One of the “Core Commandments” in the ACN is: 

We do one thing, but get multiple effects/results. 

We can do this when we understand root causes, or dare I say it the “Core Concepts”.

My go to basic entry for chronic patients and indeed patients in the winter is the Maintenance 2 PLUS: Vitamin D/K2 & Magnesium Duo PLUS. 

Available now online as a “bundle”. 

Note, patients can now buy online and set up a SUBSCRIPTION for a monthly delivery and save 5%.

Remember they must pick a practitioner and once they pick you from the drop down you get 20% commission for life. 

Anyhoo, we know from previous newsletters that magnesium works for lots of the things we see regularly.

Click to re-remember 👇

But there is more to magnesium than that.

Just last week we discussed reducing your iron stores (Ferritin) down from 180 to 100, and we dropped blood pressure and glucose levels.

And magnesium can help blood sugar balance too. 

PANCREATIC BETA CELLS DON’T FUNCTION WELL WITH LOW MAGNESIUM

When the beta cells in the pancreas become deficient in magnesium, they over-excrete insulin.

This happens because low magnesium inhibits the opening of potassium ATP channels, which induces longer de-polarisation of the beta cell plasma membrane, ultimately leading to the over-secretion of insulin. This effect has been found even in healthy non-diabetic patients.

Critically, this insulin hypersecretion has been found to be more prevalent than insulin resistance and, thus, may precede insulin resistance or the development of diabetes – how mind blowing is that 🤯.

When muscle or fat cells are deficient in magnesium, this reduces the glucose transporter (GLUT4) and, thus, the normal cellular uptake of glucose into muscle and/or adipose tissue is impaired – this, of course, leads to higher blood sugar levels and thus more insulin. 

Various studies have been done over the years to see if correcting magnesium levels improves glycemic control in a meaningful way.

In 2016, a systematic review and meta-analysis was published and concluded that, “magnesium supplementation for four months significantly improves the HOMA-IR index and fasting glucose”

But let’s look at one study and get some details. 

Here is the set up:

212 patients with metabolic syndrome, specifically a bit overweight, glucose going up, LDL and triglycerides going up, but not diabetic (yet). 

383 mg of magnesium daily or placebo, re-asses in 4 months. 

The results: check the changes in fasted GLUCOSE and triglycerides, yellow before and red after at 4 months. 

These are clinically meaningful changes – if there was a drug that could do that with no real significant side-effects, it would be the next blockbuster drug. 

Placebo, nothing happening. 

Between giving blood to get your iron down and one capsule of MAGNESIUM DUO PLUS 3 times a day, we got them covered.