hey wellness warriors the proper amount of magnesium in your body is incredibly important
in order for you to feel good when you develop a magnesium deficiency you have problems like
muscle cramps anxiety poor sleep at night fatigue and even worse you can develop heart problems
you may be experiencing the common signs of a magnesium deficiency that most doctors miss
magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in the body and is required
in literally hundreds of biochemical processes every cell in the body has magnesium in it and
it's required for proper cellular function on a day-to-day basis it's estimated that most people
do not get an adequate amount of magnesium and this is why an estimated 75 percent of people are
magnesium deficient you too may be suffering from a magnesium deficiency now a long-term deficiency
in magnesium causes some really serious problems like insulin resistance high blood pressure and
even a stroke and this is why you have to take something as simple as a magnesium deficiency
really seriously in this video i'm going to cover the top signs that you must watch out for the best
foods you can eat to get lots of magnesium on a daily basis and how much magnesium that you need
to take daily in order to keep a sufficient amount in your body one of the top symptoms that may be
impacting you from a magnesium deficiency is a mood disorder and this is because the magnesium
deficiency directly impacts the brain you'll have symptoms like anxiety fear irritability and even
depression mood disorders are some of the most common problems of our time and magnesium is
very important for them because it increases the synapses in the brain which ultimately balances
the brain and improves cognitive function as we look to magnesium it's a great calmer of the brain
so if you're somebody who has a poor mood or a lot of stress magnesium can be wildly beneficial poor
sleep insomnia inability to fall asleep or waking up repeatedly throughout the night are all common
signs of a magnesium deficiency and sleep is a really important pillar to good health and so you
could only imagine all the health problems that will come out of not getting enough sleep at night
taking magnesium before bed has done incredible things for my quality of sleep and i'd highly
recommend it if you're somebody who's trying to improve your sleep in any way another common
sign that people just like you face all the time from a magnesium deficiency is going to be muscle
cramps twitches spasms and also muscle weaknesses you see when we get a magnesium deficiency what
happens is the nerves become hyperstimulated and they cause involuntary muscle contraction which
can actually be quite painful i had a patient one time come to me and say every night when i
go to bed i start to get really bad leg cramps and this patient went to their doctor and doctor said
oh you're fine there's nothing wrong with you well she of course knew that there was something wrong
with her because she couldn't sleep due to the leg cramps i had her take a magnesium supplement
and the problem went away almost immediately now as we're talking about muscles let's talk about
a really important one and that's your heart a common sign of a magnesium deficiency is irregular
heartbeats also known as arrhythmias when we look at a magnesium deficiency it seems like a pretty
small problem but it has enormous consequences a long-term deficiency in magnesium is associated
with an increased risk of stroke and even heart failure and let's think about this for a moment
most people experience these symptoms and when they do they go to their doctors and what does
their doctor do well he prescribes a prescription drug of course and as the pharmaceutical is taken
the deficiency is never restored the root cause of the problem is never addressed
and this is why when you have the signs the warning signs of a magnesium deficiency
you have to take them seriously the next top symptom on our list of a magnesium deficiency is
insulin resistance now i know what you're thinking insulin resistance only happens when you consume
too much sugar no it can actually happen many ways because magnesium is incredibly important
for insulin to function properly as insulin escorts sugar from the bloodstream it requires
magnesium in order to connect to the cell receptor in the case of a lack of magnesium what happens is
insulin is unable to do its job and lower the sugar in the bloodstream so magnesium sufficiency
is really important if you want to reduce the risk of insulin resistance and balance your blood sugar
our next sign of a magnesium deficiency is going to be migraine headaches or just headaches in
general i find that so many people suffer from them when i ask patients if they get headaches
i often get responses like you know just the normal headaches and i'm like what is a
normal headache there is no such thing because headaches are a sign of neurological stress
and when we look at magnesium remember what i said earlier it's a great calmer of the body and
in this case it's calming the nervous system in helping you prevent headaches high blood pressure
is the next sign that we gotta talk about because it affects so many people not only the elderly
but also young and middle-aged adults high blood pressure in most cases is a proportional response
to the poor environment you're living in one that doesn't have enough sleep one that's high
in stress and as a result you end up with high blood pressure but the good news is is that
magnesium helps with all of those it helps bring down your blood pressure it helps you sleep better
at night and it also helps you reduce stress some other signs of a magnesium deficiency that you may
be struggling with are digestive distress an increase in pms symptoms and also low energy
now as you've seen magnesium is very important for your overall health the symptoms can be very
serious or they can be quite subtle and when you have these warning signs of a magnesium deficiency
it is your body giving you feedback in real time that there is a problem so don't ignore
these warning signs and make sure you're taking them seriously so what can we do about
this magnesium deficiency well the first thing that we can do is look to food and some of the
top foods that are loaded with magnesium are ones like spinach pumpkin seeds black beans avocados
almonds fatty fish like salmon quinoa and even dark chocolate and of course that's
going to be sugar-free dark chocolate now if you want to supplement with magnesium like
i do the recommended daily intake is between 2 and 400 milligrams of magnesium now magnesium comes in
many different forms and how i personally use it is i use a very dynamic blend which has all the
different forms in it because i want to get the benefits of all of them and i take it every night
without fail before bed and it greatly improves my quality of life i'll put a link in the description
to the magnesium that i use now if you're still not sure if you have a magnesium deficiency
there's two things that you can do for one you can try a magnesium challenge what you do is you take
magnesium in supplement form for a period of time and you see if your symptoms diminish another way
that you can test and see if you have a magnesium deficiency is to do a blood test it's one of the
most specific ways that you can test for magnesium and you'll know with pinpoint accuracy if this
is a problem for you or not as always i'm dr zyrowski and it's been a pleasure educating you
on how to take control of your health naturally i highly recommend you watch this video next