My dad's heart valve is "calcified". "Natural health" websites claim that magnesium supplementation can eventually break up calcification deposits in the body. Does this sound true?

Then these sites go on to say that not only can you get magnesium from green foods and supplements, but that you can get heavy doses of it from Epsom salt baths. There's been one small study done on this, but it's never been repeated.

What do open minded biochemists think? All I've seen are doctors saying since this one study hasn't been replicated, it's all baloney. And also they say the skin is pretty impermeable. Other people point out that ocean water seems therapeutic and that we potentially have genes that came from water-apes or sea-creatures. These apes may have evolved a way to take advantage of sea-chemistry. After all, sea water is loaded in magnesium.

Yes, a balance of minerals works best.

Vitamin K2 - menaquinone-7 from natto - is also said to stop calcifications.

Look at http://www.lef.org/magazine/ma...-Cancer-Aging_03.htm