Welcome to Anxiety Slayer. I'm your host, Shan Banderleak, and today I'm honored to have a conversation with Dr. Carolyn Dean for anxiety relief and so much more.

And before we begin, I'd like to tell you a little bit more about

Carolyn Dean. Carolyn Dean, MD, ND, is a health pioneer with over 35 years of experience with

stress management, sleep, aging, diet, and nutrition issues. She's authored 30 books, including The Magnesium Miracle.

Radio and TV hosts interview her regularly, including ABC's The View, NBC and CBS.

And some of the other shows include Know the Cause with host Doug Kaufman,

Your Health with Dr. Becker, and Health Matters with

Christine Crosby, just to name a few. She serves on the Medical Advisory Board of the Nutritional

Magnesium Association at nutritional magnesium.org. Dr. Dean lives in Maui, where she is far

from retired, but still visits the beach most days,

swims, snorkels, and thoroughly enjoys her work and play. Most days, not knowing which is work

and which is play. Welcome to Anxiety Slayer, Dr. Dean. Thank you so much, Shannon. Please call me

Carolyn. What a pleasure to have you here today.

Over the last several weeks, my partner Ananga and I have been talking about the benefits of

magnesium for sleep and for anxiety and for a number of other things that there's so much about

magnesium that people don't know.

And so today, I wanted to talk more about the benefits of magnesium as an essential

nutrient to stave off heart disease, diabetes, asthma, and of course, stress and anxiety.

So let's begin by talking about the role of magnesium in our bodies.

Yes, it's so pervasive the actual element of magnesium. It affects up to 800 different enzyme system in the body.

And it's hard to comprehend unless you give examples.

And one of the main ones is that magnesium is required to make energy.

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