Magnesium Levels Among GrassrootsHealth Participants

Published on June 13, 2019

Magnesium is a mineral essential for many functions within the body including blood pressure regulation, bone health, blood glucose control, and vitamin D activation. Magnesium deficiency is common world-wide and low magnesium levels have been linked to atrial fibrillation (irregular heart rate), hypertension, cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and migraines.

Earlier this year, GrassrootsHealth started offering a magnesium test with the Elements Panel, which includes testing your vitamin D level along with essential elements magnesium, selenium, zinc, copper, and copper:zinc ratio, and toxic heavy metals cadmium, lead, and mercury. Among the 122 participants who have tested their whole blood magnesium levels, 87% have levels between 30-49 mg/L (3.0-4.9 mg/dL).

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The average magnesium level (40 mg/L) is on the higher end of the lab reference range (28-46 mg/L), but this range only indicates the range of typical results found in the population the lab serves but does not necessarily indicate the optimal range for health.

At this point, we have not tracked the correlations with your tested magnesium levels and any health outcomes, nor the actual correlations with other nutrients. Your ongoing participation in this project will contribute greatly to everyone’s knowledge about ‘what does it take to help with…..?’ and ‘what is the optimal magnesium level?’. We will continue to track the information and report back to you about what we see. At this point, we need 1000 participants to have ‘statistical significance’. Keep up the good work!

If any of our group would like to help sponsor other’s participation, please email jen @grassrootshealth.org and let us know!

How does your magnesium level compare to others?

Make sure you know your level of magnesium and are taking daily steps to keep it within range. Find out your levels today! Log on to the shop (click the link below) to get your tests and see for yourself if your levels can be improved.

Make sure you track your results before and after, about every 6 months!

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How can I track my magnesium level and intake?

To help you track your magnesium intake along with your resulting level, GrassrootsHealth has created an online tracking system called myData-myAnswers. You can track any of your supplemental and dietary nutrient intakes to see how they impact your levels and overall health. Check it out today!

How Can You Use this Information for YOUR Health?

Having and maintaining healthy vitamin D and other nutrient levels can help improve your health now and for your future. Measuring is the only way to make sure you are getting enough!

STEP 1 Order your at-home blood spot test kit to measure vitamin D and other nutrients of concern to you, such as omega-3s, magnesium, essential and toxic elements (zinc, copper, selenium, lead, cadmium, mercury); include hsCRP as a marker of inflammation or HbA1c for blood sugar health

STEP 2 Answer the online questionnaire as part of the GrassrootsHealth study

STEP 3 Using our educational materials and tools (such as our dose calculators), assess your results to determine if you are in your desired target range or if actions should be taken to get there

STEP 4 After 3-6 months of implementing your changes, re-test to see if you have achieved your target level(s)

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