The MOST Neglected Nutrient By Doctors

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Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 20 October 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Discover the importance of the most neglected nutrient: magnesium! Magnesium can aid in heart attack prevention, support heart health, and improve your overall well-being. Learn more about magnesium deficiency symptoms and why magnesium is vital for cardiovascular health.

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Today I want to share some lesser-known heart health tips and how magnesium may help lower heart attack risk.

Common heart problems such as plaquing, blood clots, atrial fibrillation, and hypertension are all related to magnesium deficiency.

Testing for magnesium deficiency is almost impossible because only 1% is in the blood. The majority of magnesium is inside the cells.

Heart medications such as calcium channel blockers, beta-blockers, Warfarin, and medications used to treat high blood pressure work using mechanisms similar to magnesium. Magnesium acts as a natural calcium channel blocker and helps regulate calcium, lower blood pressure, lower adrenaline, and relax the muscles.

People deficient in magnesium often feel tired, especially after exercise. They may also experience migraine headaches. Without enough magnesium, vitamin D cannot work.

Alcohol, refined sugar, starches, genetics, stress, low stomach acid, drugs, and antibiotics can interfere with the absorption of magnesium. Consuming ultra-processed foods increases your demand for magnesium and could cause you to become deficient.

Many sources of magnesium, like spinach, almonds, and chocolate, are high in oxalates. Magnesium glycinate is a great choice for people looking to get more magnesium.

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0:00.0	Administration of magnesium prior to a heart attack or even during a heart attack
0:04.9	would prevent and protect the heart muscle from forming destructive internal crystals.
0:12.2	Wow, that's fascinating.
0:13.4	This is mostly ignored or neglected by doctors
0:16.4	when they're dealing with heart conditions.
0:18.3	My grandfather died of the heart problem in his 50s.
0:20.9	My father developed atrophibulation, then he had an
0:23.8	ablazion where they destroyed the pacemaker of the heart, and now he's on
0:27.5	permanent medication. So because heart problems run into my family, I wanted to
0:31.5	know everything there is to know about heart problems so I can then
0:34.8	prevent it myself and of course share it with other people. There are four really common heart problems
0:39.7	out there. Number one, placking, where you get this inflammation, the body comes as a
0:43.8	bandaid, starts forming calcium and cholesterol deposits. The artery becomes
0:48.6	obstructed. You no longer get oxygen to the heart muscle. Your heart muscle
0:52.0	cramps, you get
0:53.2	angina, which is a lack of oxygen and then you get a heart attack.
0:56.3	Number two is blood clots. This is different because now you're getting a blood
1:00.4	clot that gets lodged in the heart obstructing the artery which you then also get a
1:05.1	lack of oxygen and you can potentially get a heart attack.
1:07.9	Or if it mobilizes throughout the rest of the body, you can end up in your brain, you can end up in
1:11.7	a stroke. Number three, we can get atrial fibrillation.
1:14.6	And so in this condition, you get pooling
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