James discusses his most recent research on magnesium deficiency, why he thinks so many people are deficient in this mineral, and how to best test your own magnesium levels and supplement if necessary.
Have had deficiencies in magnesium, iron and vitamin B's picked up on blood tests recently...also a diagnosis for hypothyroidism. Oh fun! So after 18 months on keto...and after sticking to a carnivore diet as well, I've had to rethink..am greatful for Paul's insight into adding fruit to a meat based diet...and am happier and enjoying food now. Am delighted to discover from Pauls information that zucchini and pumpkin are fruits too! Just wanted to say...thanks Paul...am enjoying the higher energy levels...and fresh flavours of fruits. Will be checking bloodwork for improvements...but things are looking up.🌞
Magnesium is my favorite suppliment hands down. I take at least 800 mgs of bis glycinate daily. I no longer have migraines, sore muscles after workouts, sleep issues, and so many other problems. When I brought magnesium to my best friend, ALL her problems went away. I love it love lit love it!!!!
Paul, so glad you are geeking out again over oxalates. Like your guest, I have joint issues with them (probably arthritis). Now that I haven’t been having them in my diet, if I eat say strawberries, my mouth and throat sting a bit. As a 61 yr old woman I want to continue to heal my gut and joints, especially my back, hip and legs…oh, and knees, too. My feet were like Sally’s. I couldn’t even go barefoot. Now I can even wear heels if I want to. 😊
Looking forward to Sally's interview. I have her book already and she has probably saved my life! I went vegetarian in my 50's, drinking a huge green smoothie daily as my breakfast and lunch, basically. Talk about aches and pains....plantar fasciitis, and a huge kidney stone in my right kidney that I am still carrying around 10 years later. I am hopefully dissolving it with lemon water as my main liquid source now. I started getting migraines as menopause took place and still suffer with them, although I take copious amounts of magnesium. 800-1200mg daily. I try to stick to magnesium citrate per Sally's instructions for anti oxalate purposes. I also recently had to have a parathyroid gland removed, very much to my dismay. I sat on my slightly high blood calcium for three years , hoping my new diet correction would correct it. But alas, it did not, and the endocrinologist assured me the only solution was surgical removal of the bad actor, which was causing osteopenia. I had been keto, and I still cycle a bit, but mostly just low carb, eliminating grains and seed oils, or any fake processed foods. I now only eat meat, dairy (raw when possible) and low oxalate veg and fruits.
I'm 32 years old and pretty fit and I've struggled with heart palpitations for nearly 3 years. As soon as I took magnesium supplements they completely vanished.
You can't actually tell if you are having magnesium or not from food, the plants and/or animals you eat might be deficient as well and you have no way to know!! So if you are eating something and USDA says it has certain amount, don't trust.... Specially here is Costa Rica, farmers cut corners everywhere, as long as they can get a "sellable" product they don't care about nutrition quality.
Using chronometer this is the one thing I am short of consistently hitting about 60-80%. Though a second big cup of milk seems to solve it without supplementation.
@kristofer I agree...are there any carnivore "influencers" that are NOT trying to sell some form of electrolyte magic powders.Reminds me of the movie "Idiocracy "
@@fannyissac7398 Analytical Research Labs. Their are a lot to choose from but I haven’t seen anything about it being banned anywhere. I have a friend who has a lab and they have contracts with a prison, police department and morgues they say it’s the most accurate way to test.
Giving up cacao is pretty hard but giving up sugar is harder. Managed to replace it with powdered hojicha lattes. I eat like 50mg oxalates max a day now and feel better for it. Sally Nortons stuff is extremely interesting look forward to that podcast.
we were taught to take at night, starting at 100 mg, increasing by 100 mg each night thereafter until one morning your stool is loose, then that means that your optimal saturation dose is the mg count from the day before that that did not cause the loose stool. easy to figure out an accurate dose as magnesium level in blood needs to be serum mg, not rbc. some need a lot in the beginning. thanks for the show and the dry looking skin. ha ha...super good looking!
@@ShoeBoyReview noo, digestion is not elimination. this is simply a test to see your own body need. not to be used as a laxative....hope you read it again.
Im confused what the proper supplement dose should be in the context of my meat, fat, organs and eggs based diet ( some fruit and some Keifer) .Ive just started taking 500mg daily.
Magnesium L-Threonate is a/the only Magnesium supplement which crosses the blood-brain barrier to reside in the cerebrospinal fluid? So do also take some of it daily. Melville from Malaysia
Aquatru (with glass carafe) but just fyi, since it’s plugged into the wall so there are EMFs in the water. And make sure to add trace minerals back in. I’d opt for under the counter/sink and then get a copper sink (expensive I know) and then add the trace minerals from that
That's exactly what I've been doing lately. Mostly beef, bananas, milk, eggs, coconut water, some orange juice, some mangoes. Honey periodically. I feel amazing! I can eat like 3500 calories and not workout and I just stay lean and muscular
You know a speaker knows what they are talking about when there is no definitive answer--that's true knowledge. Many ifs, ands, and buts. However we love the warm fuzzy feeling we get when someone is foolish enough to speak in concrete terms.
I take 500mg a day, the RDI is set too low for magnesium. The version I take is the well absorbed Bisglycinate Magnesium - Glycine has been shown to help with sleep, so this is a good option for evening, the one I take also comes with bioperine (black pepper extract) for extra absorption.
Hello. I am 36 and have OP. I've been taking Mg or years. Is it STILL possible that I am deficient? I take 200-400 mg daily of glycinate. For many years I was taking more than that dose. My diet is keto-carnivore...
The next best magnesium I have used is Mag BHB. Magnesium Hydroxybutyrate. You get both magnesium and butyric acid then and great with hemp and chia seed which are also high in mag.
If all your basic labs and vital signs are good and you have no complaints then the doctor does not check magnesium, vitamin D or B12 levels and insurance won't pay. Only if something is wrong with the basic labs during a routine physical then they will do other testing if needed.
What types of magnesium is recommended for supplementation?? I'm currently using magnesium glycinate 300mg before bed. Also, there is an ongoing debate on if you take magnesium on an empty stomach or with food.
According to dr. Natasha Cambell McBride each gram of sugar is required 67 grams of magnesium to be metabolize by the body, that's why lots of people are magnesium deficient.
@@katashley1031 I put msg on everything I eat, never noticed any I'll effects...guess I'll try skipping all of it and see how I do. Was just wondering about the thiamine and where else to get decent amount. Thanks for ur response.
Magnesium citrate is the least expensive form of magnesium and is used in a lot of low quality supplements. I worked as a nurse for 25 years. We used mag citrate as a laxative to prepare patients for surgical procedures. Not a good choice.
I've been seeing a lot about magnesium recently in the videos of the RU-vid experts that I watch.. when I started taking it about a year-and-a-half ago, after a few weeks of taking it my joint started to hurt tremendously. This has a lot to do with my second round of COVID-19, I started getting joint pain after that. But like I said, a few weeks after I started taking magnesium, my joint pain was significantly worse, I could barely bend my elbows. Then, when I did research on magnesium in the body I saw that joint pain was one of the side effects of taking magnesium when you don't need it. So I stopped, and it got better, but only to a certain point. I still struggle with said joint pain and I try and take collagen and broth and glucosamine chondroitin to help, but nothing makes it go away.
Do you consume sugar and refined carbohydrates? If so, stop. Have you tried coconut oil, turmeric, ginger and black pepper together?, both to eat (tablespoon a day) and also apply topically to affected areas? Also a Boswellia supplement could be useful.
@@HeartFeltGesture Boswellia is a great suggestion. Did the magnesium supplement contain the typical fillers? Those are usually more problematic than magnesium would be.
@@HeartFeltGesture my question on that was for the original post, I should have posted that separately.. But mag stearate is very poorly absorbed. We likely didn't retain much, it's water loving and most of it flushes out. As for silica and cellulose fillers, that's usually the dregs and cheapest stuff they can't or won't sell in other supps. Fillers are a problem. But it's doubtful anyone had negative effects from the form of mag that mostly moves through you. If it was the mag, then all high mag foods would have the same effect. I wonder whether they have noticed that at all? Just curious, not being argumentative.
@@HeartFeltGesture @kat ashley Thank you both for your feedback. I probably had a low quality supplement with fillers like you said. As far as sugar and refined carbs goes, not usually because I have candida also, so i try to limit that, but I think around that time when it was the worst I was having a lot of both of those things... I will definitely take your advice on coconut oil turmeric ginger and black pepper together, inside and outside . As well as boswellia. Thanks again to you both.
The RDA for magnesium is funny because it is really hard to get that much from food unless you are eating pounds of dark chocolate or pumpkin seeds. Add in exercise and poor diet, you are looking at a magnesium deficiency
Lol i get 220% from food, it's actually very easy, 1 whole butternut squash has almost 100% rda and don't even get me started about buckwheat (sprouted), if you eat 2 portions a day of buckwheat you maby will get to much magnesium
@@helloman5576 So you're thinking that the magnesium in these sources are actually bioavailabile, and that you're getting the dose you require? Have you considered the fact that the phytates in your chosen food may also inhibit your absorption and utilisation of this nutrient? Without being too personal; are you a healthy body weight so that your body isnt wasting any of your intake?
I eat like 5-6oz of raw salmon basically every day. Also at least 1.5lb ground beef (around half of it is raw). Pretty sure that’s getting me plenty in my food.
@@UberHummus 1 ounce, beef has 5.4mg of magnesium, or about 2% of daily . 3-ounce serving of Atlantic salmon has 26 milligrams of magnesium. Are you really getting enough ?
How about this? We are told that there are 7 different forms of magnesium. If I eat a plate of rice, potatoes or 1.5 lbs of fruit, my wife and I super cramps in the legs when we swim. At night, if we eat the same sugar foods I just mentioned, I get shakey leg syndrome. We take a 400mg tablet of magnesium oxide and the cramps stop in 30 minutes. I believe fruit and starches suck up the magnesium and leave us in a mess.
By all means, you @kamuialmighty and @heartfeltgesture are obligated to support your comments with some kind knowledge. I gave my experience that I have proven over and over. Thanks for your feedback.
GUYS PLEASE SHARE AN HIGH QUALITY BRAND OF MAGNESIUM GLYCINATE…🙏 I’m not finding any trustworthy supplements that is transparent of what’s inside the powder, if you have a good one please share
@@katashley1031 I eat 3 bananas a day and a pound of meat, it isn’t enough the food is magnesium depleted nowadays and even if you eat the most bioavailable nutrients rich food could be not enough
@@LorenzoPerobelliYT or you have an absorption issue because not everyone has that same outcome from eating the same foods. I don't mean that as an insult, I mean that as a possible thing to consider because if there is an absorption issue and you root out the cause of that, it could change everything. There must be a reason some folks are deficient in mag and some aren't when we're all eating the same foods, basically.
@@katashley1031 I don’t think I’m deficient, I just received a trustworthy advice to supplement Mag 500mg a day, will not do it until I found the best and most transparent brand
@@LorenzoPerobelliYT honestly, aside from food your best bet for magnesium is transdermal absorption via mag oil. That being said, I've found Metagenics to be incredible in terms of quality. Not cheap and not as easy to source but worth it.
Unless you are drinking creek water or animals that are foraging in a forest where minerals are still in the soil, you probably need to take a mineral supplement. Keto Chow etc.
We're all pretty low in basic minerals. One inexpensive supp a few times per week helps. Most of us are eating food grown in crap soil. But this is also why I find an omnivore approach to eating advantageous. You get a wide array of foods and nutrients that way.
I can't see the harm in trying to supplement with Mg for a while to see how you feel. Carnivore has helped my health immensely but I would supplement on occasionally as a tester to see if I get improvements on any area of health.
@@katashley1031 no other questions. But it was two questions in one reply. I think your answered the vegetarian/vegan question just not the carnivore one as in why you think carnivore is absurd.
