You will notice that places where you have had an injury, that even after the area has healed you may still have some aggregation of calcium crystals causing stiffness, tightness, arthritis or gristly texture in joints and ligaments.
This is more likely to happen when magnesium levels and pH are still too low.
ATP Electrical Energy and Heart Muscle Arrhythmia
The cell membrane is made up of a phospholipid bi-layer with protein channels, held together by magnesium ions. The membranes also store our ATP (adenosine triphosphate) energy currency ‘batteries’, of which magnesium is an integrated part. Magnesium has a primary role in the production of ATP by our mitochondria. If magnesium and ATP drops, the cell voltage and energy supply drops and we unplug from our main power source. This interferes with the rate of healing and calming down of inflammation.
If you are not able to make enough ATP you will also have trouble pushing the calcium back out into the sarcoplasmic reticulum, your membranes can stay leaky and depolarised too long and too much sodium can get in to overstimulate cells and nerves. This means you have the sodium revving you up too much, and the calcium hardening and contracting too much.
Not only is magnesium essential in the production of ATP, but magnesium also protects mitochondria in ischemic conditions of angina and acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
“The anaerobic metabolism leads to intracellular acidosis and an increase in mitochondrial uptake of calcium, which further inhibits ATP synthesis. Calcium overload is central in ischemic myocardial cell death. Magnesium administration may provide cellular protection during ischemia.”[4]
If mitochondria are damaged or we can’t make enough ATP, it means we can have an energy crisis. This directly effects our electrical supply, cell voltage and conductance, thereby lowering pH and increasing the risk of inflammation and disease.
Hypomagnesemia (magnesium deficiency) is associated with an increase in heart rhythm disturbances such as tachycardia (erratic fast beat) and fibrillation (shaky vibration) either in the atrium or the lower heart chamber called the left and right ventricles.