Magnesium Deficiency and High Blood Pressure in Children

Objective To evaluate the association of hypomagnesemia with prehypertension (preHTN) and hypertension in children. Study design A total of 3954 apparently healthy Mexican children were enrolled in a cross-sectional study. Exclusion criteria were type 2 diabetes; hepatic, renal, or endocrine disease; impaired fasting glucose; chronic diarrhea; and intake of vitamins or magnesium supplements in the [...]

Migraine Headaches and Magnesium Treatment

Abstract BACKGROUND: There is controversy about the efficacy of currently used treatment modalities to alleviate migraine headaches. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to evaluate and compare the effects of magnesium sulfate and combined use of dexamethasone/metoclopramide on relieving acute migraine headache. METHODS: We randomly divided 70 patients who had been referred to an emergency department, into two [...]

Magnesium – Naturally Lower Blood Pressure

Adequate potassium and magnesium are critical to maintaining healthy blood pressure. That might be part of the reason that the vegetable-rich DASH diet works so well — vegetables are great sources of both minerals. To maximize magnesium, make sure your menu includes foods such as halibut, almonds, cashews, soybeans, spinach, shredded wheat, oatmeal, baked potatoes, [...]

Stress and Magnesium the Balancing Mineral

Calcium Magnesium Balance and Heart Disease

ABSTRACT Background: It has been suggested that a higher calcium intake might favorably modify cardiovascular risk factors. However, findings of an ultimately decreased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) are limited. Instead, recent evidence warns that taking calcium supplements might increase myocardial infarction (MI) risk. Objective: To prospectively evaluate the associations of dietary calcium intake and [...]

Can Magnesium Treat and/or Prevent Depression?

The human gut microbiota has become the subject of extensive research in recent years and our knowledge of the resident species and their potential functional capacity is rapidly growing. Our gut harbours a complex community of over 100 trillion microbial cells which influence human physiology, metabolism, nutrition, mood and immune function while disruption to the [...]

Diabetes Type 2 - Magnesium Genes and Diet

Magnesium Lowers (LDL-C) Bad Cholesterol

Abstract: Since Mg(2+)-ATP is the controlling factor for the rate-limiting enzyme in the cholesterol biosynthesis sequence that is targeted by the statin pharmaceutical drugs, comparison of the effects of Mg(2+) on lipoproteins with those of the statin drugs is warranted. Formation of cholesterol in blood, as well as of cholesterol required in hormone synthesis, and [...]

Type 2 Diabetes – Magnesium, Diet and Genes

A new study investigated the complex interactions between magnesium intake, genes and ethnicity in determining risk for type 2 diabetes in two populations of women. The specific associations yielded by the analysis illustrate how health guidance could become considerably more personalized. Dr. Simin Liu, professor of epidemiology in the School of Public Health at Brown [...]

Magnesium Deficiency Significantly Related to Depression

Abstract: The objective of this study was to evaluate the nutrition status of people referred to a nutrition and physical activity program for the management of mental health in general practice. Patients currently being treated for depression and/or anxiety were referred by their GPs to a lifestyle intervention program. The nutrition status was assessed during [...]

Magnesium and Cardiovascular disease risk factors

Magnesium Positively Influences Heart Disease Risk Factors

An inverse association between magnesium in 24-h urine and cardiovascular risk factors in middle-aged subjects in 50 CARDIAC Study populations. Abstract: Serum, plasma and dietary magnesium (Mg) have been reported to be inversely associated with cardiovascular disease risk factors. We examined the associations between the 24-h urinary Mg/creatinine (Cre) ratio and cardiovascular disease risk factors, [...]

Magnesium Reduces Diabetes Risk by 53%

In a 2013 published study involving more than 2,500 people, those with the highest magnesium intake had the lowest risk of developing type 2 diabetes over a 7-year period, as reported in Diabetes Care. “There is a substantial body of literature linking low magnesium intake or low magnesium status (as measured in the blood) to [...]