The Importance of Vitamin D and Magnesium in Athletes
Vitamin D and magnesium are essential nutrients that play key roles in an athlete's performance, recovery, and overall health. Vitamin D is crucial for bone health (aiding calcium absorption and preventing stress fractures), muscle function (preve...
Dominguez LJ, Veronese N, Ragusa FS et al. — Nutrients
Magnesium biology
Magnesium (Mg2+) is essential for energy metabolism, muscle contraction and neurotransmission. As part of the Mg-ATP complex, it is involved in over 600 enzymatic reactions. Serum Mg2+ levels are tightly regulated between 0.7 and 1.1 mmol/L b...
Kröse JL, de Baaij JHF — Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association
Effects of Magnesium Supplementation on Muscle Soreness and Performance
Reno, AM, Green, M, Killen, LG, O'Neal, EK, Pritchett, K, and Hanson, Z. Effects of magnesium supplementation on muscle soreness and performance. J Strength Cond Res 36(8): 2198-2203, 2022-This double-blind, between-group study examined effects of...
Reno AM, Green M, Killen LG et al. — Journal of strength and conditioning research
An update on magnesium and bone health
In 2009 EFSA Panel concludes that a cause and effect relationship has been established between the dietary intake of magnesium (Mg) and maintenance of normal bone. After 2009, numerous studies have been published, but no reviews have made an updat...
Rondanelli M, Faliva MA, Tartara A et al. — Biometals : an international journal on the role of metal ions in biology, biochemistry, and medicine
Magnesium in Aging, Health and Diseases
Several changes of magnesium (Mg) metabolism have been reported with aging, including diminished Mg intake, impaired intestinal Mg absorption and renal Mg wasting. Mild Mg deficits are generally asymptomatic and clinical signs are usually non-spec...
Barbagallo M, Veronese N, Dominguez LJ — Nutrients
Magnesium: Are We Consuming Enough?
Magnesium is essential for maintaining normal cellular and organ function. In-adequate magnesium balance is associated with various disorders, such as skeletal deformities, cardiovascular diseases, and metabolic syndrome. Unfortunately, routinely ...
Razzaque MS — Nutrients
Magnesium and Cardiovascular Disease
Magnesium is the most abundant intracellular divalent cation and essential for maintaining normal cellular physiology and metabolism, acting as a cofactor of numerous enzymes, regulating ion channels and energy generation. In the heart, magnesium ...
Tangvoraphonkchai K, Davenport A — Advances in chronic kidney disease
Can Magnesium Enhance Exercise Performance?
Magnesium (Mg) is an essential mineral that plays a critical role in the human body. It takes part in the process of energy metabolism and assists the maintenance of normal muscle function. A number of studies evaluated the association between Mg ...
Zhang Y, Xun P, Wang R et al. — Nutrients
Magnesium and the Athlete
Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral and the second most abundant intracellular divalent cation in the body. It is a required mineral that is involved in more than 300 metabolic reactions in the body. Magnesium helps maintain normal nerve...
Volpe SL — Current sports medicine reports
Magnesium in man: implications for health and disease
Magnesium (Mg(2+)) is an essential ion to the human body, playing an instrumental role in supporting and sustaining health and life. As the second most abundant intracellular cation after potassium, it is involved in over 600 enzymatic reactions i...
de Baaij JH, Hoenderop JG, Bindels RJ — Physiological reviews