Evidence suggests magnesium may promote a healthy heart. Find out why!
I’d like to talk to you about the real reason why we need magnesium now most people know that magnesium is good for leg cramps it’s good for stress relaxation it’s good to help you sleep it has anti-inflammatory properties so if they have sore muscles they might take some magnesium they might even know that it supports healthy blood sugars and that is one of the
Main electrolytes to keep the heart and rhythm and it works with calcium to support bone and muscle physiology and if they’ve ever watched my video they know it also supports atp the energy currency of the entire cell so it’s necessary in producing energy and if you don’t have magnesium you’re going to be tired but a very very important function of magnesium is to
Support your arteries okay especially the inner lining of the arteries called the endothelial layer and magnesium is needed to produce certain compounds to keep the arteries at a certain tone magnesium is a potent vasodilator and it helps other compounds to keep the arteries soft so they don’t get so stiff also magnesium works with other compounds to inhibit platelet
Formation so this is to avoid thrombosis or a clot now since the number one cause of death in the world is heart disease it might be a good idea to know a little bit more about magnesium in fact the fda recently allowed a health claim for magnesium so this is what they allow us to claim consuming diets with adequate magnesium may reduce the risk of high blood
Pressure hypertension however the fda has concluded that the evidence is inconsistent and inconclusive now of course they need to say that because there’s so many other variables involved i mean just by taking magnesium when you’re on a high carb high sugar diet is not going to do anything so it’s extremely difficult to isolate the cause and effect relationship
With nutrients when you have so many other factors involved especially the diet but the point is we know that magnesium has a huge effect on our cardiovascular system and we also know that if we’re severely deficient in magnesium we get depression apathy severe cramps and tetany of the muscle which is that twitching weakness and even convulsions so that’s all
Really interesting but did you also know that 66 of the population does not even get the minimum requirements magnesium from their diet and magnesium levels have been dropping over the last 50 years especially in the soils and then in the plant and then the animals that eat the plants not to mention that 80 percent of magnesium is lost when you process foods and
If you look at all the refined foods you’d be lucky to find any magnesium in those foods so where do we get magnesium well guess what magnesium is at the center of chlorophyll and chlorophyll is that green stuff in plants it is responsible for something called photosynthesis where plants take light and convert it into chemical energy as fuel carbohydrates as in
Proteins and in the photosynthesis process the waste product is oxygen which is not a waste for us it’s their waste but our benefit but the question is how much of this chlorophyll do we actually get in our diets an average person gets about one and a half cups of vegetable per day when we actually need a lot more especially if we’re trying to get magnesium now
We can get magnesium from grains but of course they’re just too high in carbohydrate so one of the best sources of magnesium is leafy greens anywhere where you have chlorophyll you can also get magnesium in meats in nuts and seeds and seafood and even berries but there’s not much magnesium in dairy products dairy products have more calcium now if you’re deciding
To take a magnesium supplement there are several forms that i don’t recommend one would be the oxide form another form i don’t recommend is magnesium hydroxide as well as magnesium carbonate and magnesium sulfate i don’t recommend any of those forms the forms that are okay would be like magnesium citrate which is easily absorbed it’s good for cramps it’s good for
Headaches but one of the problems if you take too much it creates a laxative effect another form of magnesium would be magnesium 3 and 8 which is really good to support your brain in cognitive functions one of the cons of that form is that it’s very expensive but that one targets the brain another form that i like is called magnesium bis glycinate now many times
People want to know what’s the difference between magnesium glycinate versus magnesium glycinate well the answer is there is no difference they’re both the same now the reason i like this form is that it’s very easy to absorb it’s good for cramping it’s good to help support healthy blood sugars it’s good for stress it’s good for relaxation it’s good to help you
Calm down and it doesn’t have the laxative side effects that many other forms have and the amino acid that they use to formulate this compound glycine has its own benefit of supporting sleep decreasing daytime sleepiness and making you feel really relaxed and if you want more information about that type of magnesium i put a link down below then we have magnesium
Orotate this one’s really good for pro athletes it improves energy but this one is also very expensive as well but if you’re an athlete this one might be the one that you want to take then we have magnesium taurate magnesium taurid is really good if you have blood sugar issues if you’re a diabetic that’s the one i would recommend and lastly we have magnesium malate
Which is really good to support fibromyalgia so now you know more about magnesium now i think would be appropriate for you to watch this video on calcium check it out you
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The REAL Reason We Need Magnesium By Dr. Eric Berg DC
