Magnesium isn’t optional, it’s essential.

This quiet mineral is involved in more than six hundred enzymatic reactions, influencing everything from how your heart beats to how your brain fires. Yet up to eighty percent of people may be living with low levels that never appear on standard tests. The signs are easy to miss: restless sleep, tension, anxiety, cramps, or that vague sense of running on empty.

Magnesium is the body’s natural stabiliser , the foundation of calm that steadies mood, supports hormone balance, and restores deep sleep. When levels fall, the nervous system becomes overactive and resilience fades.

The form you choose matters..

Magnesium Glycinate is the all-purpose calmer: gentle, highly absorbable, and ideal for stress, anxiety, and sleeplessness. Magnesium L-Threonate supports cognitive clarity, crossing the blood–brain barrier to ease mental fatigue. Magnesium Citrate encourages regularity and digestion, especially useful during travel or times of imbalance.

It’s also found naturally in dark chocolate, spinach, cashews, avocado, and pumpkin seeds, and can be absorbed through the skin in a warm Epsom-salt bath to relax muscles and quiet the mind.

In a culture wired for speed and stimulation, magnesium is the chemistry of stillness, a subtle reminder that rest is not indulgence, but intelligence.

The Edit recommends: take magnesium in the evening, ideally with your final meal or as part of your wind-down ritual. Pair it with gentle breathing or a digital switch-off for a nervous-system reset that lasts beyond the night.

With care, 

Dr Ellie x