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Why Magnesium is Essential for Skin Health
Magnesium has many crucial roles in maintaining the integrity and function of the skin barrier   Helps to pull moisture into to keratinocyte cells of the skin. Water and electrolytes... Read more...
Magnesium salt for muscle recovery, strength and endurance
Most cramps are preventable, especially cramps during exercise. Are you doing all you can to stop them from affecting your performance? If you understand why cramps happen in the first... Read more...
How Magnesium Deficiency Affects Menstrual Cycles
If you find yourself reaching for that piece of dark chocolate during or a bit before menstruation, it could very well be your body sending a message to top up... Read more...
How Did the Best Magnesium Tablets Perform in Testing?
Magnesium supplements are now the biggest selling nutritional supplement by pharmacies in modern urban societies. Awareness of the immense importance of magnesium to life and health is gaining traction as... Read more...
How to Use Magnesium and Acupressure for Anxiety Relief
Anxiety has become the most common mental health challenge affecting Australians, with 1 in 4 of us experiencing it at some point in our lives. That's over 3 million people... Read more...
Magnesium is Anti-thrombotic and Helps Prevent Blood Clots
A change in diet to reduce carbohydrates, increase alkalinity, and increase magnesium-rich foods is an essential natural strategy to counterbalance the metabolic-acidic issues that promote thrombosis and other cardiovascular issues.... Read more...
Higher Dietary Magnesium Improves Brain Function
One of the most important minerals (if not the most important) for brain health is magnesium. It is a vital macromineral that the body uses in over 600 enzymatic reactions... Read more...
Heart Palpitations, Arrhythmia and Atrial Fibrillation
Arrhythmia is a condition where the heart beats irregularly (skipped or half beats), too fast (tachycardia) or too slow (bradycardia). It can feel like light flutters starting in the left... Read more...
Magnesium: The Immune System's Super Mineral
Magnesium (Mg2+) is required for homeostasis and regulation of the immune system. Chronic magnesium deficiency leads to enhanced baseline inflammation associated with oxidative stress, which can lead to temporary and... Read more...
Recover From Feet Stress With Magnesium
All stress causes excessive loss of magnesium via urine, but we tend to feel feet stress more due to their extensive enervation. Feet are very sensitive parts of our body!... Read more...
How Does Magnesium Get in Via Skin?
We can use the skin to deliver large amounts of magnesium very safely and effectively in order to avoid crisis and maintain optimum magnesium status.  The skin, being the largest... Read more...
How Does Magnesium Alleviate Peripheral Neuropathy?
As neuropathic pain is strongly correlated with magnesium deficiency and the associated hyper-inflammatory state, researchers have discovered that supplementary magnesium can directly affect the nerve recovery process to alleviate peripheral... Read more...
Calming Down Eczema, Psoriasis and Dermatitis
Irritating skin conditions like eczema, psoriasis and dermatitis can become very debilitating for some people, with inflamed itchy skin tormenting them year after year.  If you are in this category... Read more...
Magnesium Bath Benefits
A magnesium bath using epsom salts (magnesium sulphate) is better than nothing, but over time the sulphate strips out too much oil from the skin, leaving it feeling dry and... Read more...
Overcome Chronic Fatigue and Burnout: Recharge Your Electrical System
The body’s electrical system relies on sufficient water and magnesium to overcome fatigue and recover mitochondrial energy production. If you don't make enough electrical energy all systems run low, the... Read more...
Magnesium Tablets VS Transdermal Magnesium
Magnesium tablets and oral supplements may not be able to deliver the magnesium to your cells that you really need. Most people don’t realise how hard they are to digest... Read more...
Long Covid, Post Viral and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – A Magnesium Deficiency Problem?
Long Covid seems to present with stronger, more acute inflammatory symptoms. It commonly affects the lungs, brain, heart, gastro-intestinal system, and the kidneys. Patients can experience hair loss, fatigue, muscular... Read more...
Magnesium Calms Hyperactivity in Children
If children are sugar sensitive they can become hyperactive with only small amounts of sugar. That gives you another clue as to possible magnesium deficiency because as magnesium becomes more... Read more...
Immune System Boost with Lemon Peel
Lemon is an important medicinal plant of the family Rutaceae. Studies have found lemon peel is full of nutrients including Vitamin C, potassium, calcium, magnesium and pectin. Pectin is a... Read more...
How to Stop the Bloating of Water Retention
Kidney (renal) disease can also cause magnesium deficiency as the tubules become stiffer with ageing and don’t recycle magnesium as well as they used to. If your kidneys lose too... Read more...
Managing Neuropathic Pain with Magnesium
Neuropathic pain is the type of pain you feel if your nervous system has been damaged or isn’t working correctly. The pain comes from the various levels of the nervous... Read more...
Magnesium, Stress Hormones and Heart Disease
Hormones greatly influence our growth and development, health, behaviours, metabolism, sex life and fertility. Pretty well everything we do and experience in life is governed by the chemical messages of... Read more...
Oxytocin - the Life-Saving Love Hormone
One hormone of note is the neurotransmitter oxytocin, which is a happy 'feel-good' hormone with similar pain-relieving properties to endorphins (opiate chemicals). It is released in the body when we... Read more...
Defend Your Heart Against Spike Proteins
Chronic or severe stress is a known risk factor for metabolic syndrome, diabetes, obesity and heart disease, because stress is the biggest contributor to magnesium loss and deficiency.  Magnesium deficiency... Read more...
What has Osteoporosis Got to do With Calcium and Magnesium?
Many people have become obsessed with the notion that lack of calcium causes osteoporosis.  Yes, calcium and osteoporosis are related, however the bones are made up of a myriad of... Read more...
The Enlightening Power of the Pineal Gland
The pineal gland produces melatonin at night during deep sleep, which works as a potent neuro-protective antioxidant that helps to detox the cerebrospinal fluid of the brain. It has even... Read more...
Are You Overdosing on the Fluoride 'Neurotoxin' in Tap Water?
Many people mistakenly think of fluoride as a mineral, and many a politician promoting fluoridation has referred to it as, “the magic mineral.” However, this is not true. Fluorine in... Read more...
Magnesium Massage Supercharges Health Benefits
Both magnesium and massage therapy have important health benefits for blood circulation, waste clearance and muscle recovery, as well as alleviation of anxiety and stress. Magnesium massage supercharges health benefits... Read more...
Blood Clot (Thrombosis) Risk Increases With Inflammation
Clotting disorders are more prevalent in those with cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome and diabetic acidosis.  These metabolic issues are also strongly associated with chronic magnesium deficiency.  Read more...
Why You Cannot Afford to Have Toxic Metals Block Magnesium
Did you know heavy metals disrupt your body’s mineral balance causing many negative side effects? People who are chronically ill may not realise that it can be the harmful accumulated... Read more...
Magnesium Deficiency in Pets - The Number 1 Cause of Muscle Spasms in Dogs
It is now well-known that dogs need all the essential vitamins and minerals that humans do. One of these key nutrients is magnesium because it’s needed for energy production at... Read more...
Fasting for Detox, Weight Loss and Energy
Increasing your magnesium levels also supercharges the cleansing process. This is because magnesium supports detoxification by energising the detox enzymes such as glutathione and superoxide dismutase. These are powerful antioxidants,... Read more...
Pain Relief With the Most Important Mineral
Without the relaxation and antioxidant support of magnesium, the stress and tension increases acidity, weakens the immune system and microbiome balance, which promotes inflammation and headache.  These symptoms are common... Read more...
The Power of Magnesium in Water
When the body is dehydrated it can also cause oedema, a pooling of fluids around the ankles or puffiness around the eyes.   The reason for fluid retention is usually... Read more...
Could Anxiety be Caused by a Toxic Gut Microbiome?
The microbial balance of our gut directly influences our Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis, the production of hormones and neurotransmitters, and our immune system's regulation. Stress is very debilitating and causes depletion... Read more...
The Most Important Mineral When You're Pregnant or Breastfeeding
Magnesium is an essential mineral which performs some very important functions when you're pregnant. It’s used to maintain healthy blood sugar levels in the body (see study) and it helps... Read more...
Lose Weight and Improve Brain… by Sleeping
Magnesium deficiency or antagonism (blockage) can cause any one of these steps to malfunction, causing overdose of stress hormones and inability to relax enough to sleep deeply. Read more...
What is a Toxic Magnesium Dose?
It's almost impossible for you to get a toxic magnesium dose or overdose, unless magnesium is given at high dose intravenously, where there is no magnesium deficiency or the person... Read more...
What are the Dangers of Exercise Addiction?
We can become addicted to more than just pharmaceutical drugs or alcohol.  Researchers are now noticing symptoms of addiction also to excessive exercise.  Does excessive exercise or over-training have negative... Read more...
Is 'Overtraining Syndrome' Harming Your Health?
Magnesium deficiency weakens performance, stamina and increases risk of injury When you push your muscles hard your brain is telling your body to ‘squeeze’ and act. Adrenalin and cortisol increase,... Read more...
Vitiligo and Hashimotos (Autoimmune) Hypothyroidism
I was over 50 when menopause set in, accompanied by an autoimmune disorder called Hashimotos Hypothyroidism, severe heart arrhythmia, and the emerging white patches on my skin. This form of... Read more...
Immune System Defence with Vitamin C and Magnesium
The haemoglobin of red blood cells requires magnesium to help it take up oxygen from lungs and deliver that oxygen to tissue cells in other parts of the body. Researchers... Read more...
Drought, Dehydration and Stress
Note that dehydrated states can cause feelings of anxiety where we just don’t know the reason for our fear or agitation, but the feeling persists.  Re-hydrating the body with ample... Read more...
Protect Against Cardiovascular Disease With Magnesium
Magnesium is so important to cardiovascular function, its scarcity being correlated with the development of cardiovascular disease, that it has become the focus of intense scientific study and review over... Read more...
Calm Cramps and Restless Legs Fast!
You may not realise it, but cramps and restless legs are quite easy to fix and you can do it without drugs.  All you need is enough magnesium (and water)... Read more...
Can Magnesium Relieve Anxiety and Depression?
As magnesium drops lower from excessive stress, there is less control over adrenaline and cortisol release, so that these catecholamines (stress hormones) escalate and chronically flood the system in a... Read more...
The Connection Between Magnesium and Ageing
It’s been coined the master mineral and deemed as critical as water. But how exactly does it correlate to the process of ageing? The ways are numerous, but we’ll highlight... Read more...
Magnesium Kids are Healthier
Optimal nutrition for our children means they will have the best opportunity to realise their fullest genetic potential to be well balanced, healthy and happy into adulthood.  We all want... Read more...
Collagen and Elastin Production for Skin, Muscle and Bone
Healthy cells need lipid protection, magnesium charge and ample hydration to support mitochondrial energy metabolism of Mg-ATP ‘batteries’.  This energy is then used to assemble amino acids into the various... Read more...
Glyphosate: a Toxin Round Up That Steals Energy
The review goes on to explain glyphosate’s mechanism of toxic action. Firstly, it is a strong chelating agent, creating complexes that immobilize the mineral micronutrients of the soil, such as... Read more...

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Sandy & Peter

Est. in 2008

The story behind Elektra Magnesium

Surprised how many people have these issues? Heart racing for no reason? Skipping a few beats? Involuntary muscle twitches? Sleep problems? Losing focus; brain fog? Can’t handle
stress? Fatigue? Wired but tired all the time? Stiff and achy? It doesn’t need to be this way.

I was told by my cardiologist years ago to, “Put up with it like everyone else. We have no treatment for you because your blood pressure is too low, and if we give you heart slowing drugs they could give you a heart attack. Your heart structure is normal and vascular system is clear.” He added, “You would be surprised how many other people have this problem. It’s just a twitch in the left ventricle of your heart, like a twitch in the eye.”

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