What Helps and What Hinders Magnesium?
There are many trace mineral "helpers" such as zinc, boron, selenium and more, which enhance magnesium's effect. Magnesium also helps use iron more efficiently via its role in supporting oxygen transport in the
haemoglobin. A blood test may show normal iron levels, but the patient could have symptoms of anaemia in the case of magnesium deficiency.
Antioxidant vitamins like vitamin C and B6 also enhance the magnesium effect because they can increase oxygen supply and therefore electron donation to help put out
the fire. Any oxygenating nutrient that helps refresh lipid status and avoid lipid peroxidation (rancid fats) can partner well with magnesium to restore equilibrium.
Toxicants, on the other hand, such as heavy metals, fluoride, glyphosate and other pesticides interfere with and dampen down the Mg-ATP energy metabolism of the organism. This is how a pesticide works: It attacks the nervous system, starves the cell of oxygen, lowers pH and impairs mitochondrial energy metabolism. In other
words, it pulls the electrical plug out of the wall (or flattens mitochondrial batteries), magnesium being the electrical conductance agent in this analogy
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Fluoride steals (binds) your magnesium via direct antagonism. There is a "highly significant, level dependent interaction between magnesium and fluoride… Low dietary magnesium significantly enhanced
fluoride absorption, whereas high dietary magnesium significantly reduced fluoride absorption."16 A high chemical binding affinity of both elements produce Magnesium-Fluoride (MgF+ and MgF2) which becomes insoluble to cells.
Magnesium in a sense sacrifices itself to save the body from fluoride, but in the process magnesium is lost. The best defence is to increase magnesium and avoid fluoride
where possible, such as in fluoridated tap water, black tea leaves, dental products, fire retardant, Teflon outgassing and many drugs which contain fluoride.
Fluoride is also known to cause calcium aggregation in soft tissue and hypercalcaemia can block the activity of
magnesium. It also suppresses production of thyroid hormone (T3) by the thyroid via inhibition of magnesium, iodine and enzyme activity. Thyroid and breasts compete for iodine and magnesium. Fibroids (lumps) in tissue have higher calcium deposits compared to normal tissue.
Thyroid issues, energy deficit, digestive disorders and metabolic syndrome are all a part of endocrine dysfunction which is another hallmark of magnesium deficiency, or blockage of magnesium by other toxicants.
Fluoride in black tea, tap water and dental products reduce magnesium uptake in the body.