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over 40 of the population is deficient

in magnesium you’re about to find out

that a magnesium deficiency can create

huge problems for your health the

influence of magnesium in your heart if

you’re deficient you can end up with

high blood pressure magnesium has

everything to do with the relaxation of

arteries muscles smooth muscles so if

you’re deficient in magnesium you’re

going to have a little more calcium and

your arteries are going to get rigid and

you’ll have a tendency to have high

blood pressure another common problem

with the heart is arrhythmias okay the

pacemaker of your heart is neurological

but it connects to the muscle and you

actually have four pacemakers which are

little cells that have this rhythmic uh

beat into the heart but that pacemaker

is mostly dependent on the electrolyte

magnesium and because magnesium is

involved with nerve and muscle you can

end up with tetany or twitching or any

type of abnormal relaxation or

contraction of a muscle and this is why

the number one cause of a leg cramp or a

foot cramp is a magnesium deficiency

magnesium doesn’t just have to do with

muscles though or nerves it’s involved

in over 350 different

enzyme or biochemical Pathways some

involving the production of energy

that’s why the number one sign of a

magnesium deficiency is fatigue because

if you don’t have magnesium you can’t

make energy you also have magnesium

influence over insulin for example if

you’re deficient you’re way more at risk

of getting diabetes and developing

insulin resistance and so if you have

insulin resistance or you’re

pre-diabetic or a diabetic you must make

sure sure that you have enough magnesium

to fix that even your mood is influenced

by magnesium people who are depressed

are nearly always deficient in magnesium

another really good biomarker or

indication that you’re low in magnesium

is C-reactive protein it’s an

inflammatory biomarker and without

magnesium it’s very very difficult to

get rid of inflammation and so there’s a

big magnesium immune system relationship

the rdas or the required amounts of

magnesium range anywhere between 300 to

about you know 750 milligrams if a

person has some type of degenerative

chronic disorder or a heart problem or

diabetes or high blood pressure the need

for magnesium goes way up and so if

you’re just operating off of these

smaller amounts you’re going to have a

hard time fixing these problems I think

there’s two ways that we are deficient

in Magnesium number one we lose a lot of

magnesium when we process foods when we

refine foods and most people live on

refined Foods especially children who

don’t consume enough magnesium so even

though we’re overfed we’re definitely

under nourished the other other big

challenge with magnesium deficiencies is

is identifying magnesium deficiency or

testing for a magnesium deficiency if

you’re using the blood to measure

magnesium you will never find a

deficiency I’m talking about 99 of all

your magnesium is actually located

inside the cell not in the blood out of

all the total magnesium you have only

one percent of it is in the blood so you

really have to understand the input

dietarily of magnesium as well as things

that can deplete magnesium and if we

take a look at chlorophyll that’s the

green stuff in plants and at the heart

of chlorophyll you have magnesium the

chemistry of chlorophyll is very similar

to your own blood with one difference

with blood you have iron with

chlorophyll you have magnesium and with

an average person especially in America

only consuming one cup of vegetables per

day you can see the problem and that’s

for adults I don’t know many children

that consume any vegetables so we have

this input this dietary input that we

need to focus on but also other things

can deplete you of magnesium the big one

is sugar and the second one is refined

carbohydrates

the more sugar the more refined

carbohydrates you eat the more magnesium

you need to metabolize or deal with

those calories if you have diarrhea you

lose a lot of magnesium if you’re on a

diuretic you will lose magnesium if

you’re on an antibiotic you can lose

magnesium and when you drink alcohol you

lose magnesium and even as we age we

store less magnesium in certain tissues

there’s also a really important

connection between your ability to

absorb vitamin D and magnesium you’re

also going to have a hard time absorbing

B vitamins without magnesium magnesium

is involved in certain Transporters in

certain things in your body so one

reason why you might be be deficient or

vitamin D deficient is you just don’t

have enough magnesium in the diet

magnesium also is involved in helping

you keep your cortisol stress on the low

side this is why imagine museum is

important in sleeping okay because if

you’re deficient in magnesium and you

have all these muscle cramps and you’re

stressed out you’re not going to get a

good night’s sleep ideally you want to

get your magnesium from your food so

that would be consuming a lot of dark

leafy green vegetables if you wanted to

take a supplement I would recommend the

following types of magnesium these are

way more bioavailable than other sources

okay and I’m talking about magnesium

citrate or magnesium lactate or

magnesium glycinate or magnesium

aspartate or even magnesium gluconate so

I think now you have a greater

appreciation for magnesium

but the other mineral that is equally

important is potassium and if you

haven’t seen this video I put it up

right here check it out