Magnesium is essential for all human cells. It’s absorbed better in the body by drinking water. Indeed, In the modern-day world, intake of dietary magnesium is often lower than the recommended dietary amounts (6 mg/kg/day) (Durlach J., 1989). Epidemiologic studies in the United States, Canada, South Africa, Finland , and Sweden have shown an inverse correlation between magnesium in drinking water and mortality from ischemic heart disease (Rubenowitz, 1996).
Hi... Adding magnesium to the water source could have other outcomes as this could trigger growth of unwanted organisms... Instead, you could think of introducing the magnesium into drinking water filters some how... This would introduce the magnesium into the water that is ready for consumption and also prevent unwanted changes in water quality... I hope this is helpful to you... You could do this by stacking a broken form of the magnesium supplements in between two layers of filter medium to prevent the particles from entering the water directly...
Hello Dominique...I would like to know how magnesium could trigger growth of unwanted organisms.
Minerals of any kind help as nutrients in the growth of organisms and magnesium is a dissolved source of nutrients. If it helps us, it helps the other organisms as well and we need to be careful about this... :-)
How about the fluoride? Fluoridation has been done in some water supply to prevent decay. It helps us.
An inverse relation between low concentration of magnesium and death from cardiovascular disease has been observed. Magnesium deficiency is dangerous for health. I think we could evaluate the pros and cons.
I think if you could follow treatment of the drinking water without the source water magnesium treatment, this would be very helpful to you and the community. As far as fluoride is concerned, we need to look into this and see if there is a better solution to the problem of preventing decay. I will get back to you on this in a while...
The most common source of magnesium is the nutrition and not the drinking water. The chlorophyll of green vegetables contains about 2%. Therefore you do not need to add magnesium to the drinking water. In Northern Germany the drinking water have contents of magnesium from 0,5 mg/l to 3,2 mg/l. How many water is needed to get daily intake of 300 mg of magnesium.
Hello Ingo, waterborne magnesium has been suggested as a supplemental source of highly bioavailable magnesium. Experimental studies have shown that waterborne magnesium is absorbed about 30 percent better and faster than dietary magnesium (Lowick MR., 1982 et Binnerts WT., 1983)
Please receive this paper about magnesium in drinking water and ischemic heart disease.
Hello Ingo, I would like to have more information about chlorophyll of green vegetables. I am working on the relationship between water hardness and cardiovascular disease in my country. I am interested about your reply. I'd like to know more.
Hello Yanick, I have read your attached paper. It is true that high doses of magnesium decreased the cases of death given after heart attacks. But in the case of the given correlation between the amount of magnesium in drinking water and cardiovascular diseases the paper don´t say something about the composition of the remaining ionic parts in the examined drinking water. The water hardness is not the only parameter which may controle cardiovascular diseases. Therefore several other parameters must be considered. First is the intake of magnesium with the nutrition. I have attached a text file with some amounts in different nutritions. Second ist the part of the quality of the drinking water. For example: in Island and Southern Germany the amount of magnesium is higher because of the influence of the geological bachground. In that regions also the amount of havy metalls are very high. Thirdly in mountainous regions the amount of magnesium is higher but the action of the living people there is much better. On this reason the cardiovascular disease are diminished.
Hello Ingo, I thank you for your poster reply. I didn't find the text file that you have attached. I am interested about it. You have mentioned in mountainous regions the amount of magnesium is higher. However, my country which is tropical and mountainous, the amount of magnesium is low. I wonder if that’s lead to the temperature. I would like having your opinion about that. If you have paper about that can you please send it to me?
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