Why Your Magnesium Isn't Working (3 Nighttime Mistakes)
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The three magnesium mistakes that you
are making every single night. Let's
dive in with number one. Your dosage
isn't necessarily the dosage. What do I
mean by that? Magnesium needs some type
of transport mechanism to deliver in the
cells. So, magnesium glycinate needs
glycine to deliver it. And for most
magnesium glycinate products, you're
really only getting 12 to 14%
of that being magnesium as far as the
elemental version, like just plain
magnesium. The rest of this product in
this compound is glycine. So, you have a
tremendous amount of glycine, and you
just have a little bit of magnesium. So,
if the bottle says 1,000 mg of magnesium
glycinate, you're only getting 120 to
140 mg of elemental magnesium. Now, this
next part is very, very important. It's
subtle, but it's important. If the label
says magnesium
in quotations as glycinate,
the number is real. Or, if they're
saying one capsule is 120 or 130 mg of
magnesium as glycinate, you're getting
exactly that. You don't have to multiply
this percentage. But, if they don't have
this as quotations, it's a lot less. So,
whatever the serving size is, you really
need to understand how much elemental
magnesium that you're getting because
that's the number you want to operate
off of. And the typical RDA, which is
the general recommendations that you
need, are between 310 and 420 mg. But,
those numbers
from my viewpoint are a bit outdated.
And especially if you're trying to
create a therapeutic effect, you're
probably going to need a little bit
more. So, definitely start reading the
labels. Make sure you have enough
elemental magnesium because in order to
create the same effects as these
clinical trials of magnesium, you're
going to have to really raise the bar
and have sufficient amounts. A lot of
the positive clinical trials are based
on between 400 to 500 mg of
elemental magnesium. And if you're
taking magnesium glycinate because
there's so much glycinate, you can't get
that in one pill, okay? So, you're going
to have to take multiple pills spread
out through the day, do the calculations
to achieve this. Now, some people will
go to the drugstore and get their
magnesium. What they don't know is the
form is usually going to be magnesium
oxide, which you're going to get
diarrhea if you're going to be taking
this much. You might be able to get 400
mg of elemental magnesium in magnesium
oxide,
but you're only absorbing like 3 to 4%
of that. All right, number two, thinking
you're absorbing 100%. So, we've talked
about some of the things that are
confusing on the label, but even if you
actually take 4 to 500 mg and you're
assuming that you're absorbing 100%, you
might be a little bit off. Now, how can
that be? Well, you need enough
hydrochloric acid in your stomach to be
able to absorb magnesium, okay? So, if
you don't have enough hydrochloric acid,
the reason you'd probably know is you
would have indigestion, acid reflux. So,
you'd have to take even more or just fix
your stomach by taking betaine
hydrochloride.
Also, if you have a gut inflammation
lower in the colon, that lowers the
absorption. There's one more really
common thing. And I'll just give you an
example for myself. It's a genetic
problem. If you ever get a DNA test,
there's some very valuable information
in there. I'm not going to get into the
technical genes that could be a problem,
but I'm going to list you the genes that
I personally have a problem with. And
I'm also going to put a link down below
of the company that I use for genetics
because it's the least expensive and
they give you the most data and it's
super valuable. And just to keep it
simple, there are certain biochemical
pathways that require magnesium. And if
there's a problem with these genes, the
requirement for magnesium goes up. And
so, personally, if I don't have enough
magnesium, I'll have more adrenaline
problems, which is more stress problems,
sleeping issues, dopamine problems,
being addicted to certain things,
absorbing B vitamins, and also absorbing
vitamin D. And these are on top of all
the other problems absorbing magnesium.
With magnesium, there seems to be a
rhythm of magnesium going higher and
lower in the body. So, you're not really
severely deficient, but you have low
levels. When is the best time to take
magnesium? Well, you want to prevent
this problem in the early morning.
Not by getting up in the middle of night
and taking magnesium, you want to take
the magnesium before bed. But, a lot of
people are taking magnesium to help them
sleep. So, one of the mistakes they make
is right before they go to bed, they
take the magnesium. Well, what they
don't know, it takes between 1.5 to 2
hours before that magnesium gets
absorbed. You should not take the
magnesium right before bed, you should
take it 1.5 to 2 hours before you
actually go to sleep. That way you'll
get maximum absorption, and you'll be
able to get to sleep a lot faster. Now,
the other problem with taking
your full dosage of magnesium right
before bed is if there's any bowel
problems, like diarrhea, especially if
you're taking the wrong form of
magnesium,
then you might have the problem sometime
through the night waking up having to
use the bathroom because you have
diarrhea. And the other thing, too, is
if you have diarrhea, then you're going
to be losing all these electrolytes, and
especially magnesium, so that'll even
make things worse. I have a free
download that I want to give to you.
This free download is my daily routine
and a checklist. This is a routine that
I use every day to feel like I'm 18
years old, even though I'm 60 years old,
and I want to give it to you for free.
And so, there's a little link down
below, click it, and definitely download
that. Now, I'm going to give you a few
other bonus mistakes.
Here's one right here. There are various
things that will be nullifying
your magnesium working in your body.
Proton pump inhibitors, they're called.
The FDA actually even put out an
official warning on these medications
stating that long-term use can create a
severe magnesium deficiency. They should
actually have a black box warning
on PPIs. This is lowering the amount of
hydrochloric acid in your stomach. So,
you need the acid in different ways to
allow magnesium to enter the body. Then
we have insulin resistance. This is very
common. A lot of people have it. When
your cells become resistant to insulin
due to chronic sugar and refined
carbohydrates, so with insulin
resistance, you lose
magnesium. The more calcium, especially
calcium carbonate, you take, that
competes for magnesium, and that could
block or even increase the need for
magnesium.
And I already mentioned this point. High
amounts of vitamin D without magnesium
increase the demand for more magnesium.
So, don't forget to take more magnesium
if you take vitamin D. The more exercise
you do, the more magnesium you need
because magnesium is all about energy.
And so, a lot of people when they start
taking magnesium, they just get more
energy. They're able to exercise better,
their muscles work better. Okay, phytic
acid from grains, okay, whole grains,
that can also block magnesium. And then,
also cortisol. The more stress that you
have, the more magnesium you're going to
need. And the last mistake is a bonus.
You just haven't given it enough time to
work. This idea that it's going to work
in a few days or a few hours, and if it
doesn't, you're going to go on to
something else, that is a big, big, big
mistake. The other mistake is to take
magnesium until the symptom goes away.
Let's say you have leg cramps, and you
take it for a week and it goes away, and
then you stop taking magnesium thinking
that now it corrected it and it's not
going to come back. You have to realize
that even if you are 20% deficient in
magnesium, you may have to take
magnesium consistently for 3 months just
to correct a 20% deficiency of
magnesium. It just takes time, and you
want to be able to have the correct
estimation of time so you're not set up
for a loss because you just didn't give
it enough time. And just because your
magnesium corrects a symptom, realize
that that doesn't mean you're in a place
where you have now enough magnesium
reserve. So, yes, you need to look at
your diet to make sure that you have
enough in the diet, but like I said
before, it's difficult nowadays to get
enough magnesium. I think back in the
past, our ancestors
drank a lot of spring water, which had a
lot more magnesium or well water, where
we had more magnesium and more calcium.
Nowadays, we have city water and it's
completely void of minerals. So, now
that you know the mistakes, the next
most important thing for you to know is
what other types of conditions can
magnesium help you with? And for that
information, you should watch this video
right here. Check it out.