Are you Magnesium Deficient?

The short answer is yes, you are, unless you’ve been conscientiously fortifying your life with picometer, stabilized magnesium ions. If you’re still on the fence about magnesium supplementation, or you’ve googled magnesium deficiency and decided that the internet knows best, please keep reading for important information about the impact of magnesium on your health.

What Dr. Google or an MD might say about magnesium deficiency:

Dr. Google cites the warning signs of magnesium deficiency as follows:

• Fatigue
• Nausea and vomiting
• Muscle cramps, weakness and spasms
• Numbness, tremors and tingling in extremities
• Abnormal hearth rhythm
• Heart palpitations
• Headaches

And yes, these are some of the 68+ symptoms and conditions associated with magnesium deficiency, according to my extensive research. Unfortunately, what Dr. Google and your medical doctor suggest is to rule out any serious illnesses and conditions BEFORE fortifying yourself with an appropriate type of magnesium. Spoiler alert: they don’t know anything about the appropriate type of magnesium.

Medical tests

In my experience working with patients who suspect they have a magnesium deficiency, very few of them have had their medical doctor order a blood test to measure magnesium. It’s just as well, because there isn’t a valid magnesium blood test. Only 1 percent of the magnesium in the body is found in the blood. The doctors sending you for these tests do not have this information because they didn’t learn it in medical school and they don’t have any understanding of the roles of minerals in the human body.

When seeing their doctor for suspected magnesium deficiency, many patients report undergoing endless tests for the symptoms they’re presenting. For example, if they’re experiencing heart palpitations and irregular heartbeats, they are sent for extensive, invasive and expensive cardiac testing. Virtually no patient has ever told me that their doctor told them to take picometer, stabilized magnesium ions before undergoing any medical testing.

Now Dr. Google suggests that it’s essential to rule out any serious illnesses, conditions, or diseases BEFORE considering the possibility that you have a simple magnesium deficiency. This is where the mainstream medical community operates in a manner to protect themselves. They come from the perspective of “what if they have a heart condition, neurological disorder, or worse, and if I don’t send them for all the tests possible, I could get sued”.

A simple solution would be to consider “what if they are living with a magnesium deficiency and helping them correct that with picometer, stabilized magnesium ions will allow them to avoid all of these expensive medical tests”.

Dr. Google might … I mean, Will, suggest drugs

If your doctor has considered the possibility of magnesium deficiency, instead of directing patients to supplement with picometer, stabilized magnesium ions (because they have no idea what that means), doctors typically suggest the forms of magnesium that causes diarrhea. Magnesium oxide is often prescribed, but doctors don’t know that the body only absorbs 4 (yes four) percent of the compound leaving 96 percent to be literally flushed out of your system. After a couple of days spent close to the bathroom, many people abandon the prescribed magnesium oxide, and typical doctors don’t know enough about magnesium deficiency to provide alternative supplements. They allow their patients to abandon appropriate supplementation of magnesium in favor of drugging their symptoms.

What I say about magnesium deficiency

As mentioned earlier, in my research I’ve found that there are more than 68 symptoms and conditions that can be explained and treated by resolving magnesium deficiency. For extensive details please enjoy my book, Magnesium: The Missing Link to Total Health. The top ten most common complaints are:

• Muscle cramps
• Heart palpitations,
• Fatigue
• Headaches and migraines,
• Insomnia
• High blood pressure
• Constipation
• Anxiety
• Low blood sugar

Many people living with magnesium deficiency experience several of these symptoms at the same time. When a patient presents with such a series of symptoms, typical medical doctors tend to focus on the worst of them and launch a series of tests and medications without ever considering a simple magnesium deficiency.

For example, Rachel presented to her doctor complaints of headaches and heart palpitations and was booked for a series of invasive cardiac tests to rule out heart problems. In the meantime, she was prescribed anti-anxiety medication, supposedly for the palpitations, which her doctor thought might be caused by stress and anxiety.

Fortunately, her friend was familiar with my work and suggested Rachel begin fortifying with picometer, stabilized magnesium ions. Her headache resolved quickly, and the palpitations calmed before the appointment for the cardiac tests, so she decided to cancel. In addition, her night-time charley-horse cramps disappeared, and she could finally sleep through the night.

What I’m illustrating here is most people are deficient in magnesium and therefore, most people are walking around with different levels of severity of these ten (and more than fifty other) symptoms and conditions. Those symptoms and conditions are virtually never dealt with by mainstream medicine as a magnesium deficiency, but instead the individual symptoms are treated with medications that strip your body of any magnesium that it has stored, thus worsening the original symptoms.

What you can do

For these top ten common symptoms of magnesium deficiency, here are some simple solutions:

• Muscle cramps – The most common muscle cramp is often called a charley-horse, and it occurs at night when you stretch. It’s a tough way to wake up! In my clinical experience, it’s possible to have a positive response to well-absorbed magnesium quite quickly.
• Heart palpitations – First quit drinking coffee and then supplement with magnesium to help eliminate heart spasms by relaxing the heart muscles. I know this sounds “too” simple, but what if magnesium deficiency is at the root of your palpitations?
• Fatigue – Many people complain of a listless, dragging apathetic fatigue and lack of energy. This is due to hundreds of under-functioning enzyme systems in people who are deficient in magnesium. Restoring appropriate levels of magnesium can resolve this unrelenting fatigue that doctors typically don’t know how to treat.
• Headaches and migraines – Muscle tension and spasms in the head and neck muscles can be alleviated when magnesium is applied to the affected area and / or taken orally. Research on magnesium for people with migraines showed complete alleviation of symptoms when given intravenous magnesium. Relief can also be achieved with daily picometer, stabilized magnesium ions in your drinking water.
• Insomnia – This is one the first improvements that gets excitedly reported when people begin their magnesium protocol. It relieves twitchy, tight, restless muscles that keep you awake and irritable, soothes the heartrate and supports sleep-regulating melatonin production.
• High blood pressure – Magnesium controls the calcium channels that allow only a certain amount of calcium to enter cells. If you’re magnesium deficient, calcium floods into the smooth muscle cells of blood vessels and causes spasms, leading to constricted blood vessels causing high blood pressure. Magnesium supplementation is the only solution for magnesium deficiency. You will not get enough magnesium deficiency in “magnesium rich foods” to resolve the deficiency. And neither will you get enough from OTC laxative magnesium compounds. It’s stabilized magnesium ions that are required.
• Constipation – Magnesium is the ultimate muscle relaxant, and it encourages the normal peristaltic movement of debris through the intestines, promoting normal bowel movements. Magnesium deficiency slows the body’s ability to push food through the bowels.
• Anxiety – Magnesium supports the adrenal glands, which are overworked by stress leading to anxiety symptoms which are associated with magnesium deficiency. Magnesium also supports serotonin (the “feel-good” brain chemical) production. Proper magnesium supplementation has been shown to alleviate anxiety symptoms.
• Low blood sugar – When blood sugar drops below a certain level, mechanisms come into play that trigger the adrenal glands to release adrenaline in order to activate and release glycogen (sugar stores) in the liver. Magnesium deficiency can interfere with proper adrenaline release. That same adrenaline surge can elevate the heart rate. Magnesium effectively orchestrates these processes.

My advice is to finish the magnesium you are currently taking and then reach for my picometer stabilized magnesium ion formula for full absorption and full benefits.

Carolyn Dean MD ND
The Doctor of the Future