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Investigating my grandma’s magnesium deficiency

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My initial internet research indicates that one of the main causes of magnesium deficiency is a dependence on laxatives. Well, because of my grandma’s chronic constipation, she was always using Dulcolax. And when dulcolax didn’t do the trick, out comes Dr. Tam’s Miracle Tea. She has been dependent on laxatives for many years now.

Her diet is lacking in magnesium too. Since her fruit intake is low, and her vegetable intake is always cooked. The problem with cooking vegetables is the minerals in it are converted back to rock form when cooked, which does a human no good. Humans need their trace minerals, like magnesium, in plant form whether from raw vegetables and ideally from raw fruits and raw nuts.

I have to get my grandmother a big bunch of raw pili nuts and have her gorge on them.

I told her the supplements I gave her are no match for real raw food.

I will be researching more about magnesium deficiency and will be extending this post… look here:

MAGNESIUM DEFICIENCY & SUDDEN DEATH
Written and Researched by Ronald J. Grisanti D.C., D.A.B.C.O.

An athletic 20 year man is playing basketball and suddenly collapses on the court and dies.

On a hot July day, a young and vibrant college football player suddenly makes a great tackle and never gets up.. only to be pronounced dead 5 minutes later.

High School track runner dies after finishing second in a race.

The sad truth is 1 out of 50,000 young adults will fall victim to Sudden Death.

Most sudden deaths have been linked to a thickened, enlarged heart called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), or by a condition that disturbs the rhythm of the heart called an arrhythmia.

When one sweats, a significant amount of magnesium is lost. Magnesium is the most under-recognized electrolyte disorder in the U.S. Dr. Mildred Seelig, one of the country’s leading authorities on magnesium suggests that 80%-90% of the population is deficient is magnesium

It is beyond the extent of this article why the public is being denied the truth of the seriousness of magnesium deficiency and sudden death. The amount of medical research could fill a book, but it is unfortunately being ignored.

According to Micheal A. Brodsky M.D., associate professor of medicine at the University of Medicine and the director of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service at the University of California.. mineral imbalances interfere with the heart’s normal nerve function.

While most athletes have been conditioned to drink a potassium rich drink after sweating.. very few have been educated on the dangers of a magnesium deficiency. Dr. Brodsky states that arrhythmia therapy should focus on replenishing two key minerals: potassium and magnesium.

Almost all physicians have known for some time just how vital potassium is for normal heartbeat. Magnesium is an entirely different story, however. According to Carla Sueta M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine and cardiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine “apparently, many doctors still don’t realize how important a role this mineral can play in some heart patients. In fact, most never check the magnesium level. She has shown through her research that magnesium reduced the incidence of several types of ventricular arrhythmia by 53 to 76 percent.

Magnesium deficiency can be induced by the very drugs meant to help heart problems. Some types of diuretics (water pills) cause the body to excrete both magnesium and potassium, as does digitalis. And magnesium deficiency is often at the bottom of what’s called refractory potassium deficiency. The amount of magnesium in the body determines the amount of a particular enzyme that determines the amount of potassium in the body,” he explains. So if you are magnesium-deficient, you may in turn be potassium-deficient, and no amount of potassium is going to correct this unless you are also getting enough magnesium.

The Best Test To Determine Your Level of Magnesium

Although most physicians rarely check this important mineral, the few that do usually rely on test called Serum Magnesium. Unfortunately, this test only measures approximately 1% of the magnesium in your body.. a poor test at best. The “Gold Standard” and the most accurate test is the RBC Minerals or more commonly called Elemental Analysis in Packed Erythrocytes. This test examines the levels of eight minerals and seven toxic heavy metals. The erythrocyte is the red blood cell that floats in our serum to carry oxygen to our cells. The minerals this test analyzes from inside the red blood cell includes magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, potassium, selenium, vanadium and zinc. Another test which has proven to be extremely valuable in detecting magnesium deficiencies is called the Urine Magnesium Loading Test. In this test, the patient collects a 24-hour urine sample and the total magnesium is measured. The patient is then given a dose Magnesium Chloride 18% and another 24-hour urine specimen is collected. The magnesium is again measured. If the body retains more than a certain amount of magnesium, then it is concluded that the body is magnesium deficient.

Common Symptoms of Magnesium Deficiency

The most common symptoms include back and neck pain, muscle spasms, anxiety, panic disorders, Raynaud’s spastic vessels, arrhythmia, fatigue, eye twitches, vertigo, migraines.

Best Sources of Magnesium

The best way of insuring enough magnesium is to eat a variety of whole foods, including whole grains, nuts, seeds and vegetables, preferably food grown on naturally composted soil. The green color of green vegetables is due to chlorophyll, which is a molecule that contains magnesium. Avoid refined processed foods, especially white sugar and white flour products, as most magnesium is removed from them.

Dr. Grisanti’s Comments:

If you are suffering with a heart problem and have not had your magnesium checked, then I want to urge you to have your physician order the two tests listed above. Unless you have proof that your magnesium is within normal levels, I want you to realize that you are playing with your health!

http://www.drgrisanti.com/magnesium.htm

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Another article

http://george-eby-research.com/html/depression-anxiety.html

is even more comprehensive.  Read and learn why the calcium tablets my grandmother was taking was also causing magnesium deficiency.

I would think this magnesium deficiency has been going on for a very long time given the extensive research done already.

Good thing that hospital, the heart center, was now equipped with a magnesium test procedure.

Now we know, we have a clear guide on what to do.  Pinpointed.  I hope that is correct.  Dr Divina Hey can give more inputs.

Grandma almost died. Heart beating disrupted by Magnesium Deficiency!

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We had a big scare. My grandmother almost died today. Heart beating disrupted. She wouldn’t wake up while being picked up by the driver. From the nannie’s description, she was pale, her lips darkened, she felt cold, her saliva drooling, and it took them many minutes just to wake her up.

Probably in the attempt to wake her up and lifting her to the car re-awakened her heart to beat and in the car she started being conscious.

Her sister said the best hospital to go to was Heart Center so there they went.

At the ER, they waited 2 hours before the blood test results came in.

Dra. Gonzales, resident doctor in the ER says that Nanay has magnesium deficiency. Her explanation was that the magnesium deficiency caused a disruption in her electrical signals which included her heart. Thus her heartbeat became irregular.

Looking back, in the car, they took her blood pressure and it read 150 / 110. Put 1 and 1 together with the heart disruption, when the heart started pumping again while in the car, it was trying to make up for lost time, to pump blood into the brain and circulate everything again, that may explain for the high blood pressure reading… simply because it was needed at that time.

So the big culprit is magnesium deficiency, which she could have been suffering for from quite some time. Magnesium deficiency is connected with constipation, her twitching / tremors, nerve signals to her legs.

Nanay and I had lots of time to talk while in the ER, she is very much awake, very smart, very much conversational.

She says the real reason she wanted to go home to Makati is because “namamahay siya”, her sleep is not deep and comfortable in a strange bed, she is looking for a familiar bed. Although she sleeps at 8:30pm in her sister’s house, her sleep is not continuous, not deep and not satisfying.

She and I confirmed that the upper part of her body from her torso up are strong and movement is not impaired. She still had quite a good grip on her, not bad from being rushed to the ER and not given anything yet. She is not really weak. It is her legs that are the problem. From the hips down, her legs just will not move on command, nor will her toes. So it is not about weakness, it is about nerve signals.

Hopefully those nerve signals can be restored. Maybe with nutrition and mechanical means. She says she has a phobia with chiropractors as the 1st and only chiropractor she went to in the past caused her unbearable pain.

So at 4pm she was given some magnesium diluted in dextrose intravenously. By 5:30 her nannie called me and she was being discharged.

We were able to leave by 8pm? Too much rain and traffic.

Her prescription was for 1 tiny aspirin per day for 30 days and 1/2 tablet of Enalapril 10mg for 30 days. Remember, just for 30 days. Not forever. Unlike the previous drugs she abused. I suspect she was misled and self medicating idiotically. I made it clear to her that she should forget all her previous drugs. She feels good, a placebo effect, which is good about these 2 new tiny drugs.

I made it clear with Nanay that her problem is magnesium deficiency and to solve her problem for the long term we were to source magnesium from food. The best is raw food from fruits and raw green vegetables including raw sprouts. She says yuck to raw. So I told her you can steam or half cook your vegetables, but they are just characterized as below good. Since she says yuck to raw vegetables, I gave her spirulina tablets, take 15 tablets a day as food, it has lots of magnesium. Also I gave her Dr. Tam’s Live Green, a combination of wheat grass, barley and kamut. I also gave her a spem health barley drink which is sweatened, which she may be able to like more. I also gave gingko biloba tablets she needs 4 tablets a day to help improve her blood circulation. I also left 2 small bottles of my cayenne tincture / sili tincture for emergencies. I told the nannie that should another crisis like this morning happen, she was to jam 1 bottle full in Nanay’s mouth then take nanay to the hospital. The cayenne tincture will open up blood vessels, give her a jolt of vitamin C and will wake up dead people.

It was 10pm when we arrived at her daughter’s place in Makati. With her daughter on a trip abroad, there were no vegetables in the kitchen. We inspected the refrigerator and found 1 sayote and 1 rotten bitter melon. Nothing else. So I gave money to her nannie to buy in the morning fresh vegetables, just good for 2 days. The Guadalupe market is the nearest from their village, 1 ride via jeep or MRT. I told her nannie to begin with monggo sprouts tomorrow.

I scheduled nanay to visit Dr. Divina Hey-Gonzales tomorrow 2pm. But later in the evening she changed her mind saying she was very tired and requested we reschedule that doctor visit to the following day. She knows how she feels so I’ll have to cancel tomorrow’s appointment and hope that the next day is available.

Before I left my grandmother said she had a headache and asked if she could take ibuprofen, a drug that conceals headaches.  I said, absolutely not.  I read the warnings at the back loudly at her so she knows how bad that idiotic ibuprofen drug is.  I told her to just drink up and go to sleep.

It’s been very tiring for me these past few days from caring for her back and forth, the resignation of my website editor so I am training a new editor, and the crash of a computer server hard drive (this one). I need some rest myself.

Grandma’s weakness to be addressed by parasite cleansing

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My grandmother’s weakness will be addressed by parasite cleansing.  My observation with her is that she eats very well, a good strong appetite.  But why doesn’t she have the energy?  She could be well infested with parasites.  From yeast to all kinds of bad worms.  Of course since I discovered that she was an alcohol junkie, like most people are, and her chronic constipation for years, that would include the possibility of cancer.  Fluke worms in her liver.

If her husband died of cancer before, she could be harboring the same parasites.  What has changed today is we have dewormers today and know there are pollutants to be avoided.  Well at least I know what to do.  The problem is the patient and others opposed to things they still do not know.

Back to parasite cleansing.  I just happen to have Barefoot Herbalist MH’s herbal dewormer.  I still have half a bottle left over from me and my 2 sons who just finished deworming.  I was going to give this to my daughter, but I think my grandmother needs this immediately.

It would be safe to assume that after she had grown up, purging of parasites had gone out of fashion.  So it is a good bet that she has never had a parasite cleanse for many decades.

Me and the boys have done parasite cleansing for two straight years at 30 days per parasite cleanse.  Pretty good.  My first parasite cleanse saw me pooping fluke worms.  They look like tomato peelings.  Most worms when hit by parasite cleansing will dissolve in the poop.

I can lend my grandmother my tiny Don Croft zapper.  I just need to put in fresh batteries.  So my grandmother will do parasite cleansing with herbals and zapping.  Me, my wife, my kids have had 2 years of experience doing this so we know it is safe.

My theory is that, just like dogs and other infested animals, it is the pest sapping her energy, get rid of her pests and all will be better.

Of course stay away from all sources of isopropyl alcohol and wood alcohol.  If you don’t know what I’m talking about, please download a copy of Hulda Clark’s ebook Cure for All Diseases.  This is all pretty basic stuff. Go to Cure Manual and get Hulda Clark’s Book.  Click here.

Try and try and you may succeed.

Tremor stricken grandma wants to go home immediately

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Seems like my grandmother cannot stand 2 weeks living elsewhere to try and put a stop to her tremors.  It seems the poisons for tremor avoidance might be compromised.  I know they still have those 2 small refrigerators in her room, which could be leaking freon, a possible source of poisons.

I think she misses her drugs.  She actually believes in those poisons.  A dependency has been formed in her mind a placebo if you will.  Placebos are powerful.

So she had her nannie call me up this afternoon to say she wanted to immediately go home to Makati.

Hmmm… my driver can pick her up in the morning after sending the kids to school and just in time to pick up the kids to come home.

Of course there is more to this story than I know.

So this tremor isolating experiment will end after a mere 1 week.  It is certain that back at home she might be exposed again to whatever pollutants there were.

It was worth the try.  If she succumbs to whatever poison there was that she should have avoided, my conscience is clear I tried.

Ah but that is not the end of this try.

While back at her home in Makati, we will try another method.  This time directed at her weakness.  If we can’t be sure of curing her tremors, maybe addressing her weakness will make a bigger difference.

My grandmother is sick because of her drugs, my grandmother is dying because of her drugs

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Let’s play the blame game: My grandmother’s doctors are to blame for prescribing many poisons all at the same time. Why she is taking all these poisons and she has not improved one bit. Her doctors are to blame. Her doctors are to be blamed. Just like my brother when he was left for dead, all his doctors were to blame.

Some of you drug lovers may want my grandmother to continue poisoning herself. Well why don’t you try taking all her drugs and see what kind of vegetable you become huh?

I don’t see any of her drugs helping my grandmother for all these years.

It has been a steep and sure decline and eventual death so far. And do you honestly think her same poisons can help improve her lot? No way. If you were here looking at her, just see her video, THAT is what the drugs have caused her to become. THAT kind of poisoning is what my grandmother has become because of HER drugs. That is what the QUACKS do. Condemn my grandmother to an inhuman terrible state of SUFFERING. Do you honestly want to POISON HER EVEN MORE?????

Who cures the incurables? Any of you? No. Any of your doctors? No! Have all these years of drugging / doctoring my grandmother cured her? No. Has she improved? No. Is my grandmother dying? YES.

And who cures the incurables? I do.

I cured myself when all my doctors said I was incurable. I cured my brother when the doctors left him for DEAD. I cured my grandmother in the province when the relatives and doctors said she was going to die. I cured my grandfather in the province when my relatives and doctors said he was going to die and that we should not spend for air fair to go there.

My grandmother is dying because her doctors have POISONED HER ENOUGH. And you want to continue her poisoning? I watched Tatay, my grandfather die of prostate cancer because I was ignorant then. But I am very much informed and well aware now of Nanay’s situation.

She is dying and she is dying because of her drugs and poisons. I saw her June 1 and I know what I saw. I saw a dying person. I saw my grandmother dying and nobody was doing anything to change the course of demise.

If I do something, there is a chance she will get better. If I don’t do something she is sure to DIE. So I choose to do something. In her weakened state, even death seems better.

Okay, all you drug lovers, let’s show the cards at the table what kind of poisons my grandmother has been taking for all these years:

Isordil: http://www.drugs.com/mtm/isordil.html

fast, slow, pounding, or uneven heart rate;
blurred vision or dry mouth;
nausea, vomiting, sweating, pale skin, feeling like you might pass out
warmth, redness, or tingly feeling under your skin;
feeling weak or dizzy

Plendil: http://www.drugs.com/plendil.html

an allergic reaction (difficulty breathing; closing of the throat; swelling of the lips, tongue, or face; or hives);
unusually fast or slow heartbeat;
chest pain;
severe dizziness or fainting;
abnormal behavior or psychosis;
jaundice (yellowing of the skin or eyes), or
swelling of the legs, ankles, or face.
fatigue or tiredness;
headache;
insomnia or difficulty sleeping;
swelling of your gums;
nausea or diarrhea;
increased or difficult urination;
muscle or joint discomfort; or
flushing (redness).

Sinemet: http://www.drugs.com/cdi/sinemet.html

Severe allergic reactions (rash; hives; itching; difficulty breathing; tightness in the chest; swelling of the mouth, face, lips, or tongue); black, tarry stools; blood in vomit; chest pain; confusion; depression; fast or irregular heartbeat; fever; hallucinations; mental or mood changes; muscle pain or unusual stiffness; severe abdominal pain; severe lightheadedness or fainting; sore throat; thoughts of suicide; unexplained fever or sweating; unusual bruising or bleeding; unusual or painful movements or spasms of the face, eyelids, mouth, tongue, arms, hands, or legs; vision changes (blurred/double vision); yellowing of the skin or eyes.

Fosamax: http://www.drugs.com/cdi/fosamax.html

Bone, muscle, or joint pain; constipation; diarrhea; dizziness; feeling bloated or full; flu-like symptoms at the start of treatment; gas; headache; mild stomach pain; nausea; taste changes; vomiting. Severe allergic reactions (rash; hives; itching; difficulty breathing; tightness in the chest; swelling of the mouth, face, lips, or tongue); black, tarry, or bloody stools; chest pain; coughing or vomiting blood; difficult or painful swallowing; mouth sores; new, worsening, or severe heartburn; red, swollen, blistered, or peeling skin; severe bone, muscle, or joint pain; severe or persistent sore throat or stomach pain; swelling of the hands, legs, or joints; swelling or pain in the jaw.

Dolacet: http://www.drugs.com/mtm/dolacet.html

shallow breathing, slow heartbeat;
feeling light-headed, fainting;
confusion, fear, unusual thoughts or behavior;
seizure (convulsions);
problems with urination; or
nausea, stomach pain, loss of appetite, itching, dark urine, clay-colored stools, jaundice (yellowing of the skin or eyes).
feeling anxious, dizzy, or drowsy;
mild nausea, vomiting, upset stomach, constipation;
headache, mood changes;
blurred vision;
ringing in your ears; or dry mouth.

Glucosamine: http://www.drugs.com/cdi/glucosamine.html

Constipation; diarrhea; drowsiness; headache; heartburn; nausea; upset stomach; vomiting. Severe allergic reactions (rash; hives; itching; difficulty breathing; tightness in the chest; swelling of the mouth, face, lips, or tongue).

And all those above are just the stuff the drug companies admit to. There are many more, a lot more. When people are sick, they do not need poisons. In fact people should seek to eliminate all sources of poisons.

All those links lead to self serving marketing pages of the drug companies.

The gist is this. The drugs of the doctors and my grandmother’s self drugging has poisoned her enough to be in this dying state. She is not old, she is sick and dying from constipation and poisoning.

You’ve all had your chance, she’s been drugged for years and is dying now. What are you afraid of? Afraid my grandmother will be cured?

Now let me do my thing and try to save her.

If you have the money to help, send enough so Nanay can get an apartment beside where I live so I can see her every single day.  And get a man,  a strong man who can lift her because she is almost bed-ridden.

My weak grandmother is an isopropyl alcohol junkie

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I remember more than a month ago I visited my grandmother’s room and I already threw out her isopropyl alcohol and other chemicals in her bathroom and on her bed tables.

I distinctly remember that plastic green bottle of isopropyl alcohol / rubbing alcohol, she probably must have retrieved it. Hmmm…. hard headed woman.

This evening, my brother and I visited my grandmother. She had been asking for my brother yesterday so I brought him with me today. I hope it makes her feel good to see him. She looks forward to the day my brother gets married. Ah a goal to shoot for. She must be well by February next year so she can walk by herself and enjoy my brother’s wedding.

We also brought her some fresh raw sea weed, she liked it dipped in some vinegar. We also brought in raw fresh tuna. Surprisingly, she liked eating raw tuna and ate some 3 big pieces. So much better and so much more powerful than any old fish oil capsules.

My nose smelled camphor. Sure enough she was using a vaporub of camphor. She said for itches. I went into her room and saw she had 2 different brands of mentholated camphor. Yes, camphor and other chemicals you can’t pronounce. I told her to golden rule: If you can’t eat it, do not put it on your skin. I taught her the alternative: virgin coconut oil. If you have an itch, or an insect bite, the answer is virgin coconut oil. And look, I have a brand new bottle here in the batch I left with you. So out with those chemicals.

In the same room I spotted a big plastic bottle of rubbing alcohol, isopropyl alcohol. I taught my grandmother and her sister and her husband, that you know the main reason many people have cancer is because of isopropyl alcohol. Isopropyl alcohol is toxic to the liver, you put it on your skin, it is absorbed and your liver is intoxicated. Same thing if you breath the alcohol. The fluke worms in your intestines are attracted to the alcohol in your liver and they live and reproduce in your liver causing cancer. The solution is to throw it all away. You should not be using any alcohol nor any alcohol polluted products such as: shampoos, after shave, make up, rubbing alcohol, etc.

My grandmother’s sister says she uses isopropyl alcohol to clean her telephone.  I told her should could use vodka.  She says she does not know where to get vodka.  I taught her: every sari sari store sells cheap Cossak Vodka for P 75 / bottle.  Now you know.

Sigh, a healer’s work is never done. Now we have to count June 10 tomorrow as the first chemical free day. Hopefully. And count another 14 days. Tsk tsk. I wonder what other surprises my grandmother has for me. The best really is to live with the person day by day. I just can’t afford that right now.

Video of how weak my grandmother really is, her cure approach

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This video is meant for you relatives to understand just how weak our grandmother is.  This is why I have decided to take action and attempt to cure her.  It is better than watching her slowly die and look the other way.

What you can’t see in a video on Youtube are the tremors in her hands and feet.  Just last Sunday June 1 I saw my grandmother at a party looking like this.  I could not take how fast she deteriorated.  So with the coordination with a few loving relatives we relocated her in the evening of June 3.  So effectively June 4 is her first day.  If you count today June 9, it’s been only 5 days.  Her constipation is being addressed.  She is off her drugs.  Her hydration is addressed by coconut juice.  Superior liver nutrition given by at minimum 3 raw organic egg yolks.  Some parasitic load and needs are supplemented with Barefoot Herbalist MH’s tree iodine.

Hopefully, we have moved her to a place where there are none or less pollutants that are causing her tremors: no drugs, less household chemicals.  Hulda Clark says 2 weeks of no pollution should rid her of her tremors.  We will see.