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Can minerals help with stress and anxiety?
A good mineral formula can melt away stress and anxiety, leaving you more relaxed within days.
In fact, minerals are one of your body’s first lines of defense against stress. Replenishing your mineral stores is key to increasing your stress resilience. Certain minerals are especially helpful for chronic stress, too.
April is National Stress Awareness Month, so here’s a look at the best minerals for stress, and why daily minerals should be part of your self-care routine.
If you struggle with stress, you’re not alone.
In fact, the American Psychological Association described stress as an “epidemic.” Stress levels have been rising in recent years—and stress takes a serious toll on your wellbeing.
When you’re in the middle of chronic stress, it’s often difficult to step back and realize how you’re feeling. Look for the following signs of chronic stress: [*]
Physical signs of chronic stress |
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Mental signs of chronic stress |
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Behavioral signs of chronic stress |
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If you’re dealing with several of the above signs, there’s a good chance you’re chronically stressed.
One of the problems with chronic stress is that it depletes your mineral stores.
When you’re stressed for a long time, your body is constantly making cortisol, your main stress hormone. Cortisol activates your fight-or-flight response, increasing your vigilance and priming your body to deal with threats in your environment.
The issue is that cortisol is expensive to make. It uses up a lot of your body’s resources—and when you’re producing cortisol around the clock, you can end up depleted of several important minerals. The three most common minerals stress depletes are magnesium, potassium, and zinc.
A 2020 study found that chronic stress depletes magnesium, often leading to clinical magnesium deficiency. [*]
Low magnesium is a problem, because magnesium eases stress. It regulates a lot of calming processes in your brain—so when magnesium is depleted, you become more susceptible to stress.
In other words, the longer you’re stressed, the more magnesium-depleted you become, and the harder it is to cope with future stress. [*]
Magnesium doesn’t work alone in your body. It typically needs potassium to absorb properly, and vice versa.
When stress depletes your magnesium stores, you have a hard time absorbing potassium, and there’s a good chance you’ll also develop a potassium deficiency. [*]
Potassium is important for regulating muscle function. Low potassium can worsen several signs of chronic stress, particularly muscle pain and muscle tension.
About 20% of American adults don’t get enough zinc. [*]
Low zinc is less common than other mineral deficiencies—but if your zinc is low, it can have a major impact on your anxiety and stress levels.
A 2024 review found that zinc is a strong regulator of anxiety. People with low zinc report more severe stress and higher anxiety, and replenishing zinc helps bring things back to normal. [*]
Zinc also works alongside magnesium to help regulate your sleep hormone, melatonin. [*] Getting more zinc can improve sleep quality, which is good for easing stress. [*]
If you struggle with chronic stress or anxiety, mineral replenishment is essential.
Stress causes massive mineral depletion, so it’s important to restore what you’ve lost. Getting more minerals will help your nervous system balance itself and make you more resilient to future stress.
At BEAM Minerals, we make replenishment easy. Our plant-based liquid formula contains every essential mineral your body needs for stress relief, in an optimal ratio.
All you do is take two shots of mineral-rich liquid—one from each bottle—every morning. Our minerals are fast-absorbing and reach your cells within minutes, providing instant stress relief.
If you’re dealing with chronic stress, try adding BEAM Minerals to your self-care routine. They’re a simple, effective way to support your resilience and break the cycle of chronic stress.
Yes, in fact, BEAM Minerals will enhance the bioavailability of all your other supplements.
Electrolyze™ is primarily composed of Fulvic Mineral Complexes . Fulvic complexes are small molecules that provide inter-cellular transport for nutritional elements into the cells and carry bio-waste out of the cells. Fulvic complexes are flavonoids , which provide many benefits in the body.
Micro-BOOST™ is primarily composed of the Humic Mineral Complexes . Humic complexes are large molecules that are extra-cellular, meaning they do not enter the cells but stay outside the cells. They are highly-charged molecules that attract, through their electrical charge, bio-waste, free radicals and heavy metals. They ultimately carry bio-waste out of the body. Thus, we call them “Nature’s Janitor”.
The quantities of each element in BEAM Minerals products are measured in “parts per million” (ppm), rather than the “milligrams” (mg). Here is the information which usually helps to understand the difference:
Milligrams (mg) vs parts per million (ppm)
In comparing our products to other supplements, people want to know how much of an electrolyte is in our products (like potassium, magnesium, sodium, calcium). Usually they are looking for an amount in milligrams (mg).
We have a hard time answering that question, because the electrolytes (and other elements) in BEAM Minerals products are measured in parts per million (ppm). So how can consumers compare?
The answer is a little complex, but here’s the high points.
The electrolytes in BEAM Minerals products are provided in “trace” amounts that are completely dissolved and thus 100% bio-available, immediately introduced into your circulation when you consumed them and will produce and active effect.
When you take a 320mg pill of magnesium, your body is only able utilize about 12-20% of it as it takes some time because your body has to digest it first. Whatever is not dissolved gets processed out of your body.
When you take a capful of liquid Electrolyze™ and/or Micro-BOOST™, you receive approximately 5.22 ppm of magnesium in which 100% of the magnesium is immediately available to your body. In addition, an important to know is that the magnesium in BEAM Minerals products stay in your system much longer building up healthy levels as you continue to take it daily.
