How Magnesium Deficiency Impacts Your Health | Know Your Numbers

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Ad-free Episodes & Dr. Hyman+ Audio Exclusives Magnesium is a
critical mineral that is responsible for more than 600 enzyme
reactions in the body, yet most people are not getting enough of
it. Magnesium is critical for your cells to make energy, for many
different chemical pumps to work, to stabilize membranes, and to
help muscles relax. Essentially, anything that is tight, irritable,
crampy, or stiff—whether it is a body part or even a mood—can be a
sign of low levels of magnesium, and magnesium deficiency has even
been linked to inflammation in the body and higher CRP
levels.  In today’s episode of a new series I’m calling Know
Your Numbers, I dive deep into magnesium. I discuss why millions of
people suffer with undetected magnesium deficiency, how
conventional medicine misses the mark in measuring magnesium
levels, how Functional Medicine treats magnesium deficiency, and
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details from the episode (audio version / Apple Subscriber
version): Symptoms of magnesium deficiency (5:23 / 3:25) Why is
magnesium deficiency a problem? (6:19 / 4:21) Testing magnesium
levels (7:27 / 5:29) How magnesium works in the body (8:45 / 6:47)
Why magnesium deficiency is so prevalent (11:46 / 9:48) The
Functional Medicine approach to measuring magnesium levels (16:14 /
14:16) Root causes of and conditions related to magnesium
deficiency (17:48 / 15:50) Addressing magnesium deficiency (23:27 /
21:29)