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19 January, 2007

Magnesium in the Heart & Blood Vessels

Magnesium is a vital structural component of muscle cells, and the heart is mainly muscle. Indeed, heart muscle, when healthy, contains even more magnesium than other muscles do. And when magnesium levels become low, they can drop more in heart muscle cells than in other muscles. Each molecule of myosin (muscle protein) has an atom of magnesium in it. Muscles therefore need magnesium for the muscles to work. About 27% of the body's magnesium is in the muscle tissue, including the muscle cells that make blood vessels contract or relax as blood driven by the heart muscle's pumping, flows through them. If a magnesium deficiency begins to affect the heart's muscle cells and the"nerve conduction system" also known as the Purkinje System  of the heart which leads to membrane instability, resulting in a arrhythmia (irregular heart beat) tachycardia, a rapid heart rate or bradycardia (slow heart rate) can cause severe problems and may require a pacemaker. The availability of magnesium within the heart is impacts the levels of potassium and calcium. This also affects the nerve conduction system. A low level of magnesium in the heart can cause heart palpitations that may prove to be life threatening. Blood vessel muscle cells require a healthy amount of magnesium to relax following each heart muscle contraction and relaxation, thus magnesium is needed to maintain flexibility within these tissues . If magnesium is not within physiologic limits  the cardiovascular tissues be calcified, stiffened and hardened, a condition known as arteriosclerosis. Please feel free to contact me, for further discussion or consultation.

Posted by cytobiomed 07:15 | Anti-aging- Revitalization (Niehans' Stem Cell Therapy) | Comment(0) | Permalink

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