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…]