Does Magnesium Matter For Bones As Well As Muscles?

Yes. Magnesium helps maintain normal bones, giving it a nutritional role beyond muscle function. EFSA's magnesium assessment recognises both functions, as well as magnesium's contribution to maintaining normal teeth.

For an active adult, that is a useful wider view of a familiar mineral. Black Amber ZMB6 can contribute magnesium to your daily intake even when your reason for thinking about nutrition extends beyond the next training session.

Much Of Your Magnesium Is In The Skeleton

Magnesium is not found only in muscle. EFSA describes roughly half to three-fifths of the adult body's magnesium as being in bones and teeth. Some skeletal magnesium can also exchange with the body's other magnesium compartments. This gives the skeleton a role in magnesium storage as well as a reason to include the mineral in bone nutrition.

Magnesium also associates with the surface of mineral crystals in bones and teeth. Its position differs from calcium's, helping explain why nutrition for these tissues involves more than one mineral.

Magnesium And Calcium Are Not Interchangeable

Calcium is familiar in conversations about bones, but it does not make magnesium irrelevant. Equally, taking magnesium does not supply calcium.

If you want more calcium in your meals, milk, cheese, calcium-fortified soya drinks and fish eaten with their bones are options listed in the NHS calcium guide. Check fortified products individually because their nutrient amounts vary.

For magnesium, use our food guide to zinc, magnesium and B6 to review meals you already enjoy. That lets you give each mineral its own place instead of assuming that a single "bone" product must cover everything.

A Practical Magnesium Contribution

Black Amber ZMB6 provides 250mg elemental magnesium per daily capsule, supplied as magnesium oxide. Its panel declares 66% of the magnesium nutrient reference value. Zinc and vitamin B6 are included in the same serving.

That makes it useful when magnesium is the nutrient you want to add and the accompanying zinc and B6 fit your plan. Calcium is not declared as a nutrient in ZMB6, so continue to consider calcium-containing foods separately.

Take one capsule daily with water, without exceeding the recommended serving, alongside a varied, balanced diet and healthy lifestyle. If you have diagnosed osteoporosis or have been prescribed bone-health treatment, keep your clinician's plan in place; ZMB6 is a food supplement, not a replacement treatment.

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