Hey guys, today we're going to talk about magnesium, a very interesting mineral, there's

a lot to know about it, I'm just going to take it from the top.

Magnesium is a co-factor, okay, what is a co-factor?

It's a helper element involved in the activation of certain enzymes, there's actually 300 enzymes

that magnesium is involved with, and the one that I'm going to talk about is involved

in the mitochondria and it has to do with producing energy.

Without getting too tactical, it's called the Krebs cycle, maybe you took biology in

high school and you learned about the Krebs cycle, very, very simply it's the combination

of fuel or glucose, if you're going to use glucose, or there's other fuels too, plus oxygen.

So the biochemistry might appear to be very complex, but if you think about a carburetor,

what is a carburetor?

It's basically a device in your car or your lawnmower that is mixing a drop of fuel with oxygen

in the right ratios to then ignite through a little spark plug to produce energy, right?

Well, you have the same thing happening in the mitochondria, but the spark plug that activates

the enzyme that ignites this combination of fuel and oxygen in its magnesium and vitamin

B1, okay.

I mean, there's other nutrients as well, but those two are the big ones.

So if you don't have enough magnesium in your body, you're going to suffer from low

energy, you're going to have to take.

There's other things too that you might experience, inability to relax.

So magnesium helps muscles relax, calms down nerves, slows the rate of nerve impulses,

and it's really important in heart physiology.

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