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 Magnesium has so many varied benefits that each one of us can find a way that it can promote our health.
Magnesium helps with calcium absorption, hormonal activity, relaxation, and heart health. Read on to find how it can benefit you.
• Aids in the absorption of calcium: helps your bones and teeth
• Can relieve symptoms of PMS and menopause
• Helps stabilize the rhythm of your heart and helps prevent abnormal blood clotting in the heart, high blood pressure, and heart attacks. Can help to lower the chance of heart attacks and strokes or aid in the recovery after a heart attack or stroke.
• Helps maintain muscle function by relieving stiff muscles especially for fibromyalgia patients.
• Helps to prevent leg cramps, fatigue, insomnia, depression and migraines
• 300-400 mg needed per day
Food that include magnesium are:
• Spinach
• Dried seaweeds
• Beans (soy, black, mung, and lima beans)
• Whole grains (buckwheat, oat bran, barley, wheat flour)
• Nuts and seeds (almonds, sesame seeds, cashews, pumpkin seeds, pine nuts)
• Spirulina
• Artichoke
• Halibut
• Dark Chocolate (such as 90% chocolate)
By: Kayla Clark |