Magnesium Cuts Risk of Infant Cerebral Palsy

A study, published on August 28 in the New England Journal of Medicine, discovered that if magnesium is given to women prior to premature delivery, the chances of those babies developing cerebral palsy is greatly reduced.

Previously magnesium sulfate had been given only to prevent pre-term birth or preeclampsia, but the study showed that giving magnesium before that time is beneficial.

Each year about 8,000 infants are diagnosed with cerebral palsy, according to the article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

One part of the article that I found very interesting was that the doctors said they still don't know how it works. This is true of much of natural medicine that works but hasn't been studied in a lab. But good for the authors of the study who released this information to the public so people can begin using it now instead of waiting to find out exactly how it works.

There is precedent for this since my culture has been using chicken soup to ease many ailments for over 5000 years and only within the last 50 years did scientists test it and find out it worked!