Vitamin Supplements

Magnesium Health Merits

Hypertension Cure

Magnesium may help reduce high blood pressure. Some evidence suggests that too little magnesium in the body causes muscles in the blood vessel walls—the so-called vascular smooth muscles— to constrict. As the channels in these vessels become narrower, blood pressure tends to increase.

In ongoing studies, researchers are examining magnesium as a potential treatment for other health disorders, from osteoporosis to asthma to diabetes. To date, this research has been too limited to produce any conclusions. Read the rest of this entry »

If you eat lots of green leafy vegetables, whole grains, and legumes, you are consuming plenty of magnesium in your diet.

That’s good news, since a growing body of research suggests that an adequate amount of magnesium in your diet could promote a healthy heart, lower blood pressure, and more. Studies have shown, for example, that greater magnesium content in drinking water corresponds to a lower risk of heart disease, probably because magnesium decreases blood pressure.

Although every human cell needs magnesium, the body contains only an average of about 25 g of it. More than half of that is in the bones; the rest is in places like the teeth, the muscles, the soft tissues, and the blood. Read the rest of this entry »