 and one estimate puts these sudden deaths due to magnesium deficiency at 8 million in the US from 1940 through 1994 or about forty thousand per year. http://www.mgwater.com/calcs.shtml This is a small number compared to the estimated deaths of 350,000 per year cause by vitamin D deficiency and this may be a conservative number. http://www.sunarc.org/GrantGrassrootsHealth.pdf
Thinking about all of the people on thyroid meds, I will stop here and tell you a short ‘survivor story’ about a lady that was iodine deficient as related by Joyce Meyers on one of her ministry programs. It seems that a lady had a baby and was having a difficult time in recovering her emotional control. Several different doctors had diagnosed her with postpartum depression. She was treated accordingly without any success. She went to a doctor that was also trained in nutritional arts and during the challenge test for iodine her problems immediately went away. I can imagine that cases of postpartum depression are related to nutritional deficiencies caused by the stress of pregnancy on depletion of nutrient stores.
Our salts are inversed as we typically get about 7 to 10 grams of sodium salt and about 1.5 grams of potassium salt. These should be reversed for good health. We need about 3 to 4 times as much potassium as we do sodium.
The other thing that we do not get enough of is vitamin C. Primates and guinea pigs are the only animals that do not make their own vitamin C. If we take goats or dogs and consider the amount of vitamin C that they make each day then the average human (whatever that is) would need to have about 8 to 16 grams per day to have a similar amount for body processes.
So what we will do is look at each one of these and try to help you determine what the needs are. Certainly one of the things that has confounded scientific understanding over the years as recent research has shown is that all test and practice of modern medicine has been on a population of vitamin D deficient people. This has been particularly true of all medical and drug studies done in a sun deprived US population in the last fifty years. Was this by design for profit our just ignoring the facts as some have suggested.
Iodine, magnesium, potassium, and vitamin C are the main characters in the modern American diet that does not provide an adequate supply for our needs. And of course vitamin D and I will continue to rant about this until everyone is free of the burden of this extreme failure of our ‘medical system’.
In the mean time, live easy in the sun! – Pandemic Survivor