Why You Need to Take Magnesium

When consulting with patients, magnesium is one of the most common supplements I have patients take to start feeling better, improve physiologic function, and lower their risk for many chronic diseases. Through various chemical pathways magnesium can reduce inflammation, lower blood pressure, improve sleep, improve headaches, reduce muscle tension, and lower risk for many chronic diseases.

This diagram represents how proper magnesium levels can drastically improve cardiovascular function by increasing nitric oxide (dilates blood vessels), reducing platelet aggregation (reduces risk of clots), reducing vascular resistance (lowers blood pressure and risk of stroke and heart attack) and decreasing inflammation (prevents vascular damage and risk for stroke and heart attack).

Low levels of magnesium have been associated with a number of chronic diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, insulin resistance and type-2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, cardiovascular disease (e.g., stroke), migraine headaches, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).*

For more information on dosage and if magnesium may be able to help you, contact me.

*Gröber U, Schmidt J, Kisters K. Magnesium in Prevention and Therapy. Nutrients. 2015 Sep 23;7(9):8199-226. doi: 10.3390/nu7095388. PMID: 26404370; PMCID: PMC4586582.