Did you know the importance of Magnesium to our body?
Barley Grass contains vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes and fibers. Ang good news, magnesium is a mineral that exists in barley grass. Magnesium is an important mineral found in barley grass that benefits your body’s health in numerous ways.
- Supports bone health
- You know you need calcium to build bones. But calcium is only one of several minerals required for bones to be strong and malleable. Its partner magnesium is just as vital (and is aided by minerals like boron, copper, nickel, phosphorus, silicon, and zinc). Magnesium is actually a metal, and is found in abundance in bones to keep them as strong and malleable as metal! An adult body contains about 25 grams of magnesium, and over half is in your bones.
- Reduces high blood pressure
- Magnesium plays an important role in regulating your blood pressure. It relaxes “smooth muscle” cells, meaning those in your veins and arteries, so they don’t constrict the flow of blood. It also regulates other minerals vital to blood pressure; it maintains the delicate balance between sodium and potassium; it helps the body absorb calcium (and not be deposited in arteries). So magnesium has direct and indirect impacts on high blood pressure risks.
- Protects the heart
- Research from 2016 found that magnesium reduces calcium build up in your heart and arteries (called coronary artery calcification). This is a marker of atherosclerosis and a predictor of cardiovascular death. People with the highest magnesium had 42% lower odds of coronary artery calcification compared to those with the lowest serum magnesium. They also had 48% lower odds of hypertension, and 69% lower odds of myotonic dystrophy (muscle wasting disease that affects many muscles including the heart).
- Improve indigestions and Relives constipation
- Common conditions including acid reflux (heartburn) and GERD are not linked to excess stomach acid, as many people think, but low stomach acid. These conditions, too, are affected by magnesium deficiency. How? GERD and acid reflux are caused by a malfunctioning esophageal sphincter. This may happen due to a bacterial overgrowth that occurs when there is too little stomach acid. Magnesium aids stomach acid production that reduces bad bacteria in the gut.
- Helps treat insomnia
- Magnesium prepares your body for sleep by relaxing your muscles. It also helps to “shut your mind off,” and calms your nerves by regulating two of your brain’s messengers called neurotransmitters that tend to keep you awake. Magnesium is also essential to maintain a healthy “biological clock” and sleep cycle. Getting enough of this mineral helps reduce and prevent sleep disorders.
- Combats asthma
- Shortness of breath, chest tightness, trouble sleeping because you’re coughing or wheezing — you know it when you have symptoms of asthma. Magnesium is often used as therapy in hospitals for life-threatening asthma. If you head to the ER with a severe attack, you might receive magnesium because of its potential to stop the spasms of your bronchial muscle (that create narrowing in the tubes carrying air to lungs), and help your lungs breathe easier. This is done to relieve the symptoms, but it also makes sense that low magnesium may relate to the cause of the condition.
- Protects against Diabetes
- Research from 2014 says magnesium deficiency is associated with triggering “acute phase response” that contributes to type 2 diabetes. Supplements were given to apparently healthy people with prediabetes who had low magnesium. Taking magnesium supplements decreased their C-reactive protein. C-reactive protein is high in those who become diabetic.
Get your needed serving of magnesium when you drink Santé Barley Pure and Santé Pure Barley daily!
