Three Minerals That Relieve Pain, Depression and Sleep ProblemsMinerals are critical to good health! Every living cell on planet Earth relies on them for proper function and structure. Minerals are required for all the enzyme activities in your body, for maintaining chemical balance, for correct body fluids, blood and bone formation, healthy function of nerves and muscle tone, including your heart. Books are available to learn about the function of every mineral, but for the purpose of relief from chronic pain and fatigue, let’s focus on just three. MagnesiumMagnesium is especially important to people suffering from chronic pain, because it plays an important role in relaxing tight muscles.
This is a serious problem, because magnesium is responsible for more than 300 enzyme reactions in your body! Magnesium is found in all your tissues, but is especially concentrated in your brain, bones and muscles. This is why magnesium deficiency is correlated with literally thousands of conditions. For chronic pain sufferers, these conditions can include fibromyalgia, muscle cramps, chronic fatigue, headaches, migraines, kidney stones, and menstrual cramps. Magnesium is especially important as a catalyst for the enzymes that support energy production. Often people with chronic pain also cope with chronic fatigue. Magnesium deficiency may be part of the problem! Our typical American diet has almost no magnesium. Chronic stress will deplete your levels even more, as will alcohol, salt, coffee, sugar, cola, fluoride, profuse sweating, chronic diarrhea, heavy menstruation, diuretics and other drugs, antibiotics, and some intestinal parasites. CalciumCalcium deficiency can cause aching joints, muscle cramps, numbness in your arms or legs, rheumatoid arthritis, heart palpitations, and depression.You need calcium in your blood for muscle and nerve function. When you take calcium, it's absorbed in the small intestine and passes from there into the bloodstream and ultimately into the bones. For best absorption, you need to consume a correct ratio of phosphorus to calcium. When such a calcium deficiency in the blood develops, parathyroid hormone acts to transfer calcium from the bones in order to maintain the mineral's all-important presence in the bloodstream. This strips your bones of their calcium and over time weakens your bones, making them more brittle and subject to breaking. ZincZinc is especially important to your chronic pain, because a deficiency of zinc will result in inflammation, which lies at the core of many chronic pain conditions, including arthritis. More than a third of the world's population is zinc deficient! This is a very serious problem, because zinc helps you have a strong immune system, helps you break down food, get rid of heavy metals, avoid depression and eating disorders.Ideally we'd get our minerals from a healthy diet. But in our polluted and stressful world, our nutrient needs are increasing, while soils are being depleted and foods are being processed and packaged for maximum profit, at the sacrifice of nutritional value. That means that it is wise to seek a quality mineral supplement and take it every day. But which supplement is best? How do you know which minerals YOUR body needs?
Not All Mineral Supplements Are Created Equal.
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