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so today we’re going to talk about arrhythmias and how they relate to

excessive amounts of calcium stuck inside your cell now arrhythmias relate

to a problem with the rhythm of your heart it could be a minor palpitation it

could be a major atrial fibrillation but anything that is abnormal from the

regular rhythm of the heartbeat it’s called arrhythmias now I will say

there’s other reasons for arrhythmias like hyperthyroidism that could be one

but when I’m done with this presentation all roads lead to excessive calcium

inside your cells this is why one of the medications they may use for rithmatist

will be a calcium channel blocker now calcium is just one of the electrolytes

that you have in your body electrolytes are those electrically

charged minerals that help conduct electricity through the body through the

nervous system and that can activate muscles so you have sodium as an

electrolyte and that can act as the spark and calcium has to do with the

squeeze or contraction of the heart and then the relaxation phase is controlled

by magnesium now there’s many triggers to palpitations heart arrhythmias which

by the way many times occur more at night during the day but you have

caffeine for example that would be obviously during the day

now why would caffeine trigger an arrhythmia or a palpitation simply

because it alters calcium physiology same thing with alcohol it alters

calcium in the body sugar will do it stress will do it as in cortisol certain

electrolytes affect calcium low vitamin D can affect calcium for sure and

there’s certain chemicals in chocolate that can alter the calcium and this is

why a lot of people notice that after consuming chocolate or even caffeine or

alcohol or sugar or going through stress they feel like a little palpitation in

the heart or the heart skips a beat things like that and then there are

certain drugs that alter calcium to specifically are the antipsychotic drugs

and the antidepressant drugs both drive calcium inside the cell and increase the

risk for a rhythm which could actually lead to sudden

death so you can look at these as triggers so now the question is how do

we make sure we don’t have excessive amounts of calcium inside your cells

well one of the biggest controllers are preventing calcium inside the cell would

be this man right here at magnesium magnesium is one of the primary

controllers of calcium and preventing too much from getting inside the cell

magnesium is also involved in keeping your potassium high outside the cell

when normally it’s supposed to be inside the cell and also magnesium is supposed

to be inside the cell like 99% of it you’re supposed to be inside that only

1% should be outside and this leads to another problem of testing when you

check your blood for magnesium levels you’re really only testing 1% of all of

the body’s magnesium and this is the worst place to test magnesium you really

want to do an intracellular test I will put a link down below of a good lab I

had mine done recently and it did come out normal there’s also a tremendous

amount of people that have a magnesium deficiency

it’s subclinical so they may not have a lot of symptoms they may have one or two

magnesium is also involved in keeping sodium low inside the cell as well as

calcium so it wants to keep calcium and magnesium out of this cell and potassium

inside the cell any type of imbalance with these electrolytes throws off the

entire electrical system of the body and this is where you get like a short

circuiting in effect which basically describes an arrhythmia couple reasons

why you might be magnesium deficient it could be that you’re consuming too many

refined carbs or sugar or have insulin resistance or you’re pre-diabetic or

you’re diabetic all of those will keep magnesium allow could be that you’re not

consuming enough magnesium from your diet because you don’t like vegetables

by the way most of the magnesium in the food supply is in the leafy greens

because green is part of the chlorophyll complex and magnesium is at the center

of it there’s also a very important pump that allows these mineral exchanges to

happen and each one of your cells has billions

of these sodium potassium pumps and these are very important in allowing

magnesium other electrolytes to be traveled through this exchange mechanism

and then to reverse that if you don’t have enough magnesium potassium and

sodium won’t work as well so as you can see it gets really complex but don’t

worry it’s going to get more complex because there’s a vitamin k2 which also

has an effect on calcium vitamin k2 helps to take the calcium which is in

the wrong place in your body the soft tissues like in the heart on the nerves

in the joints and the kidney and push that in back into the bone so having

enough k2 can also protect excessive calcium with inside the cell also

vitamin d3 helps to alter calcium and reduce the risk of arrhythmias but what

I wanted to tell you in this video is that there’s a core problem with

arrhythmias and it has to do with excess of calcium in the wrong place and

there’s many different triggers that can cause this so what you probably should

do to figure this out is to scan through the various things that I said and see

if you’re doing too much caffeine too much alcohol

too much sugar have too much stress or maybe you’re not getting enough

magnesium which is probably one of the biggest factors or let’s see you’re low

in vitamin D or you’re eating too much chocolate are you taking drugs that have

side effects that’s what you need to do is look through those and see if you can

correct that to put your heart back in rhythm and the other thing I would

recommend is instead of trying to take one mineral to try to correct it consume

food that has all the minerals in the right proportions that would be the

ideal scene but you would need to consume about seven to ten cups of

vegetables per day to start to build up those minerals now you can also do

electrolyte powder that has all of them in there and realize that it does take

some time it could take three to four possibly five months to remineralize

your body if you’re very deficient don’t get about vitamin k2 and d3 as well

thanks for watching and I have another video in electrolytes that you may be

interested I put it right here