#Magnesium can be used in body care to improve your #mental, #emotional and #physical #health in many ways.

Therapeutic uses:
* Relieves #muscle #tension and #inflammation in #massage, #soaks and #sprays
* Relieves #pain in the #back, #joints and #muscles
* Reduces #inflammation that leads to #migraine #headache and #neuropathy

Magnesium Chloride from dried sea deposits and purified in the Netherlands.

Sold by the gram, $0.0180/g. Please bring or order a bag

MINIMUM ORDER IS 100g OR $5 WORTH and buy a bag or other suitable container (search JAR or BOTTLE on our website).

You can bring your own container if you are picking up. Please make sure that you bring bottles for liquids and wide-mouthed jars or bags for solids. Please make sure that the containers you bring are the right size. To use your container for oils, the bottle must be exactly the right size because I will be filling your order by volume. A 1000mL J jar, not a quart jar. In case of shorting due to metric versus imperial measures, I may fill your container right to the top, your measure might be short, or I may ask you to buy an extra container.

Magnesium for Massage

Topical magnesium chloride is also a fabulous tool for massage, chiropractic & osteopathy. Most people who seek massage therapy are tense on a biochemical level; they are magnesium deficient and lack the ingredients necessary for their muscles and nervous system to relax. They often feel exhausted because their nervous system is over-stimulated as a result of not having enough magnesium. When you apply magnesium chloride on before a massage, you are giving the body the ingredients for relaxation, making the massage more effective. Using magnesium after the massage helps to maintain relaxation longer. Magnesium also helps fascia to release, which is relevant for osteopathy and chiropractic. Adequate levels of magnesium help a client maintain the adjustment. If the fascia relaxes thoroughly, it will not pull the muscle back into the pre-adjustment position. This facilitates treatment and improves outcomes for the client.

Magnesium also reduces inflammation. Inflammation is caused by the degranulation of mast cells, a kind of white blood cell. Inflammation happens when a kind of white blood cell called a Mast cell bursts. Mast cells are significantly less likely to burst in the presence of healthy amounts of magnesium. Magnesium eases inflammation throughout the body, helping relieve conditions such as arthritis, swelling caused by trauma, joint pain and atherosclerosis. By the same mechanism, magnesium also prevents the immune system from over-reacting. This works to reduce the likelihood as well as severity of anaphylaxis and allergic response.

Magnesium deficiency is a known amplifier of pain. Adequate levels of magnesium are associated with lowering NMDA levels, the neurotransmitter associated with pain. High levels of NMDA in the brain correlated with experience of pain. Magnesium blocks NMDA receptors, preventing calcium or glutamate from stimulating them. In the presence of magnesium, NMDA levels lower and less pain is experienced. Magnesium soothes the nervous system, decreasing hypersensitivity. There are pharmaceutical products that lower NMDA but they usually have nasty side effects and associated toxicity. Magnesium, on the other hand, is non-toxic, healing the body and restoring it to its natural balance.

Prostaglandins are another kind of chemical associated with pain and inflammation. In the presence of magnesium, the body makes less prostaglandins. This results in less pain and inflammation. Magnesium is useful in coping with all sorts of pain, including chronic pain as well as that caused by sprains, strains & injuries. Magnesium is used to eliminate migraines, acute nerve pain (associated with pancreatic cancer and diabetic neuropathy, for example) and fibromyalgia.

Magnesium & Muscles

On a molecular level, calcium causes a muscle cell to contract. Magnesium must come along and bump the calcium away from the receptor site in order for the muscle to relax. In order to contract again, the muscle cell must first release. In the absence of adequate amounts of magnesium, muscle cells do not relax efficiently. Some fibres stay contracted, and this causes spasms & pain. Magnesium naturally relaxes muscles, relieving cramps & tension. When you have enough magnesium, you feel relaxed. Topical magnesium chloride, sprayed on the site of the cramp and also on the throat and neck, relieves muscle spasms on the spot. The muscle relaxation properties of magnesium relieve muscle cramps, menstrual cramps and can prevent heart attacks.

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