subject: Will Magnesium help Your Headaches? [print this page] Will Magnesium help Your Headaches? Will Magnesium help Your Headaches?
How can you be sure you don't need magnesium for your migraines?
We do know this. Magnesium is the 11th most abundant element by mass in the human body. Its ions are essential to all living cells. Magnesium compounds are used medicinally as common laxatives, antacids ( we've all took the next one sometime or another in our life), milk of magnesia, and in a number of situations where stabilization of abnormal nerve excitation and blood vessel spasm is required.We do know if you go to the ER with a scull cracking migraine, and they give youintravenous magnesium, your headache can be stopped in its tracks. Swallowing magnesium doesn't have the same quick effect, but!!!
What if you took a supplement each day for your magnesium migraines? Would magnesium help your migraines? You be the judge
# (1) Magnesium relaxes muscles and prevents the buildup of lactic acid.Lacticacidalong with muscle tension, canmake your head hurt worse.
# (2) Magnesium prevents the formation of tinyclots that can block blood vessels.
# (3) When your brains neurotransmitters, and inflammatory substances are not balanced, magnesium steps in and regulates that action.
# (4) As we said above, magnesium relaxes blood vessels, and allows them to dilate, which then reduces the spasms, and constrictions that cause migraines.
Although this wasn't a controlled study, when 3,000 migraine suffererswere given200mg of magnesium daily they ended up with an 80% reduction in their migraine symptoms.Not only a deficiency in magnesium can cause migraines, but magnesium has been found totame cluster headaches as well. Relief is found using a magnesium supplement.
Easy self help , and supplements for your migraines.
# (1) Identify any food allergies that may be triggering your migraines,
# (2) get regular exercise, and work on stress therapy.
# (3) Take Magnesium Citrate : a magnesium migraines dose is about 300mg two or three times a day
# (4) Take Calcium Citrate : 500mg once a day. A balance is needed with , calcium and magnesium.
# (5) Take Vitamin B2 known as Riboflavin 400mg a day.
# (6) Vitamin B complex : 50mg a day (only complex)
# (7) Also take Feverfew at about 100 mg a day.Feverfew is doctor recommenced for headaches
As a side note, if you have muscle twitches, this is a sure sign of magnesium deficiency. Magnesium is a vital component of a healthy human diet.
Human magnesium deficiency, and thatincludes conditions that show few symptoms is relatively common. Only 32% of the population in the United States meets the RDA-DRI.Low levels of magnesium in the body has been associated with the development of a number of human illnesses such as asthma, diabetes, and osteoporosis. Alcohol can give you a magnesium deficiency also.
Ways you can increase your magnesium through diet.
Some turn their nose up to spinach but it's rich in magnesium. Also vegetables, red meat, cocoa, tea, cereals, nuts, and spices have magnesium in them, but keep in mind some of these foods can trigger headaches in some people. Many magnesium supplements are available. Look for magnesium chloride, malate, orotate, ascorbate, and gluconate , instead of the more available magnesium oxide, which is barley absorbed.
Overdosing on magnesium, can you do this?
Excess magnesium through diet is freely filtered through your kidneys, and would be difficult to overdose this way. But with magnesium supplements overdose is possible. As far as magnesium migraine side effects, about the only ones may be diarrhea (cut back on your dose if this happens) , bloating, and even nausea at high doses.
Symptoms of a magnesium supplement overdose !!
# (1) Loss of consciousness,
# (2) Muscle weakness.
# (3) dizziness
# (4) Confusion
# (5) Skin flushing
# (6) Erratic heartbeat
We know of several headache sufferers that were helped because they had a magnesium deficiency.
