MAGNESIUM Deficiency: 9 Signs You Should Know - 2023

hey this is dr. Barry for a few minutes let's discuss magnesium and the seven signs of magnesium deficiency that you need to look for it's very common in the US and Canada the UK and Australia to be deficient in magnesium and I'm actually going to give you more than seven signs of magnesium deficiency millions are suffering from magnesium deficiency and so I thought this this video would be necessary if you know someone you think may be deficient in magnesium please share this with them on Facebook on messenger send them an e-mail cinematix send them a smoke signal but get the word out because there are so many people who are magnesium deficient so but wait a minute my doctor checked my magnesium level and said it was normal so what about that dr. Barry so here's the thing at any given time in your body only 1% of your available magnesium is present in your blood or in the serum and your body regulates that amount very very tightly because magnesium either is essential for or facilitates over 400 biochemical reactions in your body every single minute of every single day it's vitally important for life it is an essential nutrient it's an essential mineral it's an element your body can't make elements you have to ingest them and so you have to either eat good magnesium rich foods or take a magnesium supplement or both for some people or you're just not going to get enough and so if your serum level which is what the blood test would check for if it starts to get low your body immediately pulls magnesium from your cells from your bones from your organs out into the bloodstream to normalize that level because it has to be normal or you'll get very sick very quickly if your magnesium level gets too high or too low you can have severe cardiac problems and other problems but your body just almost won't let that happen if you have normal kidney function and there's not some other serious medical problem your body's going to keep your magnesium level at a very tight level in your serum and so you can imagine that you've got a normal amount in your blood supply but your your cells your bones are very depleted of magnesium and there's really not a good way to check that a lot of doctors say oh check RBC magnesium and I've actually checked that a few hundred times in my practice and I can't really tell that that helps me much either but I know that so many people have these signs and symptoms of magnesium deficiency and that the the food supply in the u.s. is so deficient in magnesium that that over 50 percent of the US population some experts estimate are deficient at least to some degree in magnesium so let's talk about some signs and symptoms that might give you the heads up that you are low in magnesium and you need to either eat more magnesium rich foods or supplement your magnesium if you have just an overall low energy level that could be any number of medical issues you definitely need to go see your doctor for that but magnesium is vital in one of the rate-limiting steps for the production of ATP you may remember ATP from high school biology that's the energy molecule in your body and so if you're not able to make ATP as effectively as you should be able to you're going to have low energy levels and so that's that's one vague symptom of magnesium deficiency another is tachycardia or fast heart rates calcium tends to make your heart contract and magnesium tends to make your heart relax and if you don't have enough magnesium then your heart can't relax as it should during the the contraction relaxation cycle and you can wind up with a fast heart rate and I've seen a number of patients who have been to several different doctors and nobody could figure out why their heart rate was high they thought it was thyroid they thought it was something else turns out they just needed more magnesium and their heart rate came right back down to normal another is numbness or tingling in the fingers or toes the magnesium element is is critical for the normal function of nerves all over your body but especially down in your fingers and toes and if you don't have enough magnesium you could have a tingling numbness in your fingers and toes now again this can be caused by multiple other medical issues if you're having this go see your doctor but also I would recommend either eating more magnesium rich foods or taking a magnesium supplement now a big one probably you guys all know is muscle cramps or muscle twitches you know that little twitch you get right here when that in-law comes over well it could be the in-law it could also be low magnesium okay and especially if you're having charley horses in the middle of the night it's either magnesium or potassium almost all the time and so a good magnesium supplement can make those cramps go away another big one that most of you guys already know about is constipation magnesium will help with constipation like no other element really will and so if you're taking a magnesium supplement also magnesium has a safety valve the way you'll know that you're taking too much magnesium is you'll get diarrhea and that's your body's way of saying whoa back up on the magnesium maybe 10% maybe 20% of the dose you were taking and then that should be the perfect dose when the diarrhea goes away that's the right dose of magnesium for you and so if you're chronically constipated magnesium might be a big help in your life another is insomnia you may have heard of this as well magnesium is not a knockout drug magnesium is not habit-forming you cannot sell magnesium on the black market but if you'll take anywhere from 400 to 800 milligrams of magnesium at bedtime plus or minus a little melatonin you'll drift off into a more restful sleep and you'll stay asleep through the night for more minutes or more hours and get a more restful night's sleep I've had many many patients benefit from taking a very inexpensive very safe magnesium supplement right at bedtime another is if you've been diagnosed with osteoporosis or osteopenia osteopenia is just the beginning weakness of bone and you haven't progressed to osteoporosis yet which is very brittle bones your body has to have magnesium and calcium in the proper ratio in order to store calcium properly in the bones and so if you are very low in magnesium you may not be putting away and rebuilding bone properly and that can lead to brittle bones or osteoporosis and so if you've been diagnosed with that then you definitely need to look into getting more magnesium in your diet and in your life another is high blood pressure now often high blood pressure is just high blood pressure but sometimes it's low magnesium and even if you are taking a blood pressure medication I still advise taking 400 to 800 milligrams of magnesium at bedtime every night that's gonna help your blood pressure be lower naturally and then you may not need as much of the prescription blood pressure medication right another is arrhythmias and even atrial fibrillation or afib a lot of these arrhythmias are caused by low magnesium levels magnesium is very very heart healthy it's estimated that over half of the people who come to the emergency room with an acute heart attack are magnesium deficient and that seems to be very strongly correlated with heart disease and so once again another good reason to eat lots of magnesium rich foods and perhaps take a magnesium supplement but if you have afib I would definitely take some some magnesium it may not cure your I feel you still need to see the doctor for that but it might help it and then if you're having just weird little flip flops or palpitations magnesium might fix that but still go see your doctor the final one I want to talk about is one that if you've been pregnant and you had a little bit of morning sickness that's normal that's normal to have that because of the fluctuating hormones but if you had severe morning sickness or you know someone who's pregnant and just has debilitating morning sickness there are a couple of studies that actually show that a magnesium supplement makes that much less severe and so it looks like severe morning sickness may be due in part to a magnesium deficiency now if you enjoyed this video and you'd like to see more like it consider clicking the subscribe button and I'm going to tell you a secret in the either tomorrow the next day I'm gonna also publish a video about the seven magnesium rich foods that you should eat and so you get your natural amount of magnesium if you'll click the little Bell button right beside the subscribe button then you'll get a notification when I post that video if my videos have helped your health in some way and helped you have a healthier happier life you can 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Length: 8min 56sec (536 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 16 2018