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i’d like to talk to you about the real

reason why we need magnesium now most

people know that magnesium is good for

leg cramps it’s good for stress

relaxation

it’s good to help you sleep it has

anti-inflammatory properties so if they

have sore muscles they might take some

magnesium

they might even know that it supports

healthy blood sugars and that is one of

the main electrolytes to keep the heart

and rhythm and it works with calcium to

support bone and muscle physiology and

if they’ve ever watched my video they

know it also supports atp the energy

currency of the entire cell so it’s

necessary in producing energy and if you

don’t have magnesium you’re going to be

tired but a very very important function

of magnesium is to support your arteries

okay especially the inner lining of the

arteries called the endothelial layer

and magnesium is

needed to produce certain compounds

to keep the arteries at a certain tone

magnesium is a potent vasodilator and it

helps other compounds to keep the

arteries soft so they don’t get so stiff

also magnesium works with other

compounds to inhibit platelet formation

so this is to avoid thrombosis or a clot

now since the number one cause of death

in the world

is heart disease it might be a good idea

to know a little bit more about

magnesium in fact the fda

recently

allowed a health claim for magnesium so

this is what they allow us to claim

consuming diets with adequate magnesium

may reduce the risk of high blood

pressure hypertension however the fda

has concluded that the evidence is

inconsistent and

inconclusive now of course they need to

say that

because there’s so many other variables

involved i mean just by taking magnesium

when you’re on a high carb high sugar

diet is not going to do anything so it’s

extremely difficult to isolate

the cause and effect relationship with

nutrients

when you have so many other factors

involved especially the diet but the

point is we know

that magnesium has a huge effect on our

cardiovascular system and we also know

that if we’re severely deficient in

magnesium

we get

depression

apathy severe cramps and tetany of the

muscle which is that twitching weakness

and even convulsions so that’s all

really interesting but did you also know

that 66 of the population

does not even get the minimum

requirements magnesium from their diet

and magnesium levels have been dropping

over the last 50 years

especially in the soils and then in the

plant and then the animals that eat the

plants not to mention that 80 percent of

magnesium is lost when you process foods

and if you look at all the refined foods

you’d be lucky to find any magnesium in

those foods so where do we get magnesium

well guess what magnesium is at the

center

of chlorophyll and chlorophyll is that

green stuff in plants it is responsible

for something called photosynthesis

where plants take light and convert it

into

chemical energy as fuel

carbohydrates as in proteins and in the

photosynthesis process the waste product

is oxygen which is not a waste for us

it’s their waste but our benefit but the

question is how much of this chlorophyll

do we actually get in our diets an

average person gets about one and a half

cups of vegetable per day

when we actually need a lot more

especially if we’re trying to get

magnesium now we can get magnesium from

grains but of course

they’re just too high in carbohydrate so

one of the best sources of magnesium is

leafy greens

anywhere where you have chlorophyll you

can also get magnesium in meats

in nuts and seeds and seafood and even

berries but there’s not much magnesium

in dairy products dairy products have

more calcium now if you’re deciding to

take a magnesium supplement there are

several forms that i don’t recommend one

would be the oxide form another form i

don’t recommend is magnesium hydroxide

as well as magnesium carbonate and

magnesium sulfate i don’t recommend any

of those forms the forms that are okay

would be like magnesium citrate which is

easily absorbed it’s good for cramps

it’s good for headaches but one of the

problems if you take too much it creates

a laxative effect another form of

magnesium would be magnesium 3 and 8

which is really good to support your

brain in cognitive functions one of the

cons of that form is that it’s very

expensive but that one targets the brain

another form that i like is called

magnesium bis glycinate now many times

people want to know what’s the

difference between magnesium

glycinate versus magnesium glycinate

well the answer is there is no

difference they’re both the same now the

reason i like this form is that it’s

very easy to absorb

it’s good for cramping it’s good to help

support healthy blood sugars it’s good

for stress it’s good for relaxation it’s

good to help you calm down and it

doesn’t have the laxative side effects

that many other forms have and the amino

acid that they use to formulate this

compound glycine

has its own benefit of

supporting sleep decreasing daytime

sleepiness and making you feel really

relaxed and if you want more information

about that type of magnesium i put a

link down below then we have magnesium

orotate this one’s really good for pro

athletes it improves energy but this one

is also very expensive as well but if

you’re an athlete this one might be the

one that you want to take then we have

magnesium taurate magnesium taurid is

really good if you have blood sugar

issues if you’re a diabetic

that’s the one i would recommend and

lastly we have magnesium malate which is

really good to support

fibromyalgia so now you know more about

magnesium

now i think would be appropriate for you

to watch this video on calcium check it

out

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