Recovery from stress, pain and inflammation are an indicator of health status. If you are struggling with these issues without resolution, then something is very wrong. This article is about the extraordinary power of magnesium to drive our electrical system for healing and recovery. It may help you to understand more about what your body may need for optimal wellness.
Could it be that the simplest and most natural answer to managing pain and maintaining good health is right in front of us and readily available? Magnesium has been proven time and again to be an efficient anti inflammatory nutrient and nature has given us abundant magnesium salts from ocean water. All organisms on the planet require magnesium for life itself.
Magnesium could be given the title of "Master Mineral Electrolyte" as it is required for balance of the electrical potential of cell membranes, stabilisation of the sodiumpotassium electrolyte exchange, production and storage of Mg-ATP and controlling calcium movements.
Loss of potassium and gain of sodium and calcium happens after magnesium levels get too low, but not before. his potentially affects every single cell of the ody, every enzyme and every organ system because cell embranes hold us together. Electrolyte balance and lectrical conductance drive every function and every ovement.
Low magnesium levels are associated with exacerbated nflammatory responses because magnesium-deficient conditions lead to the priming (pre-activation) of hagocytic cells. A review published in Magnesium Research concluded, "It is likely that magnesium directly odulates phagocyte priming by its calcium antagonism and indirectly by its effect on the immune-inflammatory processes, the source of the priming mediators."
Therefore, when magnesium levels drop we are more likely to get primed for inflammation by calcium. The lower the magnesium the more acute the stress
responses, inflammation and tightness of muscles and joints. We can get revved up by the smallest stress.
When magnesium is at optimal levels balance is restored and the fire of inflammation quelled because of magnesium's calcium antagonism.
What people normally do when faced with pain and inflammation is reach for pills which mask the problem, but which do not address the issue that caused the problem. If the body needs magnesium to recover, then nothing else will do the job. Well, that's not quite right.
Antioxidant nutrients do a lot to support the magnesium you do have, which can amplify its effects. By all means, enrich your diet with antioxidant vitamin-rich nutrition too. However, although we can make many vitamins (except for C), we can't make the minerals. If you can't absorb enough magnesium, chances are you will be low
on the vitamins too. Producing essential vitamins and hormones requires—you guessed it—magnesium!
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