Magnesium and High Blood Pressure
Does magnesium lower blood pressure, or should you not worry about it? Here is what the research says about magnesium and blood pressure.
The Importance Of Magnesium – A Personal Experience
High blood pressure runs in my family. I was personally diagnosed with hypertension in middle school. I was prescribed medication; but like many college students, I neglected my health after high school and stopped taking my pills. I was forced to start taking my medication again after I began developing random, massive nosebleeds in college.
But then, a few years ago, I developed heart palpitations, which sent me to the emergency room. My heart was trying to beat between beats – yes, very uncomfortable – and that’s when I discovered I had a magnesium deficiency. (By the way, here are 16 magnesium deficiency symptoms to take note of so you don’t suffer as I did.)In a meta-analysis, a group of researchers led by Dr. Yiqing Song, an associate professor of epidemiology at Indiana University, looked at 34 studies having a combined total of more than 2,000 patients.
All the studies were double-blind, placebo-controlled trials. In other words, some of the subjects in each study received a placebo instead of magnesium, and neither the participants nor the investigators knew who had been given the supplements and who had been given the placebos.
The participants were given between 240 and 960 milligrams of magnesium daily, and the studies ranged in duration from three weeks to six months.
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