Magnesium

STRENGTH: 500 mg
FORM: 100 Tablets

It has been known for many years that minerals in the proper proportion can alleviate many of man’s current health issues. The problem is that many people today just aren’t eating the kinds of foods that supply these raw materials. Magnesium is one such mineral that is in short supply in diets all over the world, especially here is the U.S. where clinical symptoms are appearing in an ever increasing number. It has been documented that the higher the magnesium levels are inside your cells, the more apt you are to have lower blood pressure, more elastic blood vessels and less cardiac issues. Some scientists call magnesium a natural calcium-channel blocker, which helps to control blood-pressure. Magnesium has even been shown to be affective on pathologies that involve blood sugar imbalances. It makes sense because eighty percent of those that have this problem also have low intracellular magnesium. Research suggests low magnesium reduces your risk of developing type 2 diabetes by one-third, because the intake of magnesium can improve insulin utilization.

Studies show that magnesium is as important as calcium in preventing osteoporosis, it is very important for normal bone metabolism. In a study done at Tufts University researchers found high magnesium intake over time showed an increase in bone mass and less bone loss in older people. In another study it was also magnesium, not calcium, which helped prevent hip fractures in older women.

If you have ever had a migraine headache you will find the following interesting. Half of migraine sufferers have low magnesium levels in their blood, and studies show that increasing magnesium intake can reduce their duration, intensity and frequency. In those that took a balanced supplement, headache frequency dropped by almost half! Other research shows that a lack of magnesium can help alter electrical activity in the brain, causing agitated sleep and frequent awakenings in those that suffer in this manner. Taking a magnesium supplement can reduce the symptoms of pre-eclampsia, in which blood pressure soars during pregnancy which can increase the risk of spontaneous abortions and premature births again by as much as fifty percent.

Magnesium is required for hundreds of different enzymatic and systemic functions in the body. As stated, many of the pathologies that are occurring today are idiopathic in nature, which means that ‘modern’ medicine doesn’t know what causes them to occur. They fall into what is known as a sub clinical category, or an area that has not yet become a field of study, and where disease festers just under the surface as merely a ‘symptom/s’ that the modern medical model can’t categorize.

In most clinical settings a deficiency and the associated pathologies are proof enough to warrant Magnesium’s use for many of the disorders mentioned here. Common conditions such as mitral valve prolapse, migraines, attention deficit disorder, fibromyalgia, asthma and allergies have all been linked to a Magnesium deficiency. Perhaps, and not coincidentally, these conditions also tend to occur in clusters together within the same individual. A Magnesium deficiency as a root cause would provide a logical explanation of why some people suffer from a constellation of these types of problems. †

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