Magnesium Is # 1
Magnesium is possibly the most important mineral with more functions in the body than any other mineral.
Magnesium is also widely considered the most common missing nutrient with a majority of people being deficient to some degree.
Increasing magnesium levels can help with:
Magnesium is necessary for:
“There is no other mineral or nutrient that even approaches 10% of that level of functioning,” explains magnesium expert Morley Robbins on his Blog.
Magnesium is one of the few things that it is worth supplementing with because there is not enough in the diet to respond to the level of stress and toxicity in modern life that requires extra levels of magnesium.
From the many people I have heard magnesium supplementation is the most common one thing that most people can feel working, whether from a pill or Epsom salt bath. Energy, stress reduction and sleep are the most frequently mentioned benefits.
Magnesium is the Foundation for Other Nutrients
Perhaps most important is that magnesium is a foundation for utilizing other nutrients.
Magnesium is crucial to the utilization of all other nutrients because it helps regulate what gets across the cell membrane: nutrients in and waste out. It works with sodium and potassium and the sodium potassium pump across cell membranes to get nutrients and waste out. That is why supporting these three nutrients is one of the first things to check to improve health.
For people who have “tried everything” and failed, you might get different results by supplementing with magnesium and its companion minerals very precisely first to enable absorption of other minerals. By precisely I mean energetic testing for the exact form and product of magnesium and quantities taken in combination with the right supplements or foods. A general sense of “I’ve taken magnesium” because I have “done everything” does not cut it. Details, combinations and timing matter.
Take Magnesium, Not Calcium
Magnesium is a cofactor or synergist for calcium. People taking calcium for osteoporosis would usually do better to take magnesium to utilize the calcium they have to prevent deposits in the wrong places. Women with osteoporosis frequently have stenosis, too, which is calcium deposits between vertebrae that pinch nerves. This is utilized calcium that can’t go to the right places in the bones. Magnesium and other cofactors help it get to the right place.
Excess calcium can even cause heart attacks. Magnesium is well known as a heart nutrient to prevent heart attacks.
Unutilized calcium can also combine with oxalates to create very painful kidney stones that can be resolved with mineral and nutritional balancing.
Take Magnesium, Not Iron
A more complex chain of reactions magnesium is necessary to utilize copper, and copper it necessary to utilize iron. Without magnesium, you get copper deposits and iron deposits in the body. Iron toxicity shows up on blood tests as anemia, which means iron is not in the right place in the blood, but this does not mean there is not enough in the diet, as they assume That simple input output model of a system plagues the medical model of disease as they look at everything in isolation, not the processes by which each input interacts as a system, a whole of parts. Copper controls iron, which depends on magnesium and other nutrients.
Iron toxicity is the major cause of inflammation according to Morley Robbins. We are getting rusty.
Iron also feeds chronic infections including candida and all kinds. Extra iron and calcium is also used by pathogens to form bioshield fortresses to protect themselves against the immune system and antibiotics. This helps explain why pathogens are so hard to kill while they are still fed and able to defend themselves. Drain the swamp to kill the mosquitoes. Utilize all your nutrients to repair your immune system to do its job everywhere all the time rather than rely on supplementation and medication.
Magnesium is a Root Cause Nutrient
Taking magnesium alone will not solve all your problems, but failing to get enough will make full healing impossible. A system is only as good as its weakest link.
Health issues are most easily resolved at the root cause level and nutrients are a root cause. Magnesium has so many functions in the body, probably more than we even know, that taking it can improve symptoms of all kinds sometimes for unknown reasons. Focusing on basic nutrients is both more simple and systematic at the same time. How magnesium is used should be sensitive to individual needs.
There are many forms of magnesium to take and two delivery methods: oral and transdermal through the skin. I think both at the same time are good. I won’t review them all here but it’s good to get tested energetically to determine which forms of magnesium you can tolerate.
When taking orally it is important what you take it with as it is often not tolerable on an empty stomach and it needs some cofactors with food, but being alkaline it can weaken digestion of a meal that requires concentrated stomach acid. I am developing ways to absorb magnesium orally since I have not found adequate discuss and instructions on this. But trying magnesium in any way has a high chance of success, unlike with most supplements.
Magnesium is also widely considered the most common missing nutrient with a majority of people being deficient to some degree.
Increasing magnesium levels can help with:
- Energy
- Relaxation
- Sleep
- Pain & soreness
- Lowering blood pressure
- Preventing heart attacks
- Regulating hormones, immunity, and blood sugar
- Osteoporosis
- Detoxification
- and more
Magnesium is necessary for:
- 3,751 proteins in the human body
- 1,400 metabolic pathways
- 350 enzymes
- The ATP of all cells in the body
“There is no other mineral or nutrient that even approaches 10% of that level of functioning,” explains magnesium expert Morley Robbins on his Blog.
Magnesium is one of the few things that it is worth supplementing with because there is not enough in the diet to respond to the level of stress and toxicity in modern life that requires extra levels of magnesium.
From the many people I have heard magnesium supplementation is the most common one thing that most people can feel working, whether from a pill or Epsom salt bath. Energy, stress reduction and sleep are the most frequently mentioned benefits.
Magnesium is the Foundation for Other Nutrients
Perhaps most important is that magnesium is a foundation for utilizing other nutrients.
Magnesium is crucial to the utilization of all other nutrients because it helps regulate what gets across the cell membrane: nutrients in and waste out. It works with sodium and potassium and the sodium potassium pump across cell membranes to get nutrients and waste out. That is why supporting these three nutrients is one of the first things to check to improve health.
For people who have “tried everything” and failed, you might get different results by supplementing with magnesium and its companion minerals very precisely first to enable absorption of other minerals. By precisely I mean energetic testing for the exact form and product of magnesium and quantities taken in combination with the right supplements or foods. A general sense of “I’ve taken magnesium” because I have “done everything” does not cut it. Details, combinations and timing matter.
Take Magnesium, Not Calcium
Magnesium is a cofactor or synergist for calcium. People taking calcium for osteoporosis would usually do better to take magnesium to utilize the calcium they have to prevent deposits in the wrong places. Women with osteoporosis frequently have stenosis, too, which is calcium deposits between vertebrae that pinch nerves. This is utilized calcium that can’t go to the right places in the bones. Magnesium and other cofactors help it get to the right place.
Excess calcium can even cause heart attacks. Magnesium is well known as a heart nutrient to prevent heart attacks.
Unutilized calcium can also combine with oxalates to create very painful kidney stones that can be resolved with mineral and nutritional balancing.
Take Magnesium, Not Iron
A more complex chain of reactions magnesium is necessary to utilize copper, and copper it necessary to utilize iron. Without magnesium, you get copper deposits and iron deposits in the body. Iron toxicity shows up on blood tests as anemia, which means iron is not in the right place in the blood, but this does not mean there is not enough in the diet, as they assume That simple input output model of a system plagues the medical model of disease as they look at everything in isolation, not the processes by which each input interacts as a system, a whole of parts. Copper controls iron, which depends on magnesium and other nutrients.
Iron toxicity is the major cause of inflammation according to Morley Robbins. We are getting rusty.
Iron also feeds chronic infections including candida and all kinds. Extra iron and calcium is also used by pathogens to form bioshield fortresses to protect themselves against the immune system and antibiotics. This helps explain why pathogens are so hard to kill while they are still fed and able to defend themselves. Drain the swamp to kill the mosquitoes. Utilize all your nutrients to repair your immune system to do its job everywhere all the time rather than rely on supplementation and medication.
Magnesium is a Root Cause Nutrient
Taking magnesium alone will not solve all your problems, but failing to get enough will make full healing impossible. A system is only as good as its weakest link.
Health issues are most easily resolved at the root cause level and nutrients are a root cause. Magnesium has so many functions in the body, probably more than we even know, that taking it can improve symptoms of all kinds sometimes for unknown reasons. Focusing on basic nutrients is both more simple and systematic at the same time. How magnesium is used should be sensitive to individual needs.
There are many forms of magnesium to take and two delivery methods: oral and transdermal through the skin. I think both at the same time are good. I won’t review them all here but it’s good to get tested energetically to determine which forms of magnesium you can tolerate.
When taking orally it is important what you take it with as it is often not tolerable on an empty stomach and it needs some cofactors with food, but being alkaline it can weaken digestion of a meal that requires concentrated stomach acid. I am developing ways to absorb magnesium orally since I have not found adequate discuss and instructions on this. But trying magnesium in any way has a high chance of success, unlike with most supplements.
