Vitamin D and the Magnesium Deficiency: IMPORTANT

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 28 October 2023

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Summary

Let’s talk about magnesium and vitamin D. About 75 percent of the population has low vitamin D levels, and 45 percent have low magnesium levels.

All of the enzymes involved in converting vitamin D to the active form depend on magnesium. Vitamin D won’t work in the body if you have a magnesium deficiency.

Vitamin D is vitally important for the body, and it’s crucial to do what you can to avoid a vitamin D deficiency.

Vitamin D also supports the absorption of magnesium. Vitamin D and magnesium work synergistically.

Vitamin D and magnesium are also important to support the absorption and regulation of calcium. Magnesium helps prevent calcium from building up in your arteries.

The body needs about twice as much calcium as magnesium. But many people are actually getting about three times as much calcium as magnesium.

Having excess calcium with a magnesium deficiency can lead to serious side effects, including cancer.

Thankfully, the solution is simple. You need to increase magnesium by consuming magnesium-rich foods, like leafy greens.

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0:00.0	Today I want to talk about vitamin D and magnesium deficiency.
0:03.8	There's a very interesting relationship between vitamin D and magnesium that I think you should know
0:08.2	about, especially since most of the population is deficient in both vitamin D and magnesium.
0:13.7	I think it's 75% of the population has low vitamin D levels and 45% has low magnesium levels.
0:22.0	And here's what you need to know. All of the enzymes involving the conversion of vitamin D
0:28.5	to the active form of vitamin D are magnesium dependent. That means if you're completely zero
0:36.0	with magnesium, vitamin D will not work. Period. And we know how important vitamin D is for bone,
0:43.6	for bone pain, for insulin resistance, for your immune system, to prevent muscle cramps,
0:50.8	cardiovascular problems with blood pressure, and fatigue. So magnesium allows vitamin D to work.
0:57.8	And vitamin D also allows magnesium to be absorbed by a factor of 30%. So they're both synergistically
1:07.3	helping each other. Now there's another mineral involved, and it's calcium. If you're low in
1:11.7	magnesium, you're going to have problems with that calcium because not only does vitamin D
1:17.5	help the absorption of calcium by 20% in your gut, but magnesium also helps regulate calcium.
1:24.4	Magnesium helps prevent calcium from building up inside your arteries. Magnesium is really good
1:30.4	for blood pressure and just having elastic arteries to adapt to exercise and bounce back from stress,
1:36.6	things like that. And it helps lower cortisol and it will help you sleep. So there's a certain ratio
1:41.0	of calcium to magnesium that someone needs. And roughly you need like twice as much calcium as
1:46.1	magnesium. But nowadays, this ratio is really like three times as much calcium as magnesium.
1:53.2	And the simple solution is to increase your magnesium. But the problem is how do you do that?
1:59.1	Because the average person only consumes like one and a half cups of salad per day. It's not
2:04.1	even probably the dark leafy greens that's high in magnesium. And also like I think it's 83%
2:10.6	of all the calories in the grocery store are ultra processed. And that's another way that
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