How To Know If You're Magnesium Deficient And What To Do About It

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

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🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

This episode is sponsored by ButcherBox and Athletic Greens.

Think of magnesium as the relaxation mineral. Anything that is tight, irritable, crampy, and stiff—whether it is a body part or even a mood—can be a sign of magnesium deficiency. This critical mineral is actually responsible for over 600 enzyme reactions and is found in all of your tissues—but mainly in your bones, muscles, and brain. You must have it for your cells to make energy, for many different chemical pumps to work, to stabilize membranes, and to help muscles relax. Yet, so many of us are deficient in this important mineral.

In today’s episode of a new series called Health Bites, I discuss why magnesium deficiency is a huge problem, why most of us are deficient, how to identify if you are magnesium deficient, and what to do about it.

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Here are more details from the episode (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

Why magnesium deficiency is so prevalent (3:26 / 00:57)
Signs of magnesium deficiency (4:11 / 1:48)
Magnesium use in a traditional hospital setting (5:37 / 3:15)
Testing your magnesium levels (7:26 / 5:02)
Food sources of magnesium (7:51 / 5:27)
Things that deplete magnesium in the body (8:11 / 5:50)
Other vitamins and minerals needed to ensure adequate magnesium levels (9:22 / 7:02)
How to stop magnesium depletion (9:33 / 7:10)
Magnesium supplements (10:24 / 8:03)

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:03.4	We want to make sure we don't keep losing magnesium.
0:06.1	So cut down on the alcohol, the sugar, the coffee, the colas.
0:10.1	Learn how to relax.
0:12.0	Meditation is super powerful.
0:14.0	One of today's sponsors is Butcherbox.
0:18.3	I'm always being asked how I get enough high quality protein into my diet and where to find it.
0:22.8	With all of the conventionally raised animal products flooding the market,
0:25.6	it can be hard to find meat that actually supports your health goals.
0:28.4	Instead of making you further away from them with use of antibiotics and hormones and an unnatural
0:33.6	inflammatory fetal diet.
0:35.6	And that's why I love grass-fed ground beef from Butcherbox.
0:38.5	Ground beef is probably the easiest protein out there that can be worked into any type of dish.
0:43.7	I love how quickly it can help make up a healthy meal.
0:46.8	And when you go to the grass-fed, you're getting a great source of omega-3s,
0:49.8	vitamins and minerals too.
0:51.0	And with Butcherbox, I get 100% grass-fed and grass-fed-ish beef.
0:54.4	A little bit right to my doorstep, they also offer free range organic chicken and wild conelaskin salmon,
0:59.3	which are part of my weekly meal plans too.
1:01.1	Grass-fed ground beef is the first protein I recommend for people who are trying to get more
1:04.9	comfortable in the kitchen because you can just throw in a pan with some sea salt herbs and spices
1:08.9	and make a great meal.
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