Stay away from the three highs by supplementing deep sea magnesium (Part 2)

Magnesium can regulate blood pressure and improve cardiovascular disease

Professor Lu Yifa of the Department of Nutrition at Fu Jen Catholic University, while sharing his research on the lipid-lowering effects of deep ocean water, said that hyperlipidemia and high cholesterol are closely related to cardiovascular disease, and that people's intake of "soft water" is related to the occurrence of hyperlipidemia, among which magnesium and trace elements in deep ocean water play an important role.

In 1998, Taiwanese academics published a study on people who died from cerebrovascular disease and found that the higher the magnesium concentration in the drinking water during their lifetime, the lower the risk. A 12-year study of more than 30,000 men in the United States found that magnesium intake was inversely correlated with coronary disease.

A literature review from 1996 to 2001 found that if the human body increases its magnesium intake by 100 mg per day, the stroke rate can be reduced by 8%; Japanese research has found that magnesium supplementation can lower blood pressure and improve blood lipids. In order to understand how deep ocean water helps lower blood lipids and resist oxidation, Professor Lu Yifa conducted an experiment on 42 patients with hypercholesterolemia, dividing them into 3 groups and giving them reverse osmosis water, deep ocean water and magnesium chloride. After regular blood tests, it was found that the subjects who drank deep ocean water had significantly lower total cholesterol concentrations and LDL in their blood, and the degree of lipid peroxidation was also reduced.

Magnesium also plays a very important role in blood pressure regulation. Magnesium increases nitric oxide and prostaglandins in the blood, relaxes blood vessels and lowers blood pressure. Dr. Zhou Peiyu, a postdoctoral researcher at China Medical University, conducted experiments specifically on mice with high blood pressure and found that giving mice deep ocean water can improve their systolic and diastolic blood pressure.

Wu Jiexin, director of the Department of Pharmacy at China Medical University, is conducting research on atherosclerosis. He said that high levels of LDL, oxidized free radicals, and total cholesterol in the blood will cause the accumulation of atherosclerotic plaques and narrow the inner diameter of blood vessels. Continuous accumulation may result in myocardial infarction and stroke.

In his research, he fed deep ocean water to rabbits that were fed a high-cholesterol diet and found that deep ocean water could significantly reduce the total cholesterol content in the rabbits' blood and the accumulation of fatty liver, and further improve the accumulation of fat plaques in rabbits. Therefore, Wu Jiexin believes that deep ocean water has a very high potential and can be developed into a health food to improve atherosclerosis.

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