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magnesium is a fascinating mineral it’s

involved in over 350 different enzymes

in the body and we may find that it’s

involved in a lot more but what’s

interesting about enzymes is that they

speed up the chemical reactions in the

body of a factor of like a hundred

million times faster than if you didn’t

have that enzyme there’s definitely

things that you know it helps with heart

disease it helps with cramping at night

if you have those cramps in your calves

it helps you sleep it’s involved in

helping you reduce anxiety it makes you

more relaxed it actually makes your

arteries less stiff and that’s going to

help you lower blood pressure you

probably also know that magnesium works

with calcium it’s kind of like a

teeter-totter effect the more calcium

you have the less magnesium you’re going

to have and vice versa so you need

calcium and magnesium and the right

ratios especially involved in the muscle

contraction and relaxation so where

calcium tends to be involved in

contraction magnet museum is all about

relaxation and this is why you have all

sorts of muscle problems if you have a

deficiency in magnesium like a cramp

like twitching like tetany a lot of

times people take magnesium because they

have headaches so magnesium is good for

headaches and so if there’s any problem

involving with the nerve and muscle

irritation or even arrhythmias in the

heart think magnesium but let’s talk

about the things that you probably have

never heard about that are quite

interesting there’s an enzyme that helps

you regulate cholesterol it’s called

HMG COA reductase this is the enzyme

that statins work on and it just so

happens that magnesium parallels the

effects of Statin so it can help you

regulate LDL and increase HDL and help

you regulate your triglycerides as well

magnesium is also involved in enzymes

related to lecithin which is like the

antidote to cholesterol and so without

magnesium you’re going to have a lot of

issues with cholesterol and the ratios

as well as having lecithin work now the

other big thing that magnesium is

involved with is making ATP that is the

energy currency of the body and without

that you just can’t make energy so this

is why magnesium is the second most

needed mineral in the body just behind

potassium so without magnesium you could

be tired all the time now the other

thing about magnesium is that it can

help you lower

adrenaline cortisol and something called

ACTH ACTH is this hormone that is

released from the pituitary that tells

the adrenals to release cortisol and so

if you have less regulation on that

hormone you’re going to have higher

levels of stress and this is why

magnesium is really good for Stress and

Anxiety because it helps to normalize

this ACTH cortisol and adrenaline as

well as help to counter all the

oxidative stress that comes with these

stress hormones so magnesium is very

protective at the cellular level

magnesium is a natural calcium channel

blocker because it opposes calcium which

means it’s really good for blood

pressure but typically they don’t know

why well the reason is this it can act

like a natural calcium channel blocker

calcium channel blockers are a common

medication for hypertension while

magnesium is a natural version of that

with virtually no side effects but it

also can act at the same time as a beta

blocker so with one angle it helps

balance calcium and from another angle

the beta blocker that has to do with

reducing stress in the arteries and that

whole system now a couple other really

cool things that magnesium is involved

with number one it’s in natural

anti-thrombotic basically it’s a natural

blood thinner another thing you may not

know about magnesium is that it can help

you lower your blood sugars it is really

important in

kind of undoing insulin resistance and

the last thing which is actually

probably the most important function of

magnesium magnesium is involved in

making DNA without having the perfect

blueprints that can create a huge chain

reaction and we typically need about 310

to about 420 milligrams of magnesium

every day and not a lot of people get

that and so they’re going to be

deficient and they’re going to have

these problems magnesium is at the heart

of chlorophyll so anything green like

dark leafy green vegetables and this is

something that a lot of people don’t

consume but then you also have nuts and

pumpkin seeds dark chocolate of course

without the sugar C kelp and even

certain types of sea salt that are low

sodium type sea salt but we also have to

look at those things that are depleting

our magnesium okay refined sugars

refined carbohydrates

alcohol diuretics diarrhea having a low

stomach acid and even having certain

type of gene

variations that can also be a problem

it’s actually quite common where people

just don’t seem to absorb magnesium like

they should and for those people it’s

even more important to stay away from

alcohol and things that deplete your

magnesium and and even probably

supplement with a good form of magnesium

and the type of magnesium I would

recommend is magnesium glycinate which

is very bioavailable now since we’re on

this interesting topic of magnesium if

you haven’t seen my other video on

magnesium I put it up right here check

it out