More than seventy-five years ago, medical scientists declared magnesium to be an essential nutrient, indispensable to life. When this mineral is part of your diet, you are guarding against?and helping to alleviate?health threats such as heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, diabetes, depression, arthritis, and asthma. But while research continues to reaffirm magnesium?s irreplaceable contribution to good health, many Americans remain dangerously deficient.In The Miracle of Magnesium, Dr. Carolyn Dean, an authority on this mineral who has used it with dramatic success in her own practice, explains the vital role that magnesium plays in the control of many serious ailments?from painful muscle spasms and bladder problems to traumatic brain injury and complications of pregnancy and childbirth.