Continuous atrial fibrillation is more advanced and harder to deal with than intermittent atrial fib. You may want to consider a consultation with Dr. Sircus to determine what would best help you. But the magnesium is crucial and any type of digestive problem can affect absorption of magnesium from the gut.

Also, please note that magnesium sulfate which you are using in baths will not have the same effect as magcnesium chloride will. It has been shown by magnesium researcher Jean Durlach, that magnesium chloride’s effects last longer in the body than does magnesium sulfate which tends to be much more rapidly excreted. So for sustained effect switch to magnesium chloride.

Please see Dr. Sircus’ essay on magnesium chloride vs magnesium sulfate: http://magnesiumforlife.com/product-information/magnesium-chloride-vs-magnesium-sulfate/

When you start to notice an episode of atrial fibrillation immediately apply magnesium oil to your body, your arms and chest. You can also put a large amount in a bath and in a few minutes you should feel your heart rate return to normal. Also use it daily as a body spray to help bring up levels in your body. We do not recommend oral supplements though you can spray some magnesium oil into your glass of drinking water each day. put in 5-10 sprays, to your tolerance.

The IMVA definitely is biased……toward natural, least harmful, and most affordable remedies for illness which most often happen to be non-pharmaceutical drugs.

Here is a short exerpt from William Falloon’s article The Lethal Impact of Flawed Government posted in Life Extension Magazine. Hopefully this will help to resolve your confusion of my statement on the Cochrane Reviews. http://www.lef.org/featured-articles/Pharmaceutical-Profit-Big-Government-Bias-The-Plan-to-Destroy-Access-to-Dietary-Supplements.htm.

“Dietary supplement safety is an important topic. In what may be a revelation to a variety of misinformed, though vocal, media pundits and Internet personalities, the FDA’s post-marketing responsibilities include monitoring safety (adverse event reporting, product labeling, claims, package inserts, and accompanying literature), and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulates dietary supplement advertising.3

The most recent peer-reviewed, published article on the topic of dietary supplement safety that achieved dramatic, widespread media attention appeared in 2008, a Cochrane Database meta-analysis,4 which was essentially an updated version of a review that originally appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2007.5

While 67 clinical trials were included in the 2008 Cochrane Database meta-analysis of dietary supplement studies that suggested an increased mortality risk, most people were not aware that 748 trials were excluded from the analysis, including 405 studies with no reports of death in study subjects ingesting dietary supplements.

Of interest, a critical study co-author of the 2008 Cochrane Database meta-analysis has close financial and professional ties with the pharmaceutical industry as an Ambassador and Member of BioLogue’s Scientific Advisory Board,6 closely associated with the Danish Pharma Consortium,7 including pharmaceutical companies such as AstraZeneca Denmark. BioLogue’s Steering Committee members include representatives of the Danish Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry.8″

You might also read Dr. Rath’s opinion of the Cochrane Reviews: http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/PHARMACEUTICAL_BUSINESS/cochrane_20080514.html

Please remember when reading this Cochrane Report, that these people doing the reviews are most likely not unbiased. I would say they are strongly biased toward pharmaceutical use, which is evident in their final conclusions recommending “Other effective treatments (aspirin, beta-blockers) should be used to treat heart attack.” We have enough evidience in the magnesium books to contradict this review. Not to mention that the studies considered in this review are most likely flawed or biased toward pharmaceutical drugs too.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/o/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD002755/frame.html

This is the latest research on the effectiveness of magnesium on coronary artery disease. Please read before you make a decision.

Taking magnesium by oral means is frequently not effective, mainly due to problems in absorption. If you use magnesium oil, you will bypass these kinds of absorption issues. Taking magnesium orally usually only results in 30-40% of the magnesium being absorbed. Please read Dr. Sircus’ essay on using magnesium transdermally

Purchase some magnesium oil from LL’s Magnetic Clay and I’ll bet you feel the difference right away!
Sincerely,

Claudia French
IMVA