Davenport Chiropractic: Magnesium and Your Health
| March 13, 2011 | Posted by Dr.John under Jacksonville Beach Wellness Center |
Magnesium is one of the most important minerals in the body. It is responsible for proper enzyme activity and transmission of muscle and nerve impulses, and it aids in maintaining a proper pH balance.
It helps metabolize carbohydrates, proteins, and fats into energy. Magnesium also helps synthesize the genetic material in cells and helps to remove toxic substances, such as aluminum and ammonia, from the body.
Magnesium and calcium help keep the heart beating; magnesium relaxes the heart, and calcium activates it. A deficiency of magnesium, then, may increase the risk of heart disease. Magnesium also plays a significant role in regulating the neurotransmitters.
A deficiency can cause muscle pain, joint pain, headache, fatigue, depression, leg cramps, high blood pressure, heart disease and arrhythmia, constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, insomnia, hair loss, confusion, personality disorders, swollen gums, and loss of appetite.
High intake of calcium may reduce magnesium absorption. Simple sugars and/or stress can also deplete magnesium.
As a chiropractor and natural health doctor in Jacksonville Beach, Fl., I use magnesium as a natural sedative for restless leg syndrome and to help treat muscle spasm.
Magnesium has also been show to be helpful with anxiety, depression, insomnia, and constipation. I typically use it along with amino acids therapy and find it to be very helpful in treating these conditions.
Magnesium also helps relax constricted bronchial tubes associated with asthma and C.O.P.D..
It helps with intermittent claudication, a condition caused by a restriction of blood flow to the legs. It’s effective in relieving some of the symptoms associated with PMS, and women suffering from PMS are usually deficient in it.
New studies are validating what many nutrition-oriented physicians have known for years: a magnesium deficiency can trigger migraine headaches.
Unfortunately, dietary magnesium intake in this country is steadily declining. It has been consistently depleted in our soils and further depleted in plants by the use of potassium and phosphorus containing fertilizers, which reduce a plant’s ability to uptake magnesium.
Food processing also removes magnesium, while high-carbohydrate and high-fat diets increase the body’s need for it. Diuretic medications further deplete total body magnesium.
It is estimated that up to 60-80% of the U.S. population is deficient in magnesium. Normal dosage is 500 to 800 mg. daily. Toxicity: Too much magnesium can cause loose bowel movements. If this occurs, reduce your dose.
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As natural health care provider and chiropractic physician in Jacksonville Beach Fl, I see my job as educating, coaching, and nurturing my patients to better health and wellness.
Yours In Health,
Dr. John
www.davenportnaturalhealth.com
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