A U.S. national survey found that women consume an average of 228 mg/day magnesium compared to the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) of 320 mg per day. A substantial proportion of women over 50 years of age are consuming far less magnesium than recommended.

Magnesium is an essential trace element that plays a role in more than 300 enzymatic reactions. Magnesium is critically involved in energy metabolism, immune response, blood sugar (glucose)

MSM in the natural state is an inconspicuous sulfur molecule found in the atmosphere, in plants, animals, and the human body where it plays an important role in healthy skin, cartilage, and connective tissue and is vital to healing wounds. Sulfur in its oxidized form is used by the liver to detoxify substances and to prepare them for excretion by the kidneys. Sulfur bearing amino acids like methionine are crucial to many biochemical

Minerals are important and so is the way you get them.

Which minerals are best for you? Keeping the level of minerals in balance in our bodies may be the most important key to maintaining human health. Ideally we get minerals from diet but modern agriculture and farming methods have depleted the soil of minerals, making it difficult to acheive optimal intake. Many people eat highly processed food lacking in minerals which

According to most paleoanthropologists, modern humans developed in Africa between 100,000 and 300,000 years ago, then spread throughout the world.¹ During those last 100,000 years, experts believe that human biology didn't evolve significantly. Consequently, they argue, our nutritional needs are dictated more by what our hunter-gatherer ancestors ate than by the foods we eat today.²

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Magnesium depletion causes a neuron to become oversensitive and can result in tremors, muscle spasms, rapid or irregular heartbeat, and, in extreme cases, convulsions, confusion and weakness.

Seventy-eight-year-old Mrs. Jones goes to the doctor complaining of weakness and lack of energy during the past several days. Her breathing is slow. The doctor measures her blood pressure; it is very low. He tests her deep tendon reflexes and finds they are

A battle may be lost, but we're definitely winning the war. That's what I take from a landmark American study on the cancer-preventing effects of the mineral selenium.

In the United States and countries where the soil is relatively high in selenium, people tend to have lower cancer rates than in countries where soil selenium levels are low. In Linxian, China, a province with high cancer rates, a 1993 study showed that people who took a supplement with relatively low

TUCSON, Ariz. Risk of certain cancers may be reduced by selenium supplementation, according to a study published in the Dec. 25, 1996, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

The findings were a surprise to researchers, who were trying to link selenium supplementation with reduced skin cancer risk. The study, conducted by Larry Clark, Ph.D., and colleagues at the Arizona Cancer Center, College of Medicine, University of