Magnesium in Human Health and Disease (Nutrition and Health) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1493962906 ISBN 13: 9781493962907

Publisher: Humana, 2016

Synopsis

This book provides current research on the potential benefits or lack thereof for normal and high supplementation with magnesium, and provides new results that suggests how levels above the recommended intakes can promote health and treat various diseases.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Magnesium is an essential mineral which is required for growth and survival of humans. Since magnesium is a mineral and not synthesizable it must be obtained through dietary foods and/or supplements. Magnesium in Human Health and Disease reviews the benefits of magnesium supplementation to reach recommended intakes as well as provides new research that suggests how reaching levels above the recommended intakes can promote health and treat various diseases. Magnesium deficiency can cause low serum potassium and calcium levels, retention of sodium, and low circulating levels of regulatory hormones. These changes in nutrients cause neurological and muscular symptoms such as tremor and muscle spasms. Further magnesium deficiency causes loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, personality changes and death from heart failure. Causes of magnesium deficiency include alcohol abuse, poorly controlled diabetes, excessive or chronic vomiting and/or diarrhea. Thus the effects of inadequate and deficient intakes or levels of magnesium is critical to health and are reviewed by the expert clinicians in this book. Magnesium in Human Health and Disease provides the most current research to support the potential benefits or lack thereof for normal and high supplementation with magnesium.  Animal model research and early human trials are reviewed to document other disease states such as hypertension, cholesterol level, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease that would benefit from increased magnesium.

About the Author:

Dr. Larson and Dr. Watson have worked together researching the role of immune and cytokine dysfunction in heart disease for 8 years. They have been and currently are funded to do such research by grants from the U.S. National Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood, the American Heart Foundation, companies and private foundations. Dr. Watson has edited 62 scientific books, including several dealing with heart disease and conditions such as aging and AIDS that promote immune dysfunction as well as heart disease. Dr. Larson directs the Center's organ perfusion program as well as its Master degree in pharmacology and toxicology for perfusion students.

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Ronald Ross Watson Ph.D.

Professor Health Promotion Sciences, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and the Sarver Heart Center in the School of Medicine, University of Arizona, P. O. Box 245155, 1501 N. Campbell Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85749.

(520) 626 2850, Fax (520) 626 6093 rwatson@u.arizona.edu

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Douglas F. Larson Ph.D.

Professor Surgery and the Sarver Heart Center in the School of Medicine, University of Arizona, P. O. Box 245066, 1501 N. Campbell Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85749. (520) 626 6494 dflarson@email.arizona.edu

Preedy, Reader, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Kings College Hospital.

About this edition

• Publisher: Humana
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1493962906
• ISBN 13: 9781493962907
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 329
• Editor: Watson Ronald Ross, Preedy Victor R., Zibadi Sherma