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The Contribution of Dietary Magnesium in Farm Animals and Human Nutrition
Magnesium (Mg) is a mineral that plays an essential role as cofactor of more than 300 enzymes. Mg in farm animals’ and human nutrition is recommended to avoid Mg deficiency, ensure adequate growth and health maintenance. Mg supplementation above the estimated minimum requirements is the best practic...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7913977/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33557151 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13020509 |
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author | Pinotti, Luciano Manoni, Michele Ferrari, Luca Tretola, Marco Cazzola, Roberta Givens, Ian |
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description | Magnesium (Mg) is a mineral that plays an essential role as cofactor of more than 300 enzymes. Mg in farm animals’ and human nutrition is recommended to avoid Mg deficiency, ensure adequate growth and health maintenance. Mg supplementation above the estimated minimum requirements is the best practice to improve farm animals’ performances (fertility and yield) and food products’ quality, since the performance of farm animals has grown in recent decades. Mg supplementation in pigs increases meat quality and sows’ fertility; in poultry, it helps to avoid deficiency-related health conditions and to improve meat quality and egg production by laying hens; in dairy cows, it serves to avoid grass tetany and milk fever, two conditions related to hypomagnesaemia, and to support their growth. Thus, Mg supplementation increases food products’ quality and prevents Mg deficiency in farm animals, ensuring an adequate Mg content in animal-source food. These latter are excellent Mg sources in human diets. Sub-optimal Mg intake by humans has several implications in bone development, muscle function, and health maintenance. This review summarizes the main knowledge about Mg in farm animals and in human nutrition. |
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spelling | pubmed-79139772021-02-28 The Contribution of Dietary Magnesium in Farm Animals and Human Nutrition Pinotti, Luciano Manoni, Michele Ferrari, Luca Tretola, Marco Cazzola, Roberta Givens, Ian Nutrients Review Magnesium (Mg) is a mineral that plays an essential role as cofactor of more than 300 enzymes. Mg in farm animals’ and human nutrition is recommended to avoid Mg deficiency, ensure adequate growth and health maintenance. Mg supplementation above the estimated minimum requirements is the best practice to improve farm animals’ performances (fertility and yield) and food products’ quality, since the performance of farm animals has grown in recent decades. Mg supplementation in pigs increases meat quality and sows’ fertility; in poultry, it helps to avoid deficiency-related health conditions and to improve meat quality and egg production by laying hens; in dairy cows, it serves to avoid grass tetany and milk fever, two conditions related to hypomagnesaemia, and to support their growth. Thus, Mg supplementation increases food products’ quality and prevents Mg deficiency in farm animals, ensuring an adequate Mg content in animal-source food. These latter are excellent Mg sources in human diets. Sub-optimal Mg intake by humans has several implications in bone development, muscle function, and health maintenance. This review summarizes the main knowledge about Mg in farm animals and in human nutrition. MDPI 2021-02-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7913977/ /pubmed/33557151 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13020509 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Pinotti, Luciano Manoni, Michele Ferrari, Luca Tretola, Marco Cazzola, Roberta Givens, Ian The Contribution of Dietary Magnesium in Farm Animals and Human Nutrition |
title | The Contribution of Dietary Magnesium in Farm Animals and Human Nutrition |
title_full | The Contribution of Dietary Magnesium in Farm Animals and Human Nutrition |
title_fullStr | The Contribution of Dietary Magnesium in Farm Animals and Human Nutrition |
title_full_unstemmed | The Contribution of Dietary Magnesium in Farm Animals and Human Nutrition |
title_short | The Contribution of Dietary Magnesium in Farm Animals and Human Nutrition |
title_sort | contribution of dietary magnesium in farm animals and human nutrition |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7913977/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33557151 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13020509 |
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