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up electrolytes and alleviate inflammation, pain and arthritis. If you don’t have the opportunity to do this you can soak in magnesium chloride salts at home in a bath or footsoak, or use Elektra Magnesium Cream moisturizer for your daily skin care, or Elektra Magnesium Oil to add higher concentrations of magnesium on muscles where needed.

There are no contra-indications as transdermal absorption of magnesium is regulated by the body’s own homeostatic balance, just like the roots of a tree absorb minerals from the soil, but not more than it needs. Nutrients are absorbed into the epidermal layer and temporarily stored, the same way the body makes vitamin D from sunlight exposure on the skin and holds it in its collagen cage reservoir whilst the tiny capillaries of the dermis underneath gradually absorb the nutrients as required.

The skin, like the gut, also depends on the right microbiome to maintain a healthy skin layer and these beneficial bacteria must also be fed! In this way the skin, the largest organ of the body, can ‘consume’ nutritional elements. There are no drugs involved, nothing nanosized nor chemicalised: It is simply a ‘food’ made of organic plant ingredients infused with naturally evaporated magnesium chloride salts - Nutrition via skin!

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2.Seelig, M.S. and A. Rosanoff, The magnesium factor. 2003, New York: Avery.

3.Weglicki, W., et al., The Role of Magnesium Deficiency in Cardiovascular and Intestinal Inflammation. Vol. 23. 2010. S199-206.

4.Swaminathan, R., Magnesium Metabolism and its Disorders. The Clinical Biochemist Reviews, 2003. 24(2): p. 47-66.

5.Malpuech-Brugère, C., et al., Inflammatory response following acute magnesium deficiency in the rat. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease, 2000. 1501(2): p. 91-98.

6.Maier, J.A.M., et al., Low magnesium promotes endothelial cell dysfunction: implications for atherosclerosis, inflammation and thrombosis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease, 2004. 1689(1): p. 13-21.