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Article: Magnesium provides a solid foundation for balanced health
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- Better Nutrition
- Article date:
- April 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Intertec Publishing Apr 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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There is "a significant body of evidence that minerals by themselves, and in proper balance to one another, have important biochemical and nutritional functions," Alexander Schauss, Ph.D., explains in his 1995 work, Minerals and Human Health: The Rationale for Optimal and Balanced Trace Element Levels.
Potassium and magnesium are critical for regulating internal balance
Potassium and magnesium are the most abundant elements in our cells. Their unique "properties regulate the delicate balance of chemical processes necessary to life," says James B. Pierce, Ph.D., in Heart Healthy Magnesium (1994).
"Although potassium is the more abundant of the two elements in the cells, magnesium is dominant ...