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Magnesium, the second most abundant intracellular cation, is essential in many intracellular processes and appears to play an important role in migraine pathogenesis. Routine blood tests do not reflect true body magnesium stores since <2 % is in the measurable, extracellular space, 67 % is in the bone and 31 % is located intracellularly. Lack …
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Learn about Magnesium, benefits and what can happen to the body with lack of magnesium. What is Magnesium? Videogram. Colorado Springs, CO: Mineralife LLC, 2011.
Lyle Hurd, of Total Health magazine, explains the many health benefits maganesium supplements provide the body (2007).
Pharmacist Max Motyka shares in this video (2008) the importance of magnesium. It plays a role in more than 400 enzyme reactions in our bodies, so we need to make sure we’re getting enough.
Headaches are a common and debilitating ailment from which most people suffer at one time or another. Common types of headaches include tension headaches, migraines, cluster headaches and sinus headaches. Headaches can have many causes, but serious causes of headaches are rare. This review discusses the biological basis for non-conventional or non-mainstream approaches to the treatment of …
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Food Sources of Magnesium ranked by milligrams of magnesium per standard amount; also calories in the standard amount. (All are ≥ 10% of RDA for adult men, which is 420 mg/day.) Food, Standard Amount Magnesium (mg) Calories Pumpkin and squash seed kernels, roasted, 1 oz 151 148 Brazil nuts, 1 oz 107 186 Bran ready-to-eat cereal (100%), …
