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Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's episode, I want to talk about

four easy additions for better sleep and less anxiety. I have for you two

supplements and two essential oils but I want to start with the supplements first. They're both easy to find,

they're easy to use, and they're relatively safe, and you may even be using one or both of these already.

But for those of you who are unfamiliar with these, easy to get your hands on

supplements, these are a great place for you to start.

The first one that I have is magnesium.

And magnesium works an interesting way in many of our biological processes but helping you with anxiety and sleep is top on that list.

And it helps to convert the 5-HT into the precursor to melatonin, which is also known as 5-H-T.

Now, you know, many people take the 5-H-T-TP for sleep, many people take the melatonin for sleep, and so I'm taking it back a whole another step. You can start with the more basic element which is magnesium

just a very basic mineral and there are many many different forms of this

mineral that you can get and use but the most

absorbable forms of the magnesium to be taken orally are the magnesium citrate,

magnesium glyccinate, magnesium torate and magnesium aspartate.

Those are easy to find and absorbable.

And I want to talk to you a little bit about the dosage that you'll be wanting to use.

Generally, magnesium, you'd want to take in a range from 200 to 500 milligrams to get started.

Because as a word of caution, if you take more than say

1500 milligrams per day, most people would be may find that they have reached their

bowel tolerance and some people will at that point have loose stools. So it's

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