| Magnesium and Emotions |
  The Department of Family Medicine, Pomeranian Medical Academy, states that dietetic factors can play a significant role in the origin of ADHD and that magnesium deficiency can result in disruptive behaviors. Even a mild deficiency of magnesium can cause increased sensitivity to noise, nervousness, irritability, mental depression, confusion, twitching, trembling, apprehension, and insomnia. All of these signs and symptoms lead to heart ache and heart break. Dramatic changes in heart rhythm, frequency, and health patterns occur when we can shift between negative kinds of feelings like anger and hate to those of peace, love, understanding and appreciation. Negative emotions make the heartbeat look very ragged on an electrocardiograph, love and peace transform the physical heart into a much smoother beating pump, and its electromagnetic patterns are much more coherent, healthy and harmonious. It is no surprise then when we find out that the ‘beautiful metal,’ so was magnesium named by the ancient Chinese, is so effective in cardiology as well as psychology, effecting as it does directly into the heart center where it literally brings its brilliant light. Magnesium is the lamp of life and without it life simply would not exist. Doctors forget that magnesium is the element in the middle of chlorophyll that allows nature to transform light energy into chemical. Magnesium is not only the perfect medicine for cardiology but it is also the perfect medicine for psychiatry and psychology. Magnesium is the most necessary medicine for emotionally disturbed patients as it touches upon emotional, mental and even the spiritual realms of the heart. Magnesium is depleted under stressful conditions through a process called catecholamine-stimulated lipolysis. This is when fatty acids mobilize tissue magnesium to flood out of the cells into the blood serum exceeding the renal threshold and leading to increased excretion and loss of magnesium. Catecholamine secretion is suppressed in the presence of adequate magnesium levels. Magnesium deficient individuals are more prone to get caught in the high catecholamine loop and experience overdone and excessive powerful emotions which add to the feedback stress cycle. An organization named HeartMath has done research that shows emotions are reflected in our heart rhythm patterns. The analysis of Heart Rate Variability (HRV), or heart rhythms, is recognized as a powerful, non-invasive measure that reflects heart-brain interactions and autonomic nervous system dynamics, which are particularly sensitive to changes in the emotional state. New clinical research identifies HRV as a key indicator of preventable stress and shows correlation with a broad range of related health problems. Magnesium will change toxic emotional heart rhythms, which look rough, jagged and edgy on the Electro-cardiograph, into coherent, smooth and harmonious patters of healthy operation. Stress, whether physical (i.e. exertion, heat, cold, trauma - accidental or surgical, burns), or emotional (i.e. pain, anxiety, excitement or depression) and dyspnea as in asthma increase our needs for magnesium. Magnesium deficiency aggravates the development of and presence of stress. Stress, negative emotions, depression and anxiety have all been associated with the development of coronary heart disease (CHD). In multivariate models, negative emotions have predicted CHD outcomes, such as nonfatal myocardial infarction and CHD mortality. Palpitations are frequent, irregular heartbeats that can instill fear and anxiety in us. The heart beats more strongly and quickly during times of physical or emotional stress though palpitations often begin suddenly even while relaxing or in bed. This suggests an overload of the nervous system or a psychological difficulty in dealing with stress. Palpitations usually accompany panic and anxiety attacks. In severe cases, they are accompanied by dizziness, nausea and shortness of breath, and sometimes stabbing heart pains. Until I changed my diet to get more magnesium, I had heart palpitations for most of my life. I'd be sitting in a chair or resting quietly and then all of a sudden, for no obvious reason, I could start to feel my heart beat really fast. After a few minutes it would go back to normal, and then, maybe a day later or even a few hours later, it would happen again. Often it would happen when I was lying in bed at night. Panic attacks may occur after fearful, upsetting experiences, and will often be triggered from something said to us. It is very difficult to reason away panic attacks because the fear can be so great. We can reasonably assume that in the face of magnesium deficiencies panic will be greater and the fear deeper. Magnesium deficiency causes serotonin-deficiency with possible resultant aberrant behaviors, including depression suicide or irrational violence. Paul Mason Though mental disturbances have a complex matrix of causes that cuts across physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels of being - it's arguable that a significant portion of the blame for violence and depression can be laid on nutritional causes which are the easiest causes to correct. It is clear that magnesium deficiency especially plays a crucial role in the symptoms of mood disorders. Observational and experimental studies have shown an association between magnesium and aggression, anxiety, ADHD, bipolar disorder. depression and schizophrenia. Patients who had made suicide attempts (by using either
violent or nonviolent means) had significantly lower mean CSF magnesium level irrespective of the diagnosis. |
