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Did you realize that the side effects from vitamin D are actually not coming from vitamin

D?

When they start taking vitamin D, have side effects.

They might get a headache, then insomnia, their restless muscle cramps, palpitations,

anxiety, and even constipation.

But what you have to realize is those symptoms are not really coming from the vitamin D.

Those symptoms are a magnesium deficiency.

Magnesium is needed for vitamin D to get absorbed.

So magnesium lowers the side effects from taking vitamin D, even though they're not side

effects from vitamin D. They're a magnesium deficiency.

If you are deficient in magnesium, and by the way, most people have a subclinical magnesium

deficiency, which means that they have some magnesium, but not the full amount required

to do all the things that it's supposed to do.

For example, a cofactor for 300 enzymes, which means basically it's a helper mineral involved

in protein synthesis, making protein and muscles and enzymes and things like that.

It helps regulate blood sugars.

It's involved in producing energy.

It's involved in making glutathione, which is one of the most important antioxidants for

the liver.

So if you have a subclinical magnesium deficiency, some of these functions are not going

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