Magnesium’s Effect on Mood: Anxiety and Depression

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let’s talk about magnesium’s effect on  mood especially anxiety and depression there’s a lot of things that magnesium does in  the body it’s involved in probably actually more than 300 different enzymes involved in biochemical  pathways but i want to emphasize just one area the effect of magnesium on neurotransmitters which are  hormone-like but instead of traveling through the blood they travel through the nervous system now a  magnesium deficiency is extremely common well over 50 of the population is deficient and probably  a lot more that have a subclinical deficiency but it’s very difficult to test magnesium  since only one percent of your whole body’s magnesium is in the blood the rest is in the bone  it’s in the teeth it’s in the muscle and it’s also inside the cell so you kind of have to go by  symptoms and just take some magnesium consume foods higher magnesium and see if these symptoms  go away so if you’re deficient in magnesium you can get anxiety depression low tolerance to  stress you’re not going to sleep that well you’re going to be irritable and brain fog other than  that you’re going to be good to go but magnesium has some direct effect on increasing serotonin  serotonin is the hormone that kind of brings you in a state of well-being it actually makes you  feel calm happy and without stress number two magnesium can decrease cortisol so cortisol is a  stress hormone and if it’s too high it puts you in a state of stress so many people have chronic  elevations of cortisol and they’re stressed out and magnesium can help them all right number  three magnesium can lower adrenaline okay so that’s going to help your sleep number four you  can increase gaba which is a neurotransmitter involved in relaxation and feeling calm and even  sleep number five magnesium can increase melatonin it’s going to help you sleep all right number six  it can increase the parasympathetic nervous system what is that that’s the part of the nervous  system that’s responsible for rest and digestion so it calms you down it’s actually an active wave  in your body that’s pushing things down to keep things calm so let’s say for example you ran up  the stairs or you’re exercising and then you stop the parasympathetic kicks in there and brings your  pulse rate down and calms you down without that everything would stay fairly elevated for a long  period of time and in practice i used to measure the parasympathetic nervous system i had a a test  it’s called heart rate variability which measures the autonomic nervous system and when people would  come in with very low parasympathetic function if they were to exercise their pulse rate  would go high and it just would not come down so they have to do very very light things and  not a lot of exercise all right number seven magnesium decreases the sympathetic nervous  system so this is the opposing nervous system this is the nervous system that keeps things  turned on and it keeps you from sleeping so magnesium can chill that out and another name for  the sympathetic nervous system is flight or fight all right there you have it magnesium’s effects  on your mood before you go if you have a question about a product or you’re new to keto and you want  to know how to begin keto or you’re on keto and you need a debug because it’s not going as smooth  i have a keto consultant standing by to help you this is just for the people in the u. s. hopefully in  the future we’ll be able to answer everyone’s call but i put the number down below  so you can call and get some help