Magnesium WisdomCard™
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Research Notes on Magnesium
Magnesium is an essential element required for proper functioning of the nervous, muscular and cardiovascular systems.
Fast Facts:
- Adult recommendations: Adult males is 270-400 mg; adult females is 280-300 mg; for pregnant females 320 mg daily; and for breastfeeding females, 340-355 mg.
- Child recommendations: 40-80 mg for infants up to 3 years of age; 120 mg for children between 4 and 6 years old; and 170 mg for children between 7 and 10 years of age. Adolescent males should get 270-400 mg, and adolescent females should get 280-300 mg daily.
- Good food sources include whole grains, leafy green vegetables, nuts, avocados, beans, soybeans and halibut.
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Latest Headlines on Magnesium
What is Magnesium?
- Health World: Magnesium
- Medterms: Definition of Magnesium
- Office of Dietary Supplements: What Is Magnesium
What Are The Uses for Magnesium?
- Baby Center: Magnesium: Preventing pregnancy complications
- Health Day: Magnesium May Lower Risk for Some Strokes in Male Smokers
- A.D.A.M. (via Medline Plus): Function on Magnesium
What Are The Side Effects, Interactions and Precautions for Magnesium?
- A.D.A.M. (via Medline Plus): Side Effects of Magnesium
- Office of Dietary Supplements: Health risk of too much magnesium
- Drugs.com: Magnesium Side Effects
- Mayo Clinic: Side Effects of Magnesium
Wisdom, Blogs and Message Boards about Magnesium
- National Psoriasis Foundation Message Boards: Magnesium of Psoriasis
- WebMD Boards: Vitamin E/Magnesium
- Health Boards: Discussion on Magnesium
Clinical Trials for Magnesium
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Clinical Trials on Magnesium
- Center Watch: Clinical Trials on Magnesium
Scientific and Medical Journal Articles on Magnesium
- PubMed Central: Medical Journal Articles on Magnesium
- New England Journal of Medicine: Medical Journal Articles on Magnesium
- Google Scholar: Medical Articles on Magnesium
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- Contributor: Jacky Gamble
- Reviewer: Tara Salamone
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Last update: Oct. 15, 2009
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Meet our contributors and reviewers
- Contributor: Jacky Gamble
- Reviewer: Tara Salamone
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Magnezium, Magneziam, Magnesiam, Magneseam, Magnesum, Magneziem
- Last update: Jul. 30, 2009
Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic by filtering out spam and bad links.
