Healing Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS): Magnesium

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Magnesium is a mineral needed for more than 300 biochemical reactions in the body. It helps maintain normal muscle and nerve function, keeps heart rhythm steady and bones strong.⁵⁵ It works to keep muscles properly relaxed.⁵⁶ Often thought of as food for the muscles, it works as a relaxant to significantly improve cramps.⁵⁷ It is also involved in energy metabolism and protein synthesis.⁵⁵

Magnesium is an all-star nutrient that assists in energy production and aids the electrical conduction of the heart.⁵⁷

Investigators may be breaking new ground, but magnesium has a long healing history. Epsom salts, first discovered in Epsom, England, and essentially made of magnesium sulfate, has long been the key ingredient of soothing hot foot soaks. Magnesium in this form has the ability to draw water from inflamed muscles and tissues.⁵⁸

Inside your body, magnesium serves several crucial roles, including helping to turn food into energy and helping to transmit electrical impulses across nerves and muscles. These impulses generate what's called neuromuscular contraction, literally causing your muscles to flex. Take away magnesium, and muscles, even the smooth muscles that routinely squeeze blood vessels, will cramp.⁵⁵

People who abuse alcohol are at high risk for magnesium deficiency because alcohol increases urinary excretion of magnesium. Low blood levels of magnesium occur in 30 percent to 60 percent of alcoholics and in nearly 90 percent of patients experiencing alcohol withdrawal.⁵⁵

Once absorbed, magnesium enters the circulatory system where it is transported to areas most in need of its proven therapeutic powers. When cellular magnesium levels are restored, the potential health benefits are numerous. Skin can become more radiant. Teeth and bones can grow stronger. Energy levels can increase. Aches, pains and stress can be relieved. Moods can be boosted, muscles can function better and there's often a marked improvement in sleep.⁵⁹

"There's no question that magnesium is the most looked-at mineral in nutrition today." says Herbert C. Mansmann M.D., professor of pediatrics at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. "The research papers on this topic are increasing exponentially." The more studies researchers conduct, the more impressive this mineral looks.⁵⁸

SUMMARY: Magnesium will help heal and balance the inflamed cells that are causing your restless legs. It will also help the tissue and muscles become more flexible, and therefore more able to be unaffected by the energy moving through your body. Magnesium is also an anti-inflammatory, which will help in the overall healing of the inflammation that you are experiencing.