Q: What does magnesium do for heart health?
A: Magnesium is thought to help protect against cardiovascular disease. Good dietary sources are beans, peas, and nuts. Thiazide diuretics are commonly used to treat high blood pressure. This type of drug can lower levels of magnesium in the body. To learn more about why the body needs magnesium go to The Office of Dietary Supplements website.
Further Reading:
The Link Between Magnesium and Heart Health
Take This to Heart: A Diet for High Cholesterol
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Seriously,that was your answer to how magnesium helps… “it protects”…
Why bother to post the Q and A if that’s the best u can do.
Oh my, one of the “good doctor’s” worst answers ever. Magnesium has profound effects on good heart health, as well as many other healthy bodily functions. Thiazide diuretic medications upset the electrolyte balance in the human body and are detrimental to more than just magnesium levels in your system. Potassium, also important to good heart health, is also reduced, as are many other important electrolytes. I supplement with magnesium on a daily basis to maintain hearth and blood pressure health. Some magnesium forms are more absorbable than others, but magnesium is truly a miracle in many ways for good health. Books have been written about the benefits of magnesium, and despite the fact that physicians have paid scant attention to nutriceuticals in general, there are some excellent resources on the vast benefits of magnesium supplementation. One of many that comes to mind is “The Miracle of Magnesium” by Dr. Carolyn Dean.
D. Carestia is right on! Magnesium is “gianormous” when it comes to heart health! And Mg, along with sufficient vitamin D3 and vitamin K2, will ensure proper calcium regulation, which is likely behind MOST cardiovascular diseases in the first place. Blood pressure is important, but the reason for its aberrations are often due to improper calcium deposition.
See:
“magnesium deficiency and metabolic syndrome: stress and inflammation may reflect calcium activation.”
“inflammation and elevation of c-reactive protein: does magnesium play a key role?”
“Magnesium intake and plasma concentrations of markers of systemic inflammation and endothelial dysfunction in women”
in fact, insufficient Mg AND consumption of man-made trans fatty acids makes calcium flood arterial endothelial cells. so, while these fats are not so good, they would not harm us if we weren’t starving for Mg.
We have the entire wrong paradigm about cardiovascular diseases, including the biomarker of blood pressure because we have approached CVD risk by looking at individual components instead of how several nutrients/hormones all work TOGETHER in a PROCESS and then understanding that we have totally mucked up this process! The process is how we metabolize calcium. With time, this eventually rears its head as CVD, kidney stones, dementia, bone problems, teeth problems, and so on. Even autism is connected to these insufficiencies now that all pregnant women are starving. Only no docs know this because they were trained to think a certain way and knowing about nutrients (REALLY knowing, not ADA corrupt “knowing”) is not on their radar nor in their journals. No money in unpatentable nutritional supplements and it really hits the “health care” industry in the pocket.
Google “vitamin K2” and cardiovascular disease
“vitamin D” and cardiovascular disease
magnesium and cardiovascular disease
The info is there and it is up to each of us to learn outside of our doctors in order to truly be responsible for our health!
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