The situation of being overweight is known to set in motion a constellation of metabolic issues that result in increased early onset of multiple diseases related to aging. A new study shows that 500 mg per day of magnesium¹ supplementation in overweight individuals for only four weeks favorably alters many genes in the direction of less inflammation and improved metabolism.

Magnesium is a common nutrient deficiency in just about anyone who is struggling with ongoing health topics. The problem worsens as stress levels go up, diet quality goes down, and with aging in general. A recent review of the importance of magnesium² to health illustrated that magnesium deficiency is associated with a very large number of health problems. Specifically, a lack of magnesium is associated with high blood pressure, stroke, hardening of the arteries, arrhythmias, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes mellitus, endothelial dysfunction, elevated LDL cholesterol, sticky platelets, inflammation, oxidative stress, cardiovascular mortality, asthma, chronic fatigue, as well as depression and other neuropsychiatric disorders.

It is obvious that magnesium is vital to many enzymatic processes in your body, which are governed by gene-signaling instructions. This new study documents that magnesium is needed for activation of genes and may be especially important to overweight individuals. 

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