Posted by JLx on June 13, 2006, at 7:44:02
In reply to megnesium glutamate, posted by linkadge on June 5, 2006, at 19:20:17
George Eby, on his website, "Rapid Recovery From Depression Using Magnesium Treatment" adamantly advises against using magnesium glutamate:
http://www.coldcure.com/html/dep.html#caution"Remember my strong admonition to "NEVER USE MAGNESIUM GLUTAMATE"? Here is why. One gram of magnesium is attached to 15 grams of glutamate to make 16 grams of chemical magnesium glutamate (more properly termed Monomagnesium di-L-glutamate tetrahydrate). That amount of glutamate is over 5 times the level considered problematic by the FASEB, and clearly a severe health hazard to us. Yet the Congress allows glutamates in dietary supplements through the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, apparently without regard to safety for us (depressives).
Glutamates are generally defined as salts of glutamic acids, and have been shown to be potent nerve toxins in laboratory cell cultures. Glutamates can cause a nerve to swell 90 seconds after contact. The mechanism for this is not entirely clear, but it is generally thought that exposure to glutamates causes a calcium influx in the nerve cell."
Eby says that magnesium aspartate is also contraindicated for depressives.
What he says there and things I've read elsewhere, such as James South's article on excitotoxins, http://www.smart-drugs.com/ias-excitotoxins.htm, has convinced me to avoid magnesium glutamate and mag aspartate.
JL
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