Magnesium is a fundamental mineral for health, both mental and physical and is essential for the metabolism of cells and tissues, in particular for the nervous and muscular system.
Several studies highlight how magnesium is important for brain health as its intake also helps prevent dementia. Also fundamental for bone health, where it cooperates with the football and other minerals.
When I might be magnesium deficient?
In addition to the possibility of carrying out special tests to ascertain the lack of magnesium, it is good to evaluate the possible symptoms that highlight a deficiency.
Excessive sweating, diarrhea, vomit, pharmacological therapies that use diuretics or drugs to treat hypertension are all situations that increase the need for magnesium.
Other pathologies that often lead to a magnesium deficiency are type diabetes 2 and inflammatory bowel diseases.
It should be taken into consideration that the so-called “gastroprotectors”, used for gastric problems, and in particular for gastroesophageal reflux, determine a reduced absorption of this mineral.
What symptoms can be indicators ?
Among the most frequent symptoms we have:
- fatigue
- lack of concentration
- irritability
- cardiac arrhythmias
- muscle cramps
- sleep disorders
- kidney stones.
Magnesium or potassium?
These minerals, if there are no particular contraindications due to pathologies or certain drugs, they can be taken together, collaborating on the health of the nervous system and muscles. Magnesium is somewhat more important because it is essential for maintaining proper levels potassium.
Therefore, often, to correct a potassium deficiency, It is essential to take magnesium. Let's remember that integration, if conducted for long periods, or in people who take medications or suffer from physical problems, it must be individualized and controlled as much as possible.
Where can I find it.
The ideal integration is the one achieved with a correct diet, in which the healthful effects of the various components of foods are associated (omega 3, resveratrol, various vitamins and minerals). The foods richest in magnesium include whole grains (rice, avena, wheat, …), dried fruit (nights, almonds, …), legumes (beans, peas, lentils, …), various seeds, including pumpkin ones, but also green leaves (spinach, lettuce, green radicchio, …) and fruit, in particular prickly pears, avocado, bananas and berries.
Among the supplements, the colloidal formulation appears to be among the most easily assimilable,
These, as well as bringing greater benefits, they avoid having the intestinal problems that magnesium intake sometimes causes.