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so this video is on magnesium and why

you’re gonna feel a lot better if you

get enough from your diet and if you go

to the doctor and you get a blood test

and your magnesium deficient it’s not

going to show up because 99% of that

magnesium is inside the cell not outside

the cell in your blood so just because

it comes out normal doesn’t mean you’re

not deficient there’s something called a

subclinical deficiency where you might

be getting enough to run the basic

machinery of the body but you’re not

getting the full amount to run all of

the functions and as far as magnesium

there are over 300 enzymes involved in

many different biochemical reactions

that require magnesium so out of all the

minerals magnesium is the second most

important to potassium why well simply

because you need a lot of potassium

ideally you you need 300 to 400

milligrams now

potassium you need like 4700 milligrams

that’s 4700 milligrams every single day

so obviously with magnesium you need

much less but if we compare these

minerals to all the other ones you need

both of these in pretty large quantities

90% of all the magnesium is located in

the muscle in the bone and I did mention

this before but 99% of all this

magnesium is inside the cell not outside

the cell so if you’re deficient you may

have bone problems like osteopenia

eventually osteoporosis you can have a

lot of muscle cramps weak muscles and

also realize that certain parts of the

vascular system have a type of muscle as

well so if you’re losing magnesium your

muscles can get stiff and you’re gonna

get high blood pressure from that

another really key function of magnesium

is maintaining electrical charge in your

cells

so without magnesium the electrical

system shuts down and you just don’t

have enough energy to run the muscles or

the nervous system so magnesium is

really important in keeping sodium

outside the cell

keeping sodium low inside the cell and

keeping calcium low inside the cell and

keeping potassium high inside the cell

so we have these diff

Minerals kept apart by this membrane and

they all work together to form this

battery so potassium is involved in this

battery also generating energy in the

body through it’s called ATP it’s

involved in making DNA and proteins and

overall cell integrity so you can

imagine if you don’t have enough

magnesium you’re just not going to feel

quite right another symptom of a

magnesium deficiency which is

subclinical which means it’s not going

to show up on a test is vascular

calcification so calcium and magnesium

work together so it’s not just about

taking too much calcium it could be a

deficiency of magnesium it could also be

a deficiency in vitamin k2 and the two

main ways that you’re deficient in

magnesium are number one consuming too

many refined foods okay I find

carbohydrates like the bread pasta

cereal crackers biscuits waffles

pancakes muffins juice sugar as well as

just not consuming enough magnesium rich

foods as in leafy greens okay I mean the

average person will consume about I

think it’s at 1.5 cups of vegetables per

day that’s pathetic you need at least

seven hopefully 10 cups per day in the

hunter/gatherer time Paleolithic time

they estimated that an average human

consumed 600 milligrams of magnesium per

day versus the average person consumes

only 200 to 260 milligrams on average

okay the RDAs being 300 to 420 which are

not even close to this so we are really

really deficient in magnesium if you

don’t feel quite right you don’t have

enough energy just increase the amount

of magnesium in your diet for one week

and prove it to yourself and it did

create several other videos of magnesium

that you can check out on this page