Magnesium and Chocolate Therapy For Heart Disease and Stroke
One of the most important actions of magnesium is its vasodilating effects which improves the blood supply to ischaemic areas and reduces infarct size.
The Journal of Internal Medicine study is the first to demonstrate
that consuming chocolate can help ward off death if one has suffered a
heart attack. “It seems that antioxidants in cocoa are a likely
candidate” is the best Dr. Imre Janszky of the Karolinska Institute in
Stockholm could come up with for explaining the life-saving properties
of chocolate. Dr. Martin Lajous, a doctoral candidate at the Harvard
School of Public Health admitted that the protective mechanism by which
chocolate might prevent stroke isn’t yet clear. Researchers in the
stroke study pegged a flavanol in chocolate called epicatechin as the
active agent. It is amazing that none of these researchers fingered
magnesium as the main agent in chocolate that has these powerful medical
effects.
Magnesium deficiency appears to have caused eight million sudden coronary deaths in America during the period 1940-1994.[1]- Paul Mason
Scientists know that women’s bodies are known to crave for chocolate
during PMS. Some researchers believe that women crave chocolate prior to
menstruation because it contains magnesium. The medical journal for the American Heart Association,
created a stir when it reported a study of 22 heart transplant patients
who were given a dose of dark chocolate or fake chocolate. Just two
hours after eating the real thing, patients had measurable improvements
in blood flow and vascular function and less clotting,
compared to placebo chocolate eaters, who experienced no change.
Chocolate cravings are potentially a sign of a magnesium deficiency for
chocolate is high in magnesium.[2]
A ten-year study of 2,182 men in Wales found that
those eating magnesium-low diets had a 50% higher risk of sudden death
from heart attacks than those eating one-third more magnesium.
Though it is widely accepted that chocolate affects our moods few
make the correlation between magnesium and chocolate and thus magnesium
and emotions. People often report when eating chocolate that their mood
is elevated and they feel better. This elevation in mood is temporary
though, and when the effect wears off, subjects again reverted to their
previous state of mind.
Depression and other emotional disorders of the heart are addressed most directly with magnesium.
Most would think that chocolate is not high enough in magnesium to be
used medicinally and would be undesirable because of the high sugar and
fat component of most chocolates but obviously this is not the case.
It’s hard to argue with the information that heart attack survivors who eat chocolate only two times per week can cut their risk of dying from heart disease threefold. Now
imagine what we can do if we use concentrated forms of magnesium
chloride transdermally, orally and even inject it if a person’s life
hangs in the balance either in the ambulance or emergency room.Magnesium is not an option for cardiologists; it’s absolutely necessary for cardiac care. Doctors know how important Oxygen is to life and their heart patients but they keep their heads in the sand refusing to make even the simplest correlations one of which highlights the relationship between magnesium and oxygen carrying capacity of the red blood cells. It is the emergency room intensive care medicine that can be used to great effect during cardiac arrest and stroke.
I do not recommend eating chocolate in large quantities for obvious reasons. It is infinitely better to absorb magnesium directly through the skin using magnesium oil or magnesium chloride bath flakes (which are on sale by the LL Magnetic Clay Company until Monday for the special 40% pricing on the 32 lb. size of bath flakes. The discount code is “imvabaths.”). In the course of three short months of heavy usage one can bring ones cellular magnesium levels back up to normal, something that takes up to a year or more through oral forms of administration. It is a good idea to stock up on magnesium as well as iodine and sodium bicarbonate for many reasons all rolled up into one.
[2] there are 88mg magnesium in 1 oz of unsweetened chocolate: http://www.dfwnetmall.com/veg/magnesium-content-foods.htm
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