One would not normally think that magnesium deficiency can increase the
risk of cancer yet we will find that just as severe dehydration or
asphyxiation can cause death, magnesium deficiency can lead directly to
cancer. It is known that carcinogenesis induces magnesium distribution
disturbances, causing magnesium mobilization through blood cells and
magnesium depletion in non-neoplastic tissues. Magnesium deficiency is
carcinogenic, and in the case of solid tumors, a high level of
supplemented magnesium inhibits carcinogenesis.
Researchers from Japan's National Cancer Center in Tokyo have found that
an increased intake of magnesium reduces a man's risk of colon cancer by over 50 percent. Several
studies have shown an increased cancer rate in regions with low magnesium levels in soil and drinking water.
In Egypt the cancer rate was only about 10 percent of that in Europe
and America. In the rural fellah it was practically non-existent. The
main difference was an extremely high magnesium intake of 2.5-3g in
these cancer-free populations, ten times more than in most western
countries.
For all of these reasons and a hundred more,
magnesium oil remains the number one item in my cancer protocol and thus number one for
radiation exposure. Magnesium is our first line of defense against both.
It is in a list of medicinals that prevent and treat
cancer that we find helpful substances that treat
and strengthen us against radiation contamination.
"In the years leading up to Chernobyl,
some dairy farmers in Austria were using remineralization as a part of
their operations. They added rock dust to liquid manure as well as
combining it with compost, thereby removing odors and greatly increasing soil
biota. As a result, cows had twice the normal lifespan and produced much more milk. Amazingly enough, after Chernobyl, the cheeses that were remineralized (as well as biodynamic cheeses) measured no
radioactivity whatsoever. Austrians would stand in long lines in order
to buy these safe, remineralized products," writes Joanna Campe.
Iodine is obviously not the only substance that we should run to in the face of increasing radiation threats.
Magnesium is a vital mineral whose lack leaves us open to not only radioactive damages but also those from heavy metals and thousands of chemicals, which we are commonly exposed to. Mercury and now a long list of radioactive particles are floating in the environment like invisible clouds that have spread out everywhere. They are raining down on us, damaging and damning our future. We can no longer be passive about building our defenses against the toxic onslaught.
Without sufficient magnesium, the body accumulates toxins and acid residues, degenerates rapidly, and ages prematurely.
Just about everyone who is writing protocols for radiation toxicity is forgetting about the importance of magnesium salts. Worse still are governments and the entire institution of medicine that are purposely ignorant about magnesium, so they cannot possibly be trusted for valuable health and medical information
that will help us in our time of dire need. The need was dire before
Fukushima but they did not want to admit that; they let the public get
obsessed with CO2 emissions and said nothing about the mercury.
Now with radioactive nuclides steadily building up in the background,
we are in trouble than any of us care to admit. Today the situation has
gone nuclear and there has never before been a need so great for detoxification and chelation.
Magnesium is a crucial factor in the natural self-cleansing and detoxification responses of the body. Magnesium is also necessary for effective chelation. It stimulates the sodium potassium pump on the cell wall and this initiates the cleansing process in part because the sodium-potassium-ATPase pump regulates intracellular and extracellular potassium levels. The healthy cell wall favors intake of nutrients and elimination of waste products.
The involvement of free radicals in tissue injury induced by magnesium deficiency causes an accumulation of oxidative products in heart, liver, kidney, skeletal muscle tissues and in red blood cells, leaving them more vulnerable to oxidative stress caused by radiation exposure. Both radiation exposure and heavy metals produce oxidative stress through the creation of increased levels of reactive oxygen
species (ROS -- oxygen free radicals, peroxides, and singlet oxygen).
It is known that these increased levels of intracellular ROS are
sufficient to trigger apoptosis (cell death).
Glutathione is Magnesium-Dependent
Glutathione protects the cells from oxidative-stress-induced apoptosis and glutathione
levels are magnesium dependent! "Glutathione is a very important
detoxifying agent, enabling the body to get rid of undesirable toxins
and pollutants. It forms a soluble compound with the toxin that can then
be excreted through the urine or the gut. The liver and kidneys contain
high levels of glutathione as they have the greatest exposure to
toxins. The lungs are also rich in glutathione partly for the same
reason. Many cancer-producing chemicals, heavy metals, drug metabolites
etc. are disposed of in this way," says Dr. Patricia Kongshavn, former
professor, department of medicine at McGill University.
Glutathione is a polypeptide,
C10H17N3O6S, of glycine, cysteine, and glutamic acid.
Glutathione synthetase requires γ-glutamyl cysteine, glycine, ATP, and magnesium ions to form glutathione. In magnesium deficiency,
the ss y-glutamyltranspeptidase is lowered. There is a direct
relationship between cellular magnesium, GSH/GSSG ratios, and tissue
glucose metabolism. Magnesium deficiency causes glutathione loss and this is unwelcome as the clouds of radiation are touching down across the northern hemisphere.
Magnesium deficiency causes glutathione loss,
which is not at all healthy because glutathione helps to defend the
body against damage from cigarette smoking, exposure to radiation,
cancer chemotherapy, and toxins such as alcohol and just about
everything else.
According to Dr. Russell Blaylock,
low magnesium is associated with dramatic increases in free radical generation as well as glutathione depletion and this is vital since glutathione is one of the few antioxidant
molecules known to neutralize mercury. "For every molecule of pesticide
that your body detoxifies, you throw away or use up forever a molecule
of glutathione, magnesium and more," says Dr. Sherry Rogers who goes on
to say that, "Your body uses nutrients to make this glutathione and it
uses up energy as well. Every time we detoxify a chemical, we use up,
lose, throw away forever, a certain amount of nutrients."
Mineral Deficiencies
Deficiencies in basic minerals like magnesium and selenium can make all the difference between health and disease, between being able to withstand chemical, heavy metal and radiation exposure.
Dr. Rogers has indicated that there is as much as a 500-fold difference
in the ability of individuals to detoxify the same chemicals and much
of that will be true for radiation as well. A key marker of this
difference is each individual's magnesium level. Deficiencies in
magnesium will wreak havoc with our body's ability to detoxify and
chelate heavy radioactive particles and explains much of the difference
between one person withstanding radiation exposures and another person
falling to radiation sickness.
Dr. Leslie Fisher has treated in excess of 35,000 patients where mineral therapy was prescribed as the sole form of medication. He has conducted research
within his own clinics and the Department of Psychiatry, Austin
Hospital, Melbourne. Mineral therapy is the foundation upon which
chelation treatments and protocols are built. Magnesium does protect cells from aluminum, mercury, lead,
cadmium, beryllium and nickel, which explains why re-mineralization is
so essential for heavy metal detoxification and chelation as well as
radiation protection. Magnesium is essential for the survival
of our cells but takes on further importance now where our bodies are
being bombarded on a daily basis with heavy metals and radiation.
Radiation and Diabetes
No one is going to convince the public that the increasing radiation will have a general effect on our health
that can be easily traced back to the source. Even before we get cancer
from radiation we have a general down-spiraling of body functions
because of all the oxidative stress. In my book,
New Paradigms in Diabetes, I write extensively about the direct relationship between magnesium deficiency and the onset of diabetes.
Pancreatic beta cells are sensitive to reactive oxygen species (ROS) attack when they are exposed to oxidative stress,
because of the relatively low expression of antioxidant enzymes such as
catalase and glutathione peroxidase. Diabetes is typically accompanied
by increased production of free radicals and/or impaired antioxidant
defense capabilities, indicating a central contribution of reactive
oxygen species. It is also a fact that ROS is one of the major factors
that induce oxidative modification of DNA and gene mutation.
The
Chernobyl incident was a major disaster of humanity, which has resulted
in a plethora of health problems that are still far from being fully
recognized. Most studies analyzing the medical consequences of this
catastrophe have so far focused on diseases such as thyroid cancer,
leukemia, immune and autoimmune pathology, even though an increase in
the incidence of type 1 diabetes mellitus, a disorder involving the
immune system, was observed within the residential population of Hiroshima among survivors of the atom bomb detonation.
Studies have also shown that thymectomy and a sub-lethal dose of gamma radiation induces type 1 diabetes in rats.
Researchers
at the Pediatric Hospital A. Meyer, Florence, Italy studied this
question by assessing the incidence of the disease in children
in Gomel, Belarus in the years subsequent to the Chernobyl disaster.
The results of the study seem to confirm the hypothesis that
environmental pollution such as that subsequent to the Chernobyl
accident can cause diabetes.
Mass screening for diabetes mellitus has been conducted on 64,000-113,000 atomic bomb survivors residing in
Hiroshima City since 1961.
From
1971 to 1992 a 2.7-fold increase in the prevalence of diabetes mellitus
was observed in males and a 3.2-fold increase in females.
We
have a significant and documented increase in the incidence of type 1
diabetes in children and adolescents after Chernobyl in the
radioactively contaminated area of Gomel compared to Minsk.
- Heinrich Heine University
When beginning to build a protocol against the radiation and heavy metal onslaught, we need to stick with the basics and they are magnesium, iodine, sodium bicarbonate, vitamin C, selenium, clay, THC (cannabis),? as well as a natural chelator and
superfoods.
Properly filtered water also is essential. There is always more we can
do but even affording these basics is a challenge to many.
Special Note:
One of my readers wrote saying, "Thank you for the labor of love you've
given to the inhabitants of the world. All the information about
magnesium, iodine, baking soda, etc. is priceless and very much
appreciated. I know we can't thank you
enough for your generosity with the knowledge you've accumulated from
all of your research. I know you've had your detractors -- ignore them!"
These basic medicines are not only the mainstay of emergency rooms and
intensive care wards but are the backbone of a my new form of medicine
called
Natural Allopathic Medicine, which makes sense in the age of toxicity that we all have live in.
About the author:
About the author:
Mark A. Sircus, Ac., OMD, is director of the International Medical Veritas Association (IMVA) http://www.imva.info/.
Dr.
Sircus was trained in acupuncture and oriental medicine at the
Institute of Traditional Medicine in Sante Fe, N.M., and at the School
of Traditional Medicine of New England in Boston. He served at the
Central Public Hospital of Pochutla in Mexico, and was awarded the title
of doctor of oriental medicine for his work. He was one of the first
nationally certified acupuncturists in the United States. Dr. Sircus's
IMVA is dedicated to unifying the various disciplines in medicine with the goal of creating a new dawn in healthcare.
He
is particularly concerned about the effect vaccinations have on
vulnerable infants and is identifying the common thread of many toxic agents that are dramatically threatening present and future generations of children.
His book, The Terror of Pediatric Medicine, is a free e-book offered on
his web site. Humane Pediatrics will be an e-book available early in
2011 and then quickly as possible put into print.
Dr. Sircus is a most prolific and courageous writer and one can read through hundreds of pages on his various web sites.
He
has recently released a number of e-books including Winning the War
Against Cancer, Survival Medicine for the 21st Century, Sodium
Bicarbonate, Rich Man’s Poor Man’s Cancer Treatment, New Paradigms in
Diabetic Care and Bringing Back the Universal Medicine: IODINE.
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