Could This Magnesium Mineral Deficiency Give You Diabetes – Dr.Berg on Magnesium and Diabetes

Could this mineral deficiency actually give you diabetes ?

And I'm talking about magnesium .

Magnesium is the 4th most abundant mineral in the entire body .

It works as a helper nutrient in certain enzyme reactions .

It's involved in over 300 chemical reactions including its effect on insulin .

So it helps to regulate insulin .

It's involved in glucose metabolism .

I want to put an interesting study down below related to diabetics .

And it was found that diabetics have significantly lower magnesium levels than healthy people .

And I'm also talking about prediabetics and people with insulin resistance .

When you're deficient in magnesium , you worsen insulin resistance .

When you take magnesium , you improve insulin resistance .

That allows better blood sugar control and all the other effects that insulin is supposed to have .

Now the RDAs are recommended amounts of magnesium that we need per day for a male body is between 400 to 420 milligrams .

For a female , it's in the 300 .

Okay .

So let's talk about what food is high in magnesium .

Well , chocolate .

One ounce has 64 milligrams .

One avocado will give you 58 milligrams .

Nuts , 1 ounce , 82 milligrams .

Seeds , just one ounce will give you a 150 milligrams of magnesium .

And by the way , pumpkin seeds have the most magnesium .

Leafy greens , 1 cup , a 157 milligrams .

So if you had , I don't know , like maybe 2 and a half to 3 cups of salad per day , you're gonna get your magnesium .

Very few people even have that much .

One egg has 6 milligrams of magnesium .

One ounce of meat or fish has only 9 milligrams of magnesium .

Steak , 6 ounces has only 32 .

So all the meats in general are not high in magnesium .

Hummus , 1 cup is a 184 milligrams of magnesium .

And magnesium also works with calcium together in the contraction and relaxation of muscles .

And I'm also including smooth muscle like in your arteries .

So if you're deficient in magnesium , guess what's gonna happen ?

Blood pressure is gonna go up .

And this is why people take magnesium for their blood pressure , for their heart , for cramps in their calves .

Now the question is how do you become deficient ?

Okay .

Number 1 , you're probably not consuming enough food with magnesium .

Magnesium is part of the chlorophyll complex .

So a very few people are consuming enough greens , number 1 .

They're doing too many refined carbs .

A refined carbohydrate and I'm talking about the breads , pasta , cereal , crackers and also the refined sugars will deplete magnesium .

Caffeine will deplete magnesium .

Alcohol will deplete it .

Diuretics .

There's a diuretic called thiazide .

Okay .

Thiazide creates a magnesium deficiency and when someone's on this diuretic , their risk of diabetes increases probably because of the deficiency of magnesium .

And what's interesting is that a lot of diabetics have high blood pressure .

They're taking this diuretic thiazide , okay , which is actually worsening the diabetes .

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And they don't know about this magnesium point here .

Also , when you have insulin resistance , which I believe the majority of population has , you're gonna have a hard time absorbing magnesium .

So what you need to know is that when you take magnesium in a supplement or through your food , you actually can improve insulin resistance right here and therefore increasing your absorption of magnesium .

Okay .

So they both work really closely together .

Alright , guys .

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Now you know the connection between magnesium , your blood sugars , magnesium and blood pressure , and also cramping .

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