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Magnesium Is Crucial for Heart Health
By admin | December 3, 2009
Magnesium is essential for energy synthesis in all body cells, especially in heart muscle. It is crucial for heart muscle strength and performance. It works along with potassium and calcium to regulate blood pressure and effect regular heart rhythm.
Magnesium is essential for muscle relaxation throughout your body. It is somewhat of an antagonist to calcium…magnesium counter-balances it. A deficiency of magnesium can cause muscle cramping.
Magnesium interacts with calcium and potassium to regulate blood pressure. In addition it helps transmit electrical conduction in heart tissue and nerve pathways. It helps bring potassium and calcium inside the individual cells.
Approximately half of your body’s magnesium is found in the bones and teeth, the other half in the soft tissues. Yet only 1% is found in the blood, where it is essential to heart beat and rhythm…due to electrical conduction.
Interestingly a live mammalian heart can be cut out, live and beating, from the body and placed into a Ringer’s solution. Ringer’s consists of all the needed nutrients…a balance of minerals such as magnesium, calcium and potassium and energy nutrients. The heart will beat for days in the Ringer’s solution outside of the body due to its built in pacemaker that fires electric impulses that cause the heart chambers to contract and pump solution.
Low levels of magnesium cause irregular heart beat and heart failures are frequently associated with low blood levels of magnesium.
Magnesium deficiencies are common in the population, as many as 80% suffer from a deficiency…according to neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D. Many medical doctors daily supplement their patients with from 400 to 1000 mg of magnesium citrate. Mineral balances should be administered according to the results of lab testing… under the supervision of your medical doctor. ..Denis Van Loan D.D.S.
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