The great calmer!

There are many reasons why Magnesium is called “the great calmer”

Increasing your levels of magnesium can relax nerves and muscles and aid poor sleep, stress and constipation, all terrible stress related disorders.

Increasing your magnesium can also help with PMS , tension headaches and migraines.

There are many signs you are lacking in magnesium, eyelids twitching when you are tired or stressed, tension headaches or migraines, muscle cramps, bloating or painful periods.

Following receiving mine and my sons celiac results and finding out that thankfully we are both negative, it then leaves the question as to what gives us both the symptoms we display.

We will be given many more allergy tests over the coming weeks, however once I got onto the topic of magnesium it seems this could play a factor in my symptoms, so I’ve now decided to give a magnesium supplement a go and see if in a few months my symptoms are in any way improved!

I’ve opted for the supplement route to ensure that I get the daily recommended dosage, however if you want to naturally up your magnesium in take you can find magnesium in a number of foods such as, brown rice, whole-wheat and oats, brazil nuts,sesame seeds, almonds,cashews,spinach and cocoa, the later being one of my favourite super foods, and so yummy mixed in your morning oats!

I think for women magnesium seems to play an integral part in not only easing PMS symptoms but also peri menopausal symptoms as well.

I’m already dreading the peri menopausal years as it sounds like a nightmare from friends who have already hit this stage in life, so if I can find a natural remedy to ease any of the horrors that await then I will do my best to source this.

Watch this space!