Could This Magnesium Mineral Deficiency Give You Diabetes? – Dr.Berg on Magnesium and Diabetes

Could this mineral deficiency actually give you diabetes? And I’m talking about magnesium.Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in the entire body. It works as a helper nutrientin certain enzyme reactions. It’s involved in over 300 chemical reactions includingits effect on insulin. So it helps to regulate insulin. It’s involved in glucose metabolism.And I want to put an interesting study down below related to diabetics. And it was found

that diabetics have significantly lower magnesium levels than healthy people. And I’m also talkingabout pre-diabetics and people with insulin resistance. When you’re deficient in magnesium,you worsen insulin resistance. When you take magnesium, you improve insulin resistance.That allows better blood sugar control and all the other effects that insulin is supposed to have.Now, the RDAs are recommended amounts of magnesium that we need per day for a male body is between

400 to 420 milligrams. For a female, it’s in the 300s. So let’s talk about what food is high inmagnesium. Well, chocolate, one ounce has 64 milligrams. One avocado will give you 58 milligrams.Nuts, one ounce, 82 milligrams. Seeds, just one ounce will give you 150 milligrams of magnesium.And by the way, pumpkin seeds have the most magnesium. Leafy greens, one cup, 157 milligrams.So if you had, I don’t know, like maybe two and a half to three cups of salad per day,

you’re going to get your magnesium. Very few people even have that much. One egg has sixmilligrams of magnesium. One ounce of meat or fish has only nine milligrams of magnesium.steak six ounces has only 32 so all the meats in general are not high in magnesiumhummus one cup is 184 milligrams of magnesium and magnesium also works with calcium togetherin the contraction and relaxation of muscles and i’m also including smooth muscle like in your

arteries so if you’re deficient in magnesium guess what’s going to happen blood pressure is going togo up. And this is why people take magnesium for their blood pressure, for their heart,for cramps in their calves. Now, the question is, how do you become deficient? Number one,you’re probably not consuming enough food with magnesium. Magnesium is part of the chlorophyllcomplex. So very few people are consuming enough greens, number one. They’re doing too many refined

carbs. A refined carbohydrate, and I’m talking about the breads, pasta, cereal, crackers,and also the refined sugars will deplete magnesium. Caffeine will deplete magnesium.Alcohol will deplete it. Diuretics. There’s a diuretic called thiazide. Thiazide creates amagnesium deficiency. And when someone’s on this diuretic, their risk of diabetes increases,probably because of the deficiency of magnesium. And what’s interesting is that a lot of diabetics

have high blood pressure, they’re taking this diuretic, thiazide, which is actually worseningthe diabetes. And they don’t know about this magnesium point here. Also, when you have insulinresistance, which I believe the majority of the population has, you’re going to have a hard timeabsorbing magnesium. So what you need to know is that when you take magnesium in a supplement orthrough your food, you actually can improve insulin resistance right here and therefore

increasing your absorption of magnesium. Okay, so they both work really closely together.All right, guys, so thanks for watching. Now you know the connection between magnesium,your blood sugars, magnesium and blood pressure, and also cramping. Thanks for watching.So if you’re enjoying this content, go ahead and share it with someone that could really benefitfrom it.