Your Magnesium Level
Is Virtually Worthless Information

What does your Magnesium Level tell you about the status of magnesium deficiency? Virtually nothing! Unless you are in critical condition in the hospital or are having chest pains or palpitations, Serum Magnesium Levels, like the kind that are routinely done in the hospital, are going to miss up to 99% of magnesium deficiency.

The normal range of Magnesium Blood Tests on Laboratory evaluations is from approximately 1.5 to 2.5 mEq/liter - although this will vary slightly depending upon each individual laboratory.

While a level that is above a level of 5 mEq/liter, and sometimes even a bit lower, IS significant for a Magnesium Overdose- don't rely on this measure if you are Within the Normal Limits as you could very well still have a magnesium deficiency that is causing you to have long term, chronic and severe symptoms!!

Instead, relying on the actual Signs of Magnesium Deficiency is a MUCH more reliable way to determine the amount of magnesium in the body.

Magnesium is one of the most abundant electrolytes in the body. It is critical in regulating several hundred functions in the body, including:

All electrical activity

Smooth muscle contraction

Skeletal muscle contraction

Every single heart beat

All brain activity

Over 300 various enzymatic reactions

A Normal Potassium Level

All of these reactions require the magnesium in the body to be replaced on a virtually continual basis, day in and day out.

Hospitals and doctors’ offices often check magnesium blood levels when a patient has certain medical conditions such as heart or kidney problems. When your test for magnesium comes back normal, doctors are assured that you have plenty of magnesium, and they are satisfied that they have done their job- but they obviously aren't Understanding Blood Test Results.

’The Magnesium Miracle’

But even if your serum magnesium comes back normal, as it probably will, many doctors and researchers believe that magnesium deficiency is epidemic!

Researchers believe that many common medical problems from migraines to heart palpitations are actually just signs of magnesium deficiency that serum magnesium levels are unable to detect. Many studies show improvement in conditions ranging from irregular heart rhythms to certain types of high blood pressure to alcoholic condition, when a deficiency is ‘presumed’ and magnesium is administered.

Doctors who are actually interested in the magnesium levels of their patients, and there are not many who understand the seriousness of magnesium deficiency, find this lack of a good test for magnesium levels frustrating. In the article ‘Noninvasive Measurement of Tissue Magnesium and Correlation With Cardiac Levels’ they echo this frustration,“The role of magnesium in the clinical setting, however, is hampered by the lack of an assay of intracellular tissue magnesium levels.”

And intracellular levels are being shown to be the only clinically significant measure of magnesium deficiency. So, some smart researchers decided to come up with a way to measure the magnesium levels inside the cells. Hence the invention of a ‘Sublingual epithelial cell’ magnesium test!! This test takes a sample of the cells from underneath your tongue and checks the magnesium level of the cells.

This neat test is painless, accurate and is INFINITELY more accurate than a blood test for magnesium when determining clinically significant amounts of magnesium in the body.

“Since only 1% of total body Mg 2+ is found in the
intravascular space, serum levels of Mg 2+ give little
information about a patient’s overall Mg 2+
status with respect to this essential mineral.”
Burton B. Silver, PhD

This sublingual epithelial cell test for magnesium is not some test in the experimental stages that we can someday hope to be able to use after years and years of studies and after waiting and hoping for FDA approval. This simple test that measures the only truly important magnesium levels, intracellular levels, painlessly and accurately with only a scrape of a tongue depressor under the tongue, has already been well studied and it is available to health care providers for use in their offices and in hospitals right now!!

But despite having a clinically relevant, easy, painless and commercially available test for magnesium levels in the body, doctors and hospitals have totally ignored this innovation. Instead doctors prefer to use their inaccurate and outdated testing methods that have no clinical relevance!!

Even worse, since the outdated methods only test the 1% of magnesium in the body, doctors have no idea how widespread magnesium deficiency is and remain ignorant of the easy to spot Signs of Magnesium Deficiency that they are unknowingly seeing in their office every single day.

Well, you COULD have a Sublingual Epithelial Cell Magnesium Test Kit sent to your doctor and have him do the test. Or you could simply decide to take matters into your own hands and begin taking the proper Magnesium Dosage that will be likely to remedy any possible magnesium deficiency that you may have. Magnesium Supplementation is generally VERY safe and may alleviate some SURPRISING symptoms that you never thought could be associated with a magnesium deficiency.

Keep reading to find out what's the RIGHT magnesium dosage for YOU...

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Magnesium Dosage

Magnesium Resources

Transdermal Magnesium Gel- Just rub this gel right into your skin for a quick and effective magnesium supplement without pills.

Transdermal Magnesium The Book- See the science behind how and why Transdermal Magnesium Therapy works so well.

Magnesium Medicine- Learn why hospitals and emergency rooms rely on magnesium as a vital MEDICINE- and why you should too!

Multivitamin With Top Quality Magnesium- most multivitamins contain little magnesium, if any. This high quality whole food multi packs a punch. With 500 mg of top quality easily absorbable magnesium in the form of magnesium chelates, this multi will meet your daily needs like none other.

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