Transdermal Magnesium Therapy

Wow! This is the book to read if you are interested in transdermal magnesium therapy. I had read most other books on magnesium. I took oral magnesium supplements and felt good. Then, someone gave me a copy of this book. Based on Dr. Sircus's discussion, I tried ocean minerals magnesium oil derived from seawater, and ancient minerals magnesium oil derived from seabed desposits. They worked equally well. I then discovered that to lessen itchiness or stingyness, you can use the oil in a bath or footbath. Or you can put the oil into your favorite lotion or make your own lotion with equal parts magnesium oil, coconut oil, and aloe vera gel. I wish I had known about magnesium oil a long time ago, but I am extremely grateful that Dr. Sircus wrote his book. I recommend this book to anyone--because magnesium oil can help everyone. Thank you, Dr. Sircus! Addendum (06.21.08): No way is this book a term paper! Rather Dr. Sircus synthesizes a complete picture of what magnesium does for our health. His book is not about presenting the work of others. Almost every good scientist already knows about the importance of magnesium. But ten thousand scientific studies mean nothing for the health of the average person IF the medical system continues to ignore it. Beyond providing a vast review of the many uses and history of magnesium for health, Dr. Sircus exposes the hypocrisy of allopathic medicine in its near-total refusal to recognize the universal capacity of magnesium for healing. Then he goes beyond that showing how ordinary people can USE this information to improve their lives--quickly, effectively, and relatively inexpensively. In fact, his work in recent years is the very reason for the popularity of transdermal magnesium therapy and magnesium oil as healing tools (and largely is the reason a websearch on "magnesium chloride" provides much good health-related information). It is because of Dr. Sircus's extraordinary efforts that transdermal magnesium therapy will NOT become yet another effective alternative therapy suppressed by our medical system (due to the fact that magnesium cannot be patented like a synthetic drug and therefore cannot make billions for the medical-pharmaceutical complex that today dominates America). Dr. Sircus's book is the ONLY book on transdermal magnesium therapy (using magnesium chloride) and is likely to remain the authoritative work on the subject, especially when the second edition arrives. It would be a different situation if it were easy to get reliable information about magnesium chloride from your doctor, but unfortunately that is not the case. This book educates, enlightens, and informs like no other. Dr. Sircus continues shining a bright light on transdermal magnesium therapy in a way that no one else has, or likely will, largely because few doctors have the courage to go against the ideology and false beliefs ingrained in modern medicine. The sheer volume of studies cited by Dr. Sircus is hardly is proof of "not

Everybody has health problems, and the pharmaceutical industry is a big hammer on both doctors and patients through all their marketing programs and dollars. But one thing--magnesium deficiency--may well be at the root of all the health problems out there. This book, so well written and well documented with copious end notes for each chapter, can be a life saver for millions. Read it, get magnesium oil, and start taking charge of your own health and quit being disciples of the medical industry, who neither know of or care about the miracles offered by magnesium. Do yourself the biggest favor in the world: buy and read Dr. Sircus's book--and get Dr. Dean's as well!

For far too many years the mineral magnesium has been largely overlooked as a nutrient which is essential for good health. Most doctors and laboratories don't even include magnesium status in routine blood tests. Thus, most doctors don't know when their patients are deficient in magnesium, even though studies show that the majority of Americans are deficient in magnesium. And magnesium deficiency is very important. In fact, magnesium deficiency is a significant factor -- often the major factor -- in many severe illnesses including heart attacks and other forms of heart disease, high blood pressure, asthma, anxiety and panic attacks, depression, fatigue, diabetes, migraines and other headaches, osteoporosis, insomnia, and most cases of muscular problems. Because magnesium deficiency is largely overlooked, millions of Americans suffer needlessly from the foregoing ailments or are having their symptoms treated with expensive drugs (which often have unpleasant or dangerous side effects) when they could be cured with magnesium supplementation. I commend Mark Sirus for this book discussing the importance of magnesium and detailing transdermal magnesium therapy. However, I also highly recommend Dr. Carolyn Dean`s excellent new book The Magnesium Miracle which also discusses many important aspects of magnesium supplementation including oral supplementation with more readilly available and highly absorbable chelated magnesium, which is the form I take.

I first read Carolyn Dean's book The Miracle of Magnesium and she touches on the concept of the Transdermal Magnesium delivery. This means soaking in a magnesium "oil" or spraying it on the body for more complete absorption. The subject peaked my curiosity because I suffer from Chronic Lyme disease and recently read that one of the major nutrients being drained from all Lymes sufferers IS magnesium.. All I can say is that this book is a whole new concept....and most people would never on their own figure out that their health problems could possibly be linked to low magnesium levels...but take away just this one concept from this book. If you are truly ultra deficient in magnesium, the irony is that you can no longer effectively absorb magnesium from oral supplementation. This leaves people like me walking around deficient, with muscular and neuro issues and no amount of magnesium that I ingest is helpful anymore. The Transdermal concept is this: It's magnesium oil...Not really oil but a liquid that has been extracted from sea water where the magnesium has been concentrated. Spray magnesium "oil" on the skin and miraculously, it's absorbed. Magnesium levels go up in the body...The book cites a doctor who had diabetes and could not absorb magnesium until he took massive doses for a whole year...The transdermal approach is far quicker...can be accomplished with even a foot bath...or the magnesium oil can be put in a bathtub and you literally soak the magnesium into your body. I'm not saying this is a Lyme disease cure....but it doesn't take much to read a small list of magnesium deficient conditions to find the average person seriously low. We've been told to take lots of calcium. Read this book and understand why the concept isn't completely understood...Magnesium relaxes the muscles and calcium tightens the muscle. Ever hear of muscle "spasm'? How about low magnesium being responsible....Not sleeping well? Magnesium is required to get calcium into the body properly. Finding calcium added to everything we eat...orange juice, cereals and suddenly, it's easy for everyone to be overly calcified and very low in magnesium.. This book was a major eye opener for me....I really believe it should be required reading for doctors and people suffering from everything like PMS, high blood pressure, aches, pains, headaches...to the really difficult to treat issues like mine.. chronic Lymes which has become neurological and painful in my muscles and nerves. I have only used the magnesium oil for a few days....but what I learned in this book really was profoundly important. I have seen slight relief but I think this is going to take a few months before I can say for sure that I've made progress. I recommend this book VERY highly! And if there were more stars to attribute to this book, I'd gladly go higher than 5!

This type of mineral therapy is so new that the book is not yet in most of the health food stores. It is easy to read and the author builds a powerful case for the need for more magnesium and especially transdermal supplementation. Using the oil has almost completely stopped my heart atrial irregularity problem. The public needs to be aware of this aid to young and old alike and make their own decisions after reading the book.