Magnesium Bio-Ron

Fortunately, more and more people are aware that in this day and age, the supply of sufficient magnesium plays an essential role in the body.For example, it is an indispensable co-factor in over 300 enzymatic reactions.

It has long been known among top athletes that magnesium increases performance and endurance, among other things, through the delivery of oxygen to the muscles and brain.Magnesium is essential for bone building and proper functioning of the nervous system.

It promotes strength, endurance AND VERY IMPORTANTLY it provides deep relaxation allowing full recovery to take place in muscle tissues.

Everything starts with the basics

In principle, a horse should get enough magnesium through sufficient good-quality roughage supplemented with grains, that is, if the absorption processes in the stomach and intestines also run smoothly.

Unfortunately, fluctuating forage quality and other stressors mean that a good intake sometimes leaves something to be desired.

In addition, it is also known that the magnesium content in our diet has decreased significantly in recent decades.  ( Source: Karlsruhe food laboratory / Sanatorium Obertal )

Due to intensive food production, soil health is greatly disturbed and less and less magnesium gets into our food, also the use and accumulation of round-up in the soil blocks magnesium uptake, among other things.

Magnesium addition

Magnesium is usually added via animal feed and all kinds of supplements but opinions are quite divided about its quality, absorption.

We can also only give magnesium via oral intake to a very limited extent because magnesium, in whatever form, is laxative so it easily interferes with gastrointestinal processes which can compromise overall nutritional absorption.

Transdermal, through the skin application of pure magnesium chloride (oil) is therefore a better and safer method .

This means simply:

- Body's own magnesium form

- No unnecessary burden on the digestive tract

- No tampering with supplements through the feed

- More palatable food for the animal

How do you know how much magnesium your horse gets per day?

A sharp question that cannot be answered without analysis.

Every bale of hay, every supplement and all basic feed should then be analysed as well as all excreta.

Even a blood analysis is not a very reliable instrument because magnesium is a very mobile element on the one hand and is also stored in bone tissue at the same time.

On average, there is 8 mg of magnesium in 1 kg of bone tissue, forming a store that prevents deficiency.The average daily requirement is 13 to 18 mg per kg body weight.

Overfeeding up to four times this amount is no problem for a healthy horse, except if phosphorus-rich feed such as bran/mash is fed as too much magnesium increases the risk of kidney stones.

Through urine and manure, a horse loses about 4.5 mg per kg body weight daily; a horse that sweats naturally loses more magnesium.

The magnesium balance in the body is controlled by hormones that regulate absorption and, in case of excess, eliminate magnesium via manure, urine and skin/sweat.

Magnesium absorbed through the skin is therefore a safe mineral to give, but for animals with impaired kidney function, we recommend consulting your vet first.

Of course, also make sure there is always plenty of clean drinking water available.

Signs of magnesium deficiency

- The horse does not respond positively to physiotherapy treatments for long periods, sometimes for a few days and then not again.

- Hypersensitive to stimuli, an anxious or restless appearance

- Difficulty relaxing

- Nerve twitching

- Tense body

- Often the horse's back is sensitive

- Showing aggression against touching brushing, putting on blankets, etc.

- Prone to 'tying up

- Itching and eczema

- Often takes a long time to focus during training

- Hypersensitive to light and sound

- Tooth grinding

- Irregular heartbeat

In the longer term, magnesium deficiency causes

- muscle decline,

- bad veins,

- digestive problems with recurrent colic

- sore legs after exercise and/or at coat changes.

Some horses do not have a clearly visible imbalance while it may be present.

Other animals do show clear signs.

Applying magnesium oil should give clear positive differences within a few weeks.

Treatment

As you can see, applying this oil transdermally is the safest method of supplying extra magnesium, over or under dosing is virtually impossible here.

The application is simple, spray or sponge over the coat and massage in. For muscle tension, it can be dosed more liberally locally and brings almost immediate relaxation.

Sometimes the extra stimulation that the oil gives on the skin can still be too much for animals that are already hypersensitive, for instance due to a magnesium deficiency, causing stress. Start with an oil diluted with water (1 to 1) and rinse with clean water after about 10 minutes. If you cannot rinse an animal, use a higher dilution, e.g. 1 to 2 or 1 to 3 litres of water.This (over)sensitivity usually disappears after a few treatments so you can just use the oil pure. The buffer is then restored.

But for most animals, this will not be necessary and the oil can simply be left in the skin fat without being a burden. Throughout the day, magnesium can then be absorbed.

For a sport horse which is trained daily, so has greater needs, the need may be daily. For a hobby horse, 1 to several times a week, depending on need.

In horses with fairly thick hair, the thin-haired areas are the places where magnesium is absorbed fairly directly into the blood and lymphatic system. But also through the other parts of the body, the magnesium chloride laid down in the skin fat will eventually be absorbed.

However, the magnesium left behind also has the property of attracting moisture, so in wet periods in animals that walk outside a lot, it is better not to treat the areas of the vital organs / less frequently.

Beware, it is a salty product that does not react well with metal, which will rust, so avoid contact or rinse it off immediately, e.g. with the metal parts of a blanket, halter, etc.

Therapeutic

Meanwhile, this magnesium oil has also been discovered by therapists who, through various massage techniques, all aim for relaxation or flow of cellular communication in the tissues.

After all, magnesium symbolises relaxation and cellular communication so it makes sense during a massage to simultaneously push this body's own form of magnesium into the blood and lymphatic pathways.

The practitioner himself also benefits;-)

Dosage

This oil contains at least 31% easily absorbable magnesium chloride.

But as mentioned, it is actually impossible to determine exactly what the individual needs are per animal and over or under dosing is virtually impossible.

Our advice is to apply this oil preferably every day or at least regularly to prevent magnesium deficiency, i.e. to keep the body buffer at a good level.

To give some guidance, our experience is that you treat a sport horse of over 500 kg with quite heavy training with 30 to 50 ml of oil daily, spraying once is 1 ml, in case of hobby use the dosage can of course be lowered.

From the Zechstein spring

Of course, you can assume that Bio-Ron offers the highest quality. This oil comes from the original Zechstein source in Groningen and is therefore not made from flakes, but the pure form straight from the source.

Bio-Ron hereby has the sole permission to offer this oil specifically for animals. This oil is therefore intended for use on animals; people wishing to use this oil for their own use do so entirely at their own risk.

The Zechstein Sea is a subterranean sea at least 250 million years old that extends over an area covering England, Scotland, Groningen, Germany, Ukraine and Russia. The source in Tripscompagnie / Groningen is 'recognised' as the source providing the purest product. The producer scientifically guarantees us that the extraction of this magnesium has no connection whatsoever with the soil subsidence that is currently in the news, these are caused by natural gas extraction.

Flakes versus pure oil

Extraction is under constant control and at a time when the purest form of magnesium is pumped up here, it is not further processed and marketed as pure oil.

This oil comes directly from the source whereby temperature does not exceed 70 degrees.

In addition, so-called flakes/crystals are made from the remaining salt extraction.

You can also make oil from these but this does not give the same product as the pure oil.

The flakes are produced by an evaporation process in which the magnesium solution from the source is heated strongly to 160 degrees Celsius. Water is evaporated until a concentration of 47% magnesium chloride is reached.

This is the right concentration to obtain magnesium chloride hexahydrate, the stable solid form/crystallisation.

However, this heating will cause some of the easily absorbable magnesium chloride (MgCl2) to decompose into the less absorbable MgOHCl (magnesium hydroxide chloride), MgCO3 (magnesium carbonate) and some HCl (hydrogen chloride).

These are responsible for the white haze you see on the crystals, they are harmless by-products created in the process of producing the crystals.This white haze also becomes visible on the skin when oil is made of is made of flakes, this is the magnesium which cannot be absorbed by the skin.

For applications as bath salts, however, these flakes / crystals are perfectly suitable.

For applications directly on the skin, we recommend using the purest original magnesium oil.

Straight from the source without any additional processing.

Analyse:

substance	value	unit
Density	1298	kg/m3
MgCLl	30.7	%
KCl	0.45	%
NaCl	0,44	%
MgSO4	0.21	%
Br-	0.42	%
CaCl	0.02	%
B	47.1	mg/l
Al	0.34	mg/l
As	<0.002	mg/l
Ba	0.1	mg/l
Cd	<0.03	mg/l
Co	0.1	mg/l
Cr	<0.06	mg/l
Cu	0.07	mg/l
Hg	<0.0015	mg/l
Mn	1.42	mg/l
Mo	<0.15	mg/l
Ni	<0.14	mg/l
P	<0.5	mg/l
Pb	>0.01	mg/l
Si	0.7	mg/l
Sn	<0.4	mg/l
Ti	0.06	mg/l
V	0.06	mg/l
Zn	0.07	mg/l
F	12.9	mg/l

Question from a customer: is there any risk of over dosing when applied through the skin?

Dear ......Thanks for your info request regarding the use/risk of overdosing with our magnesium oil.

The oil mainly contains magnesium chloride, which is the body's own form of magnesium, so it is easily absorbed and transported to the cells via blood and lymph.

The hormones then regulate what to do with it. What is needed is used/stored and what is too much is removed via faeces and perspiration. This happens continuously and is the normal course of events, so over-dosing through the skin is virtually impossible.

Where a risk can arise is when we add too much magnesium to food. The absorbability of most magnesium species is low, simply because the body does not recognise it in this form. It must first be made suitable for absorption by the digestive system (enzymes / stomach and intestinal flora).

Too much magnesium here results in a shortage rather than an overdose in terms of absorption. This is because magnesium disturbs the digestive system, making magnesium and other essential nutrients more difficult to absorb.

Magnesium is also a very mobile element, it can/must circulate quickly within the body. Under certain circumstances such as stress, heavy sweating or defecation, the body sometimes uses up a lot of magnesium.Also illness / medication use have a negative effect on the magnesium balance.

The body will always try to maintain a buffer so that it can draw on this as needed. Supply through the skin is the safest way to replenish/maintain this buffer.

Overdosing through the skin is therefore impossible, but applying it every day is not necessarily necessary, follow your gut feeling, less reassuring now that you have used it daily for a while. Watch for signs that might indicate a magnesium deficiency, then feel free to use it again for a few days at a time.

Then these signs should disappear again relatively quickly.

Text: Bio-Ron/Zechstein

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