Can This Skincare Product Cure High Blood Pressure?

The British Daily Express recently reported that a skin cream with an unexpected ingredient could lower blood pressure.

That sounds like an unlikely claim because your skin is supposed to serve as a barrier that prevents stuff from entering your body.

So we decided to follow up. After all, if it is true, it would constitute a blood pressure remedy that involves no drugs, something we would be keen to explore.

The study described was performed by researchers at the University of Hertfordshire and published in the journal PLOS ONE.

They asked volunteers with an average age of 34 years to use either a 56 mg per day magnesium cream or a normal cream for two weeks. They also had to keep food diaries to estimate their oral intake of magnesium.

High magnesium level in blood and urine has been proven to lower blood pressure. But does applying magnesium to your skin help? That was the question researchers wanted to answer.

At the beginning of the study, the two groups had identical amounts of magnesium in their blood and urine.

After the two weeks, the magnesium cream group’s blood magnesium had increased by between 0.82 and 0.89 mmol/l (millimole per liter). The group using the normal cream displayed no such increase.

Researchers felt confident concluding that magnesium skin cream can increase the magnesium found in blood. Therefore, naturally lower blood pressure.

But applying magnesium skin care is not enough to cure high blood pressure. For that, you need to use the simple 9-minute blood pressure exercises found here…