Magnesium for your body*

 

 

If you find yourself easily irritable, tired, or weak, you may be low in this essential mineral. Magnesium is crucial to more than 300 bodily functions, including those affecting the heart, bones, muscles, and nervous system. If left untreated, chronic lack of magnesium in the body can lead to seizures or abnormal heart rhythms.

 

Despite its importance, magnesium deficiency has become increasingly more prevalent, currently affecting about half of the population. It’s recently been named the “invisible deficiency” by many experts, as symptoms are fairly general and the deficiency itself is hard to diagnose.

 

Getting your recommended daily intake of magnesium — 400 to 420 milligrams for men and 310 to 320 milligrams for women – is easiest and most efficient by incorporating whole foods with high levels of magnesium into your daily meals.

 

The nutritionist Keri Glassman, MS, RN, CDN, founder of Nutritious Life, recommends eating as clean of a diet as possible, including lots of beans, nuts, and green, leafy vegetables — even seaweed, which packs 67 milligrams of magnesium in just one cup.

 

 

* Referrence:  27 Foods To Cure The 'Invisible Deficiency' Affecting 50% Of Americans         Ashley Macha