Has your doctor ever suggested you might need more magnesium in your diet? it’s an essential nutrient and is easily accessible from a variety of foods, so I’m pretty sure there will be at least a couple that you like and can eat often. Check out the list of 10 conditions that may result from inadequate magnesium and see if any of these affect your life. If so, scroll down to see the foods that naturally provide magnesium .
A note on supplements
There are many magnesium supplements on the market, many of them high quality. But before you consider a supplement, work with your food first. Every food you see below not only contains magnesium, but it also contains a variety of other nutrients, some of which may optimize the absorption of magnesium. These additional nutrients would not be found in a simple magnesium supplement.
Food first; supplements only when food isn’t enough.
Here is a list of many conditions that ease up when there’s enough magnesium in your body:
- it can make exercising easier — yay!
- it can diminish depression — double yay!!
- it benefits the management of Type 2 diabetes
- it lowers insulin resistance
- it can lower blood pressure
- it has anti-inflammatory benefits
- it can help prevent migraines
- it reduces pms symptoms
- it allows the body to more easily absorb calcium
- adequate magnesium reduces cramps
