Magnesium's Effect on Mood - Anxiety and Depression

Let's talk about magnesium's effect on mood , especially anxiety and depression .

There's a lot of things that magnesium does in the body .

It's involved in probably , actually , more than 300 different enzymes involved in biochemical pathways , But I wanna emphasize just one area , the effect of magnesium on neurotransmitters , which are hormone like , but instead of traveling through the blood , they travel through the nervous system .

Now a magnesium deficiency is extremely common .

Well over 50% of the population is deficient , and probably a lot more that have a subclinical deficiency .

But it's very difficult to test magnesium since only 1% of your whole body's magnesium is in the blood .

The rest is in the bone .

It's in the teeth .

It's in the muscle , and it's also inside the cell .

So you kinda have to go by symptoms and just take some magnesium , consume foods higher of magnesium , and see if these symptoms go away .

So if you're deficient in magnesium , you can get anxiety , depression , low tolerance to stress .

You're not gonna sleep that well .

You're gonna be irritable and brain fog .

Other than that , you're gonna be good to go .

But magnesium has some direct effect on increasing serotonin .

Serotonin is the hormone that kind of brings you in a state of well-being .

It actually makes you feel calm , happy , and , without stress .

Number 2 , magnesium can decrease cortisol .

So cortisol is a stress hormone .

And if it's too high , it puts you in a state of stress .

So many people have chronic elevations of cortisol , and they're stressed out , and magnesium can help them .

Alright .

Number 3 , magnesium can lower adrenaline .

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So that's gonna help your sleep .

Number 4 , it can increase GABA , which is a neurotransmitter involved in relaxation and feeling calm and even sleep .

Number 5 , magnesium can increase melatonin .

It's gonna help you sleep .

Alright .

Number 6 , it can increase the parasympathetic nervous system .

What is that ?

That's the part of the nervous system that's responsible for rest and digestion .

So it calms you down .

It's actually an active , wave in your body that's pushing things down to keep things calm .

So let's say , for example , you ran up the stairs or you're exercising and then you stop .

The parasympathetic kicks in there and brings your pulse rate down and calms you down .

Without that , everything would stay fairly elevated for a long period of time .

And in practice , I used to measure the parasympathetic nervous system .

I had a , a test .

It's called heart rate variability , which measures the autonomic nervous system .

And when people would come in with very low parasympathetic function , if they were to exercise , their pulse rate would go high , and it just would not come down .

So they have to do very , very light things and , not a lot of exercise .

Alright .

Number 7 , magnesium decreases the sympathetic nervous system .

So this is the opposing nervous system .

This is the nervous system that keeps things turned on , and and it keeps you from sleeping .

So magnesium can chill that out .

And another name for the sympathetic nervous system is flight or fight .

Alright .

There you have it .

Magnesium's effects on your mood .

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