Learn more about the unexpected benefits of magnesium for your health!
Now i wanted to do this video on magnesium because it relates to another topic that i’m studying now on chlorophyll which is the green stuff or the blood of the plant when a plant is deficient in chlorophyll the leaves turn yellow and one cause of that is a magnesium deficiency chlorophyll being the blood of the plant is similar in chemistry to our own blood yet we
Have iron to make it red plants have magnesium to make the leaves green so we can have chlorosis in plants which could be a magnesium deficiency as well as chlorosis in humans which is anemia where a person can actually look a little green and magnesium is a very very important mineral it’s in hard water okay you have calcium and magnesium it’s in a very absorbable
Form it’s in bicarbonate okay when you heat water those bicarbonates turn into a carbonate form which makes them absorb less in our bodies and you would see it when you make your tea when you heat your water you’ll see these white little specks at the bottom of the pot so our bodies do absorb these bicarbonates very easily so hard water mineral water great source
Of magnesium as well as calcium and of course when you soften the water you take out these minerals so there’s some really interesting studies that show that hard water is actually very very good for your cardiovascular system and soft water is not now one little side note about that condition called chlorosis in plants one way to develop this condition is to over
Water the plants because all these minerals can leach out same thing happens when we drink too much water especially without minerals we dilute the minerals we have in our body and that creates all sorts of issues with our heart with our nerves and muscles however if you if you’re not drinking hard water or mineral water get your magnesium from leafy greens of
Course an average person only consumes like one and a half cups of vegetables per day but you definitely want to beef that up i want to talk about some very surprising symptoms and unique benefits of magnesium okay number one magnesium relieves muscle tightness we know that magnesium deficiencies will create cramps of the muscles but if you have tight muscles
Which is different than a cramped muscle that can be a magnesium deficiency number two magnesium is intimately involved in making atp that’s the energy currency of the body so your energy level is dependent on magnesium if you don’t have enough you’re going to be kind of tired all the time all right number three magnesium helps vitamin d’s bioavailability you
Need magnesium to allow vitamin d to work so if you’re deficient in magnesium you can take all this vitamin d and it doesn’t seem to work and as a side note if you want a really good form of magnesium i’m going to put a link down below as well as a good source of vitamin d with magnesium i’ll put that link down below too all right number four magnesium prevents
Calcium from depositing in the wrong places in your body so it works similar to vitamin k2 all right number five magnesium relieves migraines number six having enough magnesium will support your friendly bacteria if someone is magnesium deficient like two-thirds of the world’s population that can negatively affect the microbiome the friendly bacteria all right
Number seven with enough magnesium you can avoid having pins and needles and numbness that type of thing either in your lips your fingers or the bottom of your feet which is called paresthesia and number eight let’s say your cortisol is high and that affects your sleep patterns magnesium can help so magnesium is very important in the regulation of cortisol so
Excessive cortisol symptoms could be a magnesium deficiency this is why magnesium helps people with stress and number nine having enough magnesium will keep your parathyroid functioning at its optimum level the parathyroid hormone helps to regulate calcium so if you’re low in calcium the parathyroid hormone will increase to help elevate calcium well guess what if
You’re deficient in magnesium the parathyroid hormone will also increase to help you retain more magnesium so any symptoms where you have high parathyroid hormone could be a magnesium deficiency all right and so the question is how do you become deficient in magnesium well you don’t need enough leafy greens number one fluoride consumption in tap water can create
A magnesium deficiency fluoride medications can also do it refined grains refined sugars will create a deficiency low hydrochloric acid in your stomach can create a problem stress will do it being a diabetic can create a deficiency this is why magnesium is so important to stabilize your blood sugars alcohol can create a deficiency and if you have a malabsorption
Of your gut okay now there’s quite a few medications that can also create a deficiency of magnesium um diuretics ppis or antacids statins antibiotics as well as birth control pills now if you haven’t seen this video on magnesium this is a very very important one check it out i put it right here
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9 Unexpected Benefits of Magnesium (MUST WATCH) By Dr. Eric Berg DC