Magnesium in Right Doses Completely Reverses Depression: Breakthrough Study
Magnesium is already known by many as a tremendous booster of health. It contributes to sound sleep, helps with digestion and constipation, relieves muscle aches, and even improves heart health and migraine headaches – but here’s a shocker: magnesium in small doses leads to an astonishing reversal of depression.
What is Magnesium and Why Do We Need it?
In a breakthrough study conducted by researchers at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont and published in PLoS ONE has found that just 248mg of magnesium per day leads to an about-face of depression symptoms in study subjects.
“New clinical research results show magnesium is effective at addressing symptoms and is safer and easier on the wallet than prescription therapies,” reports Science Daily.
Mounds of Research Proving We Need Magnesium to Combat Depression
Another study states this about magnesium and depression:
“Anxiety related conditions are the most common affective disorders present in the general population with a lifetime prevalence of over 15%. Magnesium (Mg) status is associated with subjective anxiety, leading to the proposition that Mg supplementation may attenuate anxiety symptoms.”
And this study explains that:
“After adjusting for all potential confounders, the strength of the association of very low magnesium intake with depression was statistically significant (RR = 1.16; 95% CI, 1.06-1.30).”
Or how about this study which states that the daily consumption of 500 mg magnesium:
“. . . tablets for ≥8 wk by depressed patients suffering from magnesium deficiency leads to improvements in depression status and magnesium levels.”
So, while not all the studies agree on the exact amount of magnesium that we need each day to combat depression, they repeat over and over in hundreds of additional studies, that depleted magnesium levels contribute to depression.
Why We’re All Magnesium Deficient
Depleted Soil
Too Much Sugar
Refined sugar causes you to waste most vitamin and minerals in the body, mainly B-Vitamins, Potassium, Magnesium, Zinc, and Manganese. Sugar raises CO2 levels in the blood, which causes you to go to bicarbonate stores which buffer it, causing a depletion of minerals like magnesium.
Stress
We also require magnesium to create serotonin, one of the “happy hormones” which prevents depression. Stress causes less serotonin to be created and replaces it with cortisol and other stress hormones. Stress and depression are inextricably linked. Without enough magnesium, we haven’t got a chance at fighting depression naturally.
Detoxification
Is it any wonder we suffer from the following additional diseases, aside from depression, all of which are linked to magnesium deficiency?
Gastrointestinal disorders: Prolonged diarrhea, Crohn’s disease, malabsorption syndromes, celiac disease, surgical removal of a portion of the intestine, and intestinal inflammation due to radiation may all lead to magnesium depletion.
Renal disorders (magnesium wasting): Diabetes mellitus and long-term use of certain diuretics (see Drug interactions) may result in increased urinary loss of magnesium. Multiple other medications can also result in renal magnesium wasting.
Chronic alcoholism: Poor dietary intake, gastrointestinal problems, and increased urinary loss of magnesium may all contribute to magnesium depletion, which is frequently encountered in alcoholics.
Age: Several studies have found that elderly people have relatively low dietary intakes of magnesium. Intestinal magnesium absorption tends to decrease with age and urinary magnesium excretion tends to increase with age; thus, suboptimal dietary magnesium intake may increase the risk of magnesium depletion in the elderly.
How Much Magnesium Do I Need And Where Can I Get It?
You can also consume natural sources of magnesium which can be found in foods like the ones listed below or get it from organic food suplements:
- Spinach
- Chard
- Almonds
- Greek Yogurt
- Black Beans
- Avocado
- Coriander
- Salmon
- Pumpkin seeds
- Yogurt or Kefir
- Figs
- Dark Chocolate
- Banana
- Cashews
- Goat Cheese
- Artichokes
Also, magnesium is the central molecule in chlorophyll – called the “lamp of life,” so any plant-based food high in chlorophyll should also help boost magnesium stores in the body to fight depression, along with dozens of other diseases.
Important Notice: This article was originally published at www.themindunleashed.com by Christina Sarich where all credits are due.
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