Even more alarming is that physicians are admittedly frustrated
and ‘confused’ because they can’t determine what’s happening.
Why? Because heart disease looks completely different in women
than in men; their symptoms are dissimilar.
Here’s one major difference: instead of the arterial blockage so
common in men, seemingly healthy women’s coronary arteries
suddenly spasm, compromising blood flow to the heart muscle,
often leading to sudden death.
Frequently, such women have visited physicians, but their
complaints have been misdiagnosed – or worse still, ignored.
Despite reporting a variety of muscular aches and pains,
especially after exercising, occasional shortness of breath,
becoming overly tired without cause, mirgraine headaches,
sleep-disturbing leg cramps, unusual sensitivity to noise and
stress, debilitating premenstrual syndrome and a long litany of
seemingly unrelated difficulties, they are commonly dismissed as
‘crazy ladies’.
A short history lesson is relevant here. In 1989 the US
government began to focus on what was considered a looming
crisis: Osteoporosis and its prevention. In a misguided decision
that women were not getting all the calcium necessary to prevent
bone fractures, NIH advised universal calcium supplementation –
especially past menopause. Higher potency calcium
supplementation along with calcium-fortified foods were
popularized as the cure de jure.
And so with an osteoporosis hysteria launched, the food
manufacturers and supplement marketers were unleashed, and over
the years, calcium consumption both in fortified foods and by
supplementation has grown exponentially – and sudden heart
attack death in females has grown at the very same time – no
coincidence.
Careful investigation reveals this state of affairs is at best a
misguided effort to improve women’s health; at worst further
proof that medical ‘experts’ are not to be trusted or heeded. To
begin with, taking calcium to avoid bone loss is yet another
medically-endorsed mistake. While calcium does increase the
density on non-weight bearing bones, too much calcium can
interfere with the absorption of other nutrients and may lead to
MORE fractures. In addition, excess calcium can go to your
arteries, your brain and eyes, causing many other health
problems – among which is a serious magnesium deficiency which
leads to sudden death from arterial spasm! Mystery solved.
As
Dr. Carolyn Dean, MD, ND author of “The Miracle of Magnesium”
has said: “With our emphasis on a high calcium intake without
sufficient magnesium and the prominence placed on taking high
doses of calcium to ward off osteoporosis, we are creating a
serious calcium-magnesium imbalance.”
One consequence, Dr. Dean points out, is “up to 80 percent – men
as well as women – are magnesium-deficient.” There are serious
consequences, she notes, as proven by 40 years of research and
more than 1,000 studies (most of them ignored by conventional
medicine). Scientific evidence confirms that magnesium
deficiency triggers or causes at least 22 major conditions among
which are: Anxiety and panic attacks; asthma; blood clots; bowel
disease; cystitis; depression; detoxification; diabetes;
fatigue; heart disease; hypertension; hypoglycemia; insomnia;
kidney disease; liver disease; migraine; musculoskeletal
conditions; nerve problems; premenstrual symptoms; SIDS;
osteoporosis; Reynard’s Syndrome; tooth decay – and probably
many more.
Canadian DMD Dr. Kathryn Poleson agrees and says: “Magnesium can
lessen the severity of nearly every systemic disease. Since
magnesium is important in over 300 enzymatic reactions,
increasing calcium without balancing it with magnesium does more
harm than good. Specifically, women at risk for osteoporosis
have shown an increase in bone density and decrease in bone
fractures when given magnesium.”
There’s so much more to say about magnesium, we could write a
book – fortunately there’s no need, as there are several
excellent physician-authored books on the subject available.
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