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Today, I’m going to tell you how to reverse magnesium deficiency. It’s very difficult to test for magnesium deficiency. Around 60% of your magnesium is in your bones, 39% in your soft tissue, and only 1% in your blood. A blood test is not a reliable way to determine if you have low magnesium.
Magnesium deficiency can be caused by the following factors:
• Diet
• Gut inflammation
• Diabetes
• Insulin resistance
• Excessive sugar consumption
• Vitamin D without magnesium
• Medications (antibiotics, PPIs, antacids, diuretics)
Symptoms of magnesium deficiency can include:
• Tetany
• Tight muscles
• Insomnia (sleep problems)
• Anxiety
• Fatigue
• Nystagmus
• Migraines
• Kidney stones
You need magnesium to make ATP, the “energy currency” of the body. Magnesium deficiency can also lead to calcium buildup.
Here are some of the foods that have the most magnesium per 100 grams/3.5 ounces:
1. Sea kelp: 760 mg of magnesium
2. Almonds: 490 mg of magnesium
3. Nutritional yeast: 231 mg of magnesium
4. Pecans: 142 mg of magnesium
5. Leafy greens: 100 mg of magnesium
6. Dark chocolate: 165 mg of magnesium
7. Pumpkin seeds: 265 mg of magnesium
8. Meat and fish: 25 to 35 mg of magnesium
The RDA for magnesium is 300 to 420 mg, and the average person only consumes 215 mg. If you have magnesium deficiency, increase your intake of magnesium-rich foods and supplement with 800 mg of magnesium glycinate.
It can take up to a year to fix a chronic magnesium deficiency, but you might find that your low magnesium symptoms go away in a few weeks or months. After you’ve increased magnesium levels with supplements, you can maintain it with your diet.
Always ensure you consume at least 400 mg of magnesium daily.
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0:00.0 | Did you realize that it's extremely difficult to reverse a magnesium deficiency? |
0:06.0 | But I'm going to tell you how to do it in this video. |
0:08.0 | So my question is, how long does it take to solve a problem that you're treating with the wrong solution? |
0:15.0 | And the answer is you'll never solve the problem if you use the wrong solution. |
0:19.0 | Most people don't realize how common a magnesium deficiency is. There's been some reports that up to 88% of the general public |
0:28.8 | are low in magnesium. And what's even more shocking than that is that it's really hard to test for a magnesium deficiency. |
0:37.0 | There's no gold standard. You can do a questionnaire. |
0:40.0 | And there's another test that you can actually extract some tissue from the inside of your mouth and it's sent it to the lab. |
0:46.0 | But the problem with that test and the reason I'm not recommending is because I can't get a hold of the lab that does this very specific specialized |
0:53.7 | test so I'm not going to put that in the link because they're not going to call |
0:57.7 | you back. So in this little chart you can see that 60% of all your magnesium is in your bones. 39% is in your soft tissues, like your muscles, |
1:08.6 | but only 1% of all the magnesium in your body is in your blood. |
1:12.2 | So this is why doing a blood test is not going to give you a lot of information unless you're very very very very severe because even if you're deficient in the blood |
1:21.7 | Guess what's going to happen you're going to the blood, guess what's gonna happen? |
1:23.2 | You're gonna borrow some of it from the bone |
1:25.3 | or the soft tissues. |
1:27.0 | And in the bone in the soft tissues, |
1:28.8 | most of that is not outside the cell, |
1:30.7 | it's inside your cells, it's called intracellular calcium and so one of |
1:36.1 | the principles that I use in health is I use a principle out of this book called |
1:41.0 | the Technology of War by Sun Sioux. Now of course this book is about fighting |
1:46.3 | wars but you can apply it to anything and so Sun Sioux talks about cross referencing data to see if a situation or a problem exists where you can |
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