Some notes on Magnesium

I wrote much of this post to a friend and decided I would post it here also.

Thank you for a copy of your work on magnesium, which I just stopped reading, so I could write you about a point I'm sure you will find interesting.

Thing is I have been researching on and/off for some twenty years the nutritional values of fruit and vegetables. One of the fundamental questions I have learned to pose (asking the right questions to frame an issue is the hardest part) is does a particular fruit or vegetable need (in this case) magnesium to grow? Because if it does not andor the soil is deficient in magnesium then the fruit or vegetable will be likewise. I have read a couple of farm reports recently where the rains have been so plentiful in Kansas and South Dakota that the grass grew at an exceptional rate and did not have time to take up enough magnesium and, therefore, cause severe symptoms and even death by magnesium deficiency in cattle! Our farmers want to grow our foods really fast?

But on the larger scale I do not trust that our basic foods have in them what is professed because I cannot find any sizable amount of particulars or a body of conclusive scientific evidence that proves otherwise. My hypothesis is that the baselines of the nutrients in our foods have shifted. The baselines of the USDA nutrient analysis are improvable, scientifically, in real time and may only relate to some averages taken long ago and no longer replicable in the soils of today.

So if the soil does not have it and the plant does not need it and we do and we think its in there and its not then we really have a problem.
But now I'll resume reading--with deep appreciation of you and your work.