Because Magnesium Is Too Important To Ignore
In the years since my experience with magnesium deficiency I have come across a few really good books on magnesium and how critical it is to the health of the human body.
They are well worth your time if you want to know more.
Like most nutrients, magnesium levels in the human body depend on consumption, absorption, and retention.
This means you need to eat enough of it, your body needs to break it down and absorb it, and then your body needs to retain what it has absorbed.
Most of the common causes of low magnesium levels involve interrupting at least one of these three steps, and if you do so for a long enough time and you can end up dealing with the symptoms of magnesium deficiency. [Read more…]
Pop quiz: What mineral is used in over 300 different biochemical reactions in your body and can cause migraines, anxiety, dizziness, sleep disturbances, depression, and a number of other health issues if you don’t consume enough of it?
Answer: Magnesium
Magnesium is critical to the health of the human body. It is just as important to your brain and muscles as calcium is to your bones and teeth yet it doesn’t get nearly the same amount of attention.
Got Milk? How about Got Magnesium? [Read more…]
This was not how I was hoping to spend the holidays.
It was the end of the year and as usual my wife and I were taking the last two weeks of December off from work so we could relax and enjoy some time with our family. We had spent the previous couple days shopping and wrapping and our plan was to stay home the next day and recuperate.
When I woke up that morning I felt ... off, like I had brain fog. I was mildly dizzy, cold, and my heart felt like it was racing. I was also feeling anxious despite having no reason to be.
I recognized the symptoms as something I had experienced briefly a couple times earlier in the year. Nothing seemed to be horribly wrong though so I just assumed it was stress or fatigue and that it would pass in a couple hours as it had before.