Your Tight Muscles Are a Warning — Here’s What They’re Missing

Constantly dealing with tight traps, muscle tightness, jaw tension, teeth grinding, or eye twitching? Discover the connection between magnesium and calcium, why your muscles stay tight, and how to finally relieve chronic muscle tension naturally.

Why are muscles never fully relaxed? You wake up in the morning, your traps are really tight. Before bed, your traps are tight. What about the twitch underneath your left eye that just kind of randomly pops out of nowhere? Or what about the tension in the jaw?

Or the grinding of the teeth at night? Every single one of those things are the same problem. And it has nothing to do with stress, posture, or stretching. We have been taught that calcium is all about bone, right? But actually, 99% of the purpose of calcium in our body is to support cell communication signaling.

Calcium controls every single muscle contraction, every single nerve firing, every heartbeat. Right now when you’re watching this, your heart is beating. That is calcium. Your eyes moving across the screen right now, that’s calcium. And of course, the tightness in your muscles right here, calcium as well.

But it’s stuck calcium. Before I get into how do we solve this, I really need you to understand what’s happening to the muscles in regard to calcium. So when we’re talking about contraction in the muscles, what that is is calcium going into the muscle. So calcium going in the muscle is the on switch that causes contraction. Calcium going out of the muscle is relaxation.

Calcium is both the on switch and the off switch when we’re dealing with relaxation. What has to occur is that calcium has to be pushed through a lot of resistance out of the muscle, okay? And that requires ATP. And in order for ATP to work, it needs magnesium. It’s dependent on magnesium.

ATP cannot work without magnesium. When we deal with contraction, what we have is a super-concentrated amount of calcium outside the cell, and then we have a very low, diluted concentration inside the cell. And so, when you activate the muscle with your nervous system, it opens the gate, and passively this calcium flows through because there’s so much pressure, and that’s going to start creating the contraction. In order to relax that muscle, you need ATP to push this calcium back over here. And that’s dependent on magnesium.

That’s how relaxation works. I mean, let’s just take rigor mortis. When someone dies, they no longer have ATP, and so they no longer have the ability to remove the calcium from the muscle, and the muscle actually gets hard. That’s the problem with stuck calcium. It’s not because you don’t have enough magnesium, it’s just that you don’t have any more ATP because you died.

Another common problem with stuck calcium is palpitations and heart arrhythmias. Tension headaches is a big one, and grinding your teeth, that’s another big one. So, a lot of people ask me, what supplements do I recommend? Now, of course, I’m not biased of my own high-quality supplement line, but if you go to Amazon and type Dr. Berg’s supplements, you’ll find more information.

Another thing that supports what I’m talking about is if you just take a look at a number of medications that mimic magnesium, like calcium channel blockers. Why would someone need a calcium channel blocker? Well, they have tension. They have high blood pressure, probably because they’re deficient in magnesium. And so, what is that medication doing?

It’s blocking and altering the calcium, so then you can actually lower the blood pressure. Why not just use magnesium? It’s just that you can’t patent magnesium, so they’re not going to really promote it. There’s another medication for Alzheimer’s that literally is like a synthetic version of magnesium that works in such a parallel way. And this is why I’m doing this video, to give you the background of how magnesium really works and what it does in relationship to calcium, so then you can use it and apply it to different body situations that you have.

So, let’s just talk a little bit more about the calcium stuck problem, okay? Or calcium in the wrong place. If the calcium is stuck in your traps, and by the way, the trapezius muscle is not just right up in here. It goes up into the back of the skull. It goes down your back right here to T12.

It spreads out to the outside of the shoulders, even to the front part of the clavicle. So, it’s quite large and wide. And the lower part of your trap for most people is very weak and atrophied. We don’t really activate it because we sit so much. And so, the top part of the trap usually has to work twice as hard and usually is in a state of contraction.

So, if you were to look up how to strengthen the lower traps and do those exercises, it’d be very, very beneficial, especially for your posture. Like, if you go forward an inch, you just added 10 lb on your traps. If you go 2 in, you added 20 lb. If your head’s like 3 in forward, that’s 30 lb on your traps that you’re carrying around because your head’s going forward because your lower traps are weak. Now, this muscle, the traps, are a direct connection to the flight or fight mechanism.

People that are in flight or fight all the time, they’re kind of in this posture right here. So, it’s a common area for stress, but really underneath that, a person just doesn’t have enough magnesium to unlock the stuck calcium that’s up here, as well as magnesium helping to lower the flight or fight mechanism. Now, another thing you should know about magnesium is it follows a circadian wave. In other words, if you take a look at a 24-hour cycle with magnesium, it’s going to be the lowest in the early morning before you wake up. And this is why you see so many body problems that occur in the early morning.

Not just the leg cramps that can wake you out of bed, but also the risk of heart attacks and strokes are highest in the early morning. The other problem with stuck calcium is if we don’t have enough magnesium, calcium tends to settle in different soft tissue areas like joints as arthritis, in the arteries as placking. But in the kidney stone situation, you don’t have just calcium, it’s usually combined with calcium oxalates. My theory is that I think kidney stones are in reality a major magnesium deficiency. And I’m speaking from experience since I had kidney stones and I had severe magnesium deficiency as well.

You probably heard vitamin K2 is important to keep the calcium out of the soft tissue. But did you know that the main cofactor for vitamin K2 is magnesium. And so magnesium is so interrelated with so much biochemistry. In order for calcium to work right in the body, your pH must be correct. It can’t be too alkaline.

And so the reason I’m bringing that up is you can have also enough magnesium, but if you’re too alkaline, if you’re excessively alkaline, calcium will start locking up the nervous system as well. And that’s usually behind a lot of the twitching that people have or even the continued muscle cramps. If your environment is off, everything else struggles. It’s like a fish tank. Pollute the water and the fish gets sick.

You could feed them the best food, you can treat every single symptom, but if the water stays toxic, nothing recovers. The body runs on 10 signals like insulin, cortisol, inflammation, sleep quality, gut function. Every one of them affects how you feel. But there is always one signal that is more broken than the rest. And until you fix that one, everything else stays stuck.

I built a free 2-minute quiz that finds it for you. It tells you which one of the main signals is holding your body back right now. Click the link in the description, take the quiz, and stop guessing. When people consume a lot of refined carbohydrates as in a high sugar and starch diet, they become more alkaline. The best thing to do is just to start eating healthy, and your body will go back to whatever pH it needs to be in.

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