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Magnesium chloride flakes (magnesium chloride hexahydrate) are natural mineral salts that are completely water soluble and able to be absorbed by cells without further digestion.  Adding these salts to your bath is a natural way to boost your magnesium uptake and provides much more magnesium to your muscles and bone cells than oral tablets and powders.   Magnesium chloride flakes derive from ocean, salt lakes or dried up salt pockets sandwiched in rock strata.

Are you suffering from muscle cramps and been told to stay hydrated and consume more electrolytes? The main electrolytes (combined with chloride) are sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium, but it's magnesium that's the one we usually get most depleted in and it's magnesium that controls the movement of calcium.  They have a direct relationship.  Calcium is a contracting mineral and hardening element, and magnesium is the relaxing mineral because it restores the correct charge and electrolyte balance, allowing muscle flexibility.  We need magnesium for muscle recovery.

There is a great variation of magnesium status in the population, however the overall deficiency levels are growing in line with growth in chronic stress exposures. It’s not so much a question of whether we are magnesium deficient these days, but more a question of by what amount.

Magnesium skin care is a revolution in skin health and beauty maintenance.  One of the reasons magnesium keeps us younger and more ‘juicy’ longer  is because it is used to synthesize collagen, which is a protein scaffolding that forms structures to hold moisture and other nutrients in skin, nails and bones to organs, muscles, ligaments, cartilage, lung sacs and blood vessels.

Ionic Magnesium is the dissolved salt form of magnesium. Many people in our modern industrialised societies are realising just how much they need to add extra magnesium to their diets, as it is lost excessively under stress. A plentiful supply of magnesium helps to defend against the ravages of stress, to calm and relax the nervous and vascular systems, to alleviate cramps and restless legs, to support digestion, metabolism and energy supply, to detoxify, to strengthen the immune system and to build new cells.

Magnesium for pregnancy is extremely important and can be supplemented with Elektra Magnesium Cream, which is made in Australia from natural ingredients, is non-toxic and safe to use topically.  Pregnant women in particular greatly benefit from using it due to the higher magnesium demands of growing a baby in the womb. Increased magnesium nutrition is not only recommended for pregnant or lactating mothers, but also for the elderly, athletes, shift workers, stressed executives, teenagers or toddlers as part of a healthy lifestyle and balanced nutritional program.