Episode Highlights with Carolyn
- Some of the many reasons why magnesium is so important
- The reasons why magnesium deficiency is so common in the modern world
- Magnesium is necessary for fertility and healthy pregnancy
- How it comes into play with detox and sleep
- Stress depletes magnesium and why it's impossible to get enough from diet anymore
- How fluoride and related drugs deplete magnesium
- Calcium and mineral channels and how these can interplay
- 100 years ago we were getting 500mg a day of magnesium from diet and now we barely get 200mg
- 800 enzyme processes in the body need magnesium to function properly
- Why women are especially prone to magnesium deficiency
- 9 minerals are needed to make thyroid hormones
- Mitchondria need magnesium to make energy and when we don’t have enough we have lower energy and brain fog
- How to know if you're low on magnesium and why testing isn’t needed or accurate
- Magnesium is the most important mineral and only 1% is in the blood so blood testing isn’t accurate
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