Magnesium potassium aspartate is a mineral supplement that combines magnesium and potassium with the non-essential amino acid aspartate. According to Dr. Mildred Seelig, author of "The Magnesium Factor," magnesium potassium aspartate supplements improve the absorption of both minerals in your body. This product has benefits in the field of sports nutrition and as a dietary supplement of magnesium and potassium in individuals with deficiencies of either of these minerals.
Mechanism of Action
Magnesium potassium aspartate supplements work by stabilizing your cellular membranes through the normalization of your magnesium and potassium levels. Additionally, this combination of minerals helps in your body's detoxification of ammonia. Increased levels of ammonia and depleted levels of potassium and magnesium commonly result from exercise-induced fatigue. According to Dr. Carolyn Dean, author of "The Magnesium Miracle," magnesium and potassium aspartate can help treat neuromuscular fatigue from exercise or other causes.
The Roles of Each Ingredient
These three compounds play very important roles in the energy-producing tricarboxylic acid cycle in you cells' mitochondria. Aspartic acid, or aspartate, is a carrier of energy that also functions as a neurotransmitter in your central nervous system. Magnesium stabilizes the energy molecule adenosine triphosphate, or ATP. Magnesium forms a complex, and without this complex your body would break down the ATP into the low-energy molecule adenosine diphosphate, or ADP, and phosphate. Potassium supports the acid-base balance in your body and the proper transmission of neurochemical messages between your neurons.
Magnesium Potassium Aspartate in Sports Nutrition
According to the book "Sports and Exercise Nutrition," magnesium potassium aspartate has the capacity to improve long-term performance in athletes. Specifically, untrained athletes who take magnesium potassium aspartate supplements can improve times to exhaustion on average between 23 and 50 percent by taking 7 to 13 g of this supplement per day.
Magnesium Potassium Aspartate for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Chronic fatigue syndrome, or CFS, commonly produces flu-like symptoms, exhaustion, problems with concentration and short-term memory, poor stamina and unrefreshing sleep. Dr. Henri Laborit, a researcher and physician for the French Navy, proposed in 1960 that fully reacted magnesium and potassium aspartates could help to treat this condition. The pharmaceutical company Wyeth conducted several followup studies, published in the January 1964 issue of "Clinical Medicine," that found 65 to 91 percent of CFS sufferers who took 500 mg of magnesium and potassium aspartate twice daily experienced an improvement in the symptoms associated with their CFS.
References
- "The Magnesium Miracle"; Carolyn Dean, M.D., N.D.; 2006
- "The Magnesium Factor"; Mildred Seelig, M.D.; 2003
- "Miracle of Magnesium"; Carolyn Dean; 2004
- "User's Guide to Calcium & Magnesium"; Nan Kathryn Fuchs; 2002
- "Sports and Exercise Nutrition"; William D. McArdle, Frank I. Katch and Victor L. Katch; 2008
- "Clinical Medicine"; Treatment of Fatigue in General Practice: A Double Blind Study; J.T. Hicks; January 1964
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