Magnesium is a key mineral for your nervous system, heart, and overall circulation. It is required in your heart to support the heart muscle’s normal contraction-relaxation pumping actions. Your heart also requires a tremendous amount of energy to work properly, and magnesium is needed in the final step of all energy synthesis (ATP production). Your arteries need magnesium is to properly relax, facilitating normal blood pressure function and thus making it easier for your heart to do its work. In your nerves, magnesium acts as a buffer against stress.*

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