By skyforbes 
Dietary sources of magnesium include leafy green vegetables, kelp, sea vegetables, nuts, beans, seeds, cocoa, certain ancient grains, and nettle are good choices. However, it is hard to increase your body’s level of the mineral solely through food, since more than half of the mineral leaves our bodies through our waste.
Since it’s nearly impossible to get enough magnesium through diet alone, I’ve sourced the most highly absorbable magnesium I could find so that I could offer you a solution!
Enter our Chelated Magnesium Powder. This powdered form absorbs well and is effective on acute headaches and chronic leg cramps. It also works as a sleep aid! I usually take 400 mg each day, and you may take up to 600 mg a day in acute cases. Please check with your doctor first.
Other Natural Asthma Treatments
Now that you know more about the benefits of fish oil and magnesium for asthma, let’s look at two of my other natural recommendations.
Steam Breathing
Did your mother or grandmother ever ask you to lean over a steaming pan of water when you had a cold? For centuries, people with breathing difficulties have used steam to help ease breathing difficulties.
Warm, moist air helps loosen mucus in the nose, throat, and lungs and relieve inflamed, swollen blood vessels in your nasal passages.
I use this personal inhaler-vaporizer filled with plain water or with a half-teaspoon silver added to plain water. It is easy to use, and it offers warm, soothing, and relaxing relief. Please note that, although I love essential oils, they are too harsh in this device.
Essential Oils for Asthma
I prefer to use essential oils like eucalyptus, peppermint, and arborvitae in a diffuser to make breathing easier. Another idea is to place a drop or two on the palm of your hand and breathe in the scent that way.
You also can treat asthma with essential oils topically.
Simply mix the essential oil with a carrier like olive oil, sweet almond oil, or jojoba oil and then massage the mixture into the chest or the soles of the feet.
Ongoing Asthma Research
Research continues to unravel the mystery of asthma and how not just to better treat it but cure it. For example, scientists are examining the connection between a TH1 and TH2 imbalance in the body and the onset of asthma.
Th1 and Th2 (called t-helper cells) are essential to a healthy immune system. They are types of white blood cells that recognize and help fight off foreign pathogens. Th1 cells usually handle viruses and certain bacteria, while Th2 deal with toxins, allergens, and other forms of bacteria.
When the Th1 cells are overactive, they can suppress the work of the Th2 cells (and vice versa), causing inflammation. Since allergens are known to trigger asthma, researchers are examining the connection between imbalanced T-helper cells and the disease. (19)
Studies now show that at least 150 human genes appear to play a role in asthma. New approaches, such as bioinformatics and systems biology, are offering tools that may be critical for understanding the body’s immune interactions that lead to allergic asthma. (20)
Studies also are demonstrating the relationship between hormonal imbalances and asthma.
Women find that their menstrual cycle and its hormonal shifts either worsen or improve their asthma symptoms. Here are some other findings that relate to asthma and hormones.
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Women who have irregular periods may have worse asthma symptoms than women who have regular periods.
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Pregnancy may increase or decrease the risk of having a severe asthma attack.
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Similarly, there appears to be a connection between menopause and asthma. The decreasing hormone levels that accompany menopause may worsen asthma symptoms or even cause some women to develop the disease. Other women, however, report that their asthma symptoms improve after menopause. (21)
Another significant breakthrough in asthma research — and one in which I have a deep personal interest — is mold toxicity and its relationship with asthma.
I suffered from asthma symptoms for years before I discovered my own toxic mold exposure in early 2016. As I explained in an earlier blog, not all mold is poisonous, but many of us are living or working in buildings where toxic mold is growing without even realizing it. Mold thrives in damp surroundings.
According to the Federal Facilities Council, 43 percent of U.S. buildings have current water damage, and 85 percent have past water damage. Therefore, these buildings may be harboring harmful molds such as Cladosporium, Penicillium, Alternaria, Aspergillus, and Stachybotrys chartarum, which is known as toxic black mold. (22, 23)
When these biotoxins are not cleared by the body’s immune system, they can be essentially recirculated by the liver. Asthma symptoms, as well as headaches, foggy thinking, insomnia, weight gain, and fatigue, can result.
For more information on how to know if you have mold in your home or workplace, how to remove it, and begin mold healing, please download my step-by-step guide.
Asthma: a Growing Concern
Asthma is the reason for 9.8 million doctor’s office visits and 1.8 million emergency department visits each year in the U.S., according to the CDC. And more than 339 million people are living with asthma throughout the world. Asthma is the most common chronic disease among the world’s children. (24, 25)
As researchers throughout the world seek to better understand this disease, I encourage you to consider taking fish oil and magnesium as natural supplements and remedies to ease your symptoms.