Athletes and magnesium

Kenya and Ethiopia are the countries that dominate the athletic events in the background to the Olympics and world athletics.

Our collaborator AMLSPORT Through Ana Maria Lajusticia she tells us in this article how fundamental magnesium is for sports practice

We find that the Kalenjin, who represent the 0,05% of the world population, occupy the 40% of the positions of honor to the world tests of fund and half fund.

Kenya and Ethiopia are the countries that dominate the athletic events in the background to the Olympics and world athletics. We found that the Kalenjin, which represent 0,05% of the world population, occupy the 40% of positions of honor to the world tests of fund and half fund.

The first African athlete to win the Olympic Games Marathon in Rome (the 1960) was Abebe Bikila, who became famous throughout the world, who apart, ran barefoot.

From this country is also the 25 times 'world recordman' Haile Gebrselassie and other Ethiopians who, along with the Kenyans in the 2012 year, gathered 161 medals between the Olympics and the World Athletics Championships.

It has been studied from several points of view which could be the origins of these successes: it has been observed that they live at an altitude in which, naturally, the hematocrit and hemoglobin of their inhabitants increase; also the characteristics of his body, which is light, but with a denser skeleton and a lower lung capacity than that of the other runners, which is paradoxical.

The feed has been analyzed and we know that they ingest 56kcal per kilogram of weight, against 44kcal of the western corridors. That the proteins constitute the 14,5% of the calories that they ingest unlike the 18% of the western ones. Its diet is based on cereals, legumes, milk, chicken and eggs, and we know that they do not abandon their usual diet when they reach the elite.

Remember that many athletes enter the diet of these athletes seeds, which is the part of the plant where we find more magnesium, which I insist, intervenes in the penetration of potassium into the muscle to get relaxation.

When it contracts, Sodium and Calcium enter and potassium comes out, and for it to relax, Potassium enters and Sodium and Calcium come out. What I find strange is that there is a lot of talk about Potassium, but nobody explains that to get it back into the muscle phosphorus intervenes, mineral from which seeds are very rich.

And I ask myself: If we know that Magnesium has such an important role in muscular, mental work and in the repair of the wear of all tissues, How is it that nobody has ever looked at the concentration of this element in the blood of athletes who have died or fainted in these tests?

Because although in 10 years, from the 2000 to the 2009, have run 28 runners to different marathons, 40% have not determined the cause of death. On the contrary, we have no news that an African runner has died, although they are the world record holders and those who make the greatest efforts in the race.

With all this, I come to the conclusion that Magnesium, this factor that nobody has taken into account, is the one that allows the inhabitants of these countries to win competitions that demand greater wear and tear, because they have good reserves thanks to a diet rich in this element.

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