Magnesium insights from Dr. Carolyn Dean
We’ve consulted Dr. Dean’s health blog on a variety of topics. Here she offers some interesting advice on magnesium intake. She suggests that traditional doctors may underestimate the nutritional importance of magnesium and other supplements. However, as a naturally occurring mineral in the body, it’s incredibly useful for more than just a colon purge.
“The National Institutes of Health (NIH) says the “maximum upper-tolerable is 350mg.”
Well, I regularly recommend 600mg to my patients. I, myself, take higher amounts. For some people 300mg is enough. But 350mg is hardly a “maximum upper-tolerable limit.”
Case in point, your typical colonoscopy bowel purge formulation like CitroMag contains 1,745mg of magnesium. That’s almost FIVE TIMES as much magnesium than the NIH warns against.
So, yes, I actually agree with the doc that you should not take 1,745mg of magnesium with your medication. In fact, you shouldn’t take that much magnesium with anything you want to absorb. If someone is trying to poison you, okay, sure, maybe 1,745mg of magnesium is a good idea.”
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