Nature Made Magnesium 250 mg Softgels 90 Ct
Great post about Magnesium
Oddly enough, but magnesium (Mg) is one of the most scarce and difficult to digest elements for humans. Even with perfect nutrition. Why? First of all, because magnesium in the form in which it is contained in food is absorbed by a person extremely poorly - either special drinking water is needed, or artificial introduction of magnesium from the outside. Therefore, most people suffer from a pronounced deficiency of this element. What is the risk of magnesium deficiency?
- Magnesium eliminates excess lipids - both cholesterol and triglycerides.
- Magnesium is absolutely necessary for normal myocardial contraction.
- It is clearly established that magnesium deficiency is an independent risk factor for coronary heart disease - coronary heart disease.
- Filling a magnesium deficiency can correct hypokalemia - potassium deficiency. Moreover, this replenishment is especially important for those who take medicines like diuretics or the so-called “proton pump inhibitors”, which deplete the reserves of both potassium and magnesium in the body.
- Magnesium reduces both ventricular and supraventricular arrhythmias.
- Magnesium is an antagonist of calcium, and therefore reduces the sympathetic (due to an excess of catecholamines) component of CVD (cardiovascular diseases), and it does this naturally, without the terrible side effects caused by the so-called “calcium channel blockers”.
- Magnesium is a vasodilator for the coronary arteries, as well as for the peripheral systemic arteries.
- Magnesium lowers catecholamine secretion, i.e. the sympathetic component of vasoconstriction.
- Magnesium inhibits platelet aggregation, reduces platelet deposition and the formation of microthrombus.
- Magnesium reduces the synthesis and release of thromboxane A2 (a by-product of cyclooxygenase), as well as 12-NETE (a product of lipoxygenase), both of which are major risk factors for CVD.
- Magnesium increases prostacyclin synthesis, i.e. is an anti-inflammatory agent.
- Magnesium increases your high density lipoprotein levels (HDL).
Why is it not suitable that the mass order is sold to the public? Because in a relatively free sale, magnesium is found in the form of asparginate (bioavailability <20%), sulfate (bioavailability <25%), citrate (bioavailability <50%), and very rarely ascorbate, and this is all worthless. (with)
With a normal diet, we often get less than 300 mg of magnesium per day. And in order to be healthy, we sometimes need 600 mg or more per day of this microcell. (c) Too little and too rarely we eat foods containing magnesium, moreover, during industrial processing even foods rich in this mineral lose it.
* This is one of the reasons why * I do not eat grain that cannot grow, i.e. already processed thermally - like fried buckwheat - or mechanically. look at the table, how much magnesium goes overboard with bran when flour is made, for this reason I eat whole wheat, germinating it:
Magnesium is in full, unrefined grains, which means in cereals, flour from unrefined grains, etc. You can repeat once again that industrial cleaning of products deprives them of their valuable and necessary part.
In agriculture, we still use artificial fertilizers, in which there are too many potassium salts, and under these conditions, the plants absorb magnesium salts worse. In quickly boiled vegetables, for example, spinach, beet-leaf tops, kohlrabi, there is also a lot of magnesium, but if you boil them for a long time and in a large amount of water, the magnesium is washed out intensively.
Our body requires approximately half as much magnesium as calcium. If there is too much calcium in relation to magnesium, we feel a lack of magnesium. Conversely, if there is too much magnesium in relation to calcium, then a lack of calcium is felt. Calcium and magnesium not absorbed by the body are excreted in the urine. If the body needs more calcium, it is necessary to take calcium powder or tablets along with magnesium in a certain proportion, for example, dolomite tablets. Below is a table of magnesium content in food (s)
Calcium absorption is adversely affected by excess phosphorus and magnesium. In these cases, the formation of absorbable forms of calcium is limited, and the resulting unassimilated forms are eliminated from the body. Optimal calcium absorption occurs
when the ratio of Ca: P as 1: 1.5 and Ca: Mg as 1: 0.7. (with)
The physiological significance and biological role of magnesium is not well understood, but its role in transmitting nervous excitement and normalizing the excitability of the nervous system is well known. Magnesium has antispastic and vasodilating properties, as well as properties to stimulate intestinal motility and increase bile secretion. There is evidence of a decrease in cholesterol levels with a “magnesium” diet. With a lack of magnesium in the kidneys develop degenerative changes with nephrotic phenomena. (with)
The attentive reader will notice that the data in the tables above diverge significantly. Unfortunately, we do not know how the calculation was carried out in the Wlododar table - for the content of the pure element or its salts, for example, calcium carbonate (CaCO3) or magnesium carbonate (MgCO3). The data given in the work of Vlodaroj are 3–4 times higher than the corresponding data for Schigiel, but the magnesium content in buckwheat is almost 3 times lower.
Of course, determining the content of different substances in food is incredibly difficult, and you should always reckon with possible errors in the analyzes, if only because the determination methods are different and the products are also (different soil, different climate, different varieties, etc. P.). That is why many medical practitioners treat this kind of tabular data as indicative. (with)
Clinical manifestations of magnesium deficiency in the body
Cardiovascular: angiospasm, arterial hypertension, myocardial dystrophy, tachycardia, arrhythmias, prolongation of the QT interval, tendency to thrombosis, development of atherosclerosis, pathological gestation (toxicosis and gestosis).
Neurological: chronic fatigue syndrome, autonomic dysfunction, loss of attention, depression, fear, anxiety, dizziness, migraine, sleep disorders, paresthesia, tetany.
Visceral (except cardiovascular): bronchospasm, laryngism, hyperkinetic diarrhea, spastic constipation, pylorospasm, nausea, vomiting, biliary dyskinesia and cholelithiasis, diffuse abdominal pain, the formation of kidney stones.
Muscle: skeletal muscle cramps. Also, magnesium deficiency adversely affects the course of pregnancy, provoking preterm labor and increasing uterine contractility.
To assess the content of magnesium in the body using various techniques:
- determination of the intracellular magnesium content in erythrocytes and mononuclear cells;
- study of the level of magnesium in the hair;
- determination of magnesium excretion with urine - load test;
- assessment of magnesium concentration in blood plasma, norm - 0.8–1.1 mmol / l. (with)
Mg ++ homeostasis is also very dependent on age - the elderly are prone to hypokalemia, and in young people the average daily need is 150 mg more - and the state of intestinal absorption: for example, magnesium levels are drastically reduced with malabsorption syndrome and diarrhea, which mainly occurs in the duodenum and proximal jejunum. Iron, calcium, phosphorus, oxalic acid, phytates and tannin, contained in strong tea, reduce the absorption of magnesium. Up to 30% of the magnesium produced from food is excreted through the kidneys. Magnesium excretion increases significantly with increasing levels of catecholamines and glucocorticosteroids. Under conditions of magnesium deficiency, its excretion through the kidneys is significantly reduced. Also significant loss of magnesium can occur with increased perspiration. (with)
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