The High Heart Health Value of Drinking-Water Magnesium
Andrea Rosanoff

Center for Magnesium Education & Research, Faculty Affiliate, College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management, University of Hawaii, Hilo, United States

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Abstract

Universal drinking water and beverages containing moderate to high levels of magnesium (10–100 ppm) could potentially prevent 4.5 million heart disease and stroke deaths per year, worldwide. This potential is calculated with 2010 global mortality figures combined with a recent quantification of water-magnesium’s inverse association with heart disease and stroke mortality. The modern processed food diet, low in magnesium and spreading globally, makes this well-researched potential of drinking-water magnesium worth serious consideration, especially in areas where insufficient dietary intake of magnesium is prevalent.

Note from Paul the Mg Librarian: 4.5 million deaths per annum from Mg-deficient drinking water would be 450,000,000 deaths over the next 100 years. By comparison, in the previous century only about 200,000,000 died from wars.