Natural remedies for solving magnesium deficiencies

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Magnesium is an important mineral substance. Unfortunately, it is not as hyped as calcium, potassium or sodium, so most people do not even know they are suffering from magnesium deficiencies. More than 300 reactions inside the human body are powered by magnesium. Ironically, the mineral is mostly found in vegetables in general and leafy greens in particular, which basically means that most Americans cannot benefit from assimilating them from natural sources; this statement is based on the fact that most of the food that is now being sold in the United States is heavily processed.

Magnesium keeps your bones healthy; 50% of the entire quantity of magnesium from the human body is stored inside the skeleton. With every level decrease of magnesium, the organism suffers an increase in parathyroid hormone, which causes the loss of calcium through the intestine. In consequence, it’s not unfair to say that ensuring your daily dose of magnesium keeps your bones in great shape.

Magnesium intervenes in the process of producing cell energy, it regulates the evenness of the nervous system, while controlling both blood sugar levels and inflammation processes.

All in all, you can naturally accumulate magnesium from the following natural sources:
– legumes (particularly beans)
– nuts and seeds (sunflower, pumpkin and sesame seeds, as well as almonds)
– a special type of tofu that is produced from nigari flakes
– vegetables that contain high levels of magnesium: broccoli, brussel sprouts, spinach, cabbage, bell peppers, cucumber and celery
– fruit that contains high levels of magnesium: raspberries and strawberries
– brown rice, wheat and buckwheat
– drinking some sorts of water can also help you get more magnesium

Does cooking affect the food concentration in magnesium?
Beans experience a rather low loss in magnesium, somewhere between 2 and 10% depending on the type of beans you intend on eating. On the other hand, legumes and vegetables experience a pretty high loss in magnesium due to heat processing, and it is between 20 and 30%.

The medical recommendation is to consume a daily intake of 400 mg of Magnesium and most U.S. citizens eat around half of that quantity. Since most vegetables are, unfortunately, quite expensive, there is another alternative to acquiring the needed quantity of Magnesium. For example, you could eat 6 ounces of seeds every day, or 2 ounces of seeds and 2 of spinach.

Eating natural sources of magnesium cannot threaten a person’s life in any way. Although degrees of tolerance may vary and there does indeed exist a toxicity level for magnesium, the latter is extraordinarily low and it would take gigantic quantities of vegetables and nuts or seeds in order to reach it.

In conclusion, for people that are interested in boosting their magnesium levels, there are natural resources. Magnesium is one of the most important minerals from the human body.