A Magnesium Supplement Is Vital
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Most of us are aware that we need calcium.
However, you may not know that calcium will not be as effective with adequate magnesium. Magnesium helps in the absorption of calcium and the formation of bone.
Calcium helps muscles to contract while magnesium helps muscles to relax. Therefore, magnesium is helpful for muscle spasms, menstrual cramps, tension headaches, migraine headaches, constipation, and irritable bowel syndrome.
Magnesium is used as a catalyst with many enzymes for cellular energy production. Magnesium is also used to produce nucleic acids (RNA and DNA) and proteins.
Magnesium helps to maintain blood sugar levels by assisting insulin. Therefore, magnesium would be beneficial for diabetics.
Your body uses magnesium with other minerals to maintain proper pH balance within your body. Many metabolic reactions can not take place if your body is too acid or too alkaline.
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vitamin B6 supplement with your magnesium supplement has been shown to be beneficial for individuals with autism. This combination is also useful for dissolving calcium phosphate kidney stones and for preventing calcium oxalate kidney stones. Also, these two supplements are useful for relieving most symptoms of premenstrual syndrome.
Many heart conditions have been associated with inadequate levels of this mineral. These conditions include angina, arrhythmias, hypertension, heart failure, coronary artery disease, and mitral valve prolapse.
Magnesium supplementation has also been shown to be helpful in other conditions, such as asthma, preeclampsia, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue syndrome.
Symptoms of magnesium deficiency include anxiety, depression, fatigue, insomnia, noise hypersensitivity, muscle spasms and cramps, nausea, constipation, tremors, confusion, weakness and seizures.
Certain medications can lower levels of magnesium, such as antibiotics, birth control pills, and diuretics. Chronic stress also lowers these levels whether the stress is physical or emotional. In addition, alcohol lowers magnesium levels.
Good sources of magnesium are dairy products, milk, meat, fish, seafood, whole grains, fruits and vegetables. This list just about covers most foods!
However, foods that are high in oxalic acid will inhibit the absorption of magnesium. Rhubarb, spinach, beets contain significant amounts of oxalic acid.
Magnesium is much more easily absorbed and more bioavailable if it is chelated or attached to an amino acid, or to an intermediate from the Krebs cycle, such as malate and citrate.
Also, organic minerals from fruits, vegetables, and herbs are readily used by your body.
Inorganic forms of minerals are attached to chemicals, such as carbonates, chlorides or oxides. The inorganic minerals are hardly absorbed and utilized by your body. Then, your body needs to expend extraordinary amounts of energy and nutrients to rid your body of these inorganic minerals.
Excess magnesium results in diarrhea.
Your physician can obtain a simple blood sample to test your magnesium levels. However, your cells can still be low in this mineral even if the blood test is normal. An intracellular magnesium screening test is much more accurate.
The usual dose of a magnesium supplement is about 200-500 mg per day for adults. Children with autism should take about 200-250 mg per day with vitamin B6 supplementation.
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