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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 and

plants, which could be a magnesium deficiency, as well as chlorosis in humans, which is the

nemia where a person can actually look a little green. And magnesium is a very, very important

mineral. It's in hard water. You have calcium and magnesium. It's in a very observable form.

It's in bicarbonate. When you heat water, those bicarbonates turn into a carbonate form,

which makes them absorb less in their bodies. And you would see it when you make your tea,

when you heat your water, you'll see this 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 real 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 overwater 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're not drinking hard water

or mineral water, get your magnesium from leafy greens. Of course, an average person

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