My name is Ben Greenfield and on this episode of the Ben Greenfield Life Podcast.

When a woman gives birth and actually her partner, when you guys are going through this process,

you are transforming. There's an old you that is dying. There's a new version of you that's

being born, just like with this baby that's coming Earthside. When women come to me and say,

I felt like I was going to die, you did die. There was this old identity that is gone. There is a

transformation that's going to happen here. And if we don't honor that as a true ceremony and we

don't have a closing piece to that where we integrate the stress of this incredibly challenging

experience, a lot of women are left with what they actually report as trauma.

Faith, family, fitness, health, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living,

biohacking, and a whole lot more. Welcome to the show.

Let's talk magnesium. Not only does it really, really help with things like

constipation and smooth poops, but it is amazing for relaxation at night. And when you're pushing

your brain at high levels, you go through a lot more magnesium. Like if you're taking a

new tropics, smart drugs, coffee, stuff like that, magnesium deficiency sets in even faster.

Now the fact is most people are depleted in magnesium. Why? Because we eat food from crappy soil.

Soils overworked. It's mineral depleted. It lacks organic matter. All of those things would normally

help plants get minerals from the soil. But now they don't get as much minerals from the soil.

I don't know if it's true, but I read that if you had to eat like one orange, now you would have

to eat 10 to get the same amount of nutrients and minerals. And I don't know about you. I don't

have time to unpeel any 10 oranges. And again, I don't know how much research there is behind that.

But I do know that soil is less rich in minerals. And I do know I feel amazing when I take magnesium.

There's a whole bunch of different forms of magnesium and magnesium can get confusing because

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