Brief Summary
This video discusses the importance of magnesium for various bodily functions and highlights common mistakes people make when taking magnesium supplements. It covers causes of magnesium deficiency, the best forms of magnesium to take, dietary sources, and factors that can interfere with magnesium absorption. The video emphasizes the need for adequate vitamin D levels, proper gut health, and sufficient dosage and duration of magnesium supplementation to experience its benefits.
- Magnesium is crucial for numerous biochemical reactions in the body.
- Magnesium deficiency is common due to various factors, including low vitamin D, gut inflammation, and high carbohydrate intake.
- Magnesium glycinate is the best form for absorption and relaxation.
- Factors like smoking, alcohol, and certain medications can block magnesium absorption.
- Consistent intake over several months and addressing underlying health issues are necessary to see results.
Magnesium is the most important mineral in the body, involved in hundreds of biochemical reactions. It plays a role in conditions like atrial fibrillation, high blood pressure, insomnia, heart disease, leg cramps, and fatigue. Testing for magnesium deficiency is difficult because most of it is stored inside cells, not in the blood. Due to dietary habits and other factors, many people are deficient in magnesium without realizing it.
Magnesium is a helper nutrient in many biochemical processes. People are often deficient due to a genetic weakness in magnesium absorption, although this is rare. More commonly, deficiency is linked to low vitamin D levels, as magnesium absorption is dependent on vitamin D. The minimal daily requirement for vitamin D is around 10,000 IUs for maintenance.
Gut inflammation and low stomach acid can hinder magnesium absorption, with indigestion, bloating, and heartburn indicating insufficient stomach acid. Pre-diabetics, diabetics, and those with high-carb diets often have insulin-related issues that affect nutrient absorption, including magnesium.
Magnesium glycinate is the best form of magnesium due to its high absorption rate (around 80%). Glycinate also promotes sleep and relaxation. An imbalance of too much calcium and not enough magnesium can lead to leg cramps, high blood pressure, and arrhythmias. Magnesium controls calcium levels, and excess calcium causes muscle contraction and raises blood pressure. A testimonial shared how magnesium and vitamin D helped alleviate pain and lower blood pressure.
Smoking and alcohol significantly block magnesium absorption. Consuming too many sodas (high in phosphoric acid), refined sugars, refined starches, and junk food can deplete magnesium levels. Medications are also a major blocker of magnesium. Doctors often make the mistake of trying to determine magnesium levels from blood tests, which are inaccurate. Instead, it's better to recognize the symptoms of magnesium deficiency and increase intake of magnesium-rich foods. Leafy greens, pumpkin seeds, chocolate (without sugar), and certain nuts are good sources of magnesium.
People often don't take magnesium long enough to see results, needing at least 1-3 months to affect the body's biochemistry. Arrhythmias may take 4-6 months to show improvement. While leg cramps or skin twitches might resolve quicker, continued magnesium intake is necessary for full resolution. Insomnia may take about 4 weeks to improve. Digestive issues like constipation or diarrhea indicate an imbalanced microbiome, affecting magnesium absorption. Chronic stress and high levels of exercise increase the need for magnesium. The standard RDA of 400mg may not be enough for a therapeutic effect; higher doses like 800mg to 1600mg may be necessary, especially when addressing specific health issues. It's best to spread the dosage throughout the day for better absorption. Taking magnesium with a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar in water can acidify the stomach and improve absorption.
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0:00 there are some big mistakes people are making when they're taking magnesium and this is very important because of several reasons number one magnesium is hands down the most important mineral of the entire body it's involved in hundreds of different biochemical reactions everything from atrio fibrillation high blood pressure insomnia heart disease leg cramps and especially fatigue and it's so important but it's almost impossible to test because the majority of magnesium is not in your blood only 1% is in the blood the rest is inside your cells so unless you do a biopsy or a very specialized test you're not going to know that you're deficient in magnesium based on what we eat in other factors most people are deficient in magnesium and if they don't know this information they might stop taking it and go off into a
0:45 different direction and never solve the magnesium deficiency problem magnesium is a co-actor it's a helper nutrient in so many different areas of the biochemistry of your body I first want to talk about why people are deficient in the first place one big problem is a genetic weakness with the absor absorption of magnesium but honestly that's actually very very rare the likelihood of you having genetic problem with magnesium is going to be low magnesium is dependent on vitamin D and the amount of people with genetic problems with vitamin D is off the charts what I think is happening is the average person is so deficient in vitamin D that puts him in a situation where magnesium can't work because magnesium is dependent on vitamin D and realize this the amount of vitamin D you actually need minimally is 10,000 IUS
1:32 and that's just as a maintenance if you're on like 600 international units or a thousand IUS you're not going to be able to absorb much magnesium if you have inflammation in the gut another reason is low stomach acid you need that acidic stomach to absorb minerals especially magnesium how does one know if they don't have enough stomach acid indigestion bloating heartburn all of those indicators mean that they need more acid to help you absorb magnesium if you're a pre-diabetic or a diabetic or you've been eating a lot of carbs for a period of time you have a problem with insulin and that could be the reason why you're not absorbing magnesium because a lot of nutrients depend on normal insulin working in the body the best source of magnesium is magnesium glycinate you get absorption like 80% with that glycinate plus the glycinate helps people sleep and it helps them
2:18 calm down helps them relax if you have too much calcium in the body and not enough magnesium you're going to get cramping in your calves you're going to get high blood pressure you're going to get arrhythmias because because magnesium controls calcium too much calcium causes contraction it raises blood pressure and check out what happened to this person with blood pressure problems when they took magnesium I have to say that the first time I've actually had any meaningful relief from the pain is taking this high dose of magnesium and vitamin D so it's it's it's made a huge difference and that wasn't even really what it was intended it was intended for for the blood pressure but I think when your pain is alleviated then your blood
3:03 pressure will go down and now I've reduced the the dose so I don't take 800 I take 600 of the magnesium and I take 20,000 of the vitamin D and the bonus to the whole thing as the magnesium and vitamin D has had this calming effect on the inflammation of my body so it's still there but nowhere near the levels as uh what they were before I did this test so I'm thrilled interesting isn't it okay let's continue smoking alcohol block magnesium in a significant way if you're consuming too much sodas which are loaded with phosphoric acid that can cause the deficiency of magnesium all the refined sugars and refined starches
3:50 and junk food deplete you of magnesium and of course the real big Blocker of magnesium is with medications another big mistake that doctors make with magnesium is the fact that you cannot determine your magnesium levels from your blood the best way is just to understand what magnesium does and to look at the various symptoms and just start to eat more magnesium rich foods leafy greens will give you magnesium pumpkin seeds have magnesium chocolate has magnesium make sure you get the kind without sugar and also certain nuts another mistake that people make with magnesium is not taking magnesium long enough to see the change they're going to need to take magnes magesium at least 1 to 3 months before they even start seeing a change because it takes time to
4:36 fix the biochemistry in the body the same thing with arrhythmias that could take four to six months before you start to see changes does take time for this magnesium to really create an effect on the body if someone has leg cramps it could be a little bit quicker like 3 days but they should keep taking the Magnesium because just by getting rid of a cramp or like a twitch called petney on your skin can happen pretty quick but to fully resolve it it could take weeks insomnia could take 4 weeks before a person starts seeing change if you don't see immediate change with the Magnesium don't think it's not working it's just taking more time if you have any digestive problems constipation diarrhea that means you don't have the right microbiome and that can greatly affect
5:22 your ability to absorb magnesium if you go through a lot of chronic stress that could be the reason why the need for magnesium is very very high if you do a lot of exercise and you're an athlete you need a lot more magnesium than the average person the normal rdas for magnesium like 400 milligrams might not be enough to create a therapeutic effect you might need a lot more to penetrate some of the barriers that are in your body 800,00 or even 1,600 milligrams every single day especially if you're dealing with something that's affecting you like right now and you want to see change what you can do is take it in a powder or a tablet and then spread it out through the entire day don't just take 1,600 and one sitting because your body can only absorb a certain amount take it
6:07 and spread it out through the day it'll be much better absorbed and it wouldn't hurt to at least one of the times when you take it is to take it with a tablespoon of alider vinegar and water with a straw and then use that liquid to acidify the stomach so you get better absorption all right thanks for watching and if you haven't seen this video on magnesium check it out
