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Health See other Health Articles Title: MAGNESIUM Are You Getting Enough? MAGNESIUM Are You Getting Enough? More Than 50% of Older Americans Fail to Get Enough Magnesium for their Body's Needs What you will see over the next few minutes in this educational video directly impacts your ability to maintain your health — particularly your heart health — so I urge you to hear me out. And by the time you finish watching this short, interesting video, you will have learned that 99 out of 100 people know about a nutrient — a mineral, actually — that's crucial to over 325 biochemical processes in your body. You will discover why you've been kept in the dark about its necessity, and whether YOU are at risk for having a low supply of magnesium in your own body. Most importantly, you will see the exact simple steps you can take to turn the tables and address this concern — for the sake of your heart and overall health. Now, you're well-informed enough to know a little bit about magnesium. I'm sure you already know you need it for maintaining health. However, magnesium has long taken a back seat to its more highly studied cousin, calcium. You've probably heard since childhood that you need adequate calcium for strong bones. And of course, that's quite true. But here's the bottom line: Magnesium is just as crucial as calcium. In fact, calcium cannot even be fully absorbed and available to your body's cells without adequate magnesium. It's easy to see why magnesium is considered one of the most critical minerals for overall health, because it affects: ##Your heart function and your heart rhythm . . . ##Your blood pressure . . . ##Your muscle and nerve function . . . ##Your blood glucose control . . . ##Your energy production . . . ##Your antioxidant activity . . . ##Your bone development . . . ##And much more . . . In a nutshell, calcium basically contracts muscles, and magnesium helps relax them. And although you probably think of muscles as the tissues attached to your skeleton, do you know where else you have critical muscles? Your heart and your blood vessels, that's where. And needless to say, that's one reason why magnesium is so vital to support your cardiovascular health. Bottom line: You don't want too much contracting and not enough relaxing. Although magnesium has been studied much less heavily than other minerals such as calcium, researchers have finally gotten on the bandwagon and identified 3,751 magnesium binding sites on human proteins. OK, hold on for a second, let me take a step back . . . I realize this may sound like a lot of scientific gobbledygook to you or me, but it does mean something to scientists, who are now coming out of the woodwork to study magnesium. That's because they now realize that magnesium's role in maintaining good health has been terribly underestimated. All these new scientific findings have sparked renewed interest in this everyday mineral. Dietary surveys have repeatedly found that magnesium intake for Americans is lower than the recommended amounts (which many doctors feel are already too low). The 2005-2006 edition of the U.S. government's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey found that, of those specifically aged 51 and over, a whopping 62% were getting less than the average requirements for magnesium in their diets. Based on these facts, and I hate to say this, you could well find yourself in this group. If you do, however, don't feel guilty. It's not your fault — and here's why... If you fall into the category that the medical profession likes to call the "aging population," your risk of magnesium depletion is higher, for several reasons. First, the Office of Dietary Supplements, a branch of the National Institutes of Health, describes the impact aging can have on magnesium levels: Statistics show that older adults take in even less dietary magnesium than their younger counterparts. Second, with age, your gut's ability to absorb magnesium slows down. Third, older adults are more apt to have less-than-optimal overall health, and are also more likely to take medications that interfere with magnesium uptake in the body. Plus . . . If, like me, you love your coffee (or enjoy drinking alcoholic beverages), you should also know that both caffeine and alcohol can deplete your magnesium stores due to their diuretic effects. Then there's that big bugaboo that affects most of us: chronic stress. When you're under stress, your body produces cortisol. This hormone causes magnesium to be released from cells and excreted in your urine. You literally flush your magnesium away down the toilet! And that's not all. There's also the food issue . . . While magnesium is found in many different plant and animal foods, modern food processing and refining have systematically stripped away much of the nutritional content from foods, including magnesium. To add insult to injury, modern farming techniques combined with the use of herbicides and pesticides, certain fertilizers, and acid rain that occurs with air pollution all combine to make our food lighter in magnesium content. Plus — and this is just between us — let's be honest . . . With our busy schedules and demanding lives, most of us eat too much junk food and processed food with poor nutritional value. And while you should eat as many magnesium-rich foods as possible, like leafy green vegetables, beans, and nuts, even with a healthy diet it's just nearly impossible to consume ALL the magnesium you need from diet alone. You see, just to get the recommended 400 milligrams of magnesium per day (and bear in mind many doctors recommend far more for optimal health), you'd need to eat: 16 cups of broccoli . . . 12 bananas . . . 4½ pounds of yogurt . . . 16 cups of white rice . . . Or 2½ cups of boiled spinach . . . Wow! Who could do that? Maybe Popeye could eat the spinach, but I know I couldn't eat enough of any of these foods. That's why top cardiologist Chauncey Crandall, M.D., recommends supplementing your diet with magnesium to promote heart and circulatory system health. By the way, it's important to know more about how magnesium affects your heart health. I'll get into that shortly, but first, I want to give you a quick heads-up . . . In a couple of minutes, you will discover a great new magnesium option designed to support your heart health — and one you can try RISK-FREE with a special offer you'll hear about shortly. So please keep watching. And in the meantime, if you haven't yet heard of Dr. Chauncey Crandall, stay tuned . . . Dr. Crandall works as an interventional cardiologist. He inserts stents in arteries and performs other procedures to help patients with serious cardiac problems. He's actually performed over 40,000 heart procedures during his career. But what Dr. Crandall really relishes is his role as chief of the Cardiovascular Preventive Medicine Program at the Palm Beach Cardiovascular Clinic in Florida. He counsels his patients to supplement their diets with certain nutrients essential to good cardiac function, as part of adopting a heart-healthy lifestyle. Poster Comment: For Magnesium to be effective, it must be chelated. The best place to get chelated Magnesium is at Carotec, Inc. in Naples, Florida. http://www.carotec.com/ Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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