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Why We’re All Deficient In Magnesium, The Many Signs & What To Do
Organic Olivia, Collective-Evolution
Waking Times
Signs of magnesium deficiency are everywhere in the United States, if you know what to look for. Unfortunately, the symptoms are so incredibly common that they constantly slip under the radar! Hardly anyone, especiallydoctors, notice that the ailments we suffer from on a daily basis are actually magnesium deficiency symptoms… and we’re all paying for it.
What Exactly Is Magnesium?
Nearly EVERYONE has signs of magnesium deficiency but we don’t realize it…
Symptoms include:
- Constipation
- High blood pressure (Hypertension)
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Insomnia
- Behavioral disturbances
- Lethargy
- Impaired memory/thinking
- Seizures
- Fatigue
- Sleep disturbances
- Pain
- Muscle cramps
- Chronic back pain
- Headaches
- Migraines
- Muscular pain
- Tendonitis
- Anger
- Aggression
- ADHD
- Brain fog
- Tension
- Anxiety disorders such as OCD
Anything that makes you tense and tight could potentially be due to magnesium deficiency. If you can’t relax or you can’t stop — think magnesium! Full-blown health problems can even be tied back to this crucial mineral. Most people with ANY chronic disease or issue benefit greatly from magnesium supplementation therapy. This is because chronic illness = stress, and stress depletes magnesium. The following are conditions that are likely to have magnesium deficiency as a part of the puzzle:
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Adrenal Fatigue
- Fibromyalgia
- Heart Disease
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Heart Palpitations
- Osteoporosis (yes, magnesium is more important than calcium for bone health!)
- Diabetes
- Sudden Death in patients with Congestive Heart Failure
- Kidney Stones
“Similarly, patients with diagnoses of depression, epilepsy, diabetes mellitus, tremor, Parkinsonism, arrhythmias, circulatory disturbances (stroke, cardiac infarction, arteriosclerosis), hypertension, migraine, cluster headache, cramps, neuro-vegetative disorders, abdominal pain, osteoporosis, asthma, stress dependent disorders, tinnitus, ataxia, confusion, preeclampsia, weakness, might also be consequences of the magnesium deficiency syndrome.”
Amazingly, the article referenced above even mentions neuro-vegetative disorders as a possible result of magnesium deficiency. This would include comas. Stress hormone production requires high levels of magnesium and stressful experiences can immediately lead to complete depletion of magnesium stores; could this be a contributing factor to why we see comas after traumatic accidents/injuries? As I mentioned above, magnesium is an electrolyte responsible for brain signals and conductivity. Without magnesium, people in comas may not be able to come to and resume conductivity. Many people with diabetes also fall into diabetic comas. Diabetes is listed as another possible consequence of magnesium deficiency. Could this be a factor in diabetic comas as well? Something to think about and research further!
Cravings
Do you crave chocolate? Why, when people are stressed out, do they go for chocolate? Chocolate is one of the highest food sources of magnesium.
Magnesium is associated with so many disorders that Dr. Carolyn Dean of the Nutritional Magnesium Associationhas devoted an entire book to discussing how she has treated thousands of patients for a wide array of diseases, with magnesium as the primary component. Her book, The Magnesium Miracle, is a must-read if you have any of the magnesium deficiency symptoms above, or any health problems in general – as there is likely a magnesium component to everything. Check out 50 Studies Suggest That Magnesium Deficiency Is Killing Us.
Why Don’t Doctors Find Magnesium Deficiencies In Tests?
Unfortunately, conventional medicine has not woken up to the amount of research that has been done on magnesium deficiency.
One of the reasons Western Medicine is so off base with magnesium is how they test it: with blood tests.
Blood tests do not yield ANY information about magnesium… why? Because the body controls the levels of blood magnesium very tightly. If the magnesium in the blood drops just a little bit, you’re going to have a heart attack. It’s that sample. So to prevent this, the body will rob all of its cells, tissues, and bones of magnesium in order to keep the blood levels constant. If you do a blood test for magnesium, the cells could be completely empty while your blood levels remain constant.
What’s worse is that magnesium is not even in your blood. 99% of the magnesium in the body is stored in the cells that get robbed, while a mere 1% of your body’s total magnesium is in the blood. These tests are a complete waste of time, and they’re not educating doctors to this reality.
“A serum test for magnesium is actually worse than ineffective, because a test result that is within normal limits lends a false sense of security about the status of the mineral in the body. It also explains why doctors don’t recognize magnesium deficiency; they assume serum magnesium levels are an accurate measure of all the magnesium in the body.” – Dr. Carolyn Dean, The Magnesium Miracle.
Why Are We So Deficient?
Here’s the short(ish) version: Number one, we’re being poisoned by our food. Number two, we’re increasingly stressed out. We’re running our engines on high to keep up with life and it’s draining us. Stress hormone production requires high levels of magnesium and stressful experiences lead to depletion of magnesium stores.Number three, we’re eating more sugar than ever. For every molecule of sugar we consume, our bodies use 54 molecules of magnesium to process it. Fourth, low levels in the soil and modern farming techniques deplete stores of magnesium. And lastly, magnesium is depleted by many pharmaceutical drugs and estrogen compounds such as oral contraceptives, antibiotics, cortisone, prednisone, and blood pressure medications (“Drug-induced nutrient depletion handbook,” Pelton, 2001). Diuretics in coffee and tea (caffeine) also raise excretion levels. Oh and by the way – flouride competes for absorption with magnesium!
Nowadays, nearly everyone is magnesium deficient – no test needed. Refined/processed foods are stripped of their mineral, vitamin, and fiber content. These are anti-nutrient foods because they actually steal magnesium in order to be metabolized. When consumed, they demand that we supplement with magnesium or we are destined to break down eventually due to severe deficiency. Like I said, sugar is the worst offender. Every single molecule of sugar you consume drags over 50 times the amount of magnesium out of your body.
Well, what if you eat a healthy diet? Processed products are not the only foods that are devoid of magnesium. In general, magnesium has been depleted from topsoil, diminishing dietary intake across the board while our need for magnesium has increased, due to the high levels of toxic exposure we come across in our daily lives (air, water, plastics, chemicals, the list goes on!). The soil is depleted of magnesium because of the pesticides that are sprayed on all conventionally grown plants and worldwide pollution that affects even the cleanest fields. Pesticides also kill those beneficial bacteria/fungi that are necessary in order for plants to convert soil nutrients into plant nutrients usable by humans.
Are You A Cannabis User?
Cannabis has so many positive effects in terms of treating diseases such as epilepsy, cancer, and more (read 1, 2, 3and cureyourowncancer.org). Trust me, I’ll be the first to tell you I’m all for it – it’s a safe and effective herb with countless therapeutic benefits that the government has been hiding for years. The only way they want you using it is if they’ve patented one of its’ chemical compounds and can sell it to you for a profit.
However, we should also look at what happens to our body on a cellular level if we use cannabis on a daily basis. Would you take parasite cleansing herbs every day for the rest of your life, or even every few days? Probably not. You’d take them when you’re sick or during a monthly cleanse, or else you’d develop some side effects from overuse. We need to remember that cannabis is a powerful herbal medicine and should be treated in such a way.
It turns out that using marijuana tends to deplete the body’s stores of magnesium, with the result that the person feels more on-edge after coming down from the high.
Of course, that doesn’t mean that it isn’t safe in moderation. It means that over time, if used consistently without proper balance via magnesium replenishment, it can and will cause magnesium deficiency.
The Best Ways To Get Magnesium
1. Eat magnesium rich foods grown on organic soil.
2. Take ionic magnesium drops. This is my new favorite method, which I’ve learned from The Magnesium Miracle.
3. Apply magnesium oil to your skin! This is the second best way to raise your levels.
4. Soak in epsom salt baths. This will provide not only magnesium, but sulfur for your liver as well.
Additional References (not linked in the article)
Oxford Journals – Magnesium Basics: http://ckj.oxfordjournals.org/content/5/Suppl_1/i3.full
Dr. Carolyn Dean, MD: http://drcarolyndean.com/magnesium_miracle/
About the Author
I’m Olivia from organicolivia.com. After facing detrimental health issues all throughout my life, I did some research and found out that our food and medical system is not what we think it is! The last four years I’ve completely healed myself by using food as medicine, liver/parasite cleansing, and utilizing nature’s medicinal herbs. Nowadays I share what I’ve learned with the world through blogging, and I’ve teamed up with my Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor to create my own line of herbal remedies. I hope to give the world the healing and truth that has changed my life.
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Speak for yourself. I’ve got plenty of magnesium.
Was this a mistake ?
Informative and factual. Do I report you to BIN for not referring to nephilim, nibiru, anti-christ, eotw ?
No crazy detected. Thanks for being the 1%
Now it’s magnesium. I think last time it was Vitamin D, and Vitamin C, then calcium, then B vitamins, and not too long ago it was no vitamins.
Yes, all that you’ve listed is missing! Read a book a few years back called Empty Harvest. The title just about says it all and it was written in the late 80s.
Organic only means it hasn’t been touched up with pesticides, chemical hormones or genetically altered. While that is helpful, it isn’t enough anymore. There are many people waking up to the fact that micro-organisms help plants with the uptake of minerals. But they are being killed off creating a literal desert encroaching upon our farmlands at an alarming rate. It’s called the Soil Food Web.
It’s more than Big Medicine finally waking up. It’s getting them to cooperate with the reality of life.
A case has been made for placing Olivia into the coveted “angle # four” spot, PS.
Please reconsider your scathing comments about her level of understanding.
( ps She likes donuts too. The frosted kind. )
I will consider this, ThereYouWere. Interesting point.
BEWARE! There is a fellow calling himself PINKEST SLIME. I am not that fellow.
But for your comment, LOVE IT!
you really really need to try hard in order to get magnesium deficiency
nuts, cereals, cocoa and green vegetables are rich sources of magnesium. Most people eat those… so unless you are living on some sort of Fast Food diet… i wouldn’t be too worried.
also, there is no difference in magnesium from organic oil… whatever that means….. and other soil
I eat the Monkeys here to get my Magnesium. The monkeys ate all my Bananas and so I am sure if I BBQ a Monkey I’ll be getting my Magnesium too.
EXCELLENT article on an INCREDIBLY important topic.
everyone, please pay attention to this. i understand that most of us come here for entertainment, and hardly consider BIN to be an actual bastion of truth; too many articles on this site are all about the Nephilim, the Moon being a spaceship, “two suns” in the sky, Ben Fulford’s repeated nonsense, etc. (as siftingthroughthe*** mentions in his comment above), but THIS is actually an incredibly important issue and was handled fairly competently by Waking Times.
i would suspect the vast majority of people reading this article are indeed magnesium deficient. my reasons for believing this are far more than simple anecdotal tales or articles on the internet: i have discovered this to be true in many of my own family members, and their often intractable conditions did indeed go away upon the addition of adequate magnesium through supplementation. depression, anxiety, insomnia, muscle cramps, back pain, and very many other symptoms – all very easily dealt with.
as for the form of magnesium i’d recommend: use magnesium orotate. it’s far better absorbed and more bioavailable than most other forms (except for maybe magnesium threonate, which is more expensive). you can get a bottle of magnesium orotate manufactured by the company KAL pretty cheap – about 10 bucks – either on Amazon or even at your local health food store, Vitamin Shoppe, GNC, etc. if you can’t find magnesium orotate, just try ANY form of magnesium. try to take at least 500mg a day.
i’d just BET you that if you have a few of the symptoms listed, you will see almost immediate relief – generally, within a couple days.