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Healthbank Natural Health Providers Recommend Magnesium

Friday 20 January 2017, 2:05PM

By Beckie Wright

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Every organ in our body needs magnesium in order to work to its optimum. It is said that we have a massive 25g of magnesium in our bodies- that's an awful lot of one mineral. Magnesium is involved in hormone regulation, correct nerve functioning, blood-sugar regulation, brain chemical balance, cardiovascular health, stress reduction, stomach acid control, bone health and energy production to name but a few. It's important that levels of magnesium remain perfectly balanced within the body, or symptoms may appear.

 

As the consultants at Healthbank advise, magnesium is an extremely important mineral that is required for more than 300 chemical reactions in the body, supporting the proper growth and maintenance of bones, the function of nerves, muscles, and many other parts of the body. And in the stomach, magnesium helps neutralise stomach acid and moves stools through the intestine.

 

Many people take magnesium to support overall general health and in particular they may find that magnesium may support mood, relaxation and sleep, bone health, muscle tension and pain, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, PMS, high cholesterol, migraines, constipation, leg cramps and chronic fatigue syndrome.

 

Magnesium plays a vital part in the absorption of calcium for bone health as well, so if taken as a calcium supplement for bone conditions such as osteoporosis, then taking a magnesium supplement should also be considered.

 

One of the major causes of magnesium deficiency is in fact chronic stress, as the body utilises a lot of magnesium to process the cortisol released in a stress reaction. This depletes the body's magnesium reserves which means less magnesium for other bodily functions and also for the future. There comes a point where the tank is almost running on empty.

 

At Healthbank they have at least five different types of magnesium which can be ordered on their website at https://www.healthbank.co.nz/health-shop/health-bank/healthbank/magnesium .