Magnesium Supplementation Part 1 - Testing for deficiency
Migraine Magic
English - February 14, 2021 18:00 - 17 minutes - 12 MBMedicine Health & Fitness Science migraine headache pain chronic vertigo nausea medication treatment trigger symptom Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week we begin our 3-part series on the how and why of Magnesium supplementation for migraine. We revisit the role of magnesium in our body's enzymatic processes, and look at several different tests for magnesium deficiency.
We discuss the serum magnesium test, the RBC and WBC magnesium tests, the cell smear test and the ionized magnesium test. We also mention some great research and further reading, and you can find the links to some fantastic resources below. Join us for part 1 of our series on magnesium!
The Magnesium Miracle - Dr. Carolyn Dean
Magnesium in the Central Nervous System - (Editors) Robert Vink and Mihai Nechifor, University of Adelaide
The Importance of magnesium in the human body: a systematic literature review - Glasdam SM et. al.; Adv Clin Chem, vol. 73, pp. 169-193
The underestimated problem of using serum magnesium measurements to exclude magnesium deficiency in adults: a health warning is needed for 'normal' results - Ismail Y et. al.; Clin Chem Laboratory, vol. 48, no 3, pp. 323-327, 2010
Deficiency in serum ionized magnesium but not total magnesium in patients with migraines. Possible role of ICa2/IMg2 ratio - Mauskop A et. al.; Headache, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 135-138, 1993.