Why are 80 percent of us magnesium deficient? Magnesium deficiency is frequently misdiagnosed because it does not show up in blood tests—only 1% of the magnesium in the body is stored in the blood.
The majority of doctors and laboratories do not even test for magnesium status in routine blood tests. As a result, most doctors are unaware when their patients are magnesium deficient, despite the fact that studies show that the majority of Americans are magnesium deficient.
Every known illness is linked to a magnesium deficiency
Consider the following statements by Dr. Norman Shealy: “”Every known illness is linked to a magnesium deficiency,” and “magnesium is the most critical mineral required for electrical stability of every cell in the body.”
A lack of magnesium may be responsible for more diseases than any other nutrient.” The truth he claims reveals a gaping hole in modern medicine that explains a lot about iatrogenic death and disease. Because magnesium deficiency is largely ignored, millions of Americans suffer needlessly or have their symptoms treated with expensive drugs when magnesium supplementation could cure them.
To recognize the signs of magnesium thirst or hunger
Because allopathic medicine fails to recognize the signs of magnesium thirst or hunger, one must learn to recognize them on their own. It is much more subtle than hunger or thirst, but it is comparable. In a world where doctors and patients alike ignore thirst and other important issues of hydration,
it is unlikely that many will recognize and address magnesium thirst and hunger, which is a dramatic way of expressing the concept of magnesium deficiency.
Few people realize how important magnesium is in our bodies. By far the most important mineral in the body is magnesium. After oxygen, water, and basic food, magnesium may be the most important element required by our bodies; vital, yet little understood. It is more important than calcium, potassium, or sodium because it regulates all three.
Why am I dehydrated and thirsty, when I drink so much water ?
Millions of people suffer from magnesium deficiency every day without even realizing it. In fact, there is a connection between what we perceive as thirst and electrolyte deficiencies.
“Why am I dehydrated and thirsty when I drink so much water?” I recall someone asking. Thirst can indicate not only a lack of water, but also a deficiency in nutrients and electrolytes. Magnesium, potassium, bicarbonate, chloride, and sodium are a few examples, which is why magnesium chloride is so beneficial.
Being magnesium deficient on one level or another is torture.
Even for the enthusiastic athlete whose athletic performance is suffering, magnesium deficiency will disrupt sleep, raise background stress levels, and because a slew of other issues that have a negative impact on quality of life.
Doctors have not been using the proper magnesium test; instead, their serum blood tests have distorted their perceptions. Magnesium has largely escaped their notice over the decades that magnesium deficiency has accumulated.
Magnesium Deficiency Symptoms
Because most magnesium is stored in the tissues, leg cramps, foot pain, or muscle twitches may be the first signs of deficiency. Loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, and weakness are also early signs of deficiency. Numbness, tingling, seizures, personality changes, abnormal heart rhythms, and coronary spasms can occur as magnesium deficiency worsens.
“Magnesium deficiency can have an impact on almost every organ system in the body
Dr. Sidney Baker’s recent article beautifully presented a comprehensive overview of magnesium deficiency. “Magnesium deficiency can have an impact on almost every organ system in the body. Twitches, cramps, muscle tension, muscle soreness, back aches, neck pain, tension headaches, and jaw joint (or TMJ) dysfunction can all occur in skeletal muscle. In addition, one may experience chest tightness or the strange sensation of being unable to take a deep breath. A person may sigh a lot at times.”
Symptoms involving impaired smooth muscle contraction include
- constipation,
- urinary spasms,
- menstrual cramps,
- difficulty swallowing or a lump in the throat—especially when eating sugar;
- photophobia,
particularly difficulty adjusting to oncoming bright headlights in the absence of eye disease; and loud noise sensitivity from stapedius muscle tension in the ear.” Following the symptoms of magnesium deficiency, the central nervous system is severely impacted.
Insomnia, anxiety, hyperactivity and restlessness
with constant movement, panic attacks, agoraphobia, and premenstrual irritability are all symptoms. Numbness, tingling, and other abnormal sensations, such as zips, zaps, and vibratory sensations, are symptoms of magnesium deficiency in the peripheral nervous system.”
Palpitations, heart arrhythmias, and angina due to coronary artery spasms, high blood pressure, and mitral valve prolapse are all symptoms or signs of the cardiovascular system. Be aware that not all of the symptoms must be present to suspect magnesium deficiency; however, many of them frequently occur together.
Palpitations, anxiety, panic attacks
and premenstrual symptoms are common in people with mitral valve prolapse, for example. People who are magnesium deficient frequently appear “uptight.” Other common symptoms include a salt craving, carbohydrate craving and intolerance, particularly of chocolate, and breast tenderness.”
Every cell in the body, including those in the brain, requires magnesium. It is one of the most important minerals to consider when supplementing because it is essential for the synthesis of proteins, the utilization of fats and carbohydrates, and hundreds of enzyme systems and functions related to reactions in cell metabolism.
Magnesium is required not only for the production of specific detoxification enzymes, but also for the production of energy related to cell detoxification. A magnesium deficiency can have an impact on almost every system in the body.
The brain suffers the most
One of the primary reasons doctors write millions of prescriptions for tranquilizers each year is nervousness, irritability, and jitters caused by inadequate magnesium-deficient diets.
People who are only slightly magnesium deficient become irritable, high-strung, and sensitive to noise, as well as hyper-excitable, apprehensive, and belligerent. Twitching, tremors, irregular pulse, insomnia, muscle weakness, jerkiness, and leg and foot cramps may occur if the deficiency is severe or prolonged.
When magnesium levels are low, the brain suffers the most.
A lack of magnesium causes clouded thinking, confusion, disorientation, severe depression, and even the terrifying hallucinations of delirium tremens, which can be alleviated by supplementation.
Because large amounts of calcium are lost in the urine when magnesium levels are low.
Magnesium deficiency is indirectly responsible for widespread tooth decay, poor bone development, osteoporosis, and slow healing of broken bones and fractures. Magnesium, in conjunction with vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), aids in the reduction and dissolution of calcium phosphate kidney stones.
May be a contributing factor to insulin resistance
Magnesium deficiency may be a contributing factor to insulin resistance. Muscle spasms, weakness, twitching, muscle atrophy, inability to control the bladder, nystagmus (rapid eye movements), hearing loss, and osteoporosis are all symptoms of magnesium deficiency. Epilepsy is more common in people with MS than in the general population.
Magnesium deficiency has also been linked to epilepsy.
Another useful list of early warning signs of magnesium deficiency:
Physical and mental exhaustion
Consistent under-eye twitch
Upper back, shoulder, and neck tension
Headaches
Pre-menstrual fluid retention and/or breast tenderness
Magnesium deficiency can manifest as the following symptoms:
Low energy
Fatigue
Weakness
Confusion
Nervousness
Anxiousness
Irritability
Seizures (and tantrums)
Poor digestion
PMS and hormonal imbalances
Inability to sleep
Organ calcification
Bone deterioration
Abnormal heart rhythm
Severe magnesium deficiency
can result in low calcium levels in the blood (hypocalcemia). Magnesium deficiency is also linked to low potassium levels. Magnesium levels fall at night, resulting in poor REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep cycles and sleep deprivation. Early signs of depletion include headaches, blurred vision, mouth ulcers, fatigue, and anxiety.
Magnesium deficiency is a risk factor for both diabetes and heart disease
We constantly hear about how heart disease is the country’s number one health crisis, how high blood pressure is the “silent killer,” and how diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, and a slew of other chronic diseases are destroying the lives of our citizens and their families.
Diabetics require more magnesium and lose more magnesium than the general population.
According to a report in the January 2006 issue of the journal Diabetes Care, men and women who consumed the most magnesium in their diet were the least likely to develop type 2 diabetes in two new studies. Until now, there have been very few large studies that have directly investigated the long-term effects of dietary magnesium on diabetes.
“Our studies provided some direct evidence that higher intake of dietary magnesium may have a long-term protective effect on lowering risk,” says Dr. Simin Liu of Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health in Boston.
magnesium deficiency
- Extreme thirst
- Extreme hunger
- Frequent urination
- Sores or bruises that heal slowly
- Dry, itchy skin
- Unexplained weight loss
- Blurry vision that changes from day to day
- Unusual tiredness or drowsiness
- Tingling or numbness in the hands or feet
- Frequent or recurring skin, gum, bladder, or vaginal yeast infections
But, wait a minute, aren’t those diabetes symptoms? Many people have diabetes for approximately 5 years before experiencing severe symptoms. Some people will already have eye, kidney, gum, or nerve damage as a result of their cells deteriorating due to insulin resistance and magnesium deficiency.
Dump some mercury and arsenic into the mix of etiologies, and we’ve got the disease condition known as diabetes.
Autism and Magnesium Deficiency
When dealing with autism spectrum disorder and other neurological disorders in children, it is critical to understand the signs of low magnesium: restlessness, inability to sit still, body rocking, teeth grinding, hiccups, noise sensitivity, poor attention span, poor concentration, irritable, aggressive, ready to explode, easily stressed.
For several reasons, we must assume that children today have a significant magnesium deficiency.
- The foods they eat are depleted of magnesium because, food, in general, is losing mineral content at an alarming rate.
- Many children eat highly processed junk foods that provide no real nutrition to the body.
- Because most autistic children do not absorb minerals even when they are present in the gut. Magnesium absorption is completely dependent on intestinal health, which is completely compromised in leaky gut syndromes and other intestinal problems that are present in the majority of autism syndrome disorders.
- Because the oral supplements on which doctors rely are not easily absorbed, are not in the proper form, and magnesium, in general, is not easily administered orally.
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