Welcome to my new site presenting nutritional information to support your health and well being. My recommendations are based on over 40 years of research and clinical experience. They are intended to support you, your family and your friends' optimal health.

While there is a great deal of information available on health and nutrition, I believe the information I present here to be largely overlooked. From my unique perspective of seeing patients over a period of years and having the opportunity to observe the effects of nutritional habits on their overall state of health and gum tissue health on an ongoing basis, I have made some startling observations!

The correct balance of Calcium and Magnesium in the body plays a crucial role in our health. What's more, I have found the contemporary American diet has created an injurious calcium / magnesium imbalance of epidemic proportion! Please review the Symptoms of Calcium / Magnesium Imbalance in the following pages and consider the possibility of your body's Calcium / Magnesium balance.

At an almost epidemic rate we are seeing mature women (especially) who are suffering from some or all of these symptoms: leg cramps, joint stiffness and pain, arthritis, nighttime sleeplessness, night time urination, unexplained heart palpitations, low energy and fatigue, and more of magnesium deficiency symptoms (you can check these out at website, (www.drbobrothan.com).

Today, in our typical refined food diet, statistics and my personal clinical experience, tells me that almost 70% of our people are already magnesium deficient! Taking large doses of calcium without magnesium makes the deficiency many times worse, which promotes heart disease, diabetes, major pain from muscle spasms , cramps, and osteoarthritis, and more.

For more verification of what we say, go to the internet and read the mountains of research done by Paul Mason on www.mgwater.com , and the book, The Magnesium Miracle by Carolyn Dean, MD., ND.

Source: IAN REED, MD, is professor of medicine and endocrinology, University of Auckland, New Zealand, and author of a study of 1,471 postmenopausal women, published in British Medical Journal.

Women ages 55 and older who took 1000 mg of calcium daily were 50% to 70% more likely to have heart attacks over five years than women taking placebos. Men were not studied.

Our comment on this study: you will note that this study was done with a very absorbable source of calcium and NO MAGNESIUM, THEREFORE A TREMENDOUS MAGNESIUM DEFICIENCY WAS CREATED!

1. Calcium and phosphorus without adequate levels of magnesium form hard salt deposits in the body!
   Potential results: heart disease, strokes, osteoarthritis, kidney stones, calcium deposits anywhere in the body.
2. Calcium causes muscles to contract, magnesium causes muscles to relax.
   Potential results: Heart attack, unexplained heart palpitations, strokes, various types of muscle spasms, menstrual cramps, athletic muscle cramps and heart symptoms, constipation, twitching eyes and facial muscles, TM Joint problems, headaches, high blood pressure, physical pain and inflammation.
3. Magnesium must be present for all energy release in the body!
   Potential contributing effects: low energy, tiredness, fatigue, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome.
4. Additional important facts about magnesium deficiency: magnesium deficiency promotes dry mouth and lack of saliva promotes serious tooth decay, and the lack of magnesium promotes poor sleep and night time urination. Magnesium is needed for over 300 different enzyme reactions.
5. If you don’t remember dreaming when you wake up you are most likely Vitamin B-6 deficient! Vitamin B-6 is important for the absorption and utilization of magnesium!
   Potential results: poor digestion, lack of stomach acid which results in poor mineral absorption of calcium, magnesium, iron, etc, poor digestion of protein (the body’s building block), inadequate breakdown of protein can promote allergies, and SURPRISINGLY the lack of natural stomach acid can result in “acid indigestion” and acid reflux! You read this right!
6. The body will always do what it must do to maintain a 7.4 pH (slightly alkaline) of the blood because that i s what it needs to maintain crucial enzyme reactions!
   Potential results: if the fluids in your body are too acidic due to soda pop, sugar, caffeine, refined foods, white flour, alcohol, tobacco, drugs, lack of pure water, unforgiveness, then the blood must take calcium and magnesium from wherever it can get it (the bones, the muscles, the heart, the joints).

The Whole Story: Balancing Calcium & Magnesium in Your Body:

• Clinical Symptoms of Magnesium Shortage
• Causes of Magnesium Deficiency
• Avoid the Mineral Deficiency that Brings Pain, Fatigue and the Diseases of Old Age
• Preventing Magnesium Deficiency When Taking Calcium and Magnesium
• Best Sources of Magnesium
• Food Sources of Minerals

Clinical Symptoms of Magnesium Shortage- Read More: NEXT >

This presentation, "Pain, Cramps, Arthritis, Heart Palpitations and
How to Reduce these Through Balancing Magnesium and Calcium" is also available in CD format.
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Listen to the 9 min. introductory sample: