Magnesium is an essential cornerstone in nutrition therapy, as it is involved in energy production in the strict sense. A deficiency therefore has consequences on our health that need to be limited.
Did you know that nearly 70% of French people do not consume the adequate dose of magnesium?
However, it is important to consider that our body cannot fill this gap on its own because it simply cannot produce it!
Yet, this does not prevent it from consuming magnesium on a daily basis, to a greater or lesser extent depending on various factors such as age or physical activity.
So, how can you recognize a magnesium deficiency and, more importantly, how can you effectively remedy it?
What are the different effects on the body?
Let's discover together some advice on this matter (We talk about a deficit and not a deficiency because if you had a "deficiency" in magnesium, you wouldn't be reading this).
What is the importance of magnesium?
Magnesium has a crucial function in maintaining balance and in the functioning of the body.
Therefore, it must be present in the diet just like calcium. The latter, in connection with vitamin D, is fundamental for maintaining bones and teeth. Magnesium precisely allows optimal calcium fixation on bones and also offers the possibility of benefiting from normal muscle function.
Another role of magnesium is to combat mental fatigue.
As you may have understood, it plays a role in about 300 reactions in our body! Since our body cannot produce it, it must be found in the diet. The problem is that, gradually, our diet becomes low in magnesium.
Indeed, magnesium, which was previously abundant in cereals, is now much less so with the change in agriculture becoming intensive, which leaches nutrients from the soil, but also the ultra-refining of cereals in factories!
In the 19th century, 500 grams of wholemeal sourdough bread covered the magnesium needs for a day. Nowadays, it's not the same anymore because you have to combine a multitude of foods to provide the necessary 300 to 400 mg of magnesium.
Are we lacking magnesium?
Since magnesium is mainly present in rather rich foods, modern dietary trends, aiming to reduce calorie intake, most of the time lead to magnesium deficiency in individuals.
Know that we mainly lack it during a restricted diet, for example, when we deprive ourselves of foods like bread, legumes, cereals, but also when we consume an excess of industrial dishes and refined products.
Athletic people, teenagers, and pregnant women need a greater intake of magnesium and can therefore most of the time experience deficiencies.
What are the effects of magnesium deficiency on the body?
Magnesium acts in about 300 body reactions. Thus, you will understand that a deficit in intake leads to various consequences!
Indeed, a lack of magnesium can lead to a multitude of phenomena such as:
- nervous and muscular hyperexcitability,
- cramps, tingling,
- high sensitivity to stress,
- arterial spasms, insomnia,
- increased heart rate,
- allergies,
- dizziness,
- migraines,
- anxiety,
- hyperemotivity
or even mental and muscular fatigue.
The most common symptom of magnesium deficiency is eyelid twitching. If your eyelid twitches on its own, you lack magnesium. This symptom is extremely benign: it's just your body warning you.
However, many symptoms, often extremely burdensome, have little effect in our Western countries where the diet remains relatively balanced. In many cases, a lack of magnesium intake will simply be felt as a sensation of exhaustion, recurrent fatigue, or regular energy slumps, or the famous eyelid twitching.
What should be done to optimize magnesium intake as effectively as possible?
We strongly recommend not allowing certain signs of fatigue or stress to take place!
It is necessary to learn how to rebalance your diet in order to optimize your magnesium intake. This way, you will see a clear difference! In everyday life, there are certain foods to favor.
So, opt for foods based on whole grains, chocolate, oleaginous fruits (walnuts, hazelnuts, and almonds), green vegetables, legumes (white beans, lentils...), not to mention various mineral waters abundant in magnesium. Finally, know that you can also optimize your magnesium intake through dietary supplements.
That's why Synergia has made magnesium one of the cornerstones of its nutritional approach.
You will find the two flagship products, D-Stress and D-Stress Booster, number 1 on the stress market. But also the MagBoost range, a range based on innovation, liposomal magnesium. These are all magnesiums perfectly assimilated by the body thanks to the quality of their salts. They will have no undesirable side effects such as intestinal discomfort or diarrhea.