The mineral magnesium is essential for living a happy, healthy life. It is the most abundant mineral in your body and has over 3,000 receptor sites spread out across every organ. Magnesium helps multiple areas in your body, ranging from muscle and nerve function to bone development and blood sugar control.
What you may not know is that magnesium is also helpful when you’re looking to get a good night’s sleep!
How Can Magnesium Help?
Research on magnesium has shown a couple different ways that the mineral can help with sleep functions.
Helps With Muscle Relaxation
If you’re an athlete, you may already know this one thanks to magnesium sprays that are used post-workout, but using magnesium has been seen to help inhibit the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor, which in turn can promote muscle relaxation. You can’t sleep if you’re not relaxed!1
Helps Regulate GABA
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) is neurotransmitter found in the brain that is used to help calm the nervous system. Magnesium can possibly help regulate GABA, which would then help calm you down and allow you to relax as you get ready to go to sleep.2
Helps Promote Melatonin Creation
You may have seen melatonin supplements before. Melatonin, a hormone produced by the brain, helps maintain your circadian rhythm (your body’s awake/asleep cycle). Using magnesium has been seen to be impactful in promoting the creation of melatonin.
Helps Decrease Cortisol
Cortisol is commonly known as “the stress hormone,” and contributes to our fight-or-flight response when stressed by shutting down any non-essential bodily functions (such as immune or reproductive functions) to give your body a burst of energy to react to the situation.
By helping reduce levels of cortisol in your body, magnesium can help promote a sense of calm, which can help you get a better night’s rest.
The Difference With Magnical-D®
While you can — and should — fill your diet with healthy foods that contain magnesium (foods rich in magnesium include seeds, salmon, leafy greens, nuts, beans and rice) we all know that sometimes that just doesn’t cut it. That’s where Nutrifii™ Magnical-D® comes in!
Magnical-D delivers bioavailable forms of calcium, magnesium, vitamin D3 for calcium absorption, and vitamin K2 for nutrient absorption. Magnical-D is your source for maintaining strong, healthy bones.
This exclusive vitamin and mineral blend delivers critical bone health nutrients in a single, convenient formula. As we discussed above, not only can magnesium help with your bones, but it’s doing double time by helping with your sleep. It’s a win-win, especially when you see that Magnical-D contains a whopping 400 mg of magnesium per serving.
Stock up on Magnical-D today, you won’t regret it in the morning!
Sources
1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8094171/
2 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680766/
3 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9571539/
4https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9610293/