Why Your Magnesium Isn't Working (3 Nighttime Mistakes).

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 milligrams of magnesium glycinate, you're only getting 120 to 140 milligrams 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 milligrams 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 milligrams. But those numbers, from my viewpoint, are a bit outdated.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 milligrams 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 it 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 milligrams of elemental magnesium and magnesium oxide, but you're only absorbing like three 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 400 to 500 milligrams 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 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 this 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, assimilating 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 the 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 two hours before that magnesium gets absorbed. You should not take the magnesium right before bed. You should take it 1.5 to two 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 in 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 a lot of magnesium because you don't recycle 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 gonna need. And the last mistake is a bonus. You just haven't given it enough time to work. This idea that it's gonna work in a few days or a few hours, and if it doesn't, you're gonna 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 gonna come back. You have to realize that even if you are 20% deficient in magnesium, you may have to take magnesium consistently for three months just to correct a 20% deficiency of magnesium. It just takes time. And you wanna 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 reserved. 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.