What Causes Tension?

Are you, like millions of others, chronically tense or anxious? Suffering from a dry mouth or feel like you’re suffocating? Is your stomach constantly in a knot or having spasms? Or, do you get chronic muscle cramps?

Your nervous system consists of the parasympathetic and the sympathetic nervous systems. Your parasympathetic nervous system keeps you calm and helps slow your mind and your body down, whereas your sympathetic nervous system keeps you going, going and going.

This is important because, when you’re supposed to be on the go – working, exercising, in action – you need your sympathetic nervous system to be firing away and providing you with energy but when you’re supposed to relax, unwind, eat calmly, sleep peacefully, your parasympathetic nervous system needs to take over.

In other words, a balanced nervous system will allow you to have plenty of energy when you’re supposed to but also allow you to be calm and peaceful when you’re supposed to be relaxed.

To function properly, your parasympathetic nervous system needs the alkaline minerals to create the calmness and peace whilst your sympathetic nervous system requires the acid minerals to give you that energy when you need it for your work or play.

The main alkaline minerals include, amongst others, calcium, magnesium and potassium while the predominant acid mineral is phosphorus.

Phosphorus mainly comes from your grains (breads, pastas, crackers, processed foods, pies, cakes, etc) – your typical American diet – while calcium, magnesium and potassium mainly comes from your greens – of which most people don’t get enough.

If you’re mostly tense and anxious, that is because your nervous system is being deprived of the vitally important alkaline minerals. The important thing to know is that you need to eat more green vegetables and fewer grains. You can also supplement with a good quality calcium and magnesium supplement like Instant CalMag-C and drink two to three teaspoons of Paul Bragg apple cider vinegar in water with raw organic honey to get some good quality potassium into your body. This is quite a tasty drink if done right and goes a long way to providing you with the potassium your body needs. It’s available online at Paul Bragg’s site.

You can reduce the tension and anxiety and have a calm and peaceful night’s sleep by eating more greens and taking a high quality calcium and magnesium supplement.

We wish you a tension- and stress-free day and a good night’s sleep.

Call us now at 727-441-2820 to order your Instant CalMag-C or visit us online at
www.calmag-c.com and order yours today.

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