{"id":377,"date":"2018-09-14T18:56:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T18:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/?p=377"},"modified":"2018-09-14T19:05:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T19:05:28","slug":"mother-was-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/09\/14\/mother-was-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother was Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like the author below&#8217;s mother, we love our night-time sip of Milk Of Magnesia, along with Epsom salts baths, as our supplimental Magnesium supply (or similarly effective, is a small pinch of Epsom salts in drinking water).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-381\" src=\"http:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/MilkOfMagnesia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/MilkOfMagnesia.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/MilkOfMagnesia-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/MilkOfMagnesia-768x640.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1500911\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President&#8217;s Address: Mother was Right: The Health Benefits of Milk of Magnesia<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>Extract :<\/p>\n<p id=\"__p50\" class=\"p p-last\">So what are the take home messages from this talk?<\/p>\n<ul class=\"simple\">\n<li>\n<div>1) Most patients are magnesium deficient (and most of us are someone\u2019s patient).<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>2) You know that patients are magnesium deficient if they have night cramps and should suspect that they are if they have Raynaud\u2019s and no cryoglobulinemia.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>3) Those patients who require heroic doses of potassium replacement as well as those resistant to calcium channel blockers are probably magnesium deficient.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>4) Serum levels correlate poorly with tissue levels and are often misleading.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>5) Magnesium deficiency is often causative in multifocal atrial tachycardia and polymorphous ventricular tachycardia with a prolonged QTc interval.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>6) Magnesium deficiency may be causative in atrial fibrillation and may be the reason that achieving rate control in some patients with this arrhythmia is difficult.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>7) Magnesium replacement is often effective in decreasing extra systoles and occasionally in preventing\/terminating reentrant arrhythmias.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>8) Magnesium supplementation may be effective in reducing the incidence\/severity of osteoporosis, adult-onset diabetes, hypertension, and sudden death.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>9) Sometimes mother does know best.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Full :\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1500911\/\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1500911\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the author below&#8217;s mother, we love our night-time sip of Milk Of Magnesia, along with Epsom salts baths, as our supplimental Magnesium supply (or similarly effective, is a small pinch of Epsom salts in drinking water). President&#8217;s Address: Mother was Right: The Health Benefits of Milk of Magnesia Extract : So what are the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/09\/14\/mother-was-right\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mother was Right&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}