Balance Your Magnesium with Calcium, Vitamin K2 and D

One of the major benefits of getting your nutrients from a varied whole food diet is that you’re far less likely to end up with too much of one nutrient at the expense of others. Foods in general contain all the cofactors and needed co-nutrients in the proper amounts for optimal health, which takes out the guess work. When you’re using supplements, you need to become a bit more savvy about how nutrients influence and synergistically affect each other.

For example, it’s important to maintain the proper balance between magnesium, calcium, vitamin K2, and vitamin D. Lack of balance between these nutrients is why calcium supplements have become associated with increased risk of heart attacks and stroke, and why some people experience vitamin D toxicity.

Part of the explanation for these adverse side effects is that vitamin K2 keeps calcium in its appropriate place. If you’re K2 deficient, added calcium can cause more problems than it solves, by accumulating in the wrong places. Similarly, if you opt for oral vitamin D, you need to also consume it in your food or take supplemental vitamin K2. Taking mega doses of vitamin D supplements without sufficient amounts of K2 can lead to vitamin D toxicity symptoms, which includes inappropriate calcification.

While the ideal or optimal ratios between vitamin D and vitamin K2 have yet to be elucidated, Dr. Kate Rheaume-Bleue (whom I’ve interviewed on this topic) suggests that for every 1,000 IU’s of vitamin D you take, you may benefit from about 100 micrograms of K2, and perhaps as much as 150-200 micrograms (mcg). The latest vitamin D dosing recommendations, which call for about 8,000 IU’s of vitamin D3 per day if you’re an adult, means you’d need in the neighborhood of 800 to 1,000 micrograms (0.8 to 1 milligram/mg) of vitamin K2.

Now, getting back to magnesium…

Magnesium may actually be more important than calcium if you are going to consider supplementing. However, maintaining an appropriate calcium-to-magnesium ratio is important regardless. Research on the paleolithic or caveman diet has shown that the ratio of calcium to magnesium in the diet that our bodies evolved to eat is 1-to-1⁶. Americans in general tend to have a higher calcium-to-magnesium ratio in their diet, averaging about 3.5-to-1.

Magnesium will also help keep calcium in your cells so they can do their  job better. In many ways it serves as nutritional version of the highly effective class of drugs called calcium channel blockers, used in the treatment of high blood pressure, angina, and abnormal heart rhythms. Magnesium and vitamin K2 also complement each other, as magnesium helps lower blood pressure, which is an important component of heart disease.

So, all in all, anytime you’re taking any of the following: magnesium, calcium, vitamin D3 or vitamin K2, you need to take all the others into consideration as well, since these all work synergistically with each other.

SOURCE EXERPT

 

Solar radiation and vitamin d: mitigating environmental factors in autoimmune disease

Department of Family Medicine, University of Alberta, Suite No. 301, 9509-156 Street, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2M7.

Abstract

This paper looks at the environmental role of vitamin D and solar radiation as risk reduction factors in autoimmune disease. Five diseases are considered: multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmune disease of the thyroid, and inflammatory bowel disease. Clinical relevant studies and factors that may indicate evidence that autoimmune disease is a vitamin D-sensitive disease are presented. Studies that have resulted in prevention or amelioration of some autoimmune disease are discussed. An example of the utility of supplementing vitamin D in an unusual autoimmune disease, idiopathic thrombocytic purpura, is presented.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3317188/?tool=pubmed

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„Doi fizicieni germani Grazyana Fosar şi Franz Bludorf au sintetizat calităţile excepţionale ale moleculei ADN într-un articol intitulat „Cipul biologic din celulele noastre”. http://www.fosar-bludorf.com/archiv/biochip_eng.htm

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„S-a demonstrat experimental faptul că organismul uman se încarcă cu lumina pe care o ia din mediu şi la rândul său poate emite lumină. Evident se poate observa o scădere semnificativă a emisiei de lumină a organismelor aflate în întuneric. Există ceva în interiorul nostru care are capacitatea de-a stoca energia luminoasă. Există evidenţe care probează faptul că, alături de alimente, o parte din hrana zilnică o reprezintă hrana din energia luminoasă. „

Acest fapt nu este o noutate decât pentru lumea modernă, căci textele vechi, în special cele chineze menţionează faptul că punctele de acupunctură sunt adevărate lacuri de lumină. Acum este binecunoscut faptul că molecula de ADN este cea responsabilă de emisia de biofotoni.

„Forma de dublu-helix face din această moleculă gigantă o antenă electromagnetică ideală. Fiind lungă are proprietatea unei antene în formă de lamă care poate prelua foarte bine impulsurile electrice, iar privită de sus, are forma de inel, ceea ce-i conferă proprietăţi excelente de antenă magnetică.

Ce se întâmplă cu energia electromagnetică pe care o înmagazinează celula ADN ? Este stocată destul de uşor în moleculă menţinând molecula în oscilaţie. Din punct de vedere fizic un astfel de sistem se numeşte sistem oscilator armonic. Cu timpul un astfel de sistem îşi pierde progresiv energia, fapt observabil în întuneric. Se poate aprecia capacitatea de stocare a energiei luminoase prin măsurarea timpului de emisie de lumină. Această emisie de lumină pe unitatea de timp se numeşte rezonanţă. Emisia se face cu un multiplu constant de oscilaţii ceea ce a dus la ideea că ADN-ul se comportă ca un superconductor organic. ” (T.V.M.)

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