Magnesium

Magnesium is one of the most abundant mineral in the body and is essential to good health. Magnesium is essential for normal function of the nervous and cardiovascular systems. However magnesium deficiency is a major problem in most of the world today.


Caused in most part through our diet. Most adults average much less than the daily intake of magnesium required. The health implications through the lack of Magnesium are extensive as magnesium is necessary for the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats and amino acids. Magnesium is essential for the functions of muscles and nerves and for the stability and growth of bones and teeth. Magnesium supplementation is in many cases under prescribed by physicians. Magnesium deficiency is common but is often not tested for, and therefore, not found or corrected. In most countries and with magnesium intake decreasing over time, due in part to modern diet, it is now marginal in the entire population.

Good sources of dietary magnesium include whole grains, nuts, peanut butter, peanut and soybean flours, green leafy vegetables and spices. However we have to come to terms with the fact that the food values of magnesium have been dropping over the last fifty years making it extremely difficult to receive all we need from foods. Magnesium supplementation is therefore required to get a guaranteed daily intake.

Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in the body and is essential to good health. About 50% of the body's magnesium is found in bone. Magnesium is the single most important mineral for maintaining proper electrical balance and aiding the smooth metabolism in the cells. Magnesium deficiency can affect neigh on every system of the body. To say that magnesium is important to ones health is an understatement as it has such a very wide area of uses critical to body functions.

When choosing a Magnesium supplement, there are two important factors to consider: the amount of elemental magnesium the supplement provides, and the type of magnesium used in the supplement (i.e. magnesium oxide, magnesium aspartate etc.).

To read more about Magnesium and the symptoms of lack of magnesium, see this article:
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