Life Link's Magnesium Orotate 775mg 100Tabs
About Magnesium Orotate Magnesium orotate is a mineral salt that is normally found in small amounts in all living things. Each molecule of magnesium orotate consists of two molecules of orotic acid in which a single magnesium atom replaces a pair of hydrogen atoms (one from each orotic acid molecule).Orotate (orotic acid) is a biochemical substance made by all living cells. It is a necessary raw material for making the genetic material: RNA and DNA.4Magnesium is an essential mineral that serves as a cofactor for many enzymes made in the body.1 The optimum dietary magnesium intake for humans is still being disputed. Some authorities give a range of 30 to 400 mg/day depending upon age, 2 while others believe it is more like 400 to 1000 mg/day.3Of the minerals required in large amounts by the human body, the one most likely to be deficient is magnesium.5 Various disorders have been linked to magnesium deficiencies, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, anxiety disorders, dementia, migraines and osteoporosis.1 In addition, physicians have found magnesium compounds helpful for treating asthma, chronic lung disease, and cardiac conditions such as heart attack and arrhythmias.5What we can"™t tell you In the U.S. and some other industrialized countries, government agencies like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have adopted censorship as a method for intensifying their control over supplement users and their suppliers. Thus, FDA regulations prohibit us from telling you that any of our products are effective as medical treatments, even if they are, in fact, effective.Accordingly, we will limit our discussion of magnesium orotate to a brief summary of relevant research, and let you draw your own conclusions about what medical conditions it may be effective in treating.Magnesium orotate was introduced as a supplement by Dr. Hans Nieper, the innovative German physician, 6 who used it to treat or prevent the following conditions:5, 7atherosclerosis kidney failure from diabetes or high blood pressure viral diseases heart attacks blood clots Nieper considered orotates to be superior to carbonates, chlorides, sulfates, and other anions as bioavailability enhancers for minerals like magnesium.5Hans Nieper was a controversial figure whose treatments were denounced by many in the medical profession and were targeted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration "” despite the fact that these critics had done essentially no investigation of these treatments, and despite the fact that countless thousands of Nieper"™s patients and followers found the treatments to be superbly effective.6 Nieper died in 1998, but his influence lives on.Other researchers have also studied some of the medical applications of magnesium ororate. Let"™s look briefly at these applications.Recovery from heart attacks and heart surgery A substantial number of studies have been done using magnesium orotate supplements for patients who have had heart attacks or heart surg