Brain Power and Magnesium
Professor Guosong Liu, Director of the Center for Learning and Memory at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, led a new study to see whether supplementing the diet with magnesium could boost brain power.
“Our findings suggest that elevating brain magnesium content via increasing magnesium intake might be a useful new strategy to enhance cognitive abilities,” Dr. Liu concluded in the media statement. “Moreover, half the population of industrialized countries has a magnesium deficit, which increases with aging. This may very well contribute to age-dependent memory decline; increasing magnesium intake might prevent or reduce such decline.”
These findings and results were published in the in the January 28th (2010) issue of the journal Neuron.
Editor’s note:
Magnesium tends to be deficient in most American diets resulting in an impairment of calcium absorption. And the reverse is true as well. So much stress is placed on the importance of calcium that we may, in fact, be taking in too much and harming magnesium absorption. We need to place more emphasis on magnesium-rich foods and supplements, as we should actually be taking in more magnesium than calcium. This mineral has multiple functions, including the ability to calm nerves and significantly improve such conditions as Parkinson’s disease, prostate problems, and epilepsy.
Shaklee Corporation makes a slow diffused capsule called Vital Mag that doesn’t cause you to run to the bathroom. If you ever have taken milk of magnesia a magnesium product for constipation you know the effects of lots of magnesium on the bowel.
Some other benefits of magnesium are:
• Helps retain normal blood pressure and a steady heartbeat*
• Helps retain normal blood sugar*
• May provide relief from PMS symptoms including water retention, breast tenderness, and bloating*
• Easy on your digestive system
