The key to faster recovery after a workout and a very busy life isn’t just about rest — it’s about how your body uses that rest to recover and repair.
Enter magnesium: a powerhouse mineral that plays a critical role in the recovery process, particularly while you sleep.
It’s our nighttime ritual, beauty sleep, muscle recovery, brain boosting, digestion stimulating, mood-regulating superpower and no one can tell us otherwise.
Here’s why:
What is Magnesium?
Magnesium is an essential mineral that plays a vital role in over 300 biochemical processes in the body, including muscle function, nerve regulation, and energy production – but it's especially known for:
- Improving Sleep Quality
- Reducing Stress
- Enhancing Bone Health
- Boosting Energy Production
- Supporting Muscle Recovery
5 Science-Backed Benefits of Magnesium for Sleep, Stress & Body Repair
And speaking of recovery… this is where magnesium, found in our newest formulation Recover Rest really works efficiently for you.
The special Magnesium in Recover Rest helps to accelerate and amplify the body’s ability to heal and recover while you sleep in five major ways:
1. Magnesium Supports Muscle Relaxation and Repair
After a tough workout, your muscles go through microtears that need repair. Magnesium is essential for repairing these microtears (muscle recovery), supporting the repair process at the cellular level. It also helps reduce muscle tension by regulating protein synthesis and supporting muscle contractions. When you sleep, magnesium works its magic by easing muscle stiffness and reducing post-workout soreness, allowing your muscles to repair while you rest.
2. Magnesium Regulates Sleep Hormones for Better Rest
Sleep is the body’s most vital recovery tool. Without quality sleep, recovery from physical exertion slows down, and muscle repair and digestion is compromised. Magnesium aids in regulating key sleep hormones like melatonin, which helps signal to your brain that it’s time to wind down. By balancing melatonin levels, magnesium helps you fall into a deeper, more restful sleep, and allows your body to recover and repair properly while doing so.
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3. Magnesium Reduces Inflammation and Oxidative Stress
Intense exercise causes microtrauma to muscles, which leads to inflammation and oxidative stress. Magnesium has powerful anti-inflammatory properties that help mitigate this response. By reducing inflammation, magnesium not only relieves muscle soreness but also helps speed up muscle recovery. It neutralizes free radicals, preventing damage, oxidative stress, and helping muscles heal faster while you sleep.
4. Magnesium Improves Blood Flow and Nutrient Delivery
Proper blood flow is crucial for muscle recovery (and so, so many other things - read more in Top Five Reasons You Should Switch to Gua Sha). Magnesium helps to relax blood vessels, which improves circulation and allows oxygen and nutrients to be delivered to recovering muscles.
By improving blood flow, magnesium can flood muscles with the nutrients needed for optimising recovery.
5. Magnesium Helps Calm the Nervous System and Reduce Stress
Stress can wreak havoc on your recovery process, preventing your muscles from fully relaxing and disrupting your sleep. Magnesium helps reduce the effects of stress by regulating cortisol, the body’s stress hormone.
By keeping cortisol levels balanced, magnesium allows you to unwind and enter a state of deep relaxation, which is essential for muscle recovery and achieving quality sleep.
How to Maximize Magnesium for Sleep and Recovery
Our supplements, Recover, Rest, and CALM/SLEEP, offer a targeted and effective way to enhance your magnesium intake and support deep, restorative recovery.
