{"id":296657,"date":"2010-02-09T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/09\/magnesium-for-memory\/"},"modified":"2010-02-09T02:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T07:25:00","slug":"magnesium-for-memory-are-you-getting-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/296657","title":{"rendered":"Magnesium For Memory, Are You Getting Enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/health\/\" rel=\"tag\">Health<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/healthy-eating\/\" rel=\"tag\">Healthy Eating<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/eat-this\/\" rel=\"tag\">Eat This<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.thatsfit.ca\/media\/2010\/02\/remember-finger(small).jpg\" \/><br \/>Do you ever feel your memory isn&#8217;t as sharp as it should be? You may be suffering from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=magnesium\">magnesium<\/a> deficiency. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellnessresources.com\/studies\/entry\/magnesium_boosts_memory_and_learning\" >A new international study<\/a> that included researchers from the University of Toronto published in the journal <em>Neuron<\/em> has found increased brain levels of magnesium improves both learning and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=memory\">memory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To this end, the researchers found that supplementing the diet of both young and old rats with magnesium enhanced cognitive abilities. Interestingly, the researchers were supplementing at levels higher than what is considered normal dietary intake of magnesium (400mg is the RDA for magnesium) and found the increased intake of this important mineral has a dramatic effect on improving multiple aspects of memory and learning.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers closely examined parts of the brain associated with memory and found a number of cellular changes: The number of functioning parts of the brain cells involved in sending messages actually increased, more signaling molecules were activated and processes for short and long-term memory were enhanced in the magnesium supplemented group.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/09\/magnesium-for-memory\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Magnesium For Memory, Are You Getting Enough?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/09\/magnesium-for-memory\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/forward\/19342185\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/09\/magnesium-for-memory\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Health, Healthy Eating, Eat This Do you ever feel your memory isn&#8217;t as sharp as it should be? You may be suffering from a magnesium deficiency. A new international study that included researchers from the University of Toronto published in the journal Neuron has found increased brain levels of magnesium improves both learning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}