Magnesium and Your Health Go Hand in Hand

The role of magnesium is to help keep your body healthy. Are you getting enough?

A friend of mine, who is a nurse, has brought up the role of magnesium and health related issues several times to me. Since I didn’t really understand what she was talking about, I decided to investigate how and why magnesium is important to our health.

Magnesium is a macro-nutrient, which means the body does need larger quantities in order to function properly, in comparison to micro-nutrients, which the body needs in lesser quantities. Magnesium plays a role in many functions of the body—in fact too many to properly discuss in this short article. However, you can get a idea of how important magnesium is by knowing it plays a part in digestion, energy, regulating calcium and other essential nutrients, bone health, muscle function, cell reproduction, kidney and heart function.

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