Magnesium therapy is the missing factor in high blood pressure control. When you try antihypertensive diet, blood pressure lowering drugs or supplement and did not get results, why not try magnesium.
Magnesium is the most abundant mineral in the body. When you consider the big four (macro nutrients) like sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium, magnesium is like the super glue that holds everything together. Most homeopath call minerals cell-salt needed for hypertension control. Of all, magnesium is the most important. It is magnanimous in curing many diseases of which hypertension and vascular disease are part. Magnesium is a natural calcium blocker as such helps to dilate constricted blood vessels (atherosclerosis or vascular spasms). In fact, magnesium can reverse arteriosclerotic plaques. Magnesium also help the excretion of excess sodium while bonding with potassium to regulate?blood pressure and heart disease.
Heavy metals like lead and calcium can which can raise blood pressure are antagonised by magnesium. Magnesium citrate can also reverse calcification of hardened blood vessels thereby lowering elevated blood pressure, high cholesterol and blood thrombo-embolism. I normally combine magnesium and zinc picolinate to dissolve arteriosclerosis and combat hypertension.
One of the hidden causes of hypertension is increased blood viscosity because?excess fibrin and?high blood acidic wastes. Most peoples’ blood flow like yogurt instead of water (although blood is thicker than water). Magnesium can reverse excessive blood clot and?combat fibrosis. Magnesium does it better than asprin which can?only stop platelet aggregation without reversing fibrosis. Calcium helps clotting factors and magnesium does the opposite by antagonizing calcium in the blood stream. Excess calcium is responsible for calcification and hardening of blood vessels that lead to atherosclerotic hypertension.
The current concept of hypertension is that it is a chronic?inflammatory response?to high blood acidity and free radicals. Magnesium is anti-inflammatory mineral. It specifically stimulate anti-inflammatory prostaglandin E1 which is a potent vasodilator. In the same vein, magnesium stimulates the release of nitrous oxide (endothelial relaxation factor) which is manufactured by the epithelium of blood vessels. Nitric oxide itself is a by-product of amino acid, arginine. Magnesium arginate is not just great for lowering high blood pressure, it is also good for improving fertility and reversing antihypertensive-drug induced impotence. Magnesium also combat inflammation by inhibiting the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines. It blocks the release of allergic mediators by combating the degranulation of mast cells and basophils. This minimizes the release of histamine which mediates hypersensitivity reactions that cause pain. Wherever there is inflammation, there is pain. Magnesium has been known to decrease the level of C-reactive protein production in the liver. C-reactive protein is a more?precise marker of inflammation and coronary artery disease than raised cholesterol or homocysteine levels.
Magnesium is involved as a cofactor (coenzymes if vitamins) in over?1,500 chemical reactions in the body. Therefore, without magnesium, many enzymatic reactions will stall. Enzymes drive the train of antibodies that power tissue repair and regeneration. Magnesium come in to help clean and detoxify polluted and sluggish antibodies, anti-oxidant enzymes and help to detoxify the liver thereby helping to regulate blood pressure. Yes, sluggish liver and kidneys are cleaned of acidic debris by magnesium thereby preventing circulatory problems like increased LDL cholesterol, thrombus formation,?hypertension and?stroke.
Pregnancy induced-hypertension (called pre-eclampsia) is another condition that responds well to magnesium therapy. Some times after the 20th week of gestation, the pregnant mother develops hypertension, spills proteins in her urine and starts swelling. when seizures are added to the symptom complex it is called eclampsia. This condition is cured with intravenous magnesium sulphate. This can save the life of both the mother and her baby even when antihypertensives could not help.
One of the factors that is implicated in chronic blood pressure elevation is stress or distress. Magnesium act as a natural calm to combat mental, oxidative and emotional stress. It helps antagonize and balance stress hormones. Therefore, magnesium functions as centrally acting antihypertensive remedy. So more magnesium is needed during times of stress because the?potency is dose dependent. The irony is that stress depletes magnesium stores as well as vitamin C. These two nutrients are needed in triple doses during stress.
Magnesium, therefore is the sure, safe, natural, cheap and lasting solution to intractable high blood pressure. Few individuals may not benefit from magnesium as no two people are alike. Magnesium should be the first response and not the last resort in systemic hypertension management. The good news is that magnesium can even help prevent the blood pressure from rising in the first place.
