5 Benefits of Magnesium
Craving chocolate again?!
Maybe your body is deficient in magnesium!?
If you don't have enough of certain vitamins and minerals, your body will tell you in subtle symptoms like those below.
And magnesium is one of those minerals that can make or break your energy and hormone health (and GOOD NEWS: correcting your magnesium deficiency and restoring restful sleep, all-day energy, and healthy hormones is super easy).
This increasingly popular mineral plays a role in a surprising number of bodily functions, which is why you’ll want to investigate it’s role in your daily diet or supplement routine.
Read on for the top 5 benefits and some suggestions how how to increase magnesium.
It Can Help with Anxiety
Magnesium may help ease stress and anxiety thanks to the way it suppresses the release of stress hormones from the hippocampus, aka the part of the brain involved with emotions. (HPA Axis) It then reduces the release of cortisol and adrenaline from the adrenals glands, and it’s also involved in serotonin production which is the hormone that stabilizes your mood and promotes well-being and relaxation.
It Can Help With Sleep
Magnesium regulates the hormone melatonin, which guides the sleep-wake cycle (Circadian Rhythm) and helps you fall asleep and stay asleep. It also promotes the physical relaxation of your muscles by countering the effects of calcium that can tighten and contract them. Remember…Magnesium softens…Calcium hardens.
Stress and sleepless nights actually deplete your magnesium levels at a faster rate, so it becomes even more important to replenish. So if you are stressed, you’ll need this calming mineral that much more.
It Can Relieve Twitches + Cramps
We sweat out our minerals so if you are working out or if you are having hot flashes…you are likely magnesium deficient and this could lead to cramping muscles or twitching eye lids! Magnesium also plays a role in regulating muscle contractions. Just like in the heart, magnesium acts as a natural calcium blocker to help muscles relax. In your muscles, calcium binds to proteins such as troponin C and myosin. This process changes the shape of these proteins, which generates a contraction (study).
It Supports Brain Health
Magnesium also acts as the gatekeeper for the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors, which are found on your nerve cells and aid brain development, memory and learning. You can read more about that here.
It Supports Digestion
If you aren’t having a BM (Bowl Movement) at least once a day, you could be lacking magnesium due to the ‘relaxation’ or ‘calming’ impact on the muscles involved in digestion.
Note that there are many forms of Magnesium…and so working with a professional is key!
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Magnesium in Foods
Take a Magnesium Restoring Bath!
Simply add a cup of epsom salts to your bathwater along with some Lavender Essential oil and you are doing your body some good by increasing absorption of magnesium.
Easy Peasy.
