Eat More Magnesium Foods and You'll Feel a Lot Better

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 you're magnesium deficient , it's not gonna 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 So out of all the minerals , magnesium is the 2nd 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 47 100 milligrams .

That's 4,700 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 and 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 different 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 what'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 gonna feel quite right .

Another symptom of a magnesium deficiency , which is subclinical , which means it's not gonna 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 in magnesium .

It could also be a deficiency in vitamin k 2 .

And the two main ways that you're deficient in magnesium are number 1 , consuming too many refined foods .

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Refined 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 .

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I mean the average person will consume about I think it's 1.5 cups of vegetables per day .

That's pathetic .

You need at least 7 , hopefully 10 cups per day .

In the hunter gatherer time , Palaeolithic time , they estimated that an average human consumed 600 milligrams of of magnesium per day versus the average person consumes only 200 to 260 milligrams on average .

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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 1 week and prove it to yourself .

And I did create several other videos on magnesium that you can check out on this page .