Top 5 Essential Facts About Magnesium
Almost everyone has heard of magnesium: number 12 on the periodic table and abundant in the earth’s crust to boot. Much less widely known is the function of magnesium in the body, it’s role in regulating health frequently and unfortunately overlooked. Outlined here are 5 facts about magnesium and it’s most important jobs in the human body, as well as five good reasons why you should make sure you’re getting enough of it in your daily life.
1. Magnesium is necessary for the function of muscles and nerves. It’s one of the biggest players in allowing muscle contraction, which is how all movement takes place, to occur, both by helping provide the energy for it and allowing the release of that energy from energy storing molecules.*
2. Magnesium keeps the immune system running. Magnesium deficiency has been known to cause unnecessary inflammatory reactions in the body for long periods of time, putting the average person at a much higher risk of developing thickened arteries that can dangerously slow the flow of blood, among other issues.*
3. Magnesium is key in maintaining healthy bones. It’s what allows vitamin D to function, ‘turning it on,’ so to speak, so that it can allow for calcium absorption. Without magnesium, calcium wouldn’t be able to form into bones or heal breaks and fractures.*
4. Magnesium regulates insulin production. Insulin and magnesium need one another to function; devoid of magnesium, the body becomes inefficient at creating insulin, frequently either not producing enough of it generally or not producing potent enough insulin to regulate blood sugar.*
5. Magnesium is what makes many enzymes function. By acting as a cofactor, or the non-protein part of an enzyme , it’s the bit that ‘activates’ enzymes, making them work. Enzymes create the reactions that run the human body, performing jobs ranging from digesting food to creating DNA and RNA. With that many important jobs to do, it’s no wonder magnesium is an integral part of our systems.*
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