Is coffee and magnesium beta blocker?

[chanlaw]

They both relax my heart and lower my heart rate. What other natural beta blocker exist? Sodium does not help unless i drink coffee first

 

[Deborah888]

Indian snakeroot, or Rauwolfia Serpentina, is often used to replace beta blockers. I've taken it before and it lowered my blood pressure.

 

[InChristAlone]

I wouldn't rely on herbs to produce the effect. Magnesium is safe.

 

[chanlaw]

Indian snakeroot, or Rauwolfia Serpentina, is often used to replace beta blockers. I've taken it before and it lowered my blood pressure.

Its not the blood pressure effect i want. But lowering of my heart rate means it lower adrenaline

 

[chanlaw]

I wouldn't rely on herbs to produce the effect. Magnesium is safe.

Yes but there is only so much magnesium or caffeine i can take. I cant seem to make the lower adrenaline last

 

[Deborah888]

So it says in the below article, which is a summary of studies done on it, that it partially blocks adrenaline receptors (2nd or 3rd paragraph). (Also, It can be called "african snake root" too, btw). I agree with the above re taking vitamins/minerals (if even necessary) over herbs but I do stray from that here and there if there are a lot of studies on it. Any risks of taking it are at the bottom. I took this a while back to replace prescription propranolol but it turned out I was just hyperthyroid so I quit when I lowered my thyroid hormone.

African Snake Root, Indian Snake Root (Rauwolfia vomitoria, R. serpentina) - Restorative Medicine

 

[Elie]

They both relax my heart and lower my heart rate. What other natural beta blocker exist? Sodium does not help unless i drink coffee first

magnesium is also a calcium channel blocker to a certain degree (small probably). It competes with calcium for absorption.
I believe potassium more powerfully slows the heart rate.

 

[chanlaw]

magnesium is also a calcium channel blocker to a certain degree (small probably). It competes with calcium for absorption.
I believe potassium more powerfully slows the heart rate.

I take potassium too but it never slow my heart rate. Maybe im too magnesium deficient to slow it(i heard magnesium is needed to absorb potassium)

 

[chanlaw]

magnesium is also a calcium channel blocker to a certain degree (small probably). It competes with calcium for absorption.
I believe potassium more powerfully slows the heart rate.

Is there any other natural potent calcium channel blocker? If magnesium is to a small degree?

 

[Peatress]

Calcium-Channel Blockers

• Magnesium (Mg++)
• Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine)
• Vitamin C
• Vitamin E: high gamma/delta E with alpha tocopherol, (high cytosolic Mg++ with low Ca++); also a diuretic
• N-acetyl cysteine
• Hawthorne berry
• Celery
• Garlic
• Taurine
• Selenium
• Alpha-lipoic acid
• Glycine, B3, Aspirin, and Coffee