Magnesium

What is Magnesium?

Magnesium is the fourth most common mineral in the human body, it is essential for health!1

Magnesium is an essential mineral and electrolyte that your body needs, but cannot produce, so a magnesium deficiency is a health issue. Since essential nutrients like magnesium aren’t produced by the body.

Magnesium in our food sources has dramatically decreased over the last 70-100 years.

Therefore, we need to supply magnesium through food.

Magnesium is an essential mineral and electrolyte that your body needs, but cannot produce, so a magnesium deficiency is a health issue. Since essential nutrients like magnesium aren’t produced by the body.

Magnesium in our food sources has dramatically decreased over the last 70-100 years.
Therefore, we need to supply magnesium through food.
magnesium
In fact, magnesium is needed for every cell function from the gut to the brain and has a critical part in over 300 biochemical functions in the body.
Optimal levels of magnesium promote calmness and relaxation for body and mind. This is because magnesium plays an important part in the function of GABA (Gamma-aminobutyric acid), which is an inhibitory neurotransmitter known to “calm” the brain and relax the body.2
In fact, magnesium is needed for every cell function from the gut to the brain and has a critical part in over 300 biochemical functions in the body.
Optimal levels of magnesium promote calmness and relaxation for body and mind. This is because magnesium plays an important part in the function of GABA (Gamma-aminobutyric acid), which is an inhibitory neurotransmitter known to “calm” the brain and relax the body.2

Magnesium and Stress Vicious Cycle

Low magnesium levels can make us more vulnerable to high levels of stress and anxiety. A heightened stress response can then cause us to lose even more magnesium through our kidneys.
The cycle of magnesium deficiency continues as a downward spiral of increasing stress and depleted magnesium levels.3

1- Al Alawi AM, Majoni SW, Falhammar H. Magnesium and Human Health: Perspectives and Research Directions. Int J Endocrinol. 2018 Apr 16;2018:9041694. doi: 10.1155/2018/9041694. PMID: 29849626; PMCID: PMC5926493.
2- Mills DJ. The Aging GABAergic System and Its Nutritional Support. J Nutr Metab. 2021 Apr 25;2021:6655064. doi: 10.1155/2021/6655064. PMID: 33986956; PMCID: PMC8093074.
3- Pickering G, Mazur A, Trousselard M, Bienkowski P, Yaltsewa N, Amessou M, Noah L, Pouteau E. Magnesium Status and Stress: The Vicious Circle Concept Revisited. Nutrients. 2020 Nov 28;12(12):3672. doi: 10.3390/nu12123672. PMID: 33260549; PMCID: PMC7761127.