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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning everyone. Once again, welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a great start to your day. Okay, today guys, we're going to do a little teaching on magnesium. Now, do you guys see this? Do you see my chart here? Okay, and then we'll go up. What are we talking about Today? We're going to talk about magnesium. Okay? We're going to talk about magnesium. Now, what is the little saying that I have about magnesium? The word relax. Okay? Whenever you hear magnesium, in my mind, I hear the word relax because magnesium is really important for you to relax. Okay? So we're going to really get into this today. Magnesium is a real natural calcium blocker. Okay? You're going to see why this is important when we get to how low levels of magnesium really affect you. Okay? Got it. Okay, so let's do this.
First of all, why are we low in magnesium? Why is 60, 70% of the population they have low levels of magnesium? Okay, now, when you get your blood tested, there's very little magnesium in the blood. See, magnesium belongs in your tissue more than your blood. Not that there's not any, so you can measure magnesium in the blood, but that's not a good indicator because the vast majority of your magnesium is found in your tissue and not in the blood. Okay? So if you get a blood test, oh, my magnesium is normal. Nah, no. Okay, it's not a good indicator. Now, okay, let's look at some of these things here this morning. So why are we low in magnesium? Okay, here's three reasons you could be low in magnesium. Number one, food. The soil. There's very little magnesium left in the soil. So when you go to the grocery store and you buy fruits and vegetables, you have some magnesium in the eggs, meat and cheese too has magnesium, fruits and vegetables has some magnesium, but it doesn't have what it used to have, and that's because of the erosion in the soil.
Therefore, you're just not going to get enough magnesium because of what's left in the soil. If it's not in the soil, it ain't in the plants and even what the animals eat, they're not eating as much magnesium as they once did. Okay? Now, the second reason you could be low is drugs. Medications. A lot of medications deplete your magnesium, okay? A lot of medication deplete your magnesium. So here's two big ones. PPIs, proton pump inhibitors, acid reducers. Man, millions and millions of people are taking these acid reducers because of acid reflux, and they got a bad diet. They eat too much sugar. They have way too many carbohydrates and your body, and we really went into detail yesterday again on the importance of your stomach acidity, okay? Your stomach acidity, and when you're on medications to reduce acidity, guess what? You're not absorbing magnesium. Okay? PPIs and diuretics, high blood pressure, medication strips, magnesium out of your body, okay? Strips, magnesium out of your body. Stress.
We're so stressed today, and what is the stress? Mineral? Magnesium. Okay, magnesium. So you got it. Okay. Those are the reasons. The soil, our food doesn't have the magnesium that it used to. Okay? Medications, especially PPIs, Zantec, Tums rolls the purple pill over the counter, it don't matter. It decreases your magnesium and stress. We live in a world of stress and it starts at a very young age. Okay, so let's see what is affected by a lack of magnesium. Let's look at all of the areas of the body that are deeply affected by magnesium. So the first one and the effects anxiety, but magnesium guys, so the first one, we're going to start right at the adrenals. Cortisol, magnesium supports serotonin stress, and when you get really exhausted and stress, look, stress can come from different things. Stress can come from bad relationships, finances, family dynamics.
That's a way of being stressed. But stress can come from the outside too, in a sense that the environment, plastics, chemicals, your body sees those as stress, okay? And that what is affected the most. The adrenals add adrenals on top of kidneys. Those things get affected the most, and we see today more than ever before, I mean stress was always around. God gave you adrenals to respond to stress. You got two glands on top of your kidneys that respond to stress, but it's meant to be temporary. It's not meant to go on for a long period of time. So when you get the effects of low magnesium, you can develop anxiety and fatigue, exhaustion. I wrote about this years ago, 30 years ago I wrote a book on chronic fatigue syndrome, and I think I was the first guy ever to talk about that being an adrenal gland exhaustion. And it was why it was happening to women more than men, much more common in women. Chronic fatigue syndrome, and I talked about hormones, but one of the hormones I talked about the most was cortisol and cortisol being secreted over a long period of time. What it does is it literally drains the adrenal glands, and these people had a chronic fatigue.
They had anxiety coming out the wazoo, and that was the main characteristic of that fatigue. And of course they had sleep. So magnesium supports the adrenals. Okay? You see that? Okay, magnesium supports the adrenals. Okay, you got that. Number two, okay, one, sleep. Of course, you go back to the adrenals again, that's a big factor. Cortisol is meant to work on a circadian rhythm. What do I mean by that? It means that your cortisol should go up in the morning. It's going to wake you up. One of the things that cortisol does is it elevates your blood sugar normal. Your blood sugar is going to go up in the morning because you're waking up.
So cortisol has a big effect on that. And then as the day moves on, your cortisol goes down to when you get into the evening, your cortisol is down to almost nothing, or at least it should be, so that you get a proper sleep. And cortisol is really important in that. And when you don't have enough magnesium, you get a decrease in gaba. Okay? You get a decrease in that with low magnesium, and of course use the word relax. See, I put relax there again. You see that? Yeah. Well, you're not relaxing when you have low magnesium. You don't relax, you don't calm down.
Somebody was mentioning the other day, restless legs. Well, I found natal to be very good, but magnesium is good too. When you got the eeb gbs, you want to go to sleep, but your legs don't relax. Okay, relax. Now heart. Let's talk about the heart and magnesium. You see that heart? What do you see there? Okay. You see, when you have low magnesium, you have low nitric oxide. What's nitric oxide? Nitric oxide is nitroglycerin an explosion. Magnesium helps open up your blood vessels, relax the blood vessels, more blood supply. You think that's important for your heart? You bet your boots, it is. Now, let me talk. Here's where I'm going to get into calcium.
You need calcium, right? Yeah. In your bones, you need calcium in your bones, not in your blood. You need calcium in your teeth, not in your blood. You don't want calcium in your bloodstream. Magnesium is the antidote to that. Magnesium is the one that keeps your calcium down along with vitamin K two. We'll talk about that, but magnesium's important because it's a natural, okay? Look up here. Natural calcium blocker. Magnesium is a natural calcium blocker. Why is that important? Because calcium, think of it hardens. That's good in your bones, that's good in your teeth, but that's not good guys in your blood vessels. You don't want calcium hardening your arteries, okay? And so in the heart, not only nitric oxide goes down if you're low in magnesium, but your calcium goes up and calcium in the bloodstream leads to narrowing of your blood vessels. Whenever you get too much calcium in your blood and not enough magnesium, calcium is up.
Inflammation is up because calcium doesn't belong there. Magnesium belongs there, but not calcium. And if you don't have that natural calcium blocker, you get hardening of the arteries. It's one of the ways you get hardening of the arteries. Calcium comes in because your magnesium is low, and it's interesting that in your heart, you know where you have the most magnesium in your left ventricle and that magnesium is there to keep the calcium out of your heart like you calcium, Hey, get out of here. You don't belong here. Calcium is going to block your arteries. It's going to damage your heart.
That's why you want to eat cheese and butter. Why do you want to eat cheese and butter? Vitamin K two. Anybody that tells you not to eat from the animal kingdom, they don't know what they are talking about. Run forest run. When you hear that that animal foods are no good for you, minimize them. How can that be when they got vitamin K two and K two is not found in the plant kingdom? How could that be? Think about it. Magnesium is important too because of in the left ventricle, it decreases inflammation. It prevents narrowing of your arteries, your carotid, okay? That's important here. Okay? Carotid arteries. You want magnesium. It'll keep them from calcifying. Again, I always use vitamin K two, the Rodney Dangerfield of vitamins because people don't give it respect because again, it's only found in the animal kingdom. They don't know what to say about that.
All the gurus, they don't know what to say about that because they're always talking. What we've discussed in the last several sessions, your pH, they live by pH. It's acid. You got acid foods, animal proteins, it's acid, and it drives them mental, but they don't understand or they don't want to understand. Your body has a buffering system. You have sodium bicarbonate, baking soda, it's in your blood, it will neutralize. It will make things more base instead of acidic, base alkaline. It drives me crazy when I hear that stuff all the time, doc, I hear that cancer can't grow in an alkaline environment. Well, you heard wrong in a way because your blood's always going to be alkaline.
Your body is unreal. It will keep you alkaline. It has speaking soda like it's unreal to keep you alkaline. You're not going to be acidic. Now, you can be acidic in your urine. That's a different puppy altogether. That's a different puppy altogether. And even it's misinterpreted. Your blood is your life, and that will always be alkaline because your body knows how to regulate it with sodium bicarbonate, speaking soda. Why am I talking about that? I don't know. It just came up. Okay, so heart, okay, inflammation. Calcium. Calcium is the key, and magnesium is the antidote. Okay? And smooth muscle, okay? One of the biggest factors in heart disease and stroke is what? High blood pressure, what relaxes your blood vessels? Magnesium. Okay, smooth muscle, relax, magnesium.
Okay? That's why I talk about it so much. Okay? Brain calcium, hardening of the arteries up in here. Now, we know insulin has a big effect on that, and we'll talk about that in a minute, but magnesium, magnesium is very important for the brain, okay? It blocks that calcium up there, and even though we know it's not the cause of Alzheimer's amyloid plaque, it's a factor, but it's not the cause. We know that. But magnesium helps with amyloid plaque in your brain. You want magnesium, kidneys, okay? What does calcium do in the kidneys? Whenever there's too much calcium, you are going to have an inflammatory response. Okay? So kidneys increase calcium because of low magnesium, increase in inflammation, increase in stones. Now oxalates, okay? Calcium oxalates is a factor there, but you see, magnesium helps your kidneys. You need water, avoid sugar, okay? But magnesium's important for kidney function, so you need magnesium to block the calcium.
You don't want calcium in your kidneys. You don't want calcium stain in your kidneys. Magnesium is a big factor there. Again, look at everything that magnesium affects. Okay? Let's get to this. Diabetes, low magnesium. You know what happens when you have low magnesium? You've got in your pancreas. Your pancreas has what they call beta cells. And beta cells rely on magnesium. So when you're low in magnesium, you know what happens? You secrete more insulin. You don't want that. That's a big problem in our society today. High circulating insulin. So in diabetes, beta cells increase the secretion of insulin. We already got a problem with insulin. Metabolic syndrome is high circulating insulin because my name is Tony and I'm a carbo holic, and so is the 93% of the population. They're carbo holics because they're ignorant. They've been taught you need carbs, can't live without them.
That's not true. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't have any carbs. I'm just telling you that if you never had another carb in your life, you could live very well. It's a macro, but you don't need that macro to survive. Again, am I telling you, you can never have another carb? Don't go around saying, Dr. Martin heats carbohydrates. No. You know what the problem is? I love them too much. Okay? And so do most people, 93% of the population have trouble with this. They don't even know they're on the Titanic and they're already effectively a diabetic. Remember what we say at the Martin Clinic all the time? Diabetes is the last thing to happen. Not the first thing. It's the last thing. Your body will do everything it can to keep you away from diabetes because your body is so intelligent. It knows sugar is so toxic. It knows more than doctors do because doctors say, well, moderation. Live by moderation. Have a, you can have the, you know what, if you're on the Titanic and you're not jumping into the lifeboat, you're not that smart, but you see the world waits till you get sick. Medicine is all about, let's wait till you get sick and then we'll give you something. Okay? You got high blood pressure. Let's give you a pill. You got diabetes. Let's give you a pill. Metformin, right? How about the root cause? It's carbs, it's sugar.
That's the root cause. Why don't we get at it? Why don't we talk about it? But when you're low in magnesium, you're going to be in trouble even with your pancreas. Remember insulin, it's your friend until it's not. It's your friend until it becomes your enemy. It's a neighbor living next door to you and oh, they're really helpful until they come every day knocking at the door at your house and they start to drive you crazy. That's insulin. Insulin is a fat enhancer. Insulin just loves storing sugar as fat and metabolically. This is the number one problem in the world, and magnesium has an effect on that. Okay? Magnesium has an effect on that, so you and I want to know that.
So diabetes, which can affect almost everything else here. I got written right here. Bowel. So bowel. What does magnesium help with? Help peristalsis. That's the movement of your feces, getting rid of garash, getting it out of your body. You want magnesium for that. Magnesium is, it's again, working on smooth muscle, relaxing, making things open up so that your stool moves properly. One of the big problems in our society today is constipation in spite of the amount of fiber that people eat. Oh, Dr. Martin, fiber, I can't live without it. That's why I need, you know how many times I heard this in my office over the years?
If I don't have my all brand or oatmeal, ooh, I ain't going to go to the toilet. Yeah, maybe you're low in magnesium you never thought of. It increases peristalsis muscles, obviously. Okay, let's just talk about this stiffness, and one of the things here, I got sort of got my fingers here. Calcium deposits. One of the things that we see a lot of in our society are calcium deposits in soft tissue where you get spurs on your foot. Now, a lot of that is injury. Shoulder calcium, deposits in the supra spinatus muscle. I used to see it all the time. Calcium deposits in the knees, in the joints, in the muscles in soft tissue. Magnesium is very helpful for that. Guys, remember, it's a calcium blocker, natural calcium blocker. Okay, so on magnesium, what do you do? Two magnesiums I like. And whenever you see the word eight like citrate.
Citrate are byg glycinate. Whenever you see that, what does that mean? It means it's been chelated. What does that mean? It's been pre absorbed. It's sort of more bioavailable when it's in the form of a citrate or glycinate. Those are the two magnesiums I like. I love citrate. It's probably the most bioavailable of all of them, and because it relaxes the bowel. Some people have trouble with citrate because it makes them have a loose stool. Most people tolerate it very, very well. And if you got any problem with constipation, I think you should take the citrate. I like bg glycinate. It's very, very bioavailable. Your body loves it. How much? Look, I like somewhere between 500 milligrams to a thousand milligrams a day of magnesium in that area. There again, you can go. We talked about all these things. Magnesium is good for sleep. Now you can use a magnesium in a rub.
It's magnesium oxide. Don't take oxide as a supplement. You can use it though as a cream to rub magnesium on your legs or whatever, but again, internally you want citrate or bg, and those are the two most bioavailable of all the magnesium. Around 500. You can go up to a thousand milligrams of magnesium a day. Some people take magnesium before they go to bed at night, helps them to sleep. We love our cortisol formula for that because of what it does to balance out cortisol, but for muscle spasm, magnesium, bowel, heart, brain, sleep, anxiety, insulin, your body needs, magnesium, guys, it's a essential mineral. Now, if you have any questions about it, okay? If you have any questions about it, send in your questions about magnesium. Okay? I'll try and see if you have any questions for me. Their rain cloud is saying, how about tor rate for my heart? Yeah, I like tor rate too. I like citrate better and I like BG glycinate better. It is better absorbed. Okay, but yeah, TOR rate's. All right. Okay. Do you take magnesium every day? Yep, I do. I take it every day. Okay. I should have someone, I think what I'm going to do one of these days, will magnesium help osteoporosis? Yes, because it helps to put calcium in its place. Should I take them both? You could. I do. I take both. I take citrate and BG glycinate.
Some of you're saying 500 milligrams. Yeah, that's all right. 500 to a thousand. What about magnesium malate, right Heather? Yeah. It's an eight. That means it's bioavailable. Yeah, I like it. And many of you're saying, thanks, Dr. Martin. Okay. It's the first time I've really gone to questions on the screen. Okay. I've never really done that, but like I said, I think some days I'm going to get, we're going to do this. Thanks, Rita. She said we needed this class. Tina says, I like it. Is it okay to take one citrate in the morning and one BG glycinate? Yep. You can do that. Can you take too much? The only side effect of too much magnesium is if you get diarrhea. I love magnesium. Barbara. Carol, great information. We'll listen again and take notes. I like that. Okay, so people enjoyed that. Okay, that's good. That's what we want guys, and we appreciate you guys more than you know. Okay? Okay. Let me know. Give me some feedback a little bit more if you can. Just on whether you like the board. I know that I am, I like writing just the way I learn stuff. Okay. Is I write things out. I'm an old fashioned, write it out. I was the only guy that could read my writing, but I could read it. Okay guys, we love you and we'll talk to you soon.
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