Treating Migraines with Magnesium Supplements
Are you getting enough magnesium from your diet? If you suffer from migraines, magnesium deficiency could be to blame. Because of magnesium’s role in optimal health, a deficiency can lead to numerous medical conditions, including chronic migraines. Let’s explore the importance of magnesium in treating migraine headaches and ways to incorporate more of it in your diet.
The Role of Magnesium in Your Health
Magnesium is essential to blood pressure regulation, bone strength, nerve functioning, and hundreds of other bodily processes. Magnesium is plentiful in many foods, such as almonds and other nuts, avocados, bananas, black beans, leafy greens like spinach, legumes, potatoes, salmon, and others.
About 12 percent of Americans don’t get enough magnesium. Some groups have even higher deficiency rates, such as people with advanced age, type 2 diabetes, gastrointestinal issues, heart disease, or alcohol dependency. An easy fix to inadequate magnesium is to take magnesium supplements, which you can get from a pharmacy, whole-foods grocer, or integrative wellness clinic.
Low Magnesium and Migraines
Current research suggests that chronic migraines are linked to low magnesium intake. Some experts attribute the connection to the increased consumption of processed foods and declining soil conditions in America. Others point to magnesium’s role in blocking pain signals from reaching the brain or that decreased magnesium levels cause blood vessels to shrink, contributing to migraines.
How to Get More Magnesium
Fortunately, magnesium is relatively inexpensive to supplement and is usually one of the first remedies your local headache specialist will recommend for chronic migraine treatment. Even if you don’t get migraine headaches, ramping up your magnesium intake is a positive step in maintaining optimal health. Magnesium is also difficult to absorb from oral supplementation. At the Blatman Health and Wellness Center we can help you use magnesium that is almost 100% absorbed.
You can also get holistic migraine treatment from our local providers at Blatman Health and Wellness Center. In addition to relieving migraine pain, we treat the whole person by recommending dietary counseling, supplements, and holistic therapies to support your physical and emotional health. Use our contact form or call us at our Cincinnati or New York office to schedule a consultation.
