Magnesium and Skincare

Diets high in processed ingredients (especially sugar) have been shown to contribute to crow’s feet, wrinkles, and fine lines because it damages the tissue that is responsible for keeping the skin smooth. A diet without live foods — foods like salads, including those containing magnesium which is a natural detoxifier, etc., can cause a lack [...]

Magnesium and Weight Loss

Our bodies require magnesium for more than 300 chemical reactions, including keeping heart rhythm steady and regulating blood sugar levels, but in addition to its health benefits, this nutrient may also aid in weight loss and body shaping. A 2013 study in the Journal of Nutrition found that higher magnesium intake was associated with lower [...]

Magnesium is a Vital Electrolyte

Magnesium is also an important electrolyte lost in sweat that tends to get overlooked. It’s crucial during exercise: it allows muscles to relax; helps produce ATP (energy); it’s required for the synthesis of protein, lipid, and carbohydrates; and helps regulate blood pressure. It’s lost in higher amounts when you’re exercising in hot and humid environments. So if [...]

Diabetes and Superfoods

While researchers have long suspected that the traditional plant foods consumed by Native American tribes in the Northern Plains were super nutritious, no one had ever really studied it. That’s what inspired a paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Food Composition and Analysis by a group of researchers at Virginia Tech and [...]

Magnesium: Cut Your Risk of Diabetes

A study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that people who consumed the most magnesium in foods and from vitamin supplements (200 milligrams per 1,000 calories) were about half as likely to develop diabetes over the next 20 years as people who took in the least magnesium (100 milligrams per 1,000 [...]

What Women Should Be Eating

ABC – Eyewitness News – “Magnesium is really important for women, says registered dietician and NMA Member Ashley Koff, RD. It’s our anti-stress mineral, so it actually goes into our cells and makes sure that stress response isn’t happening all the time.” Koff says that’s not to say we won’t get stressed, but when you [...]

Natural Energy Boosters

Here are ten ways to boost your energy naturally. Many of us can’t function without our morning coffee. We use it to get our day started and without it, often feel headachy, tired, and grumpy. One way to nutritionally replace the energy derived from coffee is through the mineral magnesium. As one of the key [...]

Magnesium and What It Can Do For You

What Can Magnesium Do For You! In this PodCast Interview with Dr. Carolyn Dean, we’ll be discussing how magnesium deficiencies develop, why they are so widespread, and how they disrupt metabolic functions that ultimately threaten the health of virtually every bodily system. How important is magnesium? How important is it compared to calcium? What happens [...]

Magnesum: A Solution to Sleep Problems

A quick search for ‘sleeping problems’ throws up over 152 million results in Google. It is estimated that, each year, more than a third of us suffer from insomnia. Getting a good nights sleep is very simple in most cases yet, on countless initial consultations, clients report experiencing long-running problems spanning the course of many [...]

Could Magnesium Deficiency Lead To Vasculitis?

LOS ANGELES, March 4, 2014 —Autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis (inflammation of the blood vessels), brought on by infection has recently made headlines in the news. “Important clinical aspects of this condition are being overlooked,” says Dr. Carolyn Dean, MD, ND, magnesium expert and Medical Advisory Board member of the nonprofit Nutritional Magnesium Association (www.nutritionalmagnesium.org). “When a [...]