Magnesium is a mineral involved in thousands of reactions in the body. It can be thought of as a calming and relaxing mineral. Providing your body with the magnesium it needs to function properly can also help achieve a healthy body-magnesium deficiency can lead to a range of chronic health issues, including calcium deficiency, poor heart health, weakness, anxiety, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, respiratory issues, fatigue, poor memory, and confusion.
Magnesium is also an essential mineral that plays an important role in brain health. It is involved in various aspects of brain function, including the following.
- Neurotransmitter Regulation: Magnesium modulates the release and activity of neurotransmitters, which are essential for nerve signaling and brain communication.
- Neuronal Protection: Magnesium acts as a neuroprotectant, shielding neurons from damage caused by oxidative stress, inflammation, and overactivation of neurons.
- Mood Regulation: Magnesium helps regulate the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, which is responsible for stress. Adequate magnesium levels can contribute to reducing anxiety and depression.
- Brain Development: Magnesium is essential for proper brain development in fetuses and infants. It supports the formation of new neurons and the establishment of neural connections.
- Cognitive Function: Magnesium supports cognitive functions such as memory, learning, and attention. It helps maintain the brain’s plasticity, allowing for new connections and adaptations.
- Sleep Quality: Magnesium helps regulate sleep-wake cycles. It helps promote relaxation and reduces nighttime awakenings.
Magnesium deficiency can lead to various brain-related problems, including cognitive impairment, seizures, migraines, anxiety and depression, and tremors. From a neurological standpoint, it plays an essential role in nerve and neuromuscular conduction. It also functions to protect against excessive excitation, which can lead to neuronal cell death. Magnesium is also essential for regulating muscle contraction, including that of the heart.
The Benefits of Flotation Therapy
Floating is a wonderful way to bring your magnesium level up and keep it up. Flotation therapy, when added to a health regime, has proven to increase overall health and immunity. For those who are healthy, twice monthly has been proven to be instrumental. For those who already have health conditions, floating on a regular schedule has proven to provide fewer side effects from their condition, providing them with a richer life.
With the plethora of studies performed and information available indicating remarkable results, research is directing people to flotation for its preventative health benefits. Research has also shown that migraine attacks may be associated with low magnesium. One study found that regular floating reduces the frequency and intensity of migraine attacks by just over 41%. With regular floating, sufferers can reduce or mostly eliminate migraine attacks.
Floating is a powerful therapeutic tool that offers countless health benefits, including helping manage anxiety, improve symptoms of depression, relax muscles, improve blood flow, increase pain relief, manage post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and support a healthy sleep pattern. Floating has been proven in many cases to reduce chronic stress as well.
Stress is one of the most debilitating mental health disorders people struggle with, and those with an autoimmune disease may experience added stress. Autoimmune disease is associated with a malfunction of the immune system, which causes the body to attack its own tissues. Whether you’re struggling with anxiety or stress disorder, flotation therapy could be a beneficial practice to add into your wellness routine. Those who practice float therapy regularly often report a significant reduction of stress, a boost of energy, and an overall improved sense of well-being.
A one-hour float in a regulated float tank has been proven to provide an estimated 27% of necessary magnesium. Studies have also shown that the floating method of providing the body with magnesium is instrumental in controlling pain, depression, and many autoimmune diseases that cause the body to attack its own tissues, along with helping to lower blood pressure.
A healthier you is right around the corner.
Lynn Brewer is co-owner of Cloud9 Float Spa and Wellness Center, located at 13710 Metropolis Avenue, Suite 104, Fort Myers, FL 33912. Cloud9 Float Spa’s mission is to help increase clients’ health while providing them with a better quality of life.
Make your reservation today by calling 239.887.4161 or visiting our website: C9floatspa.com.
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