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Magnesium may have a role in nerve regeneration

7 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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Magnesium may help nerves and bones heal by promoting myelin regeneration and stimulating growth factors. It could reduce fatigue in bone hardware and prevent screw breakage, with scaphoid fractures being an especially promising target because the bone has poor blood supply.

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Magnesium helps with the regeneration of the myelin sheath surrounding nerves. And so there's actually a definitive benefit from a nerve pain standpoint to put magnesium in it. From an osteogenesis and like a VEGF formation, I think you have more of a selling feature for nerve issues and diabetic. If you can get the fatigue to where the screws don't break in, in the bone, areas where there's load, that, that could be valuable. But I mean, scaphoid nonunions are a perfect indication because it's low blood supply and there's not a lot of pressure and it's not a weight-bearing joint.