Just like a sleeping pill
Okay - I was reading a health letter recently about how healthy magnesium is for your body, but it isn't absorbed real well when you take it in supplement form. Magnesium has several benefits I have read about that make me want to get it into my body as best I can. For one thing, I have read that getting adequate magnesium gets you better sleep. I have always been a poor sleeper, staying up until 2-3 am in the morning and then getting up every couple hours to go to the bathroom. Then I can't get back to sleep. Every noise in the house at night wakes me up. So, I am tired during the day, but after 68 years of living with this, I am used to it. I have also read that magnesium aids bone integrity and strength - Magnesium helps to fix calcium properly. It may blow some people's mind that the calcium supplements they're taking are not only useless, but are actually contributing to osteoporosis! There are actually about eighteen essential nutrients that contribute to bone health; Magnesium is definitely one of the most essential, because it stimulates a particular hormone called calcitonin. And, it also suppresses a hormone called parathyroid that breaks down bone. Taking calcium supplements without magnesium is setting you up for poor absorption and excess calcium in your body in the wrong places - like kidney stones. Magnesium is an alkalizer. Your health is a lot better if you are slightly alkaline or at least neutral. An acid body brings disease and sickness. There are a lot of other benefits, but these are important to me. I have taken magnesium in various forms, but never seems to get the benefits I have read about. And then this article about how well your body absorbs magnesium by spreading it on your skin where your body can take it up quickly without having to go through your digestive system. So, I looked around Amazon and found this particular brand that is reasonably priced and it has a lot of product for your money. The wife and I both use it. We do 6-7 sprays on some part of the body every morning - sometimes a leg, sometimes and arm, sometimes a chest - it gets spread around. So, the reason I gave this 5-stars is that almost immediately - like the second day, the wife and I slept all night. What a deal. I can't believe something simple like this made me sleep all night without getting up once. My wife has an overactive bladder and gets up frequently, but even her trips to the bathroom have been cut in half. So, I can attest to the fact that this stuff helps you to sleep. I haven't taken it long enough to tell if it makes any difference in bone strength. I am hoping the de-alkalizing ability of this can help keep me healthy over the Winter. So far so good. The ingredient list says nothing about any oil in the bottle, but when you spray it on your skin and then rub it in with your hands, it does have a slightly oily feel, not unpleasant. It has no odor. So, I will buy this again when the bottle runs out. The wife and I both use it and the sleep benefit is a pleasant surprise. The rest is gravy if it does anything else besides this. Read more