Magical Magnesium Miracles

I’ve mentioned here before that our modern agricultural practices produce food that are lacking in minerals.

well one of those minerals is magnesium. Did you know magnesium is essential to over 700 bodily functions? That means it is pretty essential we get enough of it! Most Americans are deficient do to our high calcium intake which if taken at the improper ratio to magnesium- cancels out the magnesium we might manage to get.

Magnesium is crucial for some very important functions such as:

• the body’s ability to remove toxins and heavy metals
• produce sufficient amounts of DHEA “the master hormone”- the key hormone to anti-aging
• bone and protein production
• insulin secretion
• protection from tooth decay

Research shows that the ratio of calcium to magnesium in the paleolithic or caveman diet — the ancient diet that had evolved with our bodies — was 1:1, compared with a 5:1 to 15:1 ratio in present-day diets. With an average of ten times more calcium than magnesium in our current diet, there is no doubt about magnesium deficiency.(1)

Common conditions caused by magnesium deficiencies are: migraines, attention deficit disorder (ADD), autism (2), fibromyalgia, anxiety (3), asthma, allergies, heart disease, strokes, neurological dysfunction, cancer.

here is just a sample of improvements sufficient amounts of magnesium can bring you:

• better sleep
• cardiac health
• maintain memory function
• calm the nervous system
• improve autism
• improve pms and cramps
• control anxiety

How to take magnesium supplements?

The tricky part about magnesium is taken internally, it often causes diarrhea, which means it wouldn’t be properly absorbed. Thankfully there is a great company working for our health that provides a very pure magnesium product in a comfortable spray, gel or bath flakes that allows you to receive the essential magnesium we all need via our skin.

Since magnesium is essential to over 700 bodily functions, it is pretty essential we get enough of it! Most Americans are deficient in this crucial mineral.

References

1. Dr. Carolyn Dean M.D, N.D., The Miracle of Magnesium; Ballantine Books, New York; 2003.
2. Doctor Bernard Rimland, Ph.D. San Deigo : Autism Research Review International, 1987, Vol 1(4).
3. Hypertension. www.pubmed.gov. [Online] August 34(2) 1999. [Cited: October 30, 2007
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