Great video for Paleo, Optimal and Bio-hackers!

https://thequantifiedbody.net/magnesium-deficiency-dr-carolyn-dean/

• Magnesium is involved in 700-800 different enzyme systems within our bodies (05:09).
• Diverse roles of magnesium (05:33).
• Magnesium has a “push-pull relationship” with calcium.  Calcium causes muscles to contract, while magnesium relaxes muscles (05:41).
• 80% of the population is not getting the recommended daily allowance of magnesium (07:25).
• There are two reasons for this common micro-nutrient deficiency: (1) The soil doesn’t have magnesium. (2) There is more stress/higher demands of magnesium going on (07:37).
• Medications, diet choices, and water sources can “bump” away, deplete storages, and bind to magnesium (08:47).
• Amount of magnesium required to metabolize table sugar and high fructose corn syrup (08:54).
• Common electrolyte products do not replenish magnesium (09:54).
• Neither farmers nor organic farmers replenish the soil with minerals. Farmers would need to use rock dust on the soil to do this(11:09).
• The soil is much lower in magnesium currently compared to ancient times due to: (1) overuse of the top soil and (2) the recycled water we use today has not undergone micronutrient accumulation (11:54).
• When fluoride (a molecule found throughout our environment) and magnesium bind – a compound of magnesium fluoride called sellaite is created (13:15).
• Sellaite is able to replace the magnesium found in bone and cartilage, overall making bones more prone to fracturing (13:30).
• 20% of prescription drugs have added fluoride molecules to assist in drug delivery to the cell (13:49).
• The highest amount of magnesium can be found in the heart (14:36).
• Explanation of the magnesium depletion cycle (16:01).
• Dr. Carolyn Dean defines terminology: skipped beat, arrhythmia, and palpitations (18:35).
• Additional symptoms of magnesium deficiencies (20:45).
• There are many seemingly unique symptoms or symptom combinations that can appear in a magnesium deficiency. The appearance of these symptoms is based on the individual and that individual’s vulnerable areas (23:45).
• Doctors and specialists often see and treat the various symptoms individually, and may be unable to put it all together as a magnesium deficiency (24:14).
• Magnesium deficiencies have contributed to ending the careers of professional athletes due to severe muscle cramps (26:20).
• Advice Dr. Carolyn Dean gives to parents of teen athletes on muscle cramps (26:44).
• The typical test administered by doctors is the blood serum magnesium test.(27:57).
• The red blood cell magnesium test (28:09).
• The gold standard test is the ionized magnesium test (28:24).
• Like many lab tests, the blood range of the tests represents the average of the population and the not the optimum (30:15).
• What to use and how to track your own magnesium (35:30).
• Reasons why some people feel better taking magnesium and then feel it is no longer helping (38:00).
• How to slowly introduce magnesium, tracking symptoms and/or RBC measurements as they increase slowly and steadily (38:24).
• The dynamic between treating the symptoms of magnesium deficiency and other medications (39:24).
• Table salt compared to sea salt (41:40).
• Magnesium sources through the skin (42:48).
• If one is taking a magnesium supplement able to be properly absorbed, then it should not produce the laxative effect (44:58).
• Foods high in magnesium (46:48).
• How many milligrams of calcium Dr. Carolyn Dean recommends (47:22).
• Once treated, feeling symptomatically better can occur overnight, within a week or after several months depending on various factors (51:29).
• Herbicides and pesticide can also bind up minerals found in the soil (55:17).
• Discussion of German New Medicine and Total Biology (57:16).
• Dr. Carolyn Dean does not track biomarkers on a routine basis (57:30).
• Dr. Carolyn Dean’s one biggest recommendation on using body data to improve your health, longevity and performance is to track magnesium (58:50).