Selected works of Dr. Mildred Seelig, noted magnesium
researcher and reviewer.
This is the Home Page of Dr. Mildred Seelig, donated as a
public service by Paul Mason. Dr. Seelig's forty years of
research established her as one of the world's foremost magnesium
researchers and reviewers. You can jump to any of her articles
below. For an overview of magnesium, we suggest you start with
Dr. Seelig's 1994 article, "Consequences of Magnesium
Deficiency..."
- Magnesium Deficiency in the Pathogenesis of Disease, (Link also found here) Complete Book by Dr. Mildred S. Seelig.
- Magnesium Requirements in Human
Nutrition, Magnesium Bull 3(la):26-47
- Epidemiology of Water Magnesium;
Evidence of Contributions to Health, Advances in
Magnesium Research: Nutrition and Health (in press), John
Libbey & Company
- Magnesium (Mg) Treatment or
Supplementation is Often Needed When Calcium (Ca) Intake is
Increased, Blaine Journal, January 1998
- Consequences of Magnesium Deficiency
on the Enhancement of Stress Reactions; Preventive and
Therapeutic Implications (A Review); Journal of the
American College of Nutrition, Vol 13, No. 5, 429-446
(1994)
- Interrelationship of Magnesium and
Estrogen in Cardiovascular and Bone Disorders, Eclampsia,
Migraine and Premenstrual Syndrome; Journal of the American
College of Nutrition, Vol 12, No. 4, 442-458 (1993)
- Magnesium in Oncogenesis and in
Anti-Cancer Treatment: Interaction With Minerals and
Vitamins. Adjuvant Nutrition in Cancer Treatment, Eds.
P.Quillan and R. M. Williams. Publ Cancer Treatment Research
Foundation, 1993. Chapt 15:283-318
- Reexamination of Magnesium Infusions
in Myocardial Infarction; American Journal of Cardiology
76:172-173, 1995
- Prenatal and Genetic Magnesium
Deficiency in Cardiomyopathy: Possible Vitamin and Trace
Mineral Interactions; Childhood Nutrition, F Lifshitz, ed.
Boca Raton, FL 1995, Chapt 17:197-224
- Cardiovascular Consequences of
Magnesium Deficiency and Loss: Pathogenesis, Prevalence and
Manifestations--Magnesium and Chloride Loss in Refractory
Potassium Repletion; American Journal of Cardiology
63:4G-21G, 1989.
- Review and Hypothesis: Might Patients
with the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Have Latent Tetany of
Magnesium Deficiency ; Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,
Vol. 4(2) 1998.
- New Dietary Recommendations for
Magnesium, Calcium, Phosphorus, and vitamin D: Some
Concerns
- Possible Role of Magnesium in
Disorders of the Aged Volume 3a, Modern Aging Research,
Intervention In the Aging Process, Part A: Quantitation,
Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Editors: William Regelson,
F. Marott Sinex, 1983, Alan R. Liss, Inc, New York, pages
279-305
- Magnesium Requirements in Human
Nutrition Contemporary Nutrition, January, 1982, Vol. 7 No.
1
- Comparison of Mechanism and
Functional Effects of Magnesium and Statin Pharmaceuticals Journal of the American College College of Nutrition, Vol. 23,
No. 5, 501S-505S (2004)
- Auto-Immune Complications of
D-Penicillamine—A Possible Result of Zinc and Magnesium
Depletion and of Pyridoxine Inactivation Journal of the
American College of Nutrition 1:207-214 (1982)
- Benefits and Risks of Sex
Hormone Replacement in Postmenopausal Women Journal of the
American College of Nutrition, Vol. 23, No. 5, 482S-496S
(2004)
- Is there a place for magnesium in
the treatment of acute myocardial infarction? Am Heart J
132 (Part 2):471-477 August 1996
- Viewpoint: Magnesium in acute
myocardial infarction; still an open question. Canad J
Cardiol 14:745-749 (1998)
- How best to determine
magnesium requirement: need to consider cardiotherapeutic drugs
that affect its retention. Ed. J Am Coll Nutr 16:2-4
(1997)
- How best to determine
magnesium status; a new laboratory test worth trying. Ed. Nutrition: Intl J Appl & Basic Nutr Sci April
(1997)
- Magnesium, Antioxidants
and Myocardial Infarction J Am Coll Nutr. 13:116-117
(1994)
- Magnesium in Acute
Myocardial Infarction (International Study of Infarct Survival
4) Am J Cardiology 68:1221-1222 (1991)
- Vitamin D—Risk vs
Benefit J Am Coll Nutr 2:109-110 (1983)
- Low Magnesium: A Common
Denominator in Pathologic Processes in Diabetes Mellitus,
Cardiovascular Disease and Eclampsia J Am Coll Nutr 11:608
(1992)
- Hypomagnesemia and
hypermagnesemia Clinical Nephrology, 7:147-153 (1977)
- Contribution of magnesium
deficit to human disease. Magnesium in the
environment. Soils, crops, animals & man. Chapter 3:
61-107. Division of agriculture.
- Increased magnesium need with
use of combined estrogen and calcium for osteoporosis
treatment. Magnesium Res 3:197-215.
- Early nutritional roots of cardiovascular
disease. In Nutrition and Heart Disease. Ed. HK Naito, Publ
SP Med & Sci Books, New York, pp 31-59.
- Latent tetany and anxiety, marginal magnesium deficit, and
normocalcemia. Reprinted from diseases of the nervous
system. 36, 8:461-465.
- Epidemiologic data on magnesium
deficiency-associated cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis;
consideration of risks of current recommendations for high
calcium Intake, In "Advances in Magnesium research:
Nutrition and Health." Ed. Y Rayssiguier, A. Mazur, J Durlach,
Publ John Libby & Co U.K. Proc of 9th International Symposium
on Magnesium, Vichy, France. pp 177-190.
- Effects of estrogen on tissue magnesium content; possible influence on cardiovascular and bone disease. in Proc First Intl Mg Sympos, Vittel, France, 1971, Ed J Durlach, Publ Amiot Press, 2:250-255.
- Adverse stress reactions in magnesium deficiency: Preventive and therapeutic implications. J Am Coll Nutr 11:609.
- Vitamin D and cardiovascular, renal, and brain damage in infancy and childhood. Ann NY Acad Sci. 147:537-582
- Multiple factors in the hyperlipidaemia of hypervitaminosis D. Brit Med J. 4:166.
- Are American children still getting an excess of vitamin D? Hyperreactive children at risk. Clin Pediatr 9:380-383.
- Hyper-Reactivity to vitamin D*. Medical Counterpoint, July 1970.
- Interactions of magnesium and
potassium in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease. Magnesium 3:301-314.
- Editorial foreword to Part II of
Nutrition and Cancer, Eds vanEys J, Seelig MS, Nichols BL.
Publ SP Medical & Scientific Books: pp l57-l58.
- Long-term pilot trial of D-penicillamine, minerals and
vitamins in patients with advanced Laennec's cirrhosis. Trace Substances in Environmental Health-XIII. 1979 pp
389-400.
- Magnesium deficiency with phosphate and
vitamin D excesses; role in pediatric cardiovascular
disease? Cardiovasc Med 3:637-650.
- Magnesium, potassium and
arrhythmias. J Am Coll Nutr 4:312-313.
- Magnesium treatment of myositis ossificans
progressiva: Preliminary case report. J Am Coll Nutr:
112.
- Speculations on
renal, hormonal, and metabolic aberrations in a patient with
marginal magnesium deficiency. In Magnesium in Health &
Disease, Eds M Cantin, MS Seelig, Publ Spectrum Press, NY pp
459-468.
- Amphotericin B binding of Magnesium:
Contribution of its toxicity, and therapeutic implications. Mg-Bul 3:80-84.
- Magnesium Deficiency in gestational and
Infantile Disorders. Seminar designed for practicing
nutritionists. Louisville, Kentucky -March 9-11.
- Calcium and magnesium deposits in disease,
with emphasis on arteriosclerosis, in Ed. G Berthon "Handbook on
Metal-Ligand Interactions in Biological Fluids" vol 2 (Part 4):
Chapt 5, Dekker, N.Y., N.Y., pp 914-934.
- Magnesium (and trace substance)
deficiencies in the pathogenesis of cancer. Biol Tr Element
Res 1:273-297.
- Magnesium
metabolism and perturbations in the elderly. Klumer Academic
Publishers. Geriatric Nephrology and Urology. 4: 101-111.
- Electrocardiographic patterns of
magnesium depletion appearing in alcoholic heart disease.
Ann NY Acad Sci 162:906-917
- Pilot study of D-penicillamine, vitamins and
minerals in multiple sclerosis. J Clin Psychiatry 39:170-174
- Do Trace Elements,
Magnesium and Anti-Oxidants Protect Against D-Penicillamine
Toxicity? Trace Substances in Environmental Health-XI. 1977.
pp. 243-251.
- Lipids and magnesium deficit. Ibid, 515-522.
- Overview: Recognizing the problem of
magnesium deficiency. In Trace Substances in Environmental
Health - XXII, pp. 111-127.
- Prenatal and neonatal mineral
deficiencies: magnesium, zinc and chromium. In Pediatric
Nutrition. Ed F Lifshitz, Publ Marcel Dekker, NY, NY, pp
167-196.
- Nutritional status and requirements of
magnesium, with consideration of individual differences and
prevention of cardiovascular disease. Magnesium Bull
- Myocardial loss of functional magnesium.
I. Effect on mitochondrial integrity and potassium
retention. In "Recent Advances in Studies on Cardiac
Structure and Metabolism" 1, Eds E Bajusz & G Rona,
1970/1972, 615-625.
- Myocardial loss of functional magnesium. II.
In cardiomyopathies of different etiology. Ibid, In "Recent
Advances in Studies on Cardiac Structure and Metabolism" 1, Eds E
Bajusz & G Rona, 1970/1972, 626-63.
- Introductory Comments Nutritional and
metabolic factors in early and later life contributing to acute
and chronic disease. In Nutritional Imbalances in Infant and
Adult Disease, Ed MS Seelig, SP Books, NY. (Proc of 16th Annual
Meeting of the Am Coll Nutr, 1975).
- Magnesium and the Arteries: I.
Effects of magnesium deficiency on arteries and on retention of
sodium, potassium, and calcium. In Magnesium in Health &
Disease, Eds M Cantin, MS Seelig, Publ Spectrum Press, NY pp
605-638.
- Magnesium and the arteries: II.
Physiologic effects of electrolyte abnormalities on arterial
resistance. Ibid, pp 639-657.
- Influence of parenteral administration of magnesium sulfate
to normal pregnant and to preeclamptic women. Ibid, pp
839-848.
- Nutritional roots of combined system
disorders. In Pediatric Nutrition. Ed F Lifshitz, Publ
Marcel Dekker, NY, NY, pp 327-351
- Interrelations between magnesium and calcium,
in Ed G Berthon "Handbook on Metal-Ligand Interactions in
Biological Fluids" vol 1 (Part 2): Chapt 4, pp 273-286.
- Can one
really measure magnesium deficiency using the short-term
magnesium loading test? J of Int Medicine 246:373-378
- The requirement of magnesium by the
normal adult. Am J Clin Nutr 14:342-390.
- Interrelationship of magnesium and
congestive heart failure. Wien Med Wschr 150:335-341.
- Prenatal and neonatal mineral
deficiencies: Magnesium, zinc, and chromium. In "Childhood
Nutrition" pp 67-196.
- Multiple factors in
the hyperlipidaemia of hypervitaminosis D. Brit Med J.
4:166.
- List of Magnesium Publications
authored by Dr. Mildred Seelig.
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Most recent update January 10, 2012.
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