Magnesium, Alternative Medicine and Science

This study also noted, "Despite numerous reports linking hypomagnesemia to chronic diabetic complications, attention to this issue is poor among clinicians." Dupuytren's Disease is also extremely high in patients with alcoholism and liver disease. This population is also well known to be low in magnesium. Association is not causation, but it turns out that a lot of people have been implicating low magnesium in many diseases for some time. And while some scientists may dismiss blog sites and popular books, it doesn't necessarily mean that the writers are wrong. The only way to move from anecdotal to scientific is by careful double-blinded studies, and that takes money. Will the much-neglected orphan, Dupuytren's Disease, turn out to be the canary in the mine for a much larger problem of insufficient magnesium in our diet? Only time and some good well-controlled studies will tell. But in the meantime, I am going to continue my magnesium supplementation. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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