Are you getting enough magnesium in your diet?
If you’re suffering from muscle cramps, craving chocolate, are anxious, have trouble sleeping or suffer from migraines then you may just be deficient in magnesium.
Magnesium plays an important role in keeping our bodies healthy. One of its primary benefits is helping to convert the food we eat into energy. It also has plenty of other roles from keeping our teeth and bones strong, balancing hormones, regulating muscle contractions and blood pressure and supporting a healthy nervous and cardiovascular system.
In short, magnesium is essential to help keep our entire bodies ticking over on a daily basis.
Benefits of magnesium
It has been suggested that magnesium may help with the following:
- Osteoporosis
- Depression and anxiety
- Heart attack, high blood pressure, stroke
- Headache and migraine
- Sleep
- Cramps
Foods rich in magnesium
A healthy lunch full of magnesium-rich foods
Magnesium is found in a variety of foods and you should be able to consume all the magnesium you need, by incorporating more of the following into your daily meals:
- Whole grains such as wholemeal bread
- Leafy greens such as spinach
- Avocado
- Nuts such as almonds, peanuts, cashews
- Dark chocolate (one square contains about 24% of your daily requirement)
- Quinoa
- Black beans
- Edamame
- Tofu
Magnesium supplements
Older adults, type 2 diabetics and those with gut issues, such as Crohn’s disease may benefit from a magnesium supplement to their diet.
However, before you supplement be aware that certain medicines may interact with magnesium or affect magnesium status so we recommend you speak with your GP first.
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