Metabolic syndrome is the early stages of adult diabetes. Its also referred to as insulin resistance. When your body becomes resistant to insulin, your body must make more, which is not a good thing. Ive referred to insulin as the hormone of aging and death. Its one hormone you do not want to have much of. (I am not at all referring to type-1 or juvenile diabetes, wherein there is NO insulin produced.)
Lowering insulin resistance is in everyones interest. Heres one easy way to do it — get more magnesium.
A recent study of 4,637 young adults (ages 18-30) found that those whose diets were the richest in magnesium had a 31% reduced risk of metabolic syndrome. When they increased their magnesium intake, the risk was reduced.
This is great news! You do not need a Big Pharma chemical like glucophage (Metformin). Just a diet rich in magnesium. The richest sources of magnesium are: nuts, legumes, vegetables, and whole grains.
Just about everyone Ive treated with intravenous magnesium has benefited. Even those on magnesium supplements. Most people are so deficient in this critical mineral that oral magnesium takes time to work. Magnesium may be required to absorb itself. So if you are deficient, and most Americans are, your body can be caught in a vicious cycle of magnesium deficiency that fuels itself.
I am not encouraging you to go to your doctor for IVs (unless you are severely deficient). I am encouraging you to prevent such a need. The way to do that is keep up a continuous high intake of magnesium —for life! Do not get behind the eight ball on this one. Aside from metabolic syndrome, magnesium is one of your chief requirements for energy production, blood pressure control, heart health, pH balance, and cancer prevention.
Ref: Circulation, 2006, vol. 113.