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Magnesium Is a Man's Best Friend Related Links 10 Superfoods for Men's Health Top 9 Foods Men Should Not Eat Kale Is the New Spinach - Really You're Probably Not Getting Enough Boron -- And It's a Problem for Your Prostate Herbs and Foods to Boost Testosterone Naturally Zinc Increases Your Testosterone Level Macadamia Nuts Are Packed with Iron and Protein Cold Weather Increases Your Heart Attack Risk by 100% Fatty Diet Linked to Prostate Cancer Foods That Strengthen Erectile Performance Why Young Guys Have Heart Attacks 7 Foods You Eat That Destroy Your Teeth What Vitamins and Minerals Help with Golf April 4, 2015, last updated February 18, 2016 By S. Callahan, Contributing Columnist If you are a human, chances are you are magnesium-deficient. Americans are particularly magnesium-deficient. You need 400 milligrams of magnesium a day to stay healthy, and only 43% of us pull our chins over this daily bar, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. Why is this a problem? Well, magnesium-deficiency may be the most significant threat to your overall health that you're not aware of. Magnesium Keeps Your Heart Pumping Magnesium is the key to a healthy heart. I repeat -- magnesium is the most important thing you will put into your body to help your heart continue working. What's the evidence? And why aren't we seeing magnesium commercials all over TV? Why do we know about cholesterol's role in heart disease if magnesium is the be-all end-all most important heart factor? The reason you didn't know about magnesium's importance to your heart is that scientists and doctors are only now starting to realize it. You see, scientists have been doing studies for decades into all sorts of risk factors that increase your risk fro heart disease. They've discovered a long list of them ---eating fatty foods, too much cholesterol, too little exercise, and on and on. But what they never really screened for was magnesium levels. Magnesium is essential mineral. Your body's highest concentration of magnesium is in the muscle of your heart, specifically the hard-working left ventricle --your main pumping machine. Without enough magnesium, your heart's rhythm goes awry. Your heart and your arteries also develop --wait for it --lesions, actual lesions. Lesions are injuries, just like the lesions you get when you scrape your knee on asphalt. Imagine those on your heart. One study in 1989 conducted by Dr. Mildred Seelig of the New York Medical College in Valhalla reported this earth-shattering news: Magnesium deficiency causes cardiovascular lesions in all animals studied...And magnesium supplementation prevents them. The amount of magnesium you need is a subject of some controversy.Remember that the USDA recommends that you get 400 mg of magnesium a day? Well, some doctors think this standard is too low. They believe that the any level below 700 mg day makes you magnesium-deficient. One such doctor is Dr. Carolyn Dean, who sits on the Board of the National Magnesium Association. However, before she re-located to New York and California, Dr. Dean had her license revoked by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. So, yes,some doctors think that you need to double your magnesium intake but for now, we would recommend you stick close to the USDA's recommendation of 400 milligrams a day until more academic studies are done. Top 5 Sources of Magnesium 1. Eat Your Greens. Dark green, leafy vegetables. A cup of spinach contains about 158 to 160 milligrams of magnesium, or 40% of the magnesium you need each day. A cup of cooked spinach only has 40 calories (you may be more familiar with stats that quote 20 calories per half a cup --but who eats a half a cup of anything?) Which is a better source of magnesium , cooked or raw spinach? Cooked spinach wins out. Raw spinach has Cooked spinach has more -- about twice as much magnesium as raw spinach. A cup of raw spinach has about 48 milligrams of magnesium. Kale has 31 milligrams per cup. 2. Almonds and Pumpkin Seeds. Nuts are high in calories but some are packed with magnesium. Pumpkin seeds have more magnesium in fact than any other food, about 151 milligrams per ounce. But they also have 148 calories in that same ounce. Almonds have half the magnesium of pumpkin seeds and more calories: 78 milligrams of magnesium and 164 calories per ounce. 3. Oatmeal. Cooked Oat bran has 44 milligrams of magnesium per 1/4 cup. A more realistic portion size is half a cup of oatmeal, which has 88 milligrams of magnesium. 4. Quinoa. Quinoa has 178 milligrams of magnesium per half a cup. This serving size also has 320 calories. 5. Milk. An 8 ounce glass of 1% or 2% milk has about 54 milligrams of magnesium. Whole milk ( 8 ounce glass) has 48 milligrams of magnesium. 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