Liquid Magnesium

Even a minor magnesium deficiency can quickly grow into a bigger problem, since stress itself causes even greater magnesium loss. Magnesium plays an important role in protecting the nervous system from the strain caused by stress.

Under increased tension, a person loses quality sleep, struggles to concentrate on work, and becomes more irritable the greater the imbalance in the body and mind (memory, speech, thinking, attention). Overload follows, and gradual exhaustion that eventually demands attention.

Magnesium increases the body's resistance to stress and helps it adapt to strain. We cannot remove stress from life entirely, but with sufficient magnesium we can respond to it more calmly.

Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes worldwide of reduced performance and mortality. The heart is a muscular pump that moves 5 to 20 litres of blood per minute — work that requires a constant supply of energy.

Magnesium is involved in relaxing the heart muscle and in transmitting nerve impulses, which is essential for the entire muscular and cardiovascular system. With a magnesium deficiency, nourishment of the heart muscle can suffer, since nutrients enter it precisely during the relaxation phase (diastole).

Heart muscle cells are also sensitive to potassium loss, which is absorbed less well from food when magnesium is deficient. One of magnesium's notable effects is its ability to widen blood vessels and support blood flow.

Magnesium is essential for all living organisms — in plants it sits at the very centre of the chlorophyll molecule. In humans, it is a key component of cells, bones and tissues, and is involved in almost every physiological process.

Without enough magnesium in the cells, the body struggles with ordinary functions — digestion, movement, thinking, even breathing. The body uses it constantly but cannot make it itself — it has to come from diet or supplements.

Increased mental or physical strain (an exam, demanding physical work, stress from overeating or lack of sleep) requires higher magnesium consumption, since it is involved in producing ATP — the main energy source for every cell in the body.

Magnesium relaxes muscle cells (myocytes), while calcium contracts them. Calcium enters the cell and excites it; magnesium then calms it (relaxes it) — a simple dynamic process that happens in the body constantly.

With a magnesium deficiency, its physiological "counterpart" — calcium — comes to the fore. Its build-up in the cell increases excitability and can show up as nervous and muscle tics, cramps, painful spasms or headaches.

Magnesium helps move calcium out of cells in good time, relaxing myocytes and muscle fibres (including the muscles of blood vessels and internal organs), and so brings the whole muscular system back into balance.