Simple high blood pressure therapy Magnesium can lower high blood pressure

Hypertension can be reduced with magnesium if there is a deficiency

Hypertension is a mass affliction. In addition to medicines, various measures can help to sustainably lower blood pressure. It has been shown that a healthy diet, regular exercise and weight loss are successful. Researchers have found that magnesium deficiency can cause blood pressure to rise. Therefore, a substitution with magnesium in hypertension comes as an additional therapy in question, as studies confirmed.

The Society for Biofactors e.V. underlines the importance of magnesium supply for blood pressure. Studies have shown that a significant proportion of high blood pressure patients suffer from a magnesium deficiency, which favors vasoconstriction and thus increases blood pressure, the experts explained. Since hypertension is regarded as the main risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, it would be possible to significantly reduce the health risk of those affected by adequate magnesium supply, according to the Society's Communication for Biofactors.

Magnesium supplements can reduce blood pressure

The renowned hypertension specialist Prof. Dr. med. Klaus Kisters, Chief Physician of the Medical Clinic I at the St. Anna Hospital in Herne, referred explicitly to the importance of magnesium supply for blood pressure in a series of lectures of the Society for Biofactors.

According to the expert, the elevated blood pressure levels were often already normalized by a lifestyle change and the intake of magnesium supplements. According to the hypertensive specialist, the intake of appropriate preparations can have a positive effect on borderline as well as on manifest hypertension. As the expert in applied pharmacology and clinical pharmacotherapy of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Society for Biofactors, Prof. Dr. med. Joachim Schmidt, a specialist in pharmacology from Dresden, added that magnesium deficiency also favors cardiovascular risk factors such as "vascular-damaging inflammation, diabetes and cardiac arrhythmias."

Magnesium deficiency represents a significant health risk
Thus, numerous "epidemiological studies have convincingly shown that magnesium deficiency leads to an increase in the risk of cardiovascular disease," said the specialist in pharmacology on behalf of the Society for Biofactors. A simple change of diet is usually not sufficient to remedy the undersupply of magnesium, Prof. Schmidt continued.

The expert recommends preparations made of special magnesium compounds, whereby the so-called magnesium orotate is of "clinically relevant peculiarity", since the contained orotic acid also has cardioprotective properties. This "vitamin-like substance", according to the Society for Biofactors, promotes heart health. "Clinical studies show that this combination improves the resilience and performance of the vulnerable and pre-damaged heart, stabilizes the heart rhythm and also lowers elevated blood pressure levels," said Prof. Schmidt.

A magnesium deficiency can be recognized by symptoms such as muscle tremors, muscle twitching, calf cramps, tension, cramps, headaches, heart stumbling, chest tightness, brittle fingernails, tooth decay and sleep disorders. Ingestion of sufficient magnesium is of particular importance to the health of the Society for Biofactors. (sb, fp)