Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in your body, and your body can’t work properly without it.

The nutrient is essential for hundreds of metabolic processes and many other important bodily functions — from producing energy to building important proteins like your DNA.

Dietary sources of magnesium include legumes, nuts, seeds, and green leafy vegetables. Smaller amounts are found in meat and fish.

However, despite its importance, studies show that almost 50% of people in Western countries in Europe and the United States don’t get enough of this essential mineral.

Magnesium plays an important role in relaying signals between your brain and body.

It acts as the gatekeeper for the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors, which are found on your nerve cells and aid brain development, memory and learning.

In healthy adults, magnesium sits inside the NMDA receptors, preventing them from being triggered by weak signals that may stimulate your nerve cells unnecessarily.

When your magnesium levels are low, fewer NMDA receptors are blocked. This means they are prone to being stimulated more often than necessary.

This kind of overstimulation can kill nerve cells and may cause brain damage.

Magnesium is important for maintaining a healthy heartbeat.

It naturally competes with calcium, which is essential for generating heart contractions.

When calcium enters your heart muscle cells, it stimulates the muscle fibers to contract. Magnesium counters this effect, helping these cells relax.

This movement of calcium and magnesium across your heart cells maintains a healthy heartbeat.

What’s more, the sodium-potassium pump, an enzyme that generates electrical impulses, requires magnesium for proper function. Certain electrical impulses can affect your heartbeat.

Magnesium also plays a role in regulating muscle contractions.

Just like in the heart, magnesium acts as a natural calcium blocker to help muscles relax.

In your muscles, calcium binds to proteins such as troponin C and myosin. This process changes the shape of these proteins, which generates a contraction.

Magnesium competes with calcium for these same binding spots to help relax your muscles.

If your body doesn’t have enough magnesium to compete with calcium, your muscles may contract too much, causing cramps or spasms.

For this reason, magnesium is commonly recommended to treat muscle cramps.

However, studies show mixed results regarding magnesium’s ability to relieve cramps — some even finding no benefit at all.

Magnesium can help to support the relaxation and dilation of blood vessels, supporting smooth blood flow and circulation in the body.

Magnesium plays a role in the metabolism of glucose (sugar), contributing to a healthy insulin response. This helps to facilitate the process of transporting glucose into cells and balancing blood sugar.

Poor sleep is a major health problem around the world.

Taking Magnesium may help to support sleep quality by helping your mind and body relax. The relaxation effects of magnesium can help to support sleep latency and sleep quality as well.

Magnesium plays a role in supporting neurotransmitters in the brain related to mood, which can make it a great nutrient to help support mood and well-being. It can also help to support relaxation and a healthy response to stress.

• Mental/emotional stress
• Hard physical exertions
• Caffeine intake
• Being diabetic, or obese
• High doses of vitamin D supplementation
• Calcium and other mineral supplements
• An unhealthy diet with a lot of processed foods
• Alcoholism
• Stomach acid-reducing drugs
• Bisphosphonate drugs for osteoporosis
• Some antibiotics
• Diuretic drugs and blood pressure-reducing drugs
• Kidney disease
• Old age
• Gut issues that affect magnesium absorption, such as Celiac and colitis

If you have a medical condition or are taking medications, consult your physician before introducing any supplements or getting off the medications.

This information is purely educational and is in no way intended to claim that our products alleviate any problems or symptoms listed above.

These foods could be high in magnesium.

• Dark chocolate
• Avocado
• Yogurt
• Potatoes
• Bananas
• Dairy
• Sourdough bread

It depends on how deficient you are and your individual magnesium needs. If you’re under more physical or emotional stress, you may need more than an average person. Physical stressors include exercise and physical jobs. Vitamin D supplementation (which also helps with sleep) may also increase magnesium needs.

The recommended daily allowance for magnesium is 400 mg/day for men and 310 mg/day for women.

However, very few people get this amount from food.

Studies have shown benefits of magnesium supplementation from 125 mg to 2500 mg/day. Begin supplementing with magnesium and observe your body’s response. If you have kidney problems or are on medications that many affect mineral balance (e.g. hypertension medication), it is important to speak to your physician before introducing a magnesium supplement.

Magnesium does different things than melatonin. Melatonin is a nighttime hormone that tells your body it is time to sleep. Whereas, magnesium helps promote a relaxation response as you wind down to sleep. There is time and place for both. However, taking an exogenous hormone may disrupt the body’s own circadian rhythm. Whereas, taking magnesium can help support a relaxed state which can lead to better sleep.

Everyone should take magnesium given that the modern lifestyle depletes it and the modern diet doesn’t provide enough. If you have suboptimal sleep, such as taking a long time to fall asleep, waking up tired, or feeling tired in the afternoon, magnesium may help improve your sleep quality.

Excessive amounts of magnesium can cause stomach upset and diarrhea. However, these are much more common with inorganic salts (oxide, chloride, and sulfate) than organic salts (glycinate, chelate, sucrosomial, malate, taurate, etc).

• For Men: Take 4 capsules with a meal daily
• For Women: Take 3 capsules with a meal daily
• For maintenance, take consistently every day. We also recommend testing your magnesium levels to determine the extent of any deficiencies and monitor your levels as your correct the deficiency.

To support sleep, take on an empty stomach 1 - 2 hours before bedtime.

Many individuals do not get the amount of magnesium they should be getting in their diets, even though magnesium controls 300 bodily processes and is involved in over 600 reactions that take place in our body. Magnesium supports metabolic and nervous system health while also providing energy support, help with sleep and relaxation, as well as stress relief.

The capsule is made from bovine gelatin, so the product overall is not vegan. However, the contents are vegan-friendly.

Yes, DAILY MAGNESIUM is dairy-free, however, it is processed in the same facility as some dairy-containing products.

DAILY MAGNESIUM does not contain any of the so-called “Big 8” allergens. These are: milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, wheat and soy, however, it's processed in the same facility where these ingredients are handled.

We always recommend talking to your prescribing physician before using any supplements to ensure that they are safe to take with your medical history.

We have many customers take this product on an empty stomach with no issues, but we generally recommend taking it with food and water.