The Magnesium Miracle
by Carolyn Dean
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Book Reviews of The Magnesium Miracle
Book Review: The Magnesium Miracle
Summary: 5 Stars
After reading this book, along with also having first-hand knowledge about the importance of magnesium, which indeed is a "miracle," I cannot understand why more information is not coming forward on this most important nutrient, the missing link in regaining your health. Back last winter, my wife became concerned when I had difficulty getting out of a chair, was having horrible hip pain and back pain. She researched, then started growing concerned that maybe I was showing early signs of Parkinson's. Needless to say, the research turned up several important things, but most importantly, magnesium deficiency seemed to be a number one factor causing many illnesses. Around this time frame, we found out about magnesium w/SRT (magnesium malate; malic acid), and it literally changed our lives overnight. That magnesium w/SRT is the one that was definitely a magnesium miracle for us. Then, around this same point in time, just about the same time we found magnesium w/SRT, we also found out about Dr. Carolyn Dean's book, and this has been such a blessing. You can tell others how it changed you overnight, but if you're deficient, it really will, and most people are deficient in magnesium. This book is so well written, so comprehensive in revealing the importance of the benefits of magnesium and just what a magnesium deficiency causes. This book is not only written for health-care professionals, but it's also for laypeople such as my wife and I. This book is for everyone. It's for people with depression, chest pain, migraines, muscle spasms, nerve problems, asthma, leg cramps, fatigue, hypertension, insomnia, and the list goes on and on. For the first time in over 20 years, my wife is free of back pain and horrible muscle spasms in her back. I can now get up from a chair normally, walk, do all the things that I need to do without back and hip pain. Dr. Dean is a wonderful expert in magnesium deficiencies, and she would tell you personally, I believe, it's time to take charge of your health!Book Review: Magnesium is essential and so is this book
Summary: 5 Stars
Magnesium is extremely important for good health. Yet for far too many years this vital mineral has been largely overlooked by most doctors. Shockingly, most laboratory blood tests do not even measure magnesium status although magnesium is involved as an essential factor in more aspects of health than any other mineral. Since magnesium status is rarely measured, most doctors don't know when their patients are deficient in magnesium, even though about 80% of Americans are deficient in this essential mineral. And magnesium deficiency is a significant factor -- often the primary factor -- in many severe illnesses including heart attacks and other forms of heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma, anxiety and panic attacks, depression, fatigue, migraines and other headaches, osteoporosis, insomnia, and most cases of muscular problems. Because magnesium deficiency is largely overlooked, millions of Americans suffer needlessly from the foregoing ailments or are having their symptoms treated with expensive drugs (which often have unpleasant or dangerous side effects) when they could be cured with magnesium supplementation. This excellent and easily-readable new book by Dr. Dean (an up-to-date revision and expansion of her ground-breaking book The Miracle of Magnesium) discusses these and other important aspects of this vital mineral in detail. Everyone who is concerned about his or her health should acquire and read this very important book, even if you already own its earlier version. So should their doctors. And the vast majority of Americans should increase their magnesium intake by suitable diet and appropriate supplementation as Dr. Dean recommends. Those who do will very likely find themselves free of many ailments they may now have.Book Review: The Magnesium Miracle
Summary: 5 Stars
This was an easy to read nutrition book about an important nutrient in the body, which often gets overlooked. The book is written by a woman who is a naturopathic doctor and medical doctor (seems very "well-rounded" for a doctor). This book provides an expert guide into the importance of magnesium in the body...how it works, how magnesium is necessary for calcium absorption, how magnesium can smooth muscles, such as in the chest/lungs for those with asthma (like my son). My son is prone to asthma each time he catches a viral infection. We hate giving him the typical albuterol, which speeds up a person's heart rate and causes hyperactivity (hmmm...I wonder how many kids using albuterol are also diagnosed with ADHD?)and worth mentioning, I've heard that there are no studies to show how albuterol affects lung development. We also were told to give our son pulmicort, a steriod, which also has side effects, such as, causing cataracts (et. al.). I started giving my son liquid magnesium to help with the tighteness in his chest that he gets from asthma. Magnesium does help and my child's doctor agrees.
I would recommend this book to everyone because it covers many different illnesses and discusses how several illnesses/problems can be improved with magnesium. I believe that good nutrition (and naturopathic approaches) can help keep a person healthy, and help those with genetic disorders, much more than pharmaceuticals (many of which are man-made chemicals), which typically have side-effects that lead you to buy more drugs to help with each side effect's side effect, etc., etc... Check this book out for yourself. Even people who don't like to read about nutrition will find this book easy to read and easy to understand.
Book Review: An Amazing Account of how Magnesium Deficiency Effects us all
Summary: 5 Stars
Overall this book is key, it gives tangible evidence that our foods have become ever more magnesium deficient over the decades. Modern agriculture literally drains it out of the soil, leaving our foods ever more deficient year after year. We're shown how lack of this significiant mineral, especially in combination with all the 'take more calcium' hype, is causing circulatory problems, nervous system failure, and muscle issues.
After a thorough reading you'll have a much better understanding of the role played by magnesium in your body, heart and mind. Without this essential nutrient our cells cannot divide, our muscles can't flex, our blood cannot flow, our nervous system cannot communicate - it is required for all the basic biological aspects of the human machine, and yet we're getting less and less of it from our diet each year.
We're also given a comprehensive discussion of supplements, which ones work better, and why. Which helps you choose how you get your correct amount of magnesium. It's doubly important for growing youths or athletes and the explanations are constantly forth-coming.
All in all a very good resource for anyone looking to take responsibility for their health, recommended in tandem with Sherry Roger's Detoxify or Die. Be Well, Feel Better and LIVE LIFE without pain, medications, or disease.
Book Review: very good book, but ...
Summary: 4 Stars
I am a layperson, but I know that bone meal is NOT a good magnesium source, contrary to what is being claimed in this book. Bone meal is a good source of organic CALCIUM (which is antagonistic to magnesium) and PHOSPHORUS, and it was shocking to see it listed there, on the backdrop of trying to steer people away from taking too much calcium. (If you take bone meal when you actually need magnesium you'll be in big trouble). As far as testing for magnesium (which is very important), the author fails to mention the hair analysis method, which is a more accurate way of determining the intracellular levels versus blood analysis (which is correctly deemed almost worthless). If it weren't for the bone meal error that I discovered accidentally and the lack of information on hair analysis, I would have given this book 5 stars, there is otherwise a lot of useful and correct information on magnesium. The reader/sufferer/health enthusiast should do his/her homework on magnesium and consult other sources also, unfortunately this book is not the ultimate resource on this topic, maybe a future edition will be. To be completely honest, though, as someone chronically low on magnesium due probably to calcium abuse, I have consulted this book on numerous occasions, because a lot of information and interpretation was simply not available anywhere else, and I found it very useful (and yes, it works).