A Brief History of Magnesium Intake

Magnesium, a critical mineral for maintaining health, involved in 600 enzymatic reactions including energy metabolism and protein synthesis [1]. However, one might wonder how exactly the body is so dependent on a mineral that over 50% of North Americans find difficult to obtain from their diet? 

In this article, we will go through a couple of basic facts that will display why Magnesium became so embedded into our biology, and also try to address some reason about why it may be challenging to obtain enough of it.

Life is believe to have began in the ocean. Life began roughly ____3billion years ago. Imagine the first set of cells that somehow managed to form. They would naturally have utilized 

[1]. De Baaij, Jeroen HF, Joost GJ Hoenderop, and René JM Bindels. "Magnesium in man: implications for health and disease." Physiological reviews 95.1 (2015): 1-46.