Magnesium can have an interesting effect on a person’s mood, especially anxiety and depression. Check this out.
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 want to 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 since only one percent 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
Symptoms and just take some magnesium consume foods higher 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 going to sleep that well you’re going to be irritable and brain fog other than that you’re going to 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 two 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 three magnesium can lower adrenaline okay so that’s going to help your sleep number four you can increase gaba which is a neurotransmitter involved in relaxation and feeling calm and even sleep number five magnesium can increase
Melatonin it’s going to help you sleep all right number six it can increase the parasympathetic nervous system 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 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 all right number seven system so this is the opposing nervous system
Turned on and it keeps you from sleeping so magnesium can chill that out and another name for the sympathetic nervous system is flight or fight all right there you have it magnesium’s effects on your mood before you go if you have a question about a product or you’re new to keto and you want to know how to begin keto or
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Magnesium's Effect on Mood: Anxiety and Depression By Dr. Eric Berg DC