What You Need To Know About Magnesium
Nova Health Club • April 18, 2019
Nutrition can be a daunting topic.
Because many of our members are looking for body composition changes, including but not limited to muscle gain and fat loss, we are quick to educate on macronutrients. This includes protein, fat, and carbohydrates. These nutrients are the components of food that make up the calories contained in your food. While they are important for body composition changes it's also important to understand micronutrients.
Micronutrients include vitamins, minerals and trace elements that don’t contribute to your body's caloric intake but have a significant impact on both how you absorb the food you consume and how your body functions as a whole.
A complete nutrient deficiency may be rare but nutrient imbalances can be very common, especially as our foods become less nutrient dense due to poor farming techniques and mass food production.
Magnesium is an extremely important micronutrient that contributes to overall health and wellbeing. Magnesium has the ability to:
Help with sleep-related issues by preparing your body for sleep via muscle relaxation and a nerve calming effect.
Protect your heart by ensuring the calcium you consume is incorporated into your bones rather than the tissue of your blood vessels.
By relaxing smooth muscle cells, magnesium can help reduce high blood pressure. The smooth muscle associated with your veins and arteries produces less pressure on the vessels when the smooth muscle is relaxed.
It can have a protective effect against diabetes by lowering your risk of developing the disease.
While supplementation is an option there are many nutrient dense foods that you can consume day to day to help naturally increase your magnesium intake.
Want to start getting more magnesium into your diet? Begin by incorporating foods such as pumpkin seeds, cooked spinach, dark chocolate, black beans, quinoa, halibut, almonds, cashews, and avocado!!
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