HOUR 2
Be Safe My Heart: Magnesium and Potassium and Heart Disease-- Carolyn Dean MD ND
Heart disease has become a dreaded condition because doctors and patients alike know it means a handful of medications and the certain knowledge that things are only going to get worse.
But what if...
HOUR 2
Be Safe My Heart: Magnesium and Potassium and Heart Disease-- Carolyn Dean MD ND
Heart disease has become a dreaded condition because doctors and patients alike know it means a handful of medications and the certain knowledge that things are only going to get worse.
But what if heart disease has a strong element of magnesium and potassium deficiency? What if you have mineral deficiency and not heart disease? After all, your doctor probably didn’t do an ionized magnesium blood test to find out how much magnesium is in your cells working away at 1,000 enzyme processes and involved with 80% of known metabolic functions.
Wouldn’t it be important to know that information? Of course, it would. But doctors have been swept up in the pharmaceutical treatment of the body and in medical school never learned about the nutrient building blocks that keep us alive. As medical students we were told that if you don’t learn something in your training, it isn’t valid!! That you could be experiencing magnesium or mineral deficiency instead of a disease is good news. That means the worst is over and a safe, effective strategy for recovery is close at hand.And, everyone can join in EVERYONE YOU KNOW can improve their heart health. Magnesium and Potassium supplementation and lifestyle changes are complimentary to any health care practitioners advice and can be added to most any cardiovascular protocol.
REMEMBER. We never advise anyone to stop their heart meds, but as your health improves, any doctor worth their salt will help wean you off toxic medication that have numerous side effects.
Where to begin –
The first thing you can do to support heart function is to saturate your body with the minerals required to meticulously beat the heart. As a medical doctor, I developed these products to improve my own cardiovascular performance when I discovered my own symptoms of magnesium and mineral deficiency. I knew that addressing my magnesium deficiencies meant I slowly must increase my magnesium supplementation until I was taking saturation doses and as I did that my symptoms began to subside. When I added ReMyte and later Pico Potassium – they were the icing on the cake!
How our food fails us
You’ve heard the famous quote from Hippocrates, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”? Unfortunately, in the year 2021, our depleted and diseased soil
and food crops do not provide us with the nutrient rich foods we enjoyed 50 years ago. This understanding is clinically supported with research:
Subclinical magnesium deficiency: a principal driver of cardiovascular disease and a public health crisis, James J. DiNicolantonio et al.
As this study points out, you can’t get enough magnesium from the foods you eat, even should you focus on magnesium-rich foods. That is why understanding the difference between magnesium maintenance and magnesium saturation is important.
According to the NIH Fact Sheet on Potassium for professionals, magnesium depletion can contribute to potassium deficiency by increasing urinary potassium losses. It can also increase the risk of cardiac arrhythmias by decreasing intracellular potassium concentrations. More than 50% of individuals with clinically significant hypokalemia might have magnesium deficiency. In people with hypomagnesemia and hypokalemia, both should be treated concurrently.
Here’s what I wrote in my Pico Potassium eBook:
Potassium is identified in the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans as a nutrient to be increased in the diet and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommendation for Adequate Intake of potassium is 4700 mg per day. To top it all off, note that a National Survey of 16,444 Americans found that 100% were not getting the estimated average requirement (EAR) of potassium. One Hundred Percent! I know a lot but I did not know the extent of the potassium deficiency in the population which makes this book and Pico Potassium very important.
As you read earlier magnesium AND potassium deficiencies are key contributing factors to heart disease. Adding essential minerals such as the ones found in ReMyte and B complex vitamins and vitamins D3 and K2 are also important for heart health.
As you start to add these essential nutrients to your health program it is important to stay appropriately hydrated. Drinking half your body weight (in pounds) in ounces of water will get you started. Adding ¼ tsp of pink Himalayan salt or Celtic salt to every liter of water will enhance your new water protocol all the more.
Magnesium and mineral saturation, combined with improved hydration are the beginning place for overall wellness and as you start to feel better, your energy will increase and your body will want to move, move, move!
As you feel the impulse for more movement coming on, low and slow is the way to go. Here are some easy movements you can do in the morning– repeat each individual exercise several times:
- Take a morning walk.
- Do some yoga stretches on your yoga mat.
- Try a few arm pushups with your hands on the bathroom sink as you contemplate the person looking across at you in the mirror.
- Fit in a few mini squats as you brush your teeth.
- Even just rising up on the balls of your feet and holding for a few seconds will help exercise your leg muscles.
- In the shower you can also do some neck stretches with the hot water running on your muscles to loosen them up.
- Practice your balance by standing on one foot at a time for a few seconds.
Eating for your heart
My Heart Health diet recommendations are very simple: avoid sugar, gluten, and non-fermented dairy. It’s a basic anti-candida/anti-yeast diet because you don’t want to feed simple sugars to your intestinal yeast.
Tonight on my LIVE YouTube broadcast, I’ll review my top 8 tips for a heart healthy diet. I will also answer your questions through our LIVE chat and mail bag.
Here are the 8 tips
- Eliminate table salt and high sodium canned and processed foods.
- Alcohol can be a trigger for many cardiovascular deficiency symptoms. So, don’t drink alcohol.
- Caffeine has a stimulating effect on the heart. Severely limit to eliminate strong caffeine drinks, especially if they are your triggers.
- Eat five servings of healthy (organic, if possible) vegetables and fruits. I generally suggest eating a maximum of two servings of fruit per day, and berries are a very good choice as they are low carb.
- Eat fermented dairy products and organic, grass fed, free range eggs, chicken, and lamb. I also eat wild caught salmon and canned tongol tuna fish.
- Eat healthy fats like coconut oil, olive oil, avocados, and so on.
- Eat small amounts of whole grains like quinoa, amaranth, millet, buckwheat, and black rice.
- Avoid glutamate, glutamic acid, and MSG as they can be cardiovascular triggers.
About Dr. Carolyn Dean
Dr Carolyn Dean MD ND has been featured on national media for over 30 years offering practical strategies to improve health, vitality, and well-being the natural way. As a medical doctor, naturopath, certified clinical nutritionist and master of many modalities including acupuncture and homeopathy, Dr. Carolyn Dean MD ND has authored over 33 books and 100 publications including The Magnesium Miracle, 3rd Edition, Hormone Balance, Future Health Now Encyclopedia and Heart Health. Please note that the information and opinions expressed on these broadcasts are not designed to constitute advice or recommendations as to any disease, ailment, or physical condition. You should not act or rely upon any information contained in these broadcasts without seeking the advice of your personal physician. If you have any questions about the information or opinions expressed during these broadcasts, please contact your doctor.
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