The Benefits of Magnesium

MAGNIFICENT MAGNESIUM

Magnesium is an essential ion to the human body, playing an instrumental role in supporting and sustaining health and life. Magnesium is involved in over 600 enzymatic reactions including energy metabolism, protein synthesis, transmission of nerve impulses and metabolism of food.

The awesome benefits:

Blood sugar control

Blood pressure control

Improves your mood

Improves sleep

Today, our soils are deleted of magnesium and other important minerals because of poor agricultural farming habits. The use of chemicals especially fluoride and chlorine in water also make magnesium less available.

Supplement with Mega Magnesium and boost your magnesium levels.

The daily use of sugar and caffeine also deplete magnesium supplies within the body. Today we live a high-stress life meaning it is likely that you are magnesium deficient.

 Here are some more awesome benefits of Magnesium:

Blood sugar control

Magnesium helps manage insulin levels in the body and can prevent blood sugar spikes and crashes from occurring.

Blood pressure control

Magnesium also plays a large role in blood pressure control, preventing high blood pressure from occurring, especially when combined with enough potassium in the diet. When combined with adequate levels of potassium it controls stress that can elevate insulin levels and improves overall blood pressure that, when out of control, increases insulin resistance and can cause type 2 diabetes to occur more easily.

Depression

Magnesium is essential for proper brain function and mood regulation. Research indicates that without enough magnesium, you are more susceptible to depression.

Stress

Low magnesium levels have been attributed to an increase in anxiety. A diet low in magnesium changes the types of bacteria present in the gut and alters anxiety-based behaviour.

Brain Power

Research has shown that mice given extra magnesium had better working memory long-term memory and a greater ability to learn. Elevating brain magnesium content via increasing magnesium intake could be a useful new strategy to enhance cognitive abilities.

Magnesium boosting foods include: Bananas, spinach, almonds, cacao, Pumpkin, sunflower, sesame, chia, hemp and flax seeds, organic coffee(black only). Please note that calcium from milk and refined sugar can interfere with magnesium absorption.

Here are a few signs that you may be magnesium deficient:

• Anxiety

• Depression

• Muscle cramps

• High blood pressure

• Hormone problems

• Sleep issues

• Low energy

• Low vitamin D

• Low vitamin K

Eat Like your Granny Did.

Eat like your granny did is very good advice         

Granny (think cardigans, midi skirts, pearl earrings, slides and ladylike structured bags)  Eating like your grandmother—or even better, your great-grandmother—is a long term strategy worth considering, especially if you are getting tired of getting confused about which "miracle" diet to follow and trying to make out the complicated ingredient lists on packaged foods. Try not to eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food. 

Eat real, unprocessed food. Mostly plants. Steer well clear of processed foods and man-made ingredients such as hydrolyzed vegetable proteins and oils, trans fats and other “edible food-like substances” found on today’s supermarket shelves. Another simple interpretation could be avoid eating anything out of a packet, especially those which contain numbers posing as ingredients or cryptic words you can’t pronounce. If you can't pronounce it don't eat it.

Our grandmothers had it right. I remember as a kid my great grandmother serving up a very simple and healthy meat and three veg. Gran ate a diet rich in plant-based wholefoods with generous amounts of fresh fruit, vegetables, cultured foods, nourishing broths as well as a little quality protein. She lived to the ripe old age of 100. My philosophy has always been: keep it simple, keep it fresh, buy organic and local, make it yourself and know exactly what’s in the foods you eat. Ingredients and additives such as gums, MSG, thickeners, hydrogenated oils, emulsifiers, and stabilisers should not be on the menu.
The best granny-approved wholefoods are fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables that you can get from your local grocer or farmers market. 
Keep your pantry stocked with a good quality extra virgin olive oil,  ghee, mustard, raw honey, vinegar, unprocessed sea salt, white pepper and dark rye bread.  Here is one of grannies recipes to help you detox after a holiday celebration.                                                                            

Detox Salad with Tahini dressing

Ingredients• ¼ cup red cabbage•
1 cup cooked organic chickpeas•
1 cup organic baby spinach•
1 cup mixed lettuce• 1 cup of alfalfa sprouts• ½ red capsicum• ½ lebanese cucumber•
1 bunch of brocollini• ½ cup of cooked quinoa• ½ cup grated carrot• ¼ cup sunflower seeds•
½ avocado•

I bunch of radishes thinly sliced

Optional:
grated beetroot,

Almonds

spring onions or other allowable foods.tahini dressing•
1 cup of unhulled tahini•
½ cup fresh lemon juice•
1 garlic clove•
Blend and add purified water until you get a runny consistency.method• Prepare ingredients and put in a mixing bowl.• Prepare the dressing and add to the ingredients, mixing the dressing through.