From Nutrition Breakthroughs - Studies Show Calcium and Magnesium Help Sleep, Bones, the Heart, Stomach, Muscles, Menopause and More

GLENDALE, CA, September 10, 2012 (Press-News.org) Calcium and magnesium are the most famous of all the minerals due to their vast array of benefits to our health. Dr. Linus Pauling, the two-time Nobel Prize winner said: "You can trace every sickness, every disease, and every ailment to a mineral deficiency." Studies have proven calcium to be effective for increasing bone health, reducing high blood pressure, relaxing the nerves and muscles, and preventing colon cancer and kidney stones. Magnesium is a proven nutrient for strengthening heart health, reducing diabetes, and treating migraines, insomnia and depression.

Calcium, magnesium, boron and several other minerals were discovered by British chemist Sir Humphry Davy in the early 1800's. Calcium is essential to all living things and calcium phosphate is the main component of bone. Regarding stomach and colon health, a 2007 study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found that calcium protects high-risk people from developing the polyps (growths in the colon) that can lead to cancer in the large bowel. The researchers found that the risk reduction occurred during the study and also lasted a full five years after the calcium supplementation ended.

Calcium supplements were shown to help prevent kidney stones in a 2008 study at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine. The theory of how this works is that dietary calcium binds with a waste product in the stomach called oxalate (which comes from foods like spinach, strawberries, nuts and tea). Most kidney stones are made of oxalate. When calcium is taken, the calcium and oxalate bind together, crystallize, and exit the body long before there's a chance for the oxalate to form into kidney stones.

Mildred Seelig, M.D., the leading medical researcher on magnesium says: "Many people needlessly suffer pain - including fibromyalgia, migraines and muscle cramps - because they don't get enough magnesium." According to the University of Maryland Medical Center web site, inadequate magnesium also appears to reduce serotonin levels in the brain. One study found that magnesium was just as effective as an antidepressant drug in treating depression. In addition, researchers at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute reported that for every 100 milligram increase in magnesium intake, the risk of developing type-2 diabetes decreased by 15 per cent.

Studies have shown that people with migraine headaches have low concentrations of magnesium in their body. The word "cephalalgia" literally means head pain or headache. In a German study of 81 migraine patients published in the journal "Cephalalgia", 42 percent of the people taking oral magnesium reduced both the duration and intensity of their migraine attacks. They also reduced their reliance on medications to control migraines.

James F. Balch, M.D., author of Prescription for Nutritional Healing, writes: "A lack of the nutrients calcium and magnesium will cause you to wake up after a few hours and not be able to return to sleep." Chronic insomnia is one of the main symptoms of magnesium deficiency. Sleep in magnesium deficiency is usually agitated with frequent nighttime awakenings. On the other hand, a high magnesium diet has been found to be associated with deeper, less interrupted sleep. This was proven in a study done by James Penland at the Human Nutrition Research Center in North Dakota.

The pioneering nutritionist Adelle Davis says: "A calcium deficiency often shows itself by insomnia, another form of an inability to relax. The harm done by sleeping tablets, to say nothing of the thousands of dollars spent on them, could largely be avoided if the calcium intake were adequate."

Nutritional supplements containing calcium and magnesium can support one's health in many different ways and also double as an effective sleep remedy. An example of a well-balanced mineral supplement is Sleep Minerals II from http://www.NutritionBreakthroughs.com. This natural insomnia remedy contains highly absorbable forms of the best minerals and vitamins for relaxation: Calcium, magnesium and Vitamin D. The ingredients are delivered in a softgel form with carrier oils, making them more easily assimilated than capsules or tablets and providing a deeper, longer-lasting sleep.

Wendy R. of Honolulu, Hawaii says: "I've had chronic insomnia for a very long time. I received the Sleep Minerals II and took it and I actually slept. This thing really works. I wanted to say, its funny, but people know I have insomnia and once in a while a co-worker will ask me how I slept. In the past, if I ever got a good nights sleep I'd say "I slept like a baby", but that's the wrong analogy. Those little guys get up every two hours. I am actually beginning to sleep like an adult -- a much-rested adult."

The best thing about supplementing with calcium and magnesium is the large list of studies showing they support virtually every part, organ and system in our body. For more information on Sleep Minerals II visit http://www.nutritionbreakthroughs.com.