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Does Magnesium Deter Chronic Inflammation?

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I have been reading a great deal of medical literature lately and a good deal of it concerns the effects of chronic inflammation in the human body.  The number of serious medical conditions that have their root in chronic inflammation is staggering — and the list gets longer each year.  Chronic inflammation is truly NOT our friend!  Let’s talk briefly about what I have recently learned about combating chronic inflammation and its devastating effect on our bodies.

Inflammation Root Cause of Many Diseases

If you are paying any attention at all to newspapers, magazines, television documentaries and online publications, then you are well aware that scientists have been studying the effect of inflammation on our various body systems for a long time.  What their research is finding is correlating a great many serious, and sometimes life-threatening, health conditions with the inflammatory process in the human body.  They have found that inflammation is a contributing factor to heart disease, diabetes, stroke and many more diseases that are getting more numerous each year.  Did you know that cholesterol is NOT the cause of heart disease, for example?  Scientists now believe that chronic low grade inflammation is causing changes inside the aterial walls and this could explain why there are so many people with normal or even ideal cholesterol levels that suffer from heart disease, while others with very high levels of cholesterol don’t ever develop heart disease.  Scientists conclude that medical treatments involving “statin” drugs is largely unsuccessful because the root cause is actually inflammation.

So What Do You Do?

Recently, I have read a couple of interesting articles about magnesium.  One of them was in a women’s magazine that reported magnesium deficiencies can cause symptoms like depression, fatigue and memory and other cognitive problems, to name only a few.  I also recently read a medical article that reported some research about magnesium and its inflammatory response.  This medical article reports that studies have shown, at the cellular level, magnesium actually decreases inflammation.  They used an animal model that when an inflammatory condition is produced, magnesium deficiency results.  Increasing the magnesium levels actually decreased the inflammation levels. 

Your Takeway

With an estimated 600 to 700 enzyme systems in the body that actively require magnesium to function efficiently, it makes good sense to keep your magnesium levels up to par to help your body deal with inflammatory situations that become more prone as we age.  Gum disease, along with heart disease, diabetes, Alhzheimers Disease, cancer and many more, have all been linked to chronic inflammation in the body.  You owe it to the health and well-being of your family members to achieve and maintain good oral health.  Your Periodontist in Long Island can help identify and treat chronic inflammation, gum disease and other periodontal diseases.  Call Dr. Scharf at (631)661-6633 or pay him a visit on the web at http://drscharf.com and let him tell you how he can treat gum disease with a laser instead of a scalpel.


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