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If you are deficient in this critical nutrient you are twice as likely to die. This is reported from a study of hospitalized patients in the
Journal of Intensive Care Medicine
.
⁵⁴

Up to half of Americans are deficient in this nutrient and don’t know it. And normal blood tests may miss it.

It accounts for a long list of symptoms and diseases, which are easily helped and often cured by adding this nutrient.

In fact, in my practice, this nutrient is one of my secret weapons against illness, particularly anxiety, insomnia, ADHD, and autism.

What is it?

It is magnesium. It is the stress antidote and the most powerful
relaxation mineral
that exists.

Now I find it very funny that more doctors aren’t clued into this nutrient because we
use
it all the time in conventional medicine but
never
stop to
think about why or how important it is to our general health or why it helps our body function better.

I remember using it when I worked in the emergency room. It was a critical “medication” on the crash cart. If someone was dying of a life-threatening arrhythmia (an irregular heartbeat), we used intravenous magnesium.

If someone was constipated or needed to prepare for a colonoscopy, we gave them milk of magnesia or a green bottle of liquid magnesium citrate, which emptied their bowels.

But you don’t have to be in the hospital to benefit from treating magnesium deficiency. You can treat yourself now, and chances are you
are
deficient, because as I said above, up to half of all Americans don’t get enough magnesium.

Think of magnesium as the
relaxation
mineral. Anything that is tight, irritable, crampy, stiff—whether it is a body part or even a
mood
—is a sign of magnesium deficiency. If you suffer these kinds of symptoms it’s likely you don’t get enough magnesium.

This critical mineral is responsible for more than three hundred enzyme reactions in the body and is found in all your tissues, but mainly in your brain, bones, and muscles. It is necessary for your cells to make energy, for many different chemical pumps to work, to stabilize membranes, and to help muscles relax.

The list of conditions that are related to magnesium deficiency is very long. There are more than 3,500 medical references on magnesium deficiency.

But it is mostly ignored because it is not a drug, even though it is
more
powerful in many cases than drugs, which is why we use it in life-threatening and emergency situations like seizures and heart failure in the hospital.

You might be suffering from magnesium deficiency if you experience any of the following things:

Anxiety, autism, ADHD, headaches, migraines, chronic fatigue, irritability, muscle cramps or twitches, insomnia, sensitivity to loud noises, palpitations, angina, constipation, anal spasms, fibromyalgia, asthma, kidney stones, diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, high blood pressure, PMS, menstrual cramps, irritable bladder, irritable bowel syndrome, reflux, trouble swallowing, and more.