. Norman Shealy, this is the only intake method that results in a net increase in DHEA.
If this weren’t fantastic enough, transdermal magnesium intake, which takes the guesswork out of replenishment, has shown positive results for people who suffer from a wide range of chronic illnesses. Clearly, evidence supports the contention that most people with chronic diseases are magnesium deficient. Raising magnesium levels almost invariably yields improvements in one’s health.
The one single thing that impressed me the most from reading Mark’s manuscript was the sense that this information could help tens and hundreds of thousands, even millions of people affect an improvement in their health status, whether they are suffering from an insidious chronic disease, or are relatively healthy. In fact, even those who are considered the healthiest people, athletes, need, and would benefit from transdermal magnesium replenishment.
As of this time of writing, we are at the very beginning of the publishing cycle; the announcing phase. Mark and I have labored long to transform the information contained in the Microsoft Word file that he originally sent me, into a living, breathing book that readers can use as a reference tool, or give to others as gifts. The early results have been promising. Three magazines, Well Being Journal (Nov/Dec 2006), Namasté Magazine (
UK) (Nov/Dec 2006), and Four Corners Magazine (Dec 2006/Jan 2007) have published entire selected chapters from the book. The large scale education process hasn’t even started yet. But it’s on the horizon. From time-to-time I’ll let you know how it’s going.
