MAGNESIUM information:

[mrsdoubtfyre]

Since the database here has not yet been restored, and no projected time has
been offered, I am linking to my magnesium information at another site:

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Any comments or questions are welcome, as usual!:)

[Ted Hutchinson]

Dietary magnesium and fiber intakes and inflammatory and metabolic indicators (http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/84/5/1062)
Clin Nutr (subscription) - Davis,CA,USA
Type 2 diabetes (DM), metabolic syndrome (MetS), and inflammation are linked to reduced magnesium and fiber intakes;

[nopain]

What is the measure for deficency in Magnesium? My blood has always tested above the normal levels for both calcium and magnesium. Is there another way to test for magnesium besides blood? I know you can supplement and if you take too much, like vitamin C you'll basically just flush it with no real side effects. But I have never come close to flushing it when supplementing.

[mrsdoubtfyre]

are unreliable. They show what is in the serum, but not what it happening
in the cells, which is more important.

Symptoms are basically the best measure.
Extremely high or extremely low values are useful in medicine.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003487.htm

It is the in between ranges, that are hard to evaluate.

For example years ago I searched pediatric migraine on PubMed. I found many papers where the subjects with migraine were tested for serum magnesium and they fell into the normal ranges... however, when treated with a magnesium supplement many improved with migraine control.
High blood levels of some things, indicate that the minerals may be on the way in or out of the system. If you are in that subgroup it is hard to know what is really happening.
This is why medicine is sometimes very dense about supplementation. The factors of serum values are not 100% understood.

[Ted Hutchinson]

Rapid recovery from major depression using magnesium treatment. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16542786&query_hl=7&itool=pubmed_docsum)

The possibility that magnesium deficiency is the cause of most major depression and related mental health problems including IQ loss and addiction is enormously important to public health and is recommended for immediate further study.