MEN’S HEALTH
Health Benefits of Magnesium
3. Keeps your gut healthy
1. Maintains muscle and nerve function
If there’s anything you want functioning properly, it’s
Calcium is essential for muscle growth, but
your digestive system. Your stomach and gut work
did you know it can’t work without magnesi-
together to ensure that everything you eat provides you
um? Calcium is only able to be absorbed
with energy and nutrients for your body to work
into the body and muscles because magne-
properly. Magnesium helps this absorption happen and
sium allows it to do so–and when there’s a
without it nutrients like copper, potassium, vitamin D,
lack of magnesium, you can drink all the
and zinc wouldn’t be able to absorb properly into your
milk you like and not see a difference.
body and perform a number of important functions.
Your muscles need to be able to pull in cal-
Not only that, but without magnesium your digestive
cium in order to contract and pull out when
system wouldn’t be able to regulate blood sugar
they need to relax and magnesium.
properly potentially leading to diabetes. Your metabo-
lism wouldn’t work properly, eithe