<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">A less known fact is that insulin also stores magnesium. But if your cells become resistant to insulin, you can't store magnesium so you lose it through urination.
Intracellular magnesium relaxes muscles. What happens when you can't store magnesium because the cell is resistant? You lose magnesium and your blood vessels constrict.
This causes an increase in blood pressure and a reduction in energy since intracellular magnesium is required for all energy producing reactions that take place in the cell.
But most importantly, magnesium is also necessary for the action of insulin and the manufacture of insulin. When you raise your insulin, you lose magnesium, and the cells become even more insulin resistant. Blood vessels constrict and glucose and insulin can't get to the tissues, which makes them more insulin resistant, so the insulin levels go up and you lose more magnesium. This is the vicious cycle that begins even before you were born.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
I've lifted the above off the web. I found it interesting. I'm not too worried about my levels of magnesium, because I use epson salts in my bath instead of bubbles etc. (Since the skin absorbs chemicals, I figure it might as well be something beneficial instead of a chemical mix of stuff.)Anyway, you can buy epson salts in bulk from most pharmasists if you ask them to order them in. There is a site about them here: http://www.epsomsaltcouncil.org/health_why_it_works.htm
It leaves the skin soft and lovely too!
Anyway, I thought I would share what I've found, as I've not spotted any mention of magnesium here.
Intracellular magnesium relaxes muscles. What happens when you can't store magnesium because the cell is resistant? You lose magnesium and your blood vessels constrict.
This causes an increase in blood pressure and a reduction in energy since intracellular magnesium is required for all energy producing reactions that take place in the cell.
But most importantly, magnesium is also necessary for the action of insulin and the manufacture of insulin. When you raise your insulin, you lose magnesium, and the cells become even more insulin resistant. Blood vessels constrict and glucose and insulin can't get to the tissues, which makes them more insulin resistant, so the insulin levels go up and you lose more magnesium. This is the vicious cycle that begins even before you were born.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
I've lifted the above off the web. I found it interesting. I'm not too worried about my levels of magnesium, because I use epson salts in my bath instead of bubbles etc. (Since the skin absorbs chemicals, I figure it might as well be something beneficial instead of a chemical mix of stuff.)Anyway, you can buy epson salts in bulk from most pharmasists if you ask them to order them in. There is a site about them here: http://www.epsomsaltcouncil.org/health_why_it_works.htm
It leaves the skin soft and lovely too!
Anyway, I thought I would share what I've found, as I've not spotted any mention of magnesium here.