Magnesium tablets 200 mg

FOR POWERFUL MUSCLES AND NERVES

Magnesium is an essential mineral among the electrolytes and plays a key role in maintaining their balance in your body. A balanced electrolyte ratio ensures optimal muscle tension and relaxation. If you frequently suffer from cramps, such as calf cramps, then the calcium to magnesium concentration in your body is probably too high. Magnesium relaxes your muscles by reducing the influx of calcium and thus the tendency to cramp.

As a vital and versatile mineral, magnesium can do even more: It inhibits the release of the stress hormones adrenaline and noradrenaline and has a stabilizing effect on your cell membranes. This reduces the excitability of your nerve cells. Furthermore, magnesium is essential for normal energy metabolism by activating adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the fuel of cells, and thus around 300 enzymes.

MAGNESIUM IS IMPORTANT FOR...

• Your metabolism
• Your body's energy production and your performance
• The reduction of tiredness and fatigue
• The tissue and body fluids
• The transmission of stimuli and normal nerve function
• The maintenance of bones and teeth
• Our muscle functions

Do you exercise a lot? Are you exposed to strenuous physical activity or high levels of stress? Do you often suffer from muscle cramps? Then you should provide your body with an extra dose of magnesium.

Magnesium tablets 200 mg are easy to take with water or other liquids and provide you with 200 mg of pure magnesium per tablet. This corresponds to an average of half the recommended daily intake for adults.

Good to know: When you take magnesium supplements orally, not the entire amount is utilized by your body. Absorption depends on the dose. According to various studies, approximately 35 percent of 120 mg of magnesium is absorbed, while only about 18 percent of 360 mg is absorbed. You should also be aware that the additional magnesium only remains beneficial in your body if sufficient binding molecules are available. These are formed through biochemical adaptations only after an increased amount of the mineral has been consumed over a longer period. Therefore, taking appropriate dietary supplements for at least four weeks is recommended.

STRONG MUSCLES AND NERVES WITH MAGNESIUM

Magnesium is an essential mineral and indispensable for all organisms. Even plants can suffer from magnesium deficiency, as their green leaf chlorophyll, in a healthy state, consists of approximately 2 percent magnesium. The body of an adult human contains approximately 20 g of magnesium. The mineral plays a key role in numerous metabolic processes and is involved as a coenzyme or enzyme component in hundreds of enzyme reactions. Free magnesium ions also play an important function as secondary messengers in the human immune system and stabilize the resting potential of cells in muscles and nerves.

THE CONSEQUENCES OF MAGNESIUM DEFICIENCY

If magnesium needs are not adequately met over a long period of time, a number of symptoms may arise. Typical symptoms include nervousness and irritability, on the one hand, and fatigue, weakness, and lack of concentration, on the other. Muscle cramps, difficulty concentrating, headaches, and cardiac arrhythmias are also common with magnesium deficiency. There is even a risk of heart attack. Some scientists also suspect that magnesium deficiency exacerbates depression.

HOW MUCH MAGNESIUM DO YOU NEED DAILY?

Depending on age and gender, a daily intake of between 24 and 400 mg of magnesium is recommended. Male adolescents and young adults between 15 and 25 years of age have the highest magnesium requirements. Breastfeeding women require almost as much, at 390 mg. An overview can be found at the German Nutrition Society. Nicolai Worm, a professor at the German University for Prevention (DHPG), considers this guideline too low. He believes the information is based on the average for the population. Higher doses are recommended for optimal intake.

According to the National Consumption Study II, which collected data on Germans' dietary habits between 2005 and 2007, a quarter of men and a third of women are inadequately supplied with this essential mineral. Among girls between 14 and 18, the figure is as high as half. Pregnant women, breastfeeding women, and the elderly are also among the at-risk groups.

Important: Your body excretes important minerals, including magnesium, through sweat. Pay particular attention to this in the summer when you're active!

MAGNESIUM DEFICIENCY AND DIABETES

Diabetics are particularly likely to suffer from magnesium deficiency. This may even be one of the causes of the disease. Two of the largest epidemiological studies, i.e., studies examining the prevalence of diseases in the population, found, through a total of approximately 130,000 participants, that people who consistently follow a magnesium-deficient diet are significantly more likely to develop diabetes.

WHICH FOODS ARE RICH IN MAGNESIUM?

The mineral magnesium is essential for life, but our bodies cannot produce it on their own. Therefore, it must be consumed through food (and, if necessary, supplements such as Magnesium Verla, Biolectra, or Magnesium Effervescent Tablets). Magnesium is found primarily in whole-grain products, but also in mineral water, liver, poultry, fish, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, various nuts, chocolate, potatoes, spinach, kohlrabi, oranges, bananas, berries, and milk and dairy products.

Magnesium supplements always provide magnesium in compounds, meaning the magnesium is bound to another substance. In magnesium oxide, for example, the mineral is bound to oxygen, while in magnesium carbonate, it is present as a compound with carbonic acid salt. Other compounds exist, such as magnesium sulfate or magnesium citrate. The nature of the compound does not appear to play a role in bioavailability and the rate of absorption. What is more important is that magnesium must be taken over a longer period of time to be effectively utilized by the body.