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I’d like to discuss the first sign of a

magnesium deficiency did you realize

that 68 of people in the United States

don’t get the required amounts of

magnesium from their diet now not to

mention all the other foods and things

and drugs and things that people are

exposed to that deplete magnesium

magnesium is a cofactor involved in

350 different enzymes what’s a cofactor

cofactor is something that is required

by an enzyme for that enzyme to work and

I’m not just talking about digestive

enzymes I’m talking about enzymes that

make up all your biochemistry that do

all the bodily functions the other thing

about a magnesium deficiency is many

times a potassium deficiency has very

similar symptoms so it’s it is difficult

to determine if you have a magnesium

deficiency or a potassium deficiency but

the good news is they both come from

vegetables and salads so as long as you

already knows you’re going to be totally

fine but before I get into the number

one most common symptom let me go

through some other symptoms

cramping twitching which could also come

from other things as well like your pH

being two alkaline arrhythmias okay of

the heart the heart starts skipping

because of a lack of magnesium mainly

because magnesium works with calcium

magnesium helps remove too much calcium

from the cell helping this over

contracted vasoconstricted artery

lowering your blood pressure now as far

as your bone health people think calcium

to prevent osteoporosis but magnesium is

just as important and osteomalacia which

is a vitamin D deficiency which is

softening of the bones in adults like a

child’s version would be rickets because

magnesium is essential for vitamin D

activation you can’t activate vitamin D

without magnesium insulin resistance and

I’ve talked about this in many other

videos has a related magnesium

deficiency usually and this is why when

you increase magnesium you start to make

insulin more sensitive and it starts to

work and of course insomnia if you don’t

have enough you’ll have a tendency to

not be able to sleep and also low

magnesium can raise cortisol and of

course your mood is dependent on

magnesium too if you’re a deficient in

magnesium you may find that you’re a bit

on the depressed side so what is the

number one symptom of a magnesium

deficiency it is fatigue now so many

people have fatigued and maybe you right

now are sitting right there and you’re

tired right A lot of people are tired it

could be as simple as not getting enough

magnesium and I do want to mention what

foods to eat for magnesium because

that’s ultimately the best way to get

your magnesium but let me just dive into

why people get tired because they don’t

have enough magnesium

remember I mentioned that magnesium is

necessary for 350 different enzymes well

a lot of those enzymes are in the

mitochondria and specifically the

creation of ATP ATP is the energy

currency that the body uses to power all

the different functions and magnesium

Powers something else that I talked

about in other videos the sodium

potassium pumps these are the little

pumps in every single cell that power

your muscles to work and your nervous

system to work that little pump creates

the voltage because your cells are like

batteries well guess what magnesium

provides the energy to allow for that

pump to pump so this is why you might

have cramps there’s just not enough

power to allow that sodium potassium

pump to work in the muscles and things

start shutting down and you cramp this

is why the electricity cannot be

traveled through

the pacemaker of your heart correctly

and if that can’t work you start getting

arrhythmias or palpitations or your

heart starts to skip because you don’t

have the energy because there’s no

magnesium to power that sodium potassium

pump in the nervous system magnesium is

also needed to make proteins protein

synthesis also needed to make DNA and

RNA the building blocks of everything

now most people are deficient because

it’s just not eating enough of the right

food to prevent this problem and the

food that will give you the most

magnesium is leafy greens vegetables big

salads the cool thing it will also give

you the potassium so when you eat Foods

whether at a restaurant or at home and

you have this little side salad that’s

just like one cup it’s just not going to

be enough you need to beef up your

salads no pun intended to the point

where if you’re doing like two meals a

day I would say you know have like five

cups or just get it out of the way and

eat like seven cups of salad just one

time a day now ideally if you go a

little bit more it’s a little bit better

but I think you should work on a nice

gradual increase in your salad but the

point is that most people don’t consume

enough salad even Associates friends

family members around myself I see what

they’re eating and they just don’t have

enough salad so when I go to a social

activity and they bring out the meals

right they have a big salad bowl and

you’ll put your salad on the plate with

all the other food

now you need an extra bowl in addition

to your play to put that huge salad and

of course I’m usually the only one that

does that in my circles but the point is

that I don’t have any arrhythmias I

don’t get any cramps I had tons of

energy because I have enough magnesium

if you don’t do that or can’t do that

we’ll definitely start using a

supplement I would recommend magnesium

glycinate that’s a good one

but there’s three types of magnesium I

would not recommend okay the magnesium

oxide the magnesium hydroxide and the

magnesium carbonate those might be okay

maybe as a laxative but other than that

I wouldn’t take them because they’re not

very absorbable the other ways that

people are deficient are they eat too

many refined Foods especially

fructose which is in table sugar it’s in

honey it’s in high fructose corn syrup

it’s in a lot of other things as well

but fructose can deplete magnesium

alcohol and what is alcohol made from

sugar the more inflammation you have the

less magnesium you’re going to have in

your body if you want to know a good

biomarker on a blood test for a

magnesium deficiency look at something

called C-reactive protein that’s an

inflammatory biomarker and it usually

means that you need more magnesium also

certain medications like especially

diuretics can create a magnesium

deficiency as well as antibiotics when

you have this alteration in your

microbiome probably from a combination

of several things what happens is

there’s a certain thing that will start

binding up and locking up a lot of the

magnesium and a lot of people start

developing musculoskeletal issues like

fibromyalgia painful trigger points a

lot of muscular problems because you

need magnesium for that normal

relaxation days of the contraction and

relaxation cycle now if you wanted a

better visualization of how much salad

you need to eat to get your magnesium

watch this video right here