If you are consuming a normal diet which has plenty of green leafy vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes and/or dairy, you will be getting plenty of calcium, but usually much less magnesium. We can even get a daily supply of our required potassium from a banana, but it’s much harder to get adequate magnesium from our food supply these days.
Drinking a magnesium mineral water also helps to absorb magnesium naturally, as the bowel can absorb a lower concentration, but high concentrations of magnesium tend to be wasted by the digestive system. Magnesium in water makes the water work better and promotes better hydration, electrolyte balance and electrical conductivity of muscle cells (including heart muscle).
Magnesium water (magnesium chloride in solution) is alkaline and structured, offering better hydration capacity, and thereby assisting circulation and detoxification. With enhanced access to tissue cells, magnesium water also takes longer to wind its way through the body and you tend to pee it out less quickly compared to demineralised water.
If your kidneys aren’t working properly you can develop hypermagnesuria, which means you excrete excessive amounts of magnesium in the urine. Diuretics are also notorious for causing excessive excretion of magnesium.
Even without a kidney problem, we can lose a lot of magnesium under stress. If you have had chemical (such as fluoride) or heavy metal exposures, they can also block magnesium in the body. For many reasons most people today are being short-changed on the magnesium necessary for optimal health and wellness, but I will explain a bit later how to absorb a larger amount of magnesium transdermally.
Part 4 to be Continued in September issue.