Magnesium Health Watch

In this excellent list at Wake Up and Breathe, Lorraine mentions another way that magnesium can help the body. Magnesium can be used to help treat PMS.  While vitamins are helpful in addressing skin, stress and mood issues associated with pms, calcium combined with magnesium can help cramps.  Magnesium helps the body absorb the needed calcium that helps minimize pain.

“Fight PMS with calcium and magnesium: Calcium prevents menstrual cramps and pain. Magnesium helps the body in absorbing calcium. Magnesium helps in controlling premenstrual food cravings and stabilizing moods. If you do not suffer from lactose intolerance, you can opt for skim milk as a source of calcium. Include green leafy vegetables, beans, peas, tofu and canned salmon for calcium and spinach, tofu, rice bran and some fish like halibut and mackerel for magnesium.”

12 Ways to Fight PMS | Wake Up And Breathe.

Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night with leg cramps?  There are many remedies for this irritating and painful condition, where your leg or foot will flex without your intending.

Studies have shown that in addition to Vitamin E, other mineral therapies such as magnesium may reduce leg cramping, by addressing the all-too-common magnesium deficiency.

Here’s more detail:

“Low levels of certain minerals known as electrolytes—magnesium, potassium, calcium and sodium—have long been linked to leg cramps. (Marathon runners sweating out the miles are particularly prone to this variety.) Certain drugs, such as diuretics (water pills) for the heart and for high blood pressure, have also been cited as a cause of leg cramps. Dialysis patients, who have their blood filtered by a machine because their kidneys don’t work properly, often complain of leg cramps. And pregnancy, it seems, is also a factor”

Prevention’s Healing with Vitamins Leg Cramps.