Fix Mitral Valve Prolapse with this ONE Mineral

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 13 April 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re going to talk about the #1 nutrient deficiency involved with mitral valve prolapse syndrome. If you have mitral valve prolapse, your heart valves are not opening and closing correctly.

Mitral valve prolapse causes floppy, leaky valves that are large and bulging. This bulging, displaced tissue is called prolapse, which leads to inefficient heart pumping.

Mitral valve prolapse symptoms include weakness, fatigue, palpitations, anxiety, and shortness of breath. It’s often described as idiopathic, which means it has no known cause. Mitral valve prolapse is generally treated with beta-blockers or a calcium channel blocker.

In a double-blind study, 141 subjects with mitral valve prolapse were compared to 40 healthy subjects. Sixty percent of the mitral valve prolapse group had magnesium deficiency compared to only 5% of the healthy subjects.

Low magnesium leads to high adrenaline. It also accelerates the aging of the fibroblast cell, which helps you make collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid. As we age, the fibroblast cell is very important for our skin, ligaments, tendons, and valves.

One of the first signs of magnesium deficiency is tetany. Surprisingly, 85% of people with mitral valve prolapse have tetany!

Don’t just rely on the RDA if you’re deficient in magnesium. Try taking 400 mg 2 to 3 times a day, working up to this amount slowly. Also, ensure you’re getting enough vitamin D. Magnesium won’t work without vitamin D!

Avoid sugar and refined carbs because they significantly decrease magnesium.

It takes years for a magnesium deficiency to show up and it can take up to a year to correct. Try magnesium glycinate to increase your magnesium levels over time.

DATA:

https://www.ajconline.org/article/S00...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3014234/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15945...

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0:00.0	If you have mitral valve prolapse syndrome, today we're going to talk about the number one nutrient
0:05.3	deficiency in this syndrome. The first question is, what is mitral valve prolapse?
0:11.0	Well, you have these valves in the heart, they're little doors that
0:13.7	opening shut and if they can close and open correctly, the motor, the pump is very
0:19.6	efficient and you feel great, everything's fine, but with a mitral valve prolapse they're kind of
0:24.5	floppy they kind of leak they're kind of large and they can bulge and this bulging is
0:30.8	called prolapse okay? Prolops is kind of a displaced tissue from the
0:36.7	normal position. So we have the valve in the wrong position. It's just not correct and from
0:42.0	that you get a lot of inefficiency of this heart pumping
0:47.4	action and this creates various symptoms like weakness fatigue pal, anxiety, shortness of breath. And if you look this
0:56.5	condition up a lot of times you'll see a word connected to it called idiopathic.
1:01.4	That basically means we don't know what causes it and this condition is usually treated with either beta blockers or a calcium channel blocker.
1:09.4	Now there's a very interesting research paper on this and so I'm going to show you what I found I'm
1:15.3	going to put those down in the description but from the American Journal of Cardiology
1:19.5	okay there was a double blunt study done and the title of this paper was clinical symptoms of mitral valve prolapse are related to hypomagnesemia.
1:31.2	See now you can use that at a party to sound really really smart. You can ask your
1:35.6	friends have you ever been checked for hypo magnissemia? Just don't mention
1:39.1	my name when you ask them that. Basically that means you have low magnesium in your blood and attenuated that means
1:46.5	lessened by magnesium supplements they had 141 subjects and they compared it to 40 people who did not have this condition and the first thing they did is they tested both groups for a magnesium deficiency and they found in the group with Mitroval ProLaps there was a 60% deficiency of
2:07.3	magnesium. Now in the Healthy Group there were only 5% of these people had a magnesium deficiency and the results were this.
2:16.1	There was a significant decrease in anxiety, weakness, shortness of breath, and palpitations, and there was also a significant decrease in
2:29.4	adrenaline.
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