The BIGGEST Magnesium Mistakes

Is your magnesium not working, even though you’re taking it daily? Discover why magnesium is not working, how to choose the best type of magnesium, improve magnesium absorption, and avoid common magnesium supplement mistakes in this video.

Let’s talk about why magnesium might not be working for you. So many people take magnesium, but they actually are not even feeling the effects of that magnesium. They still deal with insomnia. They still deal with fatigue, high blood pressure, heart palpitations, leg cramps, anxiety. Today, we’re going to talk about eight magnesium mistakes that are super important that don’t necessarily directly involve magnesium, but they involve things around magnesium.

It’s the system around it. Because if you don’t really understand this, you could be taking it for years and not see the results. Magnesium is hands down one of the most important minerals for the entire body. It’s involved in over 300 different biochemical reactions. It helps you control heart rhythm, blood pressure, sleep, energy, insulin that helps you control blood sugars.

Magnesium is vital for nerve function, mitochondria, especially in the making of ATP. So, let’s start where the mistakes begin. Okay. number one thinking magnesium works by itself and all you need to do is just take magnesium and it’ll work. Not true.

The most important helper co-actor is vitamin D. And also on the flip side, in order for vitamin D to work, you also need magnesium. They both are dependent on each other. And I’m not talking about just the regular amount of vitamin D that people recommend like 600 IUs. You need at least 4,000 5,000 10,000 IUs of vitamin D3 to have sufficient amounts for magnesium to work.

And that brings us to another point. So many people are deficient in vitamin D. They don’t even know it. And that could be the reason why they’re expressing magnesium deficiency symptoms. Not only because they’re missing magnesium, but they’re also missing vitamin D3.

But it doesn’t just stop there. Vitamin B6 is also necessary for magnesium to get into your cells. You also need another mineral called potassium for magnesium to work. And out of all the minerals that you need, you need large amounts of potassium, like 4700 milligrams per day. Rarely does anyone get that much.

So, a lot of people are deficient in potassium as well. Now, another mineral that’s needed for magnesium is sodium. A lot of people get enough sodium, but when you go on the low carb diet, you lose a lot of fluid and with that you lose a lot of sodium. So, some people have symptoms of weakness in the muscle when they start a low carb diet because they need more sea salt. But just realize you need salt to also make magnesium work.

Let’s go to number two. Ignoring cell membrane damage. Remember I said that most of the magnesium is inside your cell? Well, in order to get inside the cell, it has to get through this membrane right here. And a lot of people have damage in the membrane.

And so then the question is, what damages the membrane? The big one is seed oils. An average person consumes between 20 and 25% of all their calories from seed oils. Corn oil, soy oil, canola, cotton seed, concentrated fats that ancient man never consumed in abundance. And they’re highly processed, which means they create inflammation, but they have the ability to embed in your membranes.

They also mess with the receptors for insulin, creating more pre-diabetic situations, and so they really overload the cell with something called omega6, which is more inflammatory. In order for that magnesium to get in the cell, you need good membranes. And this is why when someone stops consuming seed oil, it doesn’t just solve the problem overnight. It takes literally like 600 days for all of that to be cleared out so those membranes can start working again. And I think also one symptom of a problem with the cell membranes is your arteries are rigid and you have high blood pressure.

That’s a clarifying symptom that you might have problems with the membranes because the inside of the body is very very brittle and stiff. Number three, understanding stress and what it does to magnesium. Stress is like causing a body reaction, okay? It’s more of a body reaction than an emotion. It’s shutting down your digestion.

It’s lowering your immune system. It’s decreasing blood flow to certain organs, especially the stomach. This is why ulcers can be triggered by stress. That then increases the demand for magnesium and the loss of magnesium at the same time, creating a magnesium deficiency. You’re just going to need more magnesium.

Also, when you consume more caffeine, you lose magnesium. And so, if you’re stressed, anxious, overworked, wired, you’re going to need magnesium. Next one is taking the wrong type of magnesium. The most common magnesium that people take when they go to the drugstore and buy it is magnesium oxide. It’s the worst.

You only absorb 3% of it. A much better form of magnesium is magnesium glycinate. This is magnesium attached to glycine, which is an amino acid that will increase GABA in your brain to help you sleep and be calmer and you absorb like 80% of that. There are other forms of magnesium that are good. I did a whole video on that.

I will put a link down below if you want to learn more about that. But the magnesium that I take is magnesium glycinate. Number five is you are blocking the absorption of magnesium without even knowing it. Some common blockers taking too much calcium. If you take a look at the average multi one a day, the first ingredient is calcium carbonate, the worst form of calcium.

It’s like limestone. It’s like eating a rock. In a lot of those supplements, they don’t even have magnesium, but too much calcium will inhibit the absorption of magnesium. If you take high doses of zinc longterm, that can inhibit magnesium. fluoride from the water and fluoride treatments can also block your magnesium.

Aluminum can block magnesium and also ant acids and acid blockers can block magnesium. Low stomach acid, a lot of people have that. You need this strong acidic stomach to absorb minerals, especially magnesium, and that could be the reason why you’re low on magnesium because you don’t have enough acid in the stomach, in which case you should take something called betane hydrochloride. Number six is thinking that the RDAs for magnesium are going to be therapeutic. When they came up with these RDAs, it was just basically levels to prevent a disease.

And by the way, they were designed 100 years ago. They haven’t been updated. These RDAs were not designed to create a therapeutic effect. So, one of the biggest problems in the area of nutrition is how much do you need? What about if you’re trying to correct a major deficiency?

you need larger amounts, a therapeutic dosage. I mean, especially when you’re talking about vitamin D3, you probably need, you know, 20, 30, 40,000 IUs of vitamin D3, but the RDAs for magnesium are roughly between 400 460, but those are not therapeutic healing dosages. 400 milligrams is just enough to kind of get you by to prevent a major problem, but they’re not designed to fulfill all of your machinery for energy, your sleep quality, to overcome insulin resistance, to actually try to correct arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation. If someone has a major problem like a Charlie horse and they take 400 milligrams, they might not see much change unless they go up to 800, 1,200, or even sometimes 1600 milligrams per day. And just as a side note, if you’re taking larger amounts, don’t ever take all of that at one time because your body only can absorb a certain amount at a time.

break it down into smaller amounts and spread it through the day between three or 400 milligrams at a time and then just spread it out. That way you can actually start increasing more amounts if you’re trying to create a therapeutic effect, especially if you’re under stress or you have s