Hypertension – Reduced with A Food – Metadichol

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Mark Pegram

Our diets over the last fifty years have been shifted away from fat and toward carbohydrates with the belief that higher amounts of fat were causing cardiovascular disease (CVD). As this move toward higher density carbs occurred, blood pressure also increased along with the issues of higher incidence of CVD and stroke. In the following study, a food substance, that is typically tossed in the processing of sugar cane, was found to reduce blood pressure and c-reactive protein (CRP) and increased circulating vitamin C. The paper describes the action of nano-policosanol as acting along vitamin D pathways.

Here is my blood pressure as I write this at 4 AM–not bad. Hypertension w

Dr. P.R. Raghavan has given us Metadichol, a nano-policosanol, to reduce blood pressure. Policosanol, as long chain fatty acids, is found in high concentration on sugar cane and the husk of seeds. Here is the paper that was just published for a sixty-week open label study. The remarkable things are that blood pressure is reduced in only three weeks, the production of vitamin C in humans, and reduced CRP, an indication of reduced inflammation.

Systolic and Diastolic BP Control in Metabolic Syndrome Patients with Metadichol® a Novel Nano Emulsion Lipid – Journal of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Therapy Case Report Volume 5 Issue 2 – May 2017 DOI: 10.19080/JOCCT.2017.05.555660 Metadichol-Hypertension

To combat high-blood pressure the normal course is to:

Eat a healthy diet
Regular exercise
No nicotine use as it shrinks arteries
Limit alcohol
Maintain a healthy weight

The above is the typical verbiage that you get from your doctor. I wonder just how many times the physicians say that on any given day. It is apparent that a healthy lifestyle is everything. Of course, government and its agencies have failed us in defining a healthy diet. The common American diet was defined to promote the economy. If you don’t believe this then ask yourself this question: Why do we spend almost twice as much on healthcare as we do on food?

Poor eating habits are the cause of many chronic diseases. Hypertension falls in this category. The first time my realization that diet was critical to controlling blood pressure occurred when I was reading “Protein Power” by Drs. Michael and Mary Eades. They warned of blood pressure dropping significantly with the reduction of carbohydrates. This raises the question of our health actions over the last fifty years. Reduce the amount of fat and increase sugar? Sugar has typically not been considered as dangerous, however, I believe it’s the worst policy we could have made. Linus Pauling (interesting that this is the vitamin C guy and Metadichol helps the body produce vitamin C) showed in the 1970s that sugar was more responsible for increased cholesterol than fat through his studies with prisoners.

The real solution to maintain a normal blood pressure is to eliminate sugar and flour from your diet. Grains were not meant to be finely divided for consumption by our physiology. Sugar is not meant to be consumed outside of its normal occurrence in vegetables and fruits. This is what is meant when we are told to consume a healthy diet.

Metadichol will help maintain a lower blood pressure. Metadichol acts in many ways in controlling our biological actions. The beauty of Metadichol is that this food substance has no known side effects. We no longer consume policosanol that is found in the husk of seeds. It appears that our body needs these long chain fatty alcohols. Metadichol is taking the husk into a modern factory and chewing them for us. Remember the words of your mother: Chew your food! Of course, if you don’t have the right part of the food to be chewed, factory chewing by others is okay.

The irony is that nature gave us policosanol on the plants that are high in sugar, and we throw way nature’s protection from sugar. We then concentrate the sugar through modern processes and consume it in great amounts. Results are devastating to our health. We now develop a substance that counteracts the effects of sugar, that nature originally meant us to consumed with the plant. Sugar drives up serum cholesterol more so than fat. The result of a high sugar diet without the protection of policosanol is CVD and stroke. More irony, the original intent of the Dr. Raghavan was to improve the way policosanol reduced cholesterol as shown by the Cubans. Nature is laughing at us.

One of the very interesting findings in this study was the increase in vitamin C. The paper indicates that humans made vitamin C as part of our physiology. At some point, one of the three enzymes that makes vitamin C from sugar was no longer produced. Metadichol appears to turn on the gene responsible for producing this enzyme and higher vitamin C levels happen. This means reduced inflammation, as indicated by a reduction in CRP, and the possibility of a longer lifespan with less disease.

This is really-exciting stuff. The possibility of increased life span with reduced inflammation and disease through a food substance that can easily be supplemented with no side effects–Metadichol.

We took the chewing of grains into the milling operations to help foods be easier to consume. Sugar was concentrated through industrial processes as our body craves this substance. It should also be noted that sugar was concentrated to help in the production of alcohol–another craved substance. Both things, milled grains and concentrated sugar, made food easier to consume and have significant impact on our economy, but they are not healthy. By not being healthy, we again have made a significant impact on our economy with increased healthcare and insurance. And, the government said, “It is good.” –Pandemic Survivor

Amazing Media Reports or Popular Press Propaganda

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Mark Pegram

This Labor Day weekend, I was alarmed by the media reports about life extension and supplements and a new drug development. First the new drug development that startled me as it sounded a lot like a vitamin D analog.

I was watching Fox News on Monday morning. Yes I know, if you have a liberal political persuasion you have already labeled me and not consider reading further. There was an interview with a doctor about a new drug that would significantly reduce heart disease and also significantly reduce all-cause mortality. It will likely be approved by the end of the year. This sounds a very fast track. A very fast track is a good thing if there are no side effects, a low number needed to treat, NNT, and we can put an end to heart disease. The drug had not been named which was another surprise to me. What really got me going was the description of how it acted. Here is the print article from Fox News.

It was not only reported to reduce heart disease, it was also stated that it would significantly increase life expectancy. Why was I alarmed? It sounded like vitamin D3. First there was the interview with a Dr. Joseph Prendergast from about 2007 where he reported that he had been extremely successful in treating heart disease with vitamin D3 and L-arginine. He said in the interview that he had been so successful that a three physician cardiology practice in the same town that he practice had moved to another town because of lack of business. He had treated more than four thousand patients. Then there is the description by Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist and author of the book “Wheat Belly”, that claims in his practice there are not anymore emergency calls from his patients. He says that he used a variety of nutrients with Vitamin D being a very important one. And then I remembered all the published papers on how vitamin D3 significantly reduces heart disease collected by Henry Lahore at VitaminDWiki. Cardiovascular Disease Also the many articles at the Vitamin D Council related to cardiovascular disease and vitamin D3. And on and on.

What is more alarming is the NNT, before a positive outcome, the prevention of death. “About 32 people would need to be treated with the new drug to prevent one death from heart-related causes. “ This description does not sound as if the drug is effective as just plain vitamin D3 that can be purchased over the counter. This sounds significantly different that the experience of Dr. Prendergast and Dr. Davis and the multiple of medical papers published on the subject. As a society, are we so set in maintaining the medical economy that doctors cannot tell people that vitamin D is very significant in the course of heart disease? When other specific nutrients are added and changes in diet, heart disease could be a thing of the past.

The second report was on CBS 60 Minutes. They had a segment on research with the aging of what extended life and what did not. It was very educational and interesting until Leslie Stahl asked about supplements. The answer was no, there was not any significant reduction of death with supplements. She then asked a much scripted question. No help from vitamin E? No. No help with vitamin A, vitamin B, and vitamin C. No. No help with a multiple vitamin? No. Notice the order of vitamins not to take the listener to vitamin D as they were not in alphabetical order. Also note that the question was not asked about vitamin D. There was a bottle of vitamin D3 plainly on display in the cabinet. Plainly getting the viewer to believe that vitamin D3 has no affect without stating. Subliminal communication at its best! There are papers stating that life expectancy could be extended by seven or more years with higher levels of vitamin D3? Mortality and Vitamin D3

Propaganda delivered at its very best! – Pandemic Survivor

Breast Cancer Survivor Takes on the Issues

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Mark Pegram

Carole Baggerly had her own experience with breast cancer. She then started to research the reason why. Her discovery; scientists have expressed the understanding that breast cancer is a deficiency disease. That is over her life time, her intake of vitamin D was not adequate. She was so upset and concerned about the issues that she started GrassrootsHealth. This is a consortium of more than forty scientists and doctors that are experts in vitamin D and nutrition. She discovered that it was not only breast cancer, but a host of chronic illness related to deficiencies. Take the time and watch her explain the issues in the first thirty minutes of this video presentation. Carole Baggerly and Dr. Heaney, September, 2012 Presentation to Direct-MS Canada.

If you are concerned about the health of your children, yourself, your parents, the next hour is Dr. Heaney who has contributed significantly to the understanding of vitamin D. He talks about the longevity issues and decline with chronic disease because of nutritional deficiencies. There are many diseases that have now been linked to deficiencies that number into the hundreds. This is particularly pointed to vitamin D deficiency.

This discussion is fairly non-technical and is understandable by the average person. Dr. Heaney expresses the understanding that “things go better with vitamin D”. That is that vitamin D deficiency may not be the cause of a disease like TB, but not having enough vitamin D will prevent your body from properly healing. However, this understanding falls into the logic of the chicken versus the egg. In other words, if you had enough vitamin D would you have gotten TB in the first place? Dr. Heaney discusses everything from diabetes, heart disease, MS, pregnancy, and cancer to infectious diseases like TB. I give the video presentation six stars out of a five star rating system for understanding of chronic disease and the effect of vitamin D. Presentation to Direct-MS Canada.

Your take away from this, is you, your friends, and your family should not suffer from vitamin D deficiency. Standards within the medical industry have long been 20 ng/ml to 100 ng/ml. There have not been any cases of toxicity below 200 ng/ml or 500 nmol/l. There does not appear to be any downside at this level of vitamin D. Some laboratories have decreased the upper number, 100 ng/ml, to whatever they are measuring the population. Best health for you can be reached with a vitamin D serum level, 25(OH)D between 40 ng/ml to 80 ng/ml; note this is still within the normal range as defined by medicine. It is not how much you take; it is where you maintain your serum level. Everyone responds differently to their intake from all sources of vitamin D. The only way to know is to test. Dr. Heaney says to maintain a level above 40ng/ml will require an intake from all sources of 5000 IU or more of vitamin D3 per day.

Please note this presentation is in Canada. The measurements used are in nanamoles per liter or nmol/l. To convert ng/ml to nmol/l multiply ng/ml by 2.5. So the normal range of 20 to 100 ng/ml is 50 to 250 nmol/l. Get your serum level tested to give your body a chance to thrive. If you choose to do it through GrassrootsHealth, you become part of the study that will help to advance health in the population. – Pandemic Survivor

Test by GrassrootsHealth: Video of how to do the test:

Grassroots Health Webinars on Vitamin D

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Mark Pegram

The scientist, researchers, and doctors at Grassroots Health have been presenting webinars on vitamin D and various topics. This is a wealth of information about how a given disease works with vitamin D as well as the interaction of calcium.

I highly encourage you to go to the website and watch and listen to the webinars. There is a new one every Tuesday at 1PM eastern time. Also after becoming familiar with the information, I encourage you to ask your doctor to watch, if he is giving you a hard time about supplementing with vitamin D. It is important that you maintain your 25(OH)D level above 40 ng/ml.

If you don’t watch and listen to any of the others, I highly suggest that you watch – Why Test Vitamin D!? The question is always – How much should I take? This gives you and understanding that everyone responds differently to amounts. At the Grassroots Health home page you can find a table of how to start supplementing before testing. There is also a downloadable chart as a PDF.

Here is the link to the Video Page http://www.grassrootshealth.net/index.php/videos

Diabetes & Vitamin D
The Sun & Vitamin D I and II
Pregnancy & Vitamin D I and II
Upper Respiratory Infections & Vitamin DI and II
Ethic Disparities & Vitamin D
Premenopausal Breast Cancer & Vitamin D
The Cost of Vitamin D Deficiency: In Dollars & Disease
Vitamin D & Calcium, Fractures, & Kidney Stones What do we know?
Why Test Vitamin D!?
Prostate Cancer Positive Core Biopsies Reduced with Vitamin D
Prostate Cancer Lesions Reduced with Vitamin D
Vitamin D Stops Breast Cancer
Vitamin D & Gene Expression
Vitamin D & Treatment of Autism
Pregnancy & Vitamin D Interview
Alzheimer’s Prevention & Vitamin
Interaction of Vitamin D and Calcium
Vitamin D Requirements for Breast Feeding Mothers
Vitamin D & Breast Cancer
Vitamin D & Cardiovascular Disease
Vitamin D & The Immune System
Vitamin D & Cystic Fibrosis

Be well and stay healthy – Pandemic Survivor

Vitamin D3 Usage in the US

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Mark Pegram

How much supplementation and by how many people is a difficult number to determine. There have been several articles recently on how many people understand vitamin D3 importance, how the body makes vitamin D3 from the sun, and how much supplementation is required. Everyone in the US has some form of supplementation because of the number of different products that are now having vitamin D added. Of course, our natural connection to the sun and the production of vitamin D3 in the skin has forever been changed because of sunscreen products, mainstream medicine constant warnings about staying out of the sun for the last fifty years, and the lack of sun exposure because of air conditioning and electronic devices that trap us inside.

The question becomes – When our understanding of vitamin D3 finds its way through the bulwarks of the insurancemedicalfoodindustrial complex that is in opposition to a healthy population? The answer to this question will be found when the population has enough vitamin D3 and other nutrients in which we are deficient that the occurrence of chronic disease starts to diminish. As I have stated in earlier post, it is my belief that the first realization will be in a reduction of infectious disease like the common cold and the flu. The second realization will come with the reduction in cancer incidence and death from cancer. We will then see a reduction of heart disease by fivefold to the levels of Japan and Greece when it becomes common knowledge that the major cause of heart disease is the combination of vitamin D3 and sulfur deficiency.

So where are we now in assurance we are getting enough vitamin D3? There is so much confusion on vitamin D testing (what type of test, the mixing of data between D3 and D2, and not including all forms of epi-D) and how much sun exposure the population is getting leads only to more confusion. I believe the best way is simply to determine how much supplementation is occurring. We know that food additives are targeted to give us about 100 to 400 IU of additional vitamin D per day or equivalent to about five minutes or less in the midday summer sun. To reach a level where infectious disease (colds and the flu) remain at summertime levels will require at least two thousand IU per person per day of supplementation during the winter months.

According to a recent article in AARP, sales for vitamin D have jump from forty million dollars in 2001 to over six hundred million in 2011. I have found the cost of vitamin D3 supplementation to range from less than a half cent per one thousand IU all the way up to around five cents. We can determine the amount of supplement per person by using the following conditions. 1 – Most people will not supplement during the summer because they feel good and don’t see the need. We will then say that vitamin D3 is supplemented October through February or for one hundred twenty days. 2 – We will use the cost of vitamin D3 supplementation at two cents per one thousand as a first approximation. 3 – The stated vitamin D sales are vitamin D3. Without boring you with the math, this allows enough for 125 million people under the above conditions or about forty percent of the population. Whether there are 125 million people getting two thousand IU per day or 250 million people getting an additional one thousand IU per day, this is enough to have a significant effect on colds and the flu. I also believe that people are more significantly increasing their vitamin D3 levels by exposure to the sun because of the reduction in the fear of sun exposure by the media.

So when will vitamin D3 sales reach a level for cancer reduction? I suspect the population would need to have enough additional vitamin D3 so that the year round supplementation is two thousand IU per person per day. If we use one cent per thousand IU because of competitive price reduction at this level of supplementation, we would need to reach sales of 2.2 billion dollars per year for vitamin D3. Okay vitamin D3 marketers, there is your first goal. You cannot claim that it cures, prevents, heals, treats, or diagnosis disease in your marketing. You, however, can state that it will promote WELLNESS as any other nutrient or food.

You may think there are too many assumptions for this article to make sense. However, someone has to speculate for the wellness of the population. From your speculator-and-chief promoter – Pandemic Survivor

Magnesium – Heart Arrhythmias – Mardy Fish?

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Mark Pegram

Deficiency disease from poor nutrition that leads to chronic disease is one of the least addressed issues in modern medicine. When a problem arises, modern medicine looks for everything but an issue with the person’s diet and nutrition. Now there have been so many people that have in essence healed themselves by just changing their diet, it is time for a change in the culture of treatment. With lots of fun tools for doctors, the thought of addressing simple deficiencies is mundane. First prescribe the drugs quinidine, lidocane, propranol, or amiodarone and on and on with no success. Do a heart catheterization along with a heart ablation or maybe even open heart with an ablation which is even more fun. “That arrhythmia was fixed by scarring the muscle that was causing the issue. We just kill off that sucker – it was a structural problem.” The conversation in the doctor’s lounge then turns to what is happening with the yacht on the Chesapeake.

There have been so many people that I know that have healed their arrhythmia with magnesium that it is just amazing to me. Why is not asking the person with the heart issue what their diet is like be the very first question out of the doctor’s mouth. “Oh hell, people are going to have bad habits and there is nothing you can do about it – did you see the speed I got when I raised my second sail? Here, just try several of these drugs first for you jumpy heart and we will go from there.”

As a first course take 400 mg of magnesium as a chelate twice a day, be sure to eat lots of greens to get enough potassium, and let’s try three cups of sulfur containing vegetables per day or 1000 mg of MSM per fifty pounds of body weight to be sure you are getting enough sulfur to move the waste products out of your heart muscle. We will also do a 25(OH)D to be sure you are getting enough vitamin D. We will then evaluate your heart to see if your condition has changed. The first day on magnesium and the heart arrhythmia is gone. By US law, magnesium, greens, and cabbage become drugs. Food is medicine and is much better at healing than killing off part of the heart because the muscle is not acting right.

When I was in college, I played tennis for two to three hours every day to relieve the stress. After several years of this, I noticed that when I rested, I would get ‘jumpyness’ in my heart. This scared the dodo out of me the first few times that it happened and it would come and go. After I got out of college and started to eat better, it just went away. And now I hear that Mardy Fish has had a heart catheterization and ablation it makes me wonder. Mardy, did any of your doctors ask if you had been getting enough magnesium? – Pandemic Survivor

Negative Findings for Vitamin D?

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Mark Pegram

There have been two reports this month that vitamin D had less than a positive effect on health. It seems that a study on C-reactive protein as a marker for inflammation did not significantly reduce at higher levels of vitamin D. A second was that vitamin D did not reduce the number of exacerbations in patients with COPD at higher levels of vitamin D. Relation between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin d and C-reactive protein in asymptomatic adults (from the continuous national health and nutrition examination survey 2001 to 2006). and High doses of vitamin d to reduce exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a randomized trial.

The really interesting thing about both of these studies was that vitamin D did appear to help significantly until 25(OH)D reached about 20 ng/ml. At levels higher than this there did not seem to be a significant improvement and even an increase in inflammation as assumed by C-reactive protein. There are two things that come to mind when reading these reports. First, I know from my own experience with vitamin D that inflammation does not significantly reduce until my 25(OH)D level is above 60 ng/ml for extended periods of time. Second, there was no indication for controls on cofactors of vitamin D like magnesium, vitamin A, and age control for L-arginine levels. Yes I know that most of you think that vitamin A is not a cofactor for vitamin D, but an antagonist. The clearing of the liver from an overload of vitamin A with vitamin D deficiency is significant as the vitamin D level is increased. However, if an adequate intake of vitamin A is not maintained, then the combination of vitamin A and vitamin D for genetic expression or cellular differentiation is lost. The worry over two much vitamin A seems to be a reduction in the level of vitamin D. The combination of action of these two cofactors needs to be maintained. This is a similar case for magnesium and L-arginine.

The common headlines for these two reports were disturbing. Such as, “Too Much Vitamin D Linked to Heart Risk” –eMaxHealth, and “Vitamin D want help most COPD patients” USA Today. On the face of the headline, it is correct. But what the reports actually say and what the headlines say for the casual reader are two different things. Again, in both studies, there were positive effects found for levels improving to 20ng/ml. In the COPD study, there were 30 patients out of a total of 182 studied that had fewer exacerbations.

In the study for c-reactive protein, it was found that there was some increase with vitamin D levels higher than 20 ng/ml. It has been accepted that at higher levels of c-reactive protein that there is a stiffening of the artery walls and it has been assumed this was from inflammation. A lot of assumption – What has been discovered in the last fifteen years is that nitric oxide has a significant relaxing effect on arterial walls. There has even been a Nobel Prize awarded for this understanding. Dr. Joseph Prendergrast (not the Nobel Prize recipient, but in his words – “an uncommon doctor’) has shown in treating thousands of diabetics for heart disease that L-arginine is extremely important in combination with vitamin D. Typically a person will make about three to six grams of L-arginine per day. As we age this number is significantly reduced. Once the amount of nitric oxide is reduced because of reduced L-arginine, then the communication for the relaxation of arterial walls is also lost. Was there a control for age and L-arginine production or nitric oxide levels? Magnesium is also extremely important to heart health. Heart arrhythmia can be linked directly to low intakes of magnesium. Were there any controls for magnesium? This is a very serious issue for heart health as there is not even a standardize test that gives the clinician results to act on for magnesium.

Our medical researchers owe us better studies than what we are getting. The human body does not turn on one nutrient or another. It is always the combination that is important. Increasing any one thing without consideration for what is happening to the levels of other needs in the body is just dumb. Incompetence is only measured by the amount of money that can be generated or lost from a trusting mass market. – Pandemic Survivor

Mineral Healing for the Eyes and Heart

Posted on November 19, 2011 by Mark Pegram

I had a friend recently that was having issues with his heart. It seems that he has had a life-long problem with heart arrhythmias. He recently had an episode with his heart and had a device implanted (pace maker). I had heard that he was about to have a cardioversion, where the heart is electrically ‘shocked’ back into rhythm. He is in his late seventies or about eighty years old.

I asked him about the minerals from his diet and of course he had not given it any consideration.

“It is just one of those things with getting older,” he said. This is of course is the attitude of people about any disease when it comes to nutrition because of the structure of our government and the medical profession. If it treats a disease, by definition as declared by Congress, it is then a drug and can only be dispensed by a medical professional.

I suggested to him that perhaps he was magnesium and potassium deficient and suggested that he may take some supplements. He decided to take a magnesium glycinate supplement and drink low sodium V-8 juice to improve his available potassium. He started the Sunday before his cardioversion that was on Wednesday.

I happened to be at the hospital when he checked in and met him at the check-in desk. He pulled me aside and described the most amazing thing that had happened to him. It seems that about four months back he had developed a blind spot in his vision. He assumed that it was just from old age and perhaps the meds he was taking for his heart. He got up to read the paper on Monday morning and to his surprise there was no blind spot. We can speculate as to why, but the mineral pathways are both electrical and biological enzymatic.

There was just one bump during the cardioversion necessary to get his heart back into rhythm. I can just imagine that during the thirty years that he has suffered if all that time it was a mineral deficiency issue. Our medical profession needs to ‘wake up’ to the requirements of nutrition and stop acting just in the cause of profit. My friend, well, he is one happy guy – Pandemic Survivor

Two Eyes, Ten Fingers, and Ten Toes

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Mark Pegram

November 4, 2011 was an anniversary for me. The date represents seven years since I started taking vitamin D3. I remember well what my doctor said when I told him I was going to start taking 10,000 IU per day of vitamin D3. “Your organs will turn to stone, or at least that is what they taught me in med school.” His practice now is the leading practice in the area for helping resolve issues around vitamin D and disease. Thank you Dr. Perini. I have not grown any new fingers, eyes, or toes. My organs have not turned to stones. My body continues to heal confirming a report from the UK from the 1930’s that said: “If you take 5,000 to 10,000 IU of D3 per day, it will take four to eight years for your body to heal.”

My body continues to heal. I have overcome a failed back surgery and avoided three additional back surgeries that would have been required. I have maintained a low blood pressure even though it has spiked many times in the past. I have not had any more trouble with heart arrhythmias. My vision has improved. My skin tone has improved. I have no more “brain fog.” (which I am sure was from the sleep apnea and oxygen deprivation) The most important thing is that I have not died from severe sleep apnea. By the way, I also have not had a cold or the flu in the last seven years. Typical for me was three to four colds per year and the flu every two years.

Even though I grew three inches taller in one year as the spacing in my vertebral disc increased from healing, this is not the most amazing healing that happened to me. The most amazing thing is that I was able to rid myself of my CPAP for sleep apnea. For those that do not know, a CPAP is an air flow device that holds your airways open while you sleep. During my sleep test (nocturnal polysomnagraphy), I would breath for thirty seconds and then stop for thirty seconds. Of course the tech stopped the test after an hour because my blood oxygen saturation had dropped below seventy percent. I was close to death. The neurologist described my condition as severe obstructive sleep apnea. He was wrong; it was severe central sleep apnea from the nerves in my neck being compressed between C3-C4 from vitamin D deficiency. I was even finding myself not breathing during the day when I was wide awake. All of those issues have been resolved. I did not die from oxygen deprivation.

I like to answer the question; ‘Have there been any side effects or toxicity from taking that much vitamin D for seven years?’ Yes – Health! I also like to answer the question; ’Who was the physician that guided you through the healing process?’ – God!

I declare November 4 a vitamin D holiday. November 4, 2004 will forever be remembered as a glad day. – Pandemic Survivor

Heart Arrhythmias, Mg and Ca in Balance!

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Mark Pegram

Vitamin D3 is extremely important in the maintenance of a healthy heart. Also of importance are magnesium and its extreme importance in maintaining the ‘electrical balance’ in the heart. I know of two women that had years of heart arrhythmias and were on medications without success of solving the issue. Both of these women within a day of supplementing with magnesium discovered that the arrhythmia was gone. Two different cardiologists in two different cities were simply applying the knowledge that they had without success.

It is not like this is new information and that it is not published in the medical science. This evidence was published in 1978:

Relationship between death-rates from coronary heart disease and the average dietary calcium/magnesium ratio in several countries

Karpmannen, H., Pennanen, R. and Passinen, L. 1978. Adv. Cardiol. 25: 9-24

You may read the full paper at Magnesium Online Library and many other papers: http://www.mgwater.com/minerals.shtml

As you can see from the graph, the closer that magnesium and calcium intake are balanced, the lower the rate of death from cardiovascular heart disease. I am not sure why there is such a resistance to following the science in treating heart patients. I suspect that one of the very real issues is that there is no mainstream test to measure cellular magnesium. If you are deplete in magnesium, it can take six months to a year to raise the cellular level to a desired value with regular supplementation. However, to my knowledge there is no test to tell if you are replete at the cellular level. The importance of the cells being filled with their need for magnesium is that magnesium is the mineral of choice of the one thousand to two thousand mitochondrial bodies in each cell. The mitochondrial bodies are your energy engines that take the food you eat and convert it into energy that your body can use. That is the ADP –ATP cycle for those of you with knowledge of biology.

More importantly is the balance of magnesium and calcium. The body uses over twenty five percent of the energy produced to keep magnesium and calcium on the correct sides of cellular membranes for health. If you do not have enough magnesium, then the mitochondria cannot provide the energy you need. I suspect that most if not all sudden heart events are triggered by a need of magnesium at the cellular level. This may include sudden infant death syndrome. Since there is not a standard test for cellular magnesium, it most likely will not even be found during autopsy. If you have had a pace maker installed, be sure to ask your cardiologist about magnesium. I have nagged my wife repeatedly, a clinical chemist, to develop this test. I am sure that if it was easy she would have.

We typically get enough calcium in our diets. We do not have enough magnesium in our diets. As you can see from the graph, it is obvious that in Japan there is adequate magnesium and thus the lower rate of death from heart disease. Also the need for healthy bones is to have enough magnesium, vitamin D3, and vitamin K2 to direct the calcium to proper function. One cardiologist that has it right is Dr. William Davis that writes the popular Track Your Plaque Blog. You may read an article on magnesium from his blog here: http://www.trackyourplaque.com/blog/2010/02/magnesium-and-arrhythmia.html His inquirer had a similar experience with heart arrhythmias as the people I know. I hope that he writes more soon on how much magnesium is needed.

Until modern medicine comes up with a way to test for cellular magnesium, then you are on your own to assure your intake level is high enough. I think Krispin, a nutritionist, has it correct. Read her take on magnesium requirements and why: http://www.krispin.com/magnes.html The really good thing about magnesium is that it takes about three time more than you need to reach bowel tolerance. Magnesium is an excellent laxative. The upper side of intake is 4.5 mg of magnesium per pound of body weight per day.

It is difficult for me to believe that Japan has a death rate from heart disease that is 5 times lower than the US and the medical profession acts like it is clueless. Arrhythmias, muscle cramps, and hard stool, you need to act quickly – pandemic survivor.

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