Does magnesium play a role in the anti-aging process?
While aging isn’t caused by one factor, free-radical damage is the dominant theory of why we age. Free radicals are implicated in such diseases as atherosclerosis, hypertension, Alzheimer’s disease, arthritis, late-onset diabetes and Parkinson’s disease. In addition to free-radical damage, your body’s everyday processes generate a lot of waste products that must regularly be detoxified and cleared out. So you need safe, effective and gentle methods of detoxifying the body, along with putting correct nutrition into the body. According to current research, low magnesium levels not only magnify free-radical damage but can hasten the production of free radicals.1 One study utilizing cultures of skin cells found that low magnesium doubled the levels of free radicals.2 In addition, cells grown without magnesium were twice as susceptible to free- radical damage as were cells grown in normal amounts of magnesium. References: 1. Hartwig, A. Role of magnesium in genomic stability. Mutat Research
