Magnesium: An Essential Element for the Human Body

What is magnesium?

Magnesium is an essential mineral for the body, with its involvement in over 600 metabolic reactions; it plays a pivotal role in your immunity, mood, metabolism, muscles, joints, pain, nerves and brain function among many others. Unfortunately, nowadays many of us aren’t getting enough of it.

Magnesium (Mg)

Magnesium and athletic performance

Athletes are subject to prolonged physical activity which rapidly depletes their precious magnesium stores, putting them at a high risk of deficiency, especially when compared to non-athletes.

Furthermore, studies are finding that vegetation (the best source of magnesium), is providing us with less of the mineral compared to the past as we deplete our soils. This poses a significant risk to an athlete’s health and performance.

Magnesium deficiency in athletes can result in neuromuscular hyper-excitability, muscle spasms and strains, and even the rupture of muscle fibres. These are all too common.

Women's 800m Sprint

Magnesium has long been considered by coaches and health professionals as an important performance enhancing mineral, with the RDI for athletes being 5mg per kilogram of bodyweight.

If you do the math, you will find it unlikely that most athletes will be achieving an optimal intake of magnesium, thus will be in deficit with regards to their various aspects of fitness and wellness.

Do you often suffer from cramps and sprains? You might not have sufficient magnesium.

What are the odds that you have a deficiency? Not that unlikely, let’s go through a few major reasons why you might benefit from the additional magnesium from Black Sea lye.

Athlete having a cramp

The first possibility is that you have an underlying health condition that is interfering with your magnesium balance. This might include diabetes, poor absorption, chronic diarrhea, celiac disease and hungry bone syndrome.

The second reason is that you aren’t consuming enough magnesium to match the demands of your body. If greens, nuts, seeds, beans and whole grains aren’t a dietary staple, you might have good reason to suspect a deficiency.

The final reason might be that the magnesium you do consume isn’t being delivered to the muscle and tissue effectively, due things like injuries or poor circulation. Topical magnesium will serve to bypass the complicated route that dietary magnesium has to take to get from your stomach to the tissue in need. This is a situation where your blood work could reflect you having ample amounts of magnesium in your system, but failing to indicate whether the same is true in individual muscles and tissues.

Common magnesium deficiency symptoms are mild, but don’t take them lightly.

Here’s a list of early signs that you might have an issue:

• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Loss of appetite
• Fatigue
• Weakness

If early deficiency isn’t attended to, you might start to present more progressive signs such as:

• Numbness and tingling in the extremities
• Cramps and muscle contractions
• Seizures
• Personality changes
• Abnormal heart rhythms
• Coronary spasms
• Heart disease
• High blood pressure
• Type 2 diabetes
• Osteoporosis
• Lower calcium levels in the blood
• Lower potassium levels in the blood

How can I ensure my body is getting enough magnesium?

Unless you’re experiencing life threateningly low levels, getting magnesium via diet is easy. Eat lots of the previously mentioned plant-based foods, but if that’s too difficult, purchase a magnesium supplement recommended by a nutritionist, although supplemental nutrients have their own caveats.

For a more targeted and rapid way to get your magnesium, topical/transdermal application might be best for you. Studies show that topical magnesium, such as that found in ANCHIALO Black Sea lye massage gels, is efficiently absorbed through the skin. Post-absorption, the magnesium ions can then saturate the tissue of concern, while also entering blood circulation to be delivered elsewhere in the body. You will experience fast natural relief while avoiding the nasty health compromising effects associated with supplementation.

Increase your magnesium intake with ANCHIALO Black Sea lye massage gels

Our massage gels are made from Black Sea Lye, the perfect remedy for joint pain, muscle soreness, fatigue and inflammation. Consider its usage if you suffer from arthritis, osteoarthritis, neuritis, sprains, cramps, joint dislocations, fractures, neuralgia, plexitis, disc hernias and any other musculoskeletal related issues. Consistent use has the potential to full replenish your magnesium stores in all tissues of the body, helping you optimize your performance and to live a pain free, healthy life.