Re: lowered blood pressure after Liver flush- LF or magnesium?

The blood pressure lowering effect is due to magnesium. Magnesium is similar in action to calcium channel blockers. In short calcium causes muscles, including blood vessels, to contract. Calcium channel blockers work by preventing the influx of calcium in to nerve synapses, which helps keep blood vessels relaxed. Magnesium works by pushing calcium out, which again relaxes blood vessels. This is why IV magnesium is given in the hospital to women with preeclampsia associated hypertension to immediately lower their blood pressure. So this principle is known by doctors, but they still do not tell their patients to take magnesium for their high blood pressure. They want people taking the overpriced hypertension drugs that the drug companies give them gifts and kickbacks to prescribe, and that they are often invested in to.