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The Essential Minerals for a Stronger, Healthier Heart
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You want to keep your heart beating strong. Minerals can help.
Minerals are essential for maintaining heart health. They keep your heart rhythm stable and offer natural blood pressure support, ensuring your cardiovascular system stays in balance.
Mineral replenishment is a simple, effective way to build a stronger heart. February is American Heart Month, so let’s take an in-depth look at how you can support your heart with minerals.
Do Minerals Help with Heart Health?
Yes, minerals are important for heart health. They help you maintain a stable heartbeat and support optimal blood pressure.
Your heart is a muscle, and like all the other muscle tissue in your body, it depends on electrolytes to contract and relax.
Electrolytes are minerals that carry an electrical charge. They work in pairs to control opposing processes. In the case of your heart, minerals cause cardiac muscle to shrink and expand, creating a stable heartbeat.
Most of your body’s muscles are voluntary, meaning they only move when you want them to. But you don’t have conscious control over the muscle cells in your heart. Instead, they move constantly and automatically, contracting and relaxing more than 100,000 times a day. Every single time your heart beats, it uses minerals to maintain proper rhythm and contraction strength.
The 4 Main Minerals Important for Heart Health
Your heart needs four electrolytes to keep beating correctly: calcium, magnesium, potassium, and sodium.
These minerals work in two pairs. The first pair, calcium and magnesium, send the signals that tell your heart to contract and relax. [*] Potassium and sodium, meanwhile, maintain an electrical charge in your myocardium, the thick middle layer of your heart wall.
Your myocardium manages blood exchange between your heart and your circulatory system. Potassium and sodium regulate myocardial function. They keep your blood pressure in the optimal range, preventing undue stress on your heart. [*]
Essential Minerals |
Function in the Heart |
Calcium + magnesium |
Calcium causes heart contractions, while magnesium relaxes heart muscle. The two work together to maintain a steady heartbeat. [*] |
Potassium + sodium |
Potassium and sodium work opposite each other in the myocardium, maintaining blood exchange between the heart and circulatory system. Potassium lowers blood pressure, while sodium increases it. [*] |
To keep your heart strong long-term, you want to be sure you have enough of all four essential electrolytes.
Both calcium and magnesium deficiencies increase risk of heart disease. [*][*][*] If you’re low in either one, it becomes more difficult for your heart to manage contractions and maintain a stable rhythm throughout the day. This causes low-level cardiac stress that impairs heart function over time. [*]
A sodium-potassium imbalance also causes heart problems. Your myocardium will have difficulty regulating blood flow. Most people consume too much sodium and not enough potassium, which leads to high blood pressure. [*]
Unfortunately, potassium, calcium, and magnesium deficiencies are three of the most common mineral deficiencies in the United States:
97% of Americans are potassium-deficient [*]
65% are calcium-deficient [*]
45% are magnesium-deficient [*]
These are the main minerals important for heart health. For long-term heart function, It’s important to get all of them together, in the correct ratio.
Other Minerals that Support Your Heart
Two other minerals are essential for maintaining heart health: zinc and iron.
Unlike electrolytes, zinc and iron don’t benefit your heart tissue directly. Instead, they support your heart by keeping your arteries strong, reducing stress on your entire cardiovascular system.
For a long time, researchers didn’t think zinc affected heart function. But over the last decade, studies have revealed that low zinc is a major predictor of heart disease. [*] Zinc decreases cardiovascular inflammation and prevents your arteries from stiffening, which guards against chronic heart problems.
A 2021 review found that getting enough zinc is one of the most effective ways to support your long-term cardiovascular health. [*]
Iron is equally important for your heart. A 2023 review named low iron as an independent risk factor for heart disease. [*] Replenishing iron reduced inflammation and stress on arteries, decreased hospitalization among heart disease patients, and improved overall heart function in healthy adults.
Essential Mineral |
Heart Benefits |
Zinc |
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Iron |
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Both zinc and iron support your arteries, keeping your heart strong long-term.
Stress and Mineral Depletion: A Common Cause of Heart Issues
Stress is notoriously bad for your heart. Both physical and psychological stress increase your risk of heart attack, stroke, arterial blockages, and other heart problems. [*][*]
But when it comes to stress and heart health, there’s a component that’s often overlooked: mineral depletion.
A 2020 study found that stress depletes magnesium—and the more your magnesium falls, the greater your susceptibility to future stress. [*] The resulting cycle is difficult to escape, and it can begin to affect your cardiovascular wellbeing. Chronic low magnesium places considerable strain on your heart. [*]
Low magnesium also makes it harder for potassium to reach your heart, which can contribute to increased blood pressure over time. [*][*]
These mineral deficiencies worsen the impact that stress has on your heart. This is another reason it’s so important to replenish your mineral stores—especially if you’re stressed.
A Simple Morning Routine to Keep Your Heart Strong
Getting more minerals is a simple, effective way to support your heart.
Your heart needs a variety of electrolytes and minerals to function well. Because those minerals work with each other, it’s best to replenish all of them at the same time.
At BEAM Minerals, we make replenishment easy. We offer two solutions:
Electrolyze™ contains the full range of electrolytes the human body needs, including the calcium, magnesium, and potassium that work together to support your heart.
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Micro-BOOST™ delivers every other essential mineral, including iron and zinc to keep your cardiovascular system strong.
Both Electrolyze™ and Micro-BOOST™ come in a fast-absorbing, convenient liquid form. All you do is take a shot of each, first thing in the morning. They taste like water and provide every essential mineral you need, in an optimal ratio.
If you want to support your heart, consider adding BEAM Minerals to your daily routine. They’re a simple way to keep your cardiovascular system strong.
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FAQs
Can I take BEAM Minerals with my other supplements?
Yes, in fact, BEAM Minerals will enhance the bioavailability of all your other supplements.
What is the difference between Micro-BOOST™ and Electrolyze™?
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”.
How many milligrams (mg) of an electrolyte (Potassium, Magnesium, Sodium, Calcium, etc.) is there in BEAM Minerals?
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.
