Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy every single one of the hallmarks of aging are driven by elevated systemic

inflammation in the body as a response to multiple triggers that have to do with how we treat our bodies.

Hey everyone, it's Dr. Mark. One of the most important tools I have for helping my patients

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Functional medicine testing can require placing orders with lots of different labs and it can kind of get really complicated for

Doctors and their patients to easily access results and keep track of everything.

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I'm all about using food first when it comes to nutrition, but there's certain nutrients I recommend everyone supplement with because it's simply impossible to get adequate amounts from your diet alone.

One example is magnesium, which are soils, well they're not too healthy and because there's no organic matter, they can't extract the magnesium from the soil, from industrial farming, which is a drag.

That leads to 50% less of these minerals in our food than there was 50 years ago.

Then of course we're doing things that cause us to lose magnesium like sugar, caffeine, fluoride, even stress, which none of us have, right?

80% of Americans are actually deficient in magnesium and that may mean insufficient. That's not a true deficiency, but just not enough for optimal functioning because magnesium is so important.

It's a huge problem for our health. Considering the pandemic of stress along with the pandemic of COVID that we're facing, we should all really be conscious about our magnesium intake because it activates the parasympathetic nervous system, which keeps us calmer and more relaxed.

Magnesium is crucial for more than 300 other chemical reactions in the body and impacts everything from metabolism to sleep, to neurologic health, energy, pain, muscle function, and lots more.

My favorite new magnesium is from a company called Bio Optimizers. Their magnesium breakthrough formula contains seven different forms, all of which have different functions in the body.

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