• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
nutrition health writer

Thinking Nutrition

For the latest nutrition research and controversies

  • Home
  • About
  • Podcast
  • Blog
    • Allergies
    • Cancer
    • Child Health
    • Collagen
    • Diabetes
    • Eating Well
    • Getting Active
    • Gut Health
    • Heart Health
    • Inflammation
    • Managing Weight
    • Mental Health
    • Mythbusting
    • Nutrition Supplements
    • Women?s Health
  • In the Media
  • Services
  • Contact
  • Search
You are here: Home / Archives for magnesium

magnesium

Will magnesium supplements improve your sleep quality?

February 21, 2023 by Tim Crowe 1 Comment

Magnesium Sleep

Of the many tasks that magnesium has, it is its role in helping us to sleep better that regularly comes up as a reason to take magnesium supplements. In this blog post, I’ll look at the latest evidence for magnesium and sleep. I’ll also profile the main food sources of magnesium and critique the merits of the many different supplemental forms of magnesium.Magnesium is an … [Read more...] about Will magnesium supplements improve your sleep quality?

Magnesium: foods, functions and supplemental forms

November 12, 2020 by Tim Crowe 2 Comments

magnesium

Magnesium is a key mineral in our body and needed for more than 300 different chemical reactions. It is also essential for muscle contractions and nerve transmission while also keeping your heart beating steadily and your immune system strong. In this article, I’ll outline the key functions of magnesium as well as cover the different health conditions where magnesium is thought … [Read more...] about Magnesium: foods, functions and supplemental forms

Primary Sidebar

Connect with Me

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Sign up for Updates

Loading

Get the book

Now in its fifth edition, Understanding Nutrition is the leading text used in nutrition and dietetics courses in Australia and New Zealand. As one of the coauthors, I step you through core topics such as diet planning, macronutrients, vitamins and minerals and follow this with chapters on diet and health, sports nutrition, lifespan nutrition and food safety.

Footer

Privacy policy

Terms of use

Creative Commons License
All content on Thinking Nutrition by Dr Tim Crowe is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License and can be reused with attribution.