How magnesium affects your body
- Dietitian.Lauren Hmede
- Mar 18, 2019
- 2 min read
7 Weird Ways Magnesium Affects Your Body, According To Science
Magnesium is a really important mineral for normal body functioning. According to experts magnesium affect 3000 process in the body including our bones, hearts, immune system and many more, can't work without a good dose of magnesium. We are mainly get enough magnesium from our diet but what do magnesium really do to our bodies?
1. It regulates your Body Clock
Personal clock is a set of internal rhythm that regulate when we feel sleepy or when we wake up through a cycle of hormones and it is called circadian rhythms. Any disruption of internal clock could be a sign of magnesium deficiency.
2. It controls muscle contractions
Magnesium is a muscle relaxant and it acts as calcium blocker to help muscle relaxes. Calcium bind some proteins in the muscles like myosin and troponin C. This generates muscle contraction so magnesium compete with calcium for the same binding in order to make muscle relaxation. Magnesium is used to prevent seizure or uncontrolled muscles contractions. Sometimes pregnant women with pre-eclampsia are given magnesium sulphate to prevent seizures.
3. It Affects Labour
Boosting magnesium levels is a well-known way of trying to stave off pre-term labour; if you're at risk of giving birth too early , you'll likely be given magnesium to try and stop the process.
According to studies giving magnesium during labour helped lower risk of fever in mothers and complications in babies, including floppy baby syndrome, where infants have low muscle tone. The reasoning seems to be that slightly higher magnesium levels during labour can trigger the immune system and help women and babies fight off fevers and other nasties.
4. It Supports Your Memory
According to studies magnesium help to prevent memory loss at middle age.
According to studies magnesium plays a role in the plasticity of the synapses in your brain, helping them shift and adapt to new information, and that magnesium supplements boosted cognitive function overall.
5. It's Key to Getting Your Sunshine Dose
We all know that sunlight exposure is important for getting enough vitamin D but according to studies without enough magnesium your body cannot synthesize vitamin D.
6. It Shapes Your Chromosomes
According to studies magnesium ions regulate chromosomes folding and how they organize themselves. Chromosome folding is essential for cell division.
7. It's Required For Cells To Communicate
Cyclic adenosine monophosphate is important for cell signalling and magnesium is important for making CAM. CAM influences everything from the metabolism of sugar to brain function. It's also got a big role in the immune system, and when it increases it helps to kill off invasive microbes. Without magnesium to help create it, we'd all be much worse off.
Another role for magnesium in cells communications is through the receptor MAGT1 which is important for T cells construction that are responsible for fighting threat to our immune system.
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