When available, this effort can be strongly supported by “kickstarting” the magnesium supplementation with intravenous administrations. Studies in which as much as 36 grams of magnesium given intravenously over a 36-hour period to coronary care unit patients demonstrated a decrease in all-cause mortality that persisted for at least 5 years after the infusions were given, without any subsequently prescribed protocol of oral magnesium administration during that period of that time.
Life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias can also be rapidly stabilized by magnesium infusions. All poisonings and excess toxin exposures should first be treated with an intravenous administration of magnesium and vitamin C. The immediate presence of magnesium can save many patients that would otherwise succumb to an arrhythmia before the vitamin C has a chance to adequately neutralize circulating toxins and repair already oxidized (poisoned) biomolecules.
Because of its ability to relax the muscle tension/tone in arteries, magnesium is also significant for the treatment of all vasoconstriction disorders, including high blood pressure, eclampsia, and migraines. It also helps to normalize blood sugar, blood lipids, and the stickiness of blood platelets leading to blood clotting, thereby lessening the chances of heart attack.
Epilepsy and other seizure disorders are also minimized, and sometimes eliminated, when magnesium stores in the body can be normalized. Similar to the electrical instability of the cardiac cells prone to arrhythmia, the electrical instability of the neurons leading to the initiation of a seizure is often completely normalized when enough magnesium can lower the elevated intracellular levels of calcium. As with the heart arrhythmias noted above, it is a clinical mistake to proceed directly to lifelong prescription seizure drugs before a serious attempt is made to normalize the magnesium status in the body.
Magnesium administration has been shown to decrease the neurological damage from a stroke, to lessen depression and anxiety, and to improve the clinical status of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and dementia.
As magnesium deficiency increases the chances of vasoconstriction and muscle spasm, it follows that the administration of magnesium can also decrease the occurrence of bronchospasm resulting in wheezing. Higher levels of magnesium in the body make the emergence of asthma less likely and the management of asthma easier when it is present. Similarly, improved magnesium stores appear to facilitate the effective management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. However, it is not so clear-cut that magnesium can serve as a primary acute treatment for an asthmatic attack.
In the late 1930s, in the United States, Dr. Frederick Klenner published his work utilizing the administration of vitamin C to treat infants and small children stricken with acute polio, which was rampant in North Carolina at that time.
By giving a combination of injectable and oral vitamin C, Dr. Klenner was able to completely cure 57 out of 60 of the cases in three days. The other three cases required two additional days of vitamin C therapy to realize complete cures.
However, it turns out that vitamin C is not the only agent proven to cure polio by itself. In France in the 1940s, Dr. Auguste Neveu treated 15 cases of polio with only oral magnesium chloride solution. His patients ranged in age from 20 months to 47 years.
Presentations ranged from being seen promptly at the onset of infection-related symptoms to as long as four months after the onset of acute infection with associated degrees of muscle weakness and even paralysis. In one very acute case, clinical resolution with seen with only 24 hours of magnesium chloride treatment. Other patients required weeks to months of magnesium chloride to realize significant, and sometimes complete, resolution of muscle paralysis.
As much of the total magnesium in the body is located inside the muscle cells, it would appear that the restoration of muscular stores of magnesium can mitigate and even reverse what is “traditionally” regarded as permanent post-polio damage. Magnesium chloride has also been found to be a powerful anti-pathogen agent in general. Some studies have also shown magnesium to strongly support the phagocytic capacity of white blood cells.