News — Stress

One of the questions we get asked is do we neeed more magnesium if we’re stressed? To answer that question, we have to consider how stress works. Stress has a profound effect on the body. The sympathetic nervous system response drives the body into fight and flight at the expense of many other bodily processes. Calcium shuttles into our muscles for contraction and cortisol streams round our body along with adrenaline. Energy stores become liberated and glucose becomes instantly available for our body to burn. This is an amazing response which has allowed our species to survive. If we didn't have...