Arrhythmia and Magnesium Supplements

Posted By Mary on October 17, 1998 at 17:54:45:







I have just read an interesting article by a clinical nutritionist stating that within the next twelve months the USDA will be changing the recommended dietary allowance for magnesium to 750 mg. per day.  Also stated that blood tests for magnesium deficiency are irrelevant and unusable because they do not reflect total body magnesium level.  'Magnesium levels of bone and intracellular levels of magnesium are what tell the true status of TBM'.  Deficiency (from low dietary intake or excess loss) is clinically associated with ARRHYTHMIA I quote further:  Magnesium is available in chelated (bound to) combinations such as alpha-ketogluconate, aspartate, glycinate, lysinate, orotate, taurate and others.  Inorganic or ionic magnesiums include sulphate, oxide, citrate, carbonate, bicarbonate and chloride.  Ionized magnesium in not an acceptable form of oral magnesium supplementation.
The recommended form is magnesium GLYCINATE.
Could you comment please on the effectiveness of magnesium and PVC's.  Mary