For the renewal of my medical license I have to complete 50 hours of continuing medical education (CME) that I’m doing online through MedScape. Each time I do my CME courses I’m reminded why allopathic medicine is not working. For example, their list of specialties does not even include nutrition, lifestyle counseling, prevention or anything to do with keeping people well.

The CME cases are all focused on what drugs to give and make no mention of diet or supplements. Even worse, their attitude toward patients is demeaning and unprofessional. For example, in a discussion about constipation induced by opiates used for pain control the following statements are made:

“Patients with OIC (opiate-induced constipation) experience various negative effects on cognition associated with OIC. These include irrational thoughts such as believing that nutrition could improve their constipation, the supposition that constipation indicates deteriorating health, and a misperception that no treatment is available.”

Since when is it an irrational thought to think that nutrition has something to do with constipation? Now, I know they are talking about drug-induced constipation and there’s the eternal bind of drug-taking where the side effects of the drug are treated with another drug. Yet allopathic medicine has turned its back on nutritional solutions to any health problems and demeans people who think otherwise.

Cases describing epilepsy, high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation are all treated with drugs, drugs, drugs with never a mention of magnesium, which can help to heal the condition and not cause any side effects. One case was about the increase of HPV virus in post menopausal women. So, get ready for the next ad campaign to scare these women into getting HPV vaccines!

It’s as if the complexity of drugs and their side effects intrigues doctors and makes them feel useful in diagnosing more problems and treating with more drugs. They would consider diet and supplement advice TOO SIMPLE!

Another CME case was about obesity. More than one-third of adults in the U.S. are obese and about two thirds are overweight. Medicine calls it a serious public health challenge that they are trying to understand. That’s right they say they don’t understand why we are an obese nation and they say nothing about the standard American Diet (SAD). Linked to this case was the disability associated with obesity. Among the 25.3% of adult men and 24.6% of women who were obese, 35.2% and 46.9%, respectively, reported a disability. In contrast, 26.7% of men and 26.8% women of normal weight reported a disability.

Yes, a lot more obese people are disabled but what struck me about these figures is that 26.7% of men and 26.8% women of normal weight are also disabled. That’s over a quarter of the American population disabled. Don’t you find that statistic startling?

After doing several CME cases, I watched a documentary called Sick, Fat and Nearly Dead by Joe Cross. Joe was sick and fat and nearly dead when he decided to take his health into his own hands. Joe’s plan was to juice fast for 60 days during which he lost almost 100 pounds. A trucker named Phil who Joe met on his journey took up the diet and lost almost 200 pounds. Both men are walking miracles and are inspiring others to take charge of their own health. (I’m not endorsing or recommending that everyone go on a juice fast but if you do it while being followed by your doctor, it can be a safe way to detox.)

However, what was truly scary about this film was the dismissive, negative and indifferent attitude of almost everyone that Joe spoke to about his plan to get healthy.

So, in fairness to allopathic medicine, it’s clear that people don’t want to change their diet and lifestyle to get healthy. The tiny percentage that do make a change usually wait until they have one foot in the grave and their prescription pills are not making them better. Only then does it finally sink in that they are responsible for their own health. Medicine just follows the path of least resistance and promises people pills for all that ails them but never a cure.

MEDIA: See my latest article on Natural News. It’s called Hand Signals for the Blind. It’s a blast from the past. I wrote it in 1976 while in medical school and I’m saying the same things then that I do now…yet nothing has changed on the grand scale. No, I’m not giving up on educating people about their health…it’s still fun for me to do it. I’ll stop when it’s no longer fun because I’d rather be happy than right!!

MY HEALTH LIBRARY: Visit my Organized Wisdom Health Library where you will find hundreds of written, audio and video files for your wellbeing.

RECOMMENDATIONS: To get well and stay well, join my 2-year online wellness program called Completement Now! The various types of magnesium to take are on my website under Resources including ReMag. The most commonly used magnesium is Natural Calm available at VitaCost.com and most health food stores. For Angstrom Minerals go to HealthShop. For a Non-GMO Meal Replacement use WHEY TOO GOOD. For Detoxing I recommend LL’s Magnetic Clay and Magnesium Flakes. For treating yeast overgrowth, IBS and digestive disorders, I recommend Prescript Assist. For Coconut products and Antioxidant Green Powder go to Tropical Traditions. For food-based supplements Grown by Nature offers my readers a 20% discount on your purchases. At checkout, just enter the code: gbn123. Under books you’ll find my eBooks: How to Change Your Life with Magnesium, Future Health Now Encyclopedia and Death by Modern Medicine. For psychological and emotional issues I recommend EFT, the Linden Method (for anxiety) and The Healing Codes. For everything and everything else take RnA Drops and read my Blog about RnA Drops. To help you decide, pick up a free trial bottle of RnA Drops with no obligation.

NOTE: Only you can know if something is helping you. If you don’t feel well on a supposed beneficial product, listen to your body and stop taking it! Knowing when to Not take something is a big part of taking responsibility for your health.

WARNING: I cannot answer personal health questions by email. However, please send general questions that I may be able to answer in my blog. But first, google my name with the condition you are inquiring about and see if I’ve already addressed it somewhere on the web.

Here’s an inspiring case history from a woman who successfully used a poultice of magnetic clay on a chronic wound. To make a clay poultice you simply mix clay powder with water until it’s the consistency of pudding. In a April, 2010 blog I talked about successfully using a clay poultice on a dangerously infected foot: Can Clay Treat MRSA Infections?

In today’s case, the wound was originally a spider bite which turned into a staph infection that wouldn’t heal for over two months. This was not a MRSA infection but because it wasn’t healing her practitioner wanted to put her on an aggressive round of multiple antibiotics. She decided to use magnetic clay treatment instead. The area on her leg was packed each evening with clay and left on overnight for 14 nights. For the first week, daytime clay packs were used and left on for 4 hours. No other treatments or medications were used. I’ve seen photos of the ulcerated crater wound and the amazing progression of healing.

I know many of you have magnetic clay on hand for detoxing baths and this is just a reminder to be sure and use for it for any sort of rash, infection, wound or trauma. As most of you know, antibiotics are the only solution that allopathic medicine seems to have. Constantly prescribing antibiotics for everything has caused the current epidemic of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that have a death rate of close to 50%. That’s why we have to have alternative remedies like clay on hand so you never need to enter a hospital and risk infection with the monster strains of bacteria they have growing there!

The wet clay will safely draw out toxins, inflammatory poisons and infections. You can also use it on joint swellings, even the bony bumps on the finger joints closest to the fingernail called Heberden’s nodes. I have one little node on my right pinkie finger and I periodically put a dab of clay pudding on a bandaid and wear it overnight. The clay immediately takes out the inflammation and pain and has reduced the swelling and the size.

The clay that this lady used and that I’ve researched and personally use for detoxing baths and poulticing is LL’s Magnetic Clay. It’s a sodium bentonite clay, also called “living clay” with a much stronger drawing power than calcium bentonite. LL’s clay is also very high in magnesium and regularly tested to ensure purity.

I’m certain clay can be used for a lot more purposes and I would love to hear your stories to share them with my readers. I especially want to hear if you have used clay poultices for bedsores, which account for far too much morbidity and mortality in people who are bedridden.

Please be sure and keep clay in your first aid cupboard as a safe and effective remedy for many conditions for which ineffective antibiotics are said to be the only solution.

MY HEALTH LIBRARY: For those of you who were expecting a magnesium blog, visit my Organized Wisdom Health Library where you will find 112 of my magnesium articles and interviews as well as hundreds of other written, audio and video files for your wellbeing.

RECOMMENDATIONS: To get well and stay well, join my 2-year online wellness program called Completement Now! The various types of magnesium to take are on my website under Resources including ReMag. The most commonly used magnesium is Natural Calm available at VitaCost.com and most health food stores. For Angstrom Minerals go to HealthShop. For a Non-GMO Meal Replacement use WHEY TOO GOOD. For Detoxing I recommend LL’s Magnetic Clay and Magnesium Flakes. For treating yeast overgrowth, IBS and digestive disorders, I recommend Prescript Assist. For Coconut products and Antioxidant Green Powder go to Tropical Traditions. For food-based supplements Grown by Nature offers my readers a 20% discount on your purchases. At checkout, just enter the code: gbn123. Under books you’ll find my eBooks: How to Change Your Life with Magnesium, Future Health Now Encyclopedia and Death by Modern Medicine. For psychological and emotional issues I recommend EFT, the Linden Method (for anxiety) and The Healing Codes. For everything and everything else take RnA Drops and read my Blog about RnA Drops. To help you decide, pick up a free trial bottle of RnA Drops with no obligation.

NOTE: Only you can know if something is helping you. If you don’t feel well on a supposed beneficial product, listen to your body and stop taking it! Knowing when to Not take something is a big part of taking responsibility for your health.

WARNING: I cannot answer personal health questions by email. However, please send general questions that I may be able to answer in my blog. But first, google my name with the condition you are inquiring about and see if I’ve already addressed it somewhere on the web.

Here’s a recent question from someone who reads my blogs.

“I have only just been introduced to your newsletters, books and comments by a friend who receives them. I am particularly interested in the magnesium story as I have Myasthenia Gravis Ocularis. It was diagnosed in February, 2012, after 2 years of struggling with my eyes and being treated for dry eyes. I know that magnesium is contraindicated for this condition as a rule, however as I don’t have respiratory problems, is there any evidence showing that it’s alright for ocularis? I know that I am very magnesium depleted and as you know it has ripples.”

The contraindication for magnesium in MG is when someone is in the middle of a MG crisis you are not supposed to use intravenous magnesium. But the warning has gotten MG people afraid to try magnesium in any form. MG causes muscle weakness and the theory is that since magnesium relaxes muscles, maybe giving it will cause even more muscle weakness. But magnesium doesn’t cause muscle weakness, it keeps muscles from spasming and it actually makes muscles stronger – such as the heart muscle.

Even so, I was reluctant to tell this person to just go ahead and take magnesium so I called on a friend of mine, Helke Ferrie, a medical anthropologist and brilliant writer – who also happened to acquire a MG diagnosis years ago.

Here’s the advice that Helke gives about MG to people who ask.

Helke says “I suffered from MG and was told, of course, that is an incurable autoimmune disease – nothing could be further from the truth. As Dr. Dean undoubtedly must have told you, magnesium is necessary for just about every neurological activity in the body and without sufficient, biologically-available magnesium you have an uphill battle you cannot win.

Aside from the MG diagnosis, which appears to have been done in the standard way for you, it is important to consider what may have caused this condition. Speaking for myself, I refuse to accept that there is such a thing as an idiopathic disease (=of unknown cause).

Most difficult-to-explain conditions boil down to chronic infection or toxicity or both. So here are my questions for your consideration:

1. Do you have any silver (=mercury) amalgam in your teeth?

2. Do you have any root canals? Bridges or other metal in your mouth?

3. Have you had a hair analysis done to see what toxic metals may be in your system and what minerals are possibly depleted or excessive?

4. What face creams and shampoos do you use? Look up all the chemicals listed in fine print on their containers. You will find most of them are neuro-toxic.

5. Do you have chlorine and fluoride in your water system, shower, toothpaste? Check the ingredients of your deodorant – heavy metals?

6. Did you undergo long-term antibiotic treatment?

7. Are you exposed to any kind of pesticide in your environment? All pesticides and herbicides interfere with acytecholine.

8. Do you use chlorine when washing laundry or anti-cling products?

9. Do you wear a lot of dry-cleaned products?

10. Do you dye your hair?

This is the short list of concerns that can be the trigger for MG in genetically-primed people. I suggest you go online and find a dentist registered with the International Academy for Oral and Medical Toxicology and get a thorough checkup. For you to have MG symptoms in your face (eyes) suggests exposure in that area to something on a consistent basis causing the final appearance of clear symptoms/signs. I also suggest you get yourself to a doctor registered with the American Academy for Environmental Medicine and have a physical, hair analysis, live-blood analysis, dietary workup etc. etc.”

Thanks Helke! I urge you to follow Helke and her wonderful articles and get her books. You can look Helke up on the internet and download her articles from Vitality magazine. She has two new books due out in April and November, 2013. You can download two of her books for free from her website www.kospublishing.com. Her new website www.helkeferrie.com will be live later this week.

When I have clients on kidney dialysis or with MG I recommend that magnesium be taken very slowly in the form of magnesium baths or beginning with small amounts of the low potency but highly absorbed Pico-Ionic magnesium.

MEDIA:
Here are two radio shows and an online TV show that I recently did.

1. More about Magnesium. On Legacy Living with Jeff Kennedy. On Newstalk 105, WGEM. December 23, 2012.

2. The Magnesium Miracle on Winning at Life with Gregory Ricks. December 1, 2012.

3. Cancer Answers with Dr. Judy Seeger an online TV show. Jan 2, 2013. on YouTube. Or at the Cancer Answers Website,

RECOMMENDATIONS: To get well and stay well, join my 2-year online wellness program called Completement Now! The various types of magnesium to take are on my website under Resources including ReMag. The most commonly used magnesium is Natural Calm available at VitaCost.com and most health food stores. For Angstrom Minerals go to HealthShop. For a Non-GMO Meal Replacement use WHEY TOO GOOD. For Detoxing I recommend LL’s Magnetic Clay and Magnesium Flakes. For treating yeast overgrowth, IBS and digestive disorders, I recommend Prescript Assist. For Coconut products and Antioxidant Green Powder go to Tropical Traditions. For food-based supplements Grown by Nature offers my readers a 20% discount on your purchases. At checkout, just enter the code: gbn123. Under books you’ll find my eBooks: How to Change Your Life with Magnesium, Future Health Now Encyclopedia and Death by Modern Medicine. For psychological and emotional issues I recommend EFT, the Linden Method (for anxiety) and The Healing Codes. For everything and everything else take RnA Drops and read my Blog about RnA Drops. To help you decide, pick up a free trial bottle of RnA Drops with no obligation.

NOTE: Only you can know if something is helping you. If you don’t feel well on a supposed beneficial product, listen to your body and stop taking it! Knowing when to Not take something is a big part of taking responsibility for your health.

WARNING: I cannot answer personal health questions by email. However, please send general questions that I may be able to answer in my blog. But first, google my name with the condition you are inquiring about and see if I’ve already addressed it somewhere on the web.

Even though I trained in acupuncture and think it’s a very important modality, I don’t think I’ve ever blogged about it. After all, acupuncture isn’t a self-help tool; it’s not many people who like to stick needles into themselves. However, when a client asked me why she wakes up every night from 2-3am, I immediately turned to Chinese Medicine.

At the Holistic by Nature website, I found the following table describing the basic emotional correspondances for the nighttime meridians. In my experience, people who wake up at certain times may have issues in the areas described.

9-11pm: Triple Heater – Non-intimate relationships; social aspects

11pm-1am: Gall Bladder – Determination and decision making; action

1am-3am: Liver – Internal plans; the vision for life

3am-5am: Lung – Barrier (skin) to the outside world; understanding what is of true value

5am-7am: Large Intestine – Letting go of impurities (of emotions and beliefs, past experiences); holding on to what is of value

Of course, I also believe that the underlying reason for most sleep disorders is magnesium deficiency and magnesium is my first recommendation to anyone who can’t sleep properly.

If your muscles are tight and cramping, then it’s very difficult to drop into a deep enough sleep to give you a complete rest. Then, if you have emotional issues you are trying to sort out, those worries can also keep you awake. Even your dreams can be affected as you are trying to work out your problems in dreamtime.

Certainly around the holidays can be a difficult time for people who are thrown into close proximity with family members that they may have issues with. The late nights, consumption of more food, sugar and alcohol than usual is also very stressful. And stress causes magnesium to burn off at an alarming rate.

So, if the issues that appear next to the your nighttime waking make some sense, take steps to talk, write or meditate about what’s going on in your life to help resolve them.

And don’t take the so-called “easy” way out and grab a sleeping pill or anti-anxiety medication. The labels on these medications even say that they are for “short-term” usage only. I’ve known clients that have taken them for as little as month and then had tremendous withdrawal effects when they tried to come off them and then taken a year to get over the side effects.

Whenever a friend or family member tells you they aren’t sleeping properly tell them to take magnesium, magnesium baths, magnesium spray – any form of magnesium at all and avoid getting hooked on medications. The chapter on Anxiety and Depression in my Magnesium Miracle book covers insomnia and will convince anyone of its benefits.

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RECOMMENDATIONS: To get well and stay well, join my 2-year online wellness program called Completement Now! The various types of magnesium to take are on my website under Resources including ReMag. The most commonly used magnesium is Natural Calm available at VitaCost.com and most health food stores. For Angstrom Minerals go to HealthShop. For a Non-GMO Meal Replacement use WHEY TOO GOOD. For Detoxing I recommend LL’s Magnetic Clay and Magnesium Flakes. For treating yeast overgrowth, IBS and digestive disorders, I recommend Prescript Assist. For Coconut products and Antioxidant Green Powder go to Tropical Traditions. For food-based supplements Grown by Nature offers my readers a 20% discount on your purchases. At checkout, just enter the code: gbn123. Under books you’ll find my eBooks: How to Change Your Life with Magnesium, Future Health Now Encyclopedia and Death by Modern Medicine. For psychological and emotional issues I recommend EFT, the Linden Method (for anxiety) and The Healing Codes. For everything and everything else take RnA Drops and read my Blog about RnA Drops. To help you decide, pick up a free trial bottle of RnA Drops with no obligation.

NOTE: Only you can know if something is helping you. If you don’t feel well on a supposed beneficial product, listen to your body and stop taking it! Knowing when to Not take something is a big part of taking responsibility for your health.

WARNING: I cannot answer personal health questions by email. However, please send general questions that I may be able to answer in my blog. But first, google my name with the condition you are inquiring about and see if I’ve already addressed it somewhere on the web.

Magnesium experts, Morley Robbins, Rick Mather and I are crafting an article on the problems with excess vitamin D. It will shatter a lot of myths about this substance including the fact that it’s not even a vitamin but really a hormone.

To illustrate our point, here is what a member of the The Magnesium Advocacy Group wrote about her experience with Vitamin D3 on Facebook.

“Due to having severe bone lose my doctor told me to take D3 but did not tell me to take magnesium. After being on the D3 at dosage of only 2000mg per day I started having cramps, heart palpitations, fatigue, insomnia, high blood pressure (I had always had low BP ) and many other problems. I thought it was the D3 so I stopped and started doing research to find that you never take D3 without mag. If your magnesium level is already low the D3 will use up more of your magnesium and cause all kinds of problems. All that summer I could not even get out in the sun to get natural vitamin D without getting heart palpitations and cramps in my legs. It has took me almost 2 yrs and I am still not 100%.

She continued. “I have come to believe that with low magnesium everything is off. Your vitamin D will be low because it needs magnesium and your cholesterol will be high if magnesium levels are low. Before taking magnesium my cholesterol was running a little high. Thyroid level was running low and my D was never checked but am sure it was low also but when my blood work was done again after taking magnesium for about 6 months my thyroid levels and cholesterol levels were both back in normal range plus my iron had gone up from 41 to 82 and my B12 had gone from 401 to 800. Fasting blood sugar went from 103 to 98. The only thing I was taking was maggie so I know that is what did it.”

Bottom line? Magnesium is active in over 80% of the body’s biological functions so many of the interrelationships and intricacies haven’t even been studied yet. What do we suggest? Keep taking your magnesium and to balance your vitamin D, use natural sunlight, cod liver oil and butter oil for the necessary vitamin A and vitamin K that make vitamin D work properly. Go to the Weston A. Price Foundation website for more information.

MEDIA: “The Magnesium Miracle” on Legacy Living with Jeff Kennedy that aired Dec 23, 2012, 10am CST on NewsTalk 105, WGEM and will be archived within a few days.

Listen to: “Dr. Dean is Serious about You Taking Magnesium” on Winning at Life with Gregory Ricks. Just scroll down to the air date. Dec 1, 2012.

MY HEALTH LIBRARY: Go to my Organized Wisdom Health Library featuring hundreds of written, audio and video files for your wellbeing.

RECOMMENDATIONS: To get well and stay well, join my 2-year online wellness program called Completement Now! The various types of magnesium to take are on my website under Resources including ReMag. The most commonly used magnesium is Natural Calm available at VitaCost.com and most health food stores. For Angstrom Minerals go to HealthShop. For a Non-GMO Meal Replacement use WHEY TOO GOOD. For Detoxing I recommend LL’s Magnetic Clay and Magnesium Flakes. For treating yeast overgrowth, IBS and digestive disorders, I recommend Prescript Assist. For Coconut products and Antioxidant Green Powder go to Tropical Traditions. For food-based supplements Grown by Nature offers my readers a 20% discount on your purchases. At checkout, just enter the code: gbn123. Under books you’ll find my eBooks: How to Change Your Life with Magnesium, Future Health Now Encyclopedia and Death by Modern Medicine. For psychological and emotional issues I recommend EFT, the Linden Method (for anxiety) and The Healing Codes. For everything and everything else take RnA Drops and read my Blog about RnA Drops. To help you decide, pick up a free trial bottle of RnA Drops with no obligation.

NOTE: Only you can know if something is helping you. If you don’t feel well on a supposed beneficial product, listen to your body and stop taking it! Knowing when to Not take something is a big part of taking responsibility for your health.

WARNING: I cannot answer personal health questions by email. However, please send general questions that I may be able to answer in my blog. But first, google my name with the condition you are inquiring about and see if I’ve already addressed it somewhere on the web.

When doctors say that “magnesium is just a fad” or that “magnesium is toxic” you know that they haven’t done their homework. They obviously haven’t read the 1,000 magnesium research studies produced by Drs. Burton and Bella Altura. And they don’t know that magnesium has been used safely and successfully for over 300 years.

Morley Robbins just wrote the following on his Facebook site, The Magnesium Advocacy Group:

“Here’s something for us to reflect on: ‘The first published account of the efficacy of Magnesium in management of a variety of nervous complaints, including anxiety, depression, hypochondria, anorexia, headache, and cramps, among other disturbances, was in a 17th century booklet by N. Grew (1697), entitled “Treatise on the Nature and Use of the Bitter Purging Salt Contained in Epsom and Such Other Water.’

For those new to the magic of Magnesium, Epsom Salts are MgSO4 and actually date back to Roman times. It would appear that our ancestors from 300+ years ago were afflicted by many of the same conditions that plague our society today. One major difference: they chose to use a vital, natural & restorative mineral (Maggie) to bring their bodies back into metabolic balance. So how “advanced” are we really?”

Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate and that’s important because bathing in it gives you a healthy supply of sulfur along with the magnesium. Sulfur is another important mineral that we may be lacking. To investigate this mineral, you can view a power point by Dr. Stephanie Sennoff on taurine, an important sulfur-based amino acid. I recommend the amino acid taurine if magnesium and potassium (in broth form) don’t completely eliminate heart palpitations.

According to Dr. Norm Shealy, bathing in magnesium salts is also an important way to stimulate the DHEA receptors lying under your skin.

So, I recommend various forms of magnesium by mouth, as well as magnesium baths. Magnesium baths supply magnesium but also act as a detoxifier. For an even better detox, blend up some Magnetic Clay and pour it into your bath water.

To give you more minerals besides magnesium, you can add sea salt to your bath. Go half-and-half Epsom salts and Natural Calm Sports Bath, which combines magnesium and sea salt.

Children especially benefit from magnesium baths. Most kids love their baths and adding magnesium salts just makes sense. For kids and adults, 1-2 cups in a bath is sufficient. However, I’ve used up to 8 cups when I’ve had a severe muscle spasm or injury.

I know I may sound like a broken record about magnesium. And I, personally, never wanted to “specialize” in any one thing. But I’ve come to realize that magnesium is not a specialist nutrient, it is a generalist and it may be affecting up to 80% of all biological processes in the body, so it’s well worth harping on!!

RECOMMENDATIONS: To get well and stay well, join my 2-year online wellness program called Completement Now! The various types of magnesium to take are on my website under Resources including ReMag. The most commonly used magnesium is Natural Calm available at VitaCost.com and most health food stores. For Angstrom Minerals go to HealthShop. For a Non-GMO Meal Replacement use WHEY TOO GOOD. For Detoxing I recommend LL’s Magnetic Clay and Magnesium Flakes. For treating yeast overgrowth, IBS and digestive disorders, I recommend Prescript Assist. For Coconut products and Antioxidant Green Powder go to Tropical Traditions. For food-based supplements Grown by Nature offers my readers a 20% discount on your purchases. At checkout, just enter the code: gbn123. Under books you’ll find my eBooks: How to Change Your Life with Magnesium, Future Health Now Encyclopedia and Death by Modern Medicine. For psychological and emotional issues I recommend EFT, the Linden Method (for anxiety) and The Healing Codes. For everything and everything else take RnA Drops and read my Blog about RnA Drops. To help you decide, pick up a free trial bottle of RnA Drops with no obligation.

NOTE: Only you can know if something is helping you. If you don’t feel well on a supposed beneficial product, listen to your body and stop taking it! Knowing when to Not take something is a big part of taking responsibility for your health.

WARNING: I cannot answer personal health questions by email. However, please send general questions that I may be able to answer in my blog. But first, google my name with the condition you are inquiring about and see if I’ve already addressed it somewhere on the web.

I received an email from a blog reader who asked if magnesium was toxic. She said she found the following on the Livestrong.com website.

“Magnesium toxicity results when your body absorbs more magnesium than it can use or excrete. …taking too much supplemental magnesium can result in symptoms of toxicity. These symptoms include a fall in blood pressure, confusion, abnormal cardiac rhythm and deterioration of kidney function. Individuals can also experience muscle weakness and difficulty breathing. People who have kidney trouble are at a higher risk from supplemental magnesium intake and should not take any over-the-counter supplementation without first consulting with their physicians.”

The above warning is very misleading. It’s not that “…taking too much supplemental magnesium can result in symptoms of toxicity.” That statement implies that magnesium toxicity can occur in anyone. That’s not the case. The reality is that certain people with serious health conditions, who are usually already under doctors’ care are warned not to take magnesium. As I write in my book, The Magnesium Miracle, there are 4 contraindications to magnesium therapy.

1. Kidney failure. With kidney failure there is an inability to clear magnesium from the kidneys.

2. Myasthenia gravis. Intravenous administration could accentuate muscle relaxation and collapse the respiratory muscles.

3. Excessively slow heart rate. Slow heart rates can be made even slower, as magnesium relaxes the heart. Slow heart rates often require an artificial pacemaker.

4. Bowel obstruction. The main route of elimination of oral magnesium is through the bowel.

Other sites will talk about magnesium’s side effect of diarrhea not understanding that this is actually a fail safe for magnesium so that it doesn’t build up in the body. But it can happen when anyone takes all their magnesium at once causing a relative overload. That’s why I recommend that you take your magnesium, like Natural Calm powder, dissolved in water and sip it through the day.

This fail safe was created during out evolution in a culture living near the oceans where most of humanity survived on the produce from the sea. Sea water has 3 times more magnesium than calcium. So, it became important to eliminate too much magnesium but grab onto as much calcium as possible. This is the function of Vitamin D, to grab onto calcium. NOW, we are taking FAR more calcium than magnesium, yet we keep holding onto calcium, to our detriment. Google my name and calcium and find out more. This fail safe make magnesium THE safest of nutrients and not something to fear as allopathic medicine would have you believe.

I’ve also noticed the discrepancy even on the NIH websites about how much magnesium to take. For example, the RDA for magnesium is 420mg for men but then, on the same page, they say the Upper Limit for magnesium is 350mg. I personally have to take two and three times that amount to allieviate my magnesium deficiency symptoms. But the public is not given guidance in these matters since most doctors don’t understand magnesium deficiency in the first place.

Unfortunately, there seems to be a distressing and even insidious tendency for Livestrong and other medical and government sites to medicalize nutrients and categorize them as drugs playing up rare and sometimes imaginary side effects. After all, it is the intent of Codex and the pharmaceutical companies to control nutrients by putting them into the drug category so they can be prescribed and their pricing increased…as has already happened in Europe and Australia and to a certain extent in Canada. Spreading half-truths and untruths about nutrients is a manipulation of our emotions for ulterior motives and most people don’t even realize it.

It’s because of this inevitability that I turned to the pico-ionic minerals for their low potency because it will be on the basis of potency that nutrients will be regulated. The recommended dosage on the label of my Pico-Ionic Magnesium product, ReMag, is only 250 mg per day. This is well below the RDA, making it a low potency product and therefore never at risk of taking “too much”. However, the individual can take whatever they choose.

I highly recommend you become educated about magnesium and other nutrients. The best way to accomplish that is to join my Future Health Now Online Wellness Program that will motivate you to achieve a healthy lifestyle over a 2-year span. Most other online health information is filtered through the allopathic medical model and filled with half-truths.

For free information you can go to my Organized Wisdom Health Library to keep up on my hundreds of articles, videos and audios.

RECOMMENDATIONS: To get well and stay well, join my 2-year online wellness program called Completement Now! The various types of magnesium to take are on my website under Resources including my own magnesium product, ReMag. The most commonly used magnesium is Natural Calm available at VitaCost.com and most health food stores. For Angstrom Minerals go to HealthShop. For a Non-GMO Meal Replacement use WHEY TOO GOOD. For Detoxing I recommend LL’s Magnetic Clay and Magnesium Flakes. For treating yeast overgrowth, IBS and digestive disorders, I recommend Prescript Assist. For Coconut products and Antioxidant Green Powder go to Tropical Traditions. For food-based supplements Grown by Nature offers my readers a 20% discount on your purchases. At checkout, just enter the code: gbn123. Under books you’ll find my eBooks: How to Change Your Life with Magnesium, Future Health Now Encyclopedia and Death by Modern Medicine. For psychological and emotional issues I recommend EFT, the Linden Method (for anxiety) and The Healing Codes. For everything and everything else take RnA Drops and read my Blog about RnA Drops. To help you decide, pick up a free trial bottle of RnA Drops with no obligation.

NOTE: Only you can know if something is helping you. If you don’t feel well on a supposed beneficial product, listen to your body and stop taking it! Knowing when to Not take something is a big part of taking responsibility for your health.

WARNING: I cannot answer personal health questions by email. However, please send general questions that I may be able to answer in my blog. But first, google my name with the condition you are inquiring about and see if I’ve already addressed it somewhere on the web.

A blog reader wrote that she had been seeing an increase in the use of pacemakers in many of her clients and families and was wondering what my thoughts were on this issue.

I’ve recently learned that the preferred method of dealing with heart arrhythmia is the surgical implantation of an artificial pacemaker so that strong medications can be used to stop the arrhythmia. Trouble is that these drugs may also have the effect of stopping the heart – thus the need for the pacemaker! However, with the judicious use of magnesium many people are finding that their heart rhythm is doing just what it should be doing. Even the Heart Rhythm Society in the UK recognized this fact by awarding me with The Arrhythmia Alliance Outstanding Medical Contribution to Cardiac Rhythm Management Services Award 2012.

The highest concentration of magnesium is in the heart muscle, so if you are magnesium deficient, how can the heart beat properly? Also, magnesium is necessary for the proper functioning of 1,440 biological enzyme systems that make up 80% of the total number in the body. So, it’s very simple, you’re either taking magnesium and getting healthy – or you’re not!

For more on pacemakers, listen to an eye-opening dialogue I had with cardiology technician, Huelyn Betts and her views on the invasiveness of cardiac technology and lack of attention to magnesium, Cardiotechnology versus Magnesium is an MP3 file on the non-profit, Nutritional Magnesium Association Website.

For my recommended magnesium sources, see my Health Resources and click on Supplements. A combination of ReMag (100% absorbed at the cellular level), Natural Calm (code magnesium-miracle) and Ancient Minerals Magnesium Oil seem to work best.

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I had a DUH! moment today when someone asked me for the recipes I talked about at the Weston A Price conference a few weeks ago. I googled to see if I’d blogged them at some point. And in my Organized Wisdom Health Library I found a list of my recipes that I didn’t even know were there. So if I didn’t know about them, how could you!

On Organized Wisdom you will find close to 600 files that I’ve created on health and wellness!

Books by Dr Dean: 24 Resources
Women’s Health: 10 Resources
Magnesium Information: 108 Resources
Yeast: 14 Resources
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Kids Health: 16 Resources
Calcium: 16 Resources
Weight Loss: 32 Resources
Depression and Mental Health: 18 Resources
Client Resources: 20 Resources
Recipes: 6 Resources
Health Tips: 149 Resources
Video and Audio Interviews: 75 Resources
Press: 59 Resources

MEDIA:
Read my recent submission to Natural News: The Insanity of Avoiding Magnesium where I report a long case history where a doctor told a severely magnesium deficient man that “Magnesium is a fad.” Unlike this doctor, you can save a life today by simply forwarding this article to your Facebook and Twitter lists, writing a review of Magnesium Miracle on Amazon and giving a copy to your doctor!!

RECOMMENDATIONS: To get well and stay well, join my 2-year online wellness program called Completement Now! The various types of magnesium to take are on my website under Resources including ReMag. The most commonly used magnesium is Natural Calm available at VitaCost.com and most health food stores. For Angstrom Minerals go to HealthShop. For a Non-GMO Meal Replacement use WHEY TOO GOOD. For Detoxing I recommend LL’s Magnetic Clay and Magnesium Flakes. For treating yeast overgrowth, IBS and digestive disorders, I recommend Prescript Assist. For Coconut products and Antioxidant Green Powder go to Tropical Traditions. For food-based supplements Grown by Nature offers my readers a 20% discount on your purchases. At checkout, just enter the code: gbn123. Under books you’ll find my eBooks: How to Change Your Life with Magnesium, Future Health Now Encyclopedia and Death by Modern Medicine. For psychological and emotional issues I recommend EFT, the Linden Method (for anxiety) and The Healing Codes. For everything and everything else take RnA Drops and read my Blog about RnA Drops. To help you decide, pick up a free trial bottle of RnA Drops with no obligation.

NOTE: Only you can know if something is helping you. If you don’t feel well on a supposed beneficial product, listen to your body and stop taking it! Knowing when to Not take something is a big part of taking responsibility for your health.

WARNING: I cannot answer personal health questions by email. However, please send general questions that I may be able to answer in my blog. But first, google my name with the condition you are inquiring about and see if I’ve already addressed it somewhere on the web.

A blog reader just sent me a wonderful Thanksgiving message that I want to share with you.

“Dear Dr. Dean:
I read your Magnesium Miracle early last summer. My husband has had episodes of atrial fibrillation for the last three years. Since starting on magnesium taurate he has had just five, two-hour episodes. Prior to magnesium he had episodes that lasted 1-2 days. His cardiologist acknowledged it ‘probably was the magnesium.’

I am following your ‘recipe’ for supplements for bone health. I have been diagnosed with osteopenia, despite following my doctor’s advice about calcium and vitamin D intake. Now I understand so much better what minerals and vitamins I really need.

My 40-year old son has struggled with ADD all his life. Recently, stress, ADD drugs, caffeine, and poorly managed, prescribed psychotropic drugs caused him to think he also had bipolar disorder. After starting on magnesium supplements he says he is sleeping like he never has in his life. His ADD symptoms are diminished and he is off all medications and caffeine. He feels like he has a new beginning. As his mom, I have prayed for years that he would find healing for his ADD. This Thanksgiving I am thankful for answered prayers and for you, Dr. Dean. You have truly changed lives in my family.”

Someone else sent me a 4-page testimonial beginning “Firstly we’d like to congratulate you on your recent award from the Heart Rhythm Society. Well and truly deserved, in our opinion. And thank you for the wonderful advice and magnesium knowledge you are sharing with us all.”

The more I work with magnesium the more value I see in this amazing mineral. Recently I’ve been reporting that magnesium is crucial for 1,300 biological enzyme systems, not just 325. That’s right, it’s necessary for 80% of our body functions.

Helping people overcome arrhythmias has become more prominent in my consulting work and I’m thrilled to report that ReMag, the Pico-Ionic magnesium that I’m privately labeling seems to be as effective as IV magnesium. Picometer magnesium doesn’t cause the laxative effect so you can take large amounts of it to build up your magnesium stores and overcome decades of deficiency. Unfortunately, with most other forms you reach the laxative effect before you reach the saturation point. In fact, I would recommend ReMag to my blog reader so her husband could take more magnesium to overcome his remaining symptoms of atrial fibrillation.

My genius magnesium friend, Morley Robbins reminded me yesterday why calcium builds up in the body and magnesium flushes out. Our ancient ancestors all lived near the ocean giving them access to high-magnesium foods like fish and seaweed. They also ate nuts and seeds, which are high in magnesium. they were saturated with magnesium. This was long before a diet of cow’s milk and cheese and high doses of calcium. So, our body created several mechanisms for grabbing and holding calcium, such as vitamin D, calcitonin and parathyroid hormone. But we didn’t need to grab and hold magnesium because we had enough in our diet. Here’s the news flash! Your body STILL holds onto all the calcium it’s exposed to and flushes out magnesium when you have enough!

In modern times, we’ve undone these safety mechanisms and overloaded ourselves with calcium and farmed all our magnesium away. So, it’s left to us to get smart and make sure we only take about 700 mg of calcium in food, water and supplements and also make sure we take at least 700mg of magnesium, or more, every day. And to NOT use high doses of vitamin D, which will only grab onto more calcium. Some very smart researchers are asking if the so-called epidemic of vitamin D deficiency is actually the body recognizing that it has too much calcium and it has to stop grabbing it!

Because most doctors know nothing about magnesium, you HAVE to do this on your own. But my book, The Magnesium Miracle, can help you influence your doctor to work with you on reducing your medications once you are on magnesium. And it wouldn’t hurt to tell him/her that the author won the Heart Rhythm Society award for Clinical Excellence. It might help convince them that there’s more to medicine than toxic drugs.

For The Best Thanksgiving message ever, please pass on this information about magnesium to everyone you know.

As Albert Einstein said, “Insanity can be defined as a person or persons doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different outcome.” If you heard the daily stories that I do about people actually having muscle surgery for magnesium deficiency spasms; taking dozens of pills a day for magnesium deficiency symptoms and being told they are crazy because they have magnesium deficiency symptoms, you too would be up-in-arms about the insanity in allopathic medicine. You too would be shouting magnesium messages from the rooftops.

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RECOMMENDATIONS: To get well and stay well, join my 2-year online wellness program called Completement Now! The various types of magnesium to take are on my website under Resources including the non-laxative, ReMag. The most commonly used magnesium is Natural Calm available at VitaCost.com and most health food stores. For Angstrom Minerals go to HealthShop. For a Non-GMO Meal Replacement use WHEY TOO GOOD. For Detoxing I recommend LL’s Magnetic Clay and Magnesium Flakes. For treating yeast overgrowth, IBS and digestive disorders, I recommend Prescript Assist. For Coconut products and Antioxidant Green Powder go to Tropical Traditions. For food-based supplements Grown by Nature offers my readers a 20% discount on your purchases. At checkout, just enter the code: gbn123. Under books you’ll find my eBooks: How to Change Your Life with Magnesium, Future Health Now Encyclopedia and Death by Modern Medicine. For psychological and emotional issues I recommend EFT, the Linden Method (for anxiety) and The Healing Codes. For everything and everything else take RnA Drops and read my Blog about RnA Drops. To help you decide, pick up a free trial bottle of RnA Drops with no obligation.

NOTE: Only you can know if something is helping you. If you don’t feel well on a supposed beneficial product, listen to your body and stop taking it! Knowing when to Not take something is a big part of taking responsibility for your health.

WARNING: I cannot answer personal health questions by email. However, please send general questions that I may be able to answer in my blog. But first, google my name with the condition you are inquiring about and see if I’ve already addressed it somewhere on the web.

I received a question about how much magnesium to take for stress management and maintenance at the same time as my magnesium-genius friend, Morley Robbins suggested we institute the Magnesium Burn Rate as a way of gauging magnesium dosage.

I’ve also come back from a fabulous Weston A. Price Convention in Santa Clara where I spoke about magnesium. So I want to define the types of magnesium and the dosage that I recommend.

Gauging your Magnesium Burn Rate is a brilliant concept because that’s what we are doing – burning off magnesium with all types of stress. So being aware of your burn rate gives you an idea of how much magnesium you are using. This is much more important than just following the RDA. Here is a list of stressors as outlined by my friend, Dr. Elson Hass.

1. Physical: intense exertion, manual labor, lack of sleep, travel
2. Chemical: drugs, alcohol, caffeine, nicotine and environmental pollutants such as cleaning chemicals or pesticides
3. Mental: perfectionism, worry, anxiety, long work hours
4. Emotional: anger, guilt, loneliness, sadness, fear
5. Nutritional: food allergies, vitamin and mineral deficiency
6. Traumatic: injuries or burns, surgery, illness, infections, extreme temperatures
7. Psycho-spiritual: troubled relationships, financial or career pressures, challenges with life goals, spiritual alignment, happiness

I would add, the misdiagnosis by the medical profession of hundreds of magnesium deficiency symptoms. For example, telling an elderly woman that she is suffering a potentially fatal heart condition when it’s really a magnesium deficiency it pretty darn stressful.

Your Magnesium Burn Rate escalates with every additional stressor. In order to take the right amount of magnesium you have to get to know your body. And you have to take the right type of magnesium for your body and for your symptoms. Go to my blog Gauging Magnesium Deficiency Symptoms for a list of the 100 factors that contribute to your Magnesium Burn.

Also you must wrap your head around the fact that 80% the thousands of interactions in the body require magnesium, making it the number one supplement to saturate yourself with! The failsafe for magnesium is that if it’s too much you will get the laxative effect. However, some people, like me, get the laxative effect very easily, so I had to find a solution, which I’m passing on to you.

Here are the three forms of magnesium that I recommend. I don’t worry about the dozens of different chelated magnesium’s anymore because the following three meet most needs.

1. ReMag: My current favorite is my own privately labeled ReMag; a Pico-ionic Magnesium that’s 100% absorbed at the cellular level. With ReMag I don’t get the laxative effect so I can take enough magnesium to eliminate my magnesium deficiency symptoms (heart palpitations and leg cramps).

Working with people who have heart arrhythmias, I find ReMag to be as effective as IV magnesium. See my Making Miserable People Happy Award for Outstanding Medical Contribution to Cardiac Rhythm Management.

I used to recommend angstrom magnesium however, ReMag Pico-Ionic is a much higher potency at 50,000 ppm compared to 3,000 ppm in the angstrom form. ReMag comes in 8oz. bottles at an average daily dosage of 250 mg per 4 mls (1 tsp = 5 ml). The smaller bottles make it much more convenient and easier to pack when traveling.

250 mg a day may seem like a low dose, but, since it’s 100 per cent absorbed at the cellular level, 250 mg may be all you require. Personally, I take 1 tsp twice a day to manage my heart palpitations and leg cramps. I know right away if I’m not taking enough!

There is a long glass dropper in each bottle of ReMag. You can use the dropper and measure out half teaspoon so you know how many droppers to take. Or you can simply remove the dropper from the cap and pour out the amount your want into a measuring spoon (half a tsp twice a day) and put it in a few ounces of water or juice or a smoothie. It doesn’t have a metallic taste.

ReMag has an added bonus because it’s in a solution of 72 ionic trace minerals. This acts as a catalyst and goes hand-in-hand with my standing recommendation to take ¼ tsp of a good sea salt (with its 72 minerals) in every pint of water you drink.

Warning: You can swish ReMag in an ounce of water around in your mouth for healthy gums and teeth, but only if you have no mercury fillings in your teeth.

2. Natural Vitality’s Natural Calm “tea” is a powdered magnesium citrate. It is the most common oral form of magnesium and available in all health food stores. It’s organic and non GMO, which is a huge advantage over other brands.

Dosage is 2 tsp for about 300 mg. Most people take 2 tsp twice a day. If you get a slight laxative effect with it, just take one tsp four times a day. Or you can mix the powder in your drinking water and sip throughout the day. If you get the laxative effect in spite of all that, take ReMag.

Go to the Natural Vitality Online Store and enter the code magnesium-miracle for a major discount. http://shop.naturalvitality.com/

3. Magnesium Oil: Ancient Minerals Magnesium Oil is a supersaturated magnesium chloride from sea water. When rubbed on the skin, it bypasses the intestines and is absorbed into the tissues of the body. This lessens the laxative effect. It also stimulates DHEA production that occurs in the skin. This particular magnesium oil is tested to be free of mercury and heavy metals.

It may sting a bit at full strength. Feel free to dilute it with distilled water or body lotion. You can wash it off after 30 minutes if you find that it’s too itchy. It makes an excellent massage oil and also comes as a gel and a cream.

The dosage is 10-15 sprays twice a day. One tsp has about 2,500 mg of elemental magnesium. Do your own measurements and find out how much you are getting from your spray bottle and look to get 300 mg per dose.

In summary, for Natural Calm and Magnesium oil, my usual recommendation is to take 300 mg twice a day, which is twice the RDA for women. For ReMag, it’s 125mg twice a day, but with its high absorption you are definitely getting a therapeutic dose of magnesium. But remember, I’m not prescribing for you. Gauge your own symptoms, start slowly and see what works for you.

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RECOMMENDATIONS: To get well and stay well, join my 2-year online wellness program called Completement Now! The various types of magnesium to take are on my website under Resources including ReMag. The most commonly used magnesium is Natural Calm available at VitaCost.com and most health food stores. For Angstrom Minerals go to HealthShop. For a Non-GMO Meal Replacement use WHEY TOO GOOD. For Detoxing I recommend LL’s Magnetic Clay and Magnesium Flakes. For treating yeast overgrowth, IBS and digestive disorders, I recommend Prescript Assist. For Coconut products and Antioxidant Green Powder go to Tropical Traditions. For food-based supplements Grown by Nature offers my readers a 20% discount on your purchases. At checkout, just enter the code: gbn123. Under books you’ll find my eBooks: How to Change Your Life with Magnesium, Future Health Now Encyclopedia and Death by Modern Medicine. For psychological and emotional issues I recommend EFT, the Linden Method (for anxiety) and The Healing Codes. For everything and everything else take RnA Drops and read my Blog about RnA Drops. To help you decide, pick up a free trial bottle of RnA Drops with no obligation.

NOTE: Only you can know if something is helping you. If you don’t feel well on a supposed beneficial product, listen to your body and stop taking it! Knowing when to Not take something is a big part of taking responsibility for your health.

WARNING: I cannot answer personal health questions by email. However, please send general questions that I may be able to answer in my blog. But first, google my name with the condition you are inquiring about and see if I’ve already addressed it somewhere on the web.