Speaker 1: (00:00)
Hey everybody. Doctor Chad Woolner here. Dr Buddy Alan. And this is episode three of the Heath fundamentals podcast. On today's episode, we're going to be sharing with you the miracle mineral that could save your life. So let's get started.

Speaker 2: (00:14)
You're listening to the health fundamentals podcast. I'm Dr Chad Woolner and I'm Dr Buddy Alan. And this show is about giving you the simple but powerful cutting edge tools you need to change your health and your life. So sit back and enjoy the show as we show you the path to your best life down to a science.

Speaker 1: (00:34)
So, hey everybody, hope you guys are having an awesome day. What we want to share with you guys is something pretty powerful that is like staring us in the face. Uh, we call it our miracle mineral. So this, uh, this quote unquote miracle is so far reaching, um, just share with them kind of some of the laundry list of, of things people maybe be experiencing and how this miracle mineral is, is related to those things. Well, just think about your, your life and also just even culturally around us. People that are deficient in this mineral will frequently have heart disease, diabetes. Um, they will be stressed out of their mind. They will get frequent cramping, they'll get headaches, migraines, spasms, constipation, constipation. There are loads of other, um, problems. Issues. Yeah, that is actually, yeah, absolutely. In fact, this was kind of brought to our attention recently, you know, as docs, we get frequently do a continuing education and we were at a continuing education course that we're taking and it was like we're doing, yeah, we're doing a clinical nutrition, uh, continuing education training and it's been really good.

Speaker 1: (01:47)
Awesome. Because speaking of the fundamentals, we've been focusing on the fundamentals, I mean, nothing we're, we're, we're learning about is really anything exciting in, in, in terms of, it's not like some new cutting edge thing, which those things are always cool. Don't get me wrong, but we're going back to the basics here. In terms of nutrition, we're talking about vitamin therapies and mineral therapies and, and those things. And so in that process, it's been pretty powerful to see just how many problems can be addressed and quite frankly, resolved with some of these most basic, uh, therapeutic interventions. The most fundamental, you knows, nutrition, right? Well, and one of the reasons I think nutrition gets neglected is because we've kind of been conditioned to want to see results right now or within, if I take a supplement or an Advil or let's say Advil for a headache, I want to know that within a half hour that I can feel a difference, right?

Speaker 1: (02:42)
And more often than not, when it comes to nutrition and, or vitamins and minerals, it takes a little bit of time for your body to get, you know, build them up to distribute them to the right places and for your bodies, chemical systems to normalize, right? But generally speaking, you all, when you look at the research, it's, it's more than evident that vitamins and minerals are incredibly beneficial and completely necessary for us to function correctly. The problem is, is we don't just see the results within minutes, right? So that's probably why we have a tendency to, well, and again, it's just, we've been, we've been kind of, we created this monster for ourselves. We want, we want results yesterday. Absolutely. Now. No, totally. Um, so what is it? What is the miracle? What is, what is the miracle mineral? All right, here comes the drum roll.

Speaker 1: (03:32)
All right. So, and it's not like some mysterious mineral, you not at all. Magnesium. Magnesium is huge. So here's some thoughts or some kind of bullet points for you guys to consider in terms of magnesium. Okay. Uh, it's involved in well over 600 different enzyme. In fact, it was around seven to 800 different enzymatic processes in our body. So very intimately involved in, in the chemistry of life, right? Day In and day out, right? Uh, it's great for muscle pain, cramps and spasms from head to toe, literally, uh, great for chest pain, right? Um, great for your heart muscle, right? You're, you're the highest concentration of magnesium in your body is found where in the heart, in the heart, right? Your heart requires that to function properly. Uh, it's a great remedy for headaches and Migraines. It's great for people who are constantly fatigued or week.

Speaker 1: (04:27)
It's, it's actually extremely effective, uh, as a therapeutic option for people struggling with mood disorders, depression, anxiety and edginess. Um, you know, people who constantly crave chocolate, chocolate is high. The real chocolate is high in magnesium, right? So that should tell you something, right? Um, it's great for insomnia. It's great to calm the body in general. The way that I describe it to patients in terms of just a quick snapshot and this is far underselling it, but, uh, it's great for helping, uh, act as a natural muscle relaxer. And it's also great for acting as a very mild natural sedative on the nervous system. So if things need to calm down a little bit, a magnesium is a great way to go without feeling drugged, without feeling like you're a, you know, loopy or anything like that. You can totally take magnesium in the day and still be able to function and perform normally.

Speaker 1: (05:19)
Um, but very, very effective for a variety of those things. Uh, and in terms of this whole idea of, of nerve function, nerve health and or muscle health, uh, I think far too often we think of muscles as being just here, right? Our, our skeletal muscles. When in reality, uh, we don't just have skeletal muscle, we also have smooth muscle, right? So what are some examples of smooth muscle in our body? Move Muscles is going to be your guts, the moguls that line your guts and kind of move the food through your system. Right? And so what's one of the natural consequences or side effects of high doses of magnesium? It has a laxative effect. Helps move things through your, your mouth. Yeah. Yeah. And so one of the mechanisms of action behind that is your gut is going to act just like any other muscle.

Speaker 1: (06:06)
It's going to relax. When it relaxes. It allows things to move far more freely. And so if somebody has ever had really, really high doses of magnesium, you've probably experienced that effect of magnesium, which to be honest, is probably a good thing for a lot of people. You know, you look at the statistics a, we just looked them up before the show, roughly 16% of the population is struggles with constipation. And then when you get older at age 60 and above, they say roughly one third of that population struggles with constipation. So it's a huge, huge issue. And I always remember back to Dr Hoyer, big shout out to Dr Hoyer back from a break from school. Remember what he said? He said death starts in the colon. That was his like big thing. Uh, his big thing was if you eat everyday, you poop everyday.

Speaker 1: (06:51)
That's like the, the most fundamental uh, aspect of health. Right? So, uh, so, but, but I mean obviously we talked about the heart, but think about this to your blood vessels. Also our smooth muscle, right? So how dilated your, your blood vessels are or how constricted your blood vessels are? Will, will to some extent. I would see very largely a be influenced by magnesium. If you, if you're deficient in magnesium, uh, that's gonna have a negative impact on not just your skeletal muscle, but smooth muscle digestive system as well as blood vessels as well. Right. Um, and so really, really important mineral that has a lot of very important, uh, implications. Therefore us. Um, so in, in terms of magnesium, uh, you know, uh, we, we kind of talked about deficiency of magnesium. How do we determine a deficiency with magnesium? You know, is there a, is there a test?

Speaker 1: (07:45)
There are blood tests, um, the only downfall, and so you can kind of get a general idea if you have it in your system. The problem is, is magnesium is stored in the cells, right? So if it, it's like it needs to be in the muscles that needs to be in the correct organs to be able to do it. So you don't necessarily get a completely accurate year or accurate result from just looking at what's in the blood. You do very much have to look at the symptomatology of what, what happens when you, um, when you're deficient. In fact. Yeah, I would say when I've, uh, the first big eyeopener for me with magnesium for myself was having patient, you know, we frequently have patients that get crazy spasms when they tweak their back. Right? Yeah, absolutely. And um, I had a gentleman that was from the gym I work out at and he, his back would shift and he would come in, walk in next to himself, he'd be so crooked and spasms and F and I treated him for a long time without magnesium.

Speaker 1: (08:39)
And he would, he'd get better and then he'd be back. You know, it was just a cyclical thing. And from the day that I started him on magnesium, he has never come in again with a major spasm in his back. He comes in and it'll be a little sore, but there's not the spasm, which totally shuts him down wood prior to shut him down. And since him, I've had anyone that comes in with that massive spasm, I get 'em on magnesium and without fail, they stop having the massive spasms that are associated with that. Those back issues. Yeah. So let's talk about different forms of magnesium because not all magnesium is a, is equal, right? Not all forms of magnesium or equal, uh, magnesium typically is bound to something, um, in terms of, in terms of a form, right? So there's a lot of different forms, but let's just talk about some of the most common or popular ones.

Speaker 1: (09:29)
Um, magnesium glycinate, right? A magnesium glycinate, uh, it has a fairly high absorption rate to it. It has a calming effect to it, which is good. Um, magnesium citrate is a really common one as well. A fairly good absorption there. Um, does have a little bit of a laxative effect to it. So, but again, that may be not necessarily a bad thing. Um, magnesium threonate is a really cool, wonderful form of magnesium. We, uh, we utilize this at our clinic. Uh, we prescribed this for patients all the time. Uh, three and eight, uh, actually has been shown clinically to pass the blood brain barrier. And so this is something that you bet helping with headaches, migraines. This is our go to for migraines. It'll, it'll knock migraines out really, really quick. Um, and it's also great for a sleep. People just kind of calming people down right before bed.

Speaker 1: (10:19)
It's a powdered a supplement, put it in a glass of water, eight ounces of water, drink it down. Uh, it's fantastic. Uh, magnesium malate uh, can sometimes have a little bit of an energizing effect to it is what they say. Um, it might be too stimulating for some people, but that's one. Um, I would say about the only form of magnesium that you probably don't really want cause it's just not terribly bioavailable and it's just not terribly effective in terms of its absorption and, and, or just what it does is magnesium oxide. That's about the one that probably we, we, that would be the one that would absolutely caused you to have a laxative effect that because it wouldn't absorb well, so it would just blow right through you. Um, and, and obviously even Epson Salts, essentially our magnesium, that's why they're so effective when you have achy muscles and a sore body, you know, like that magnesium helps those muscles relax here.

Speaker 1: (11:11)
Here's something interesting too. And other form of magnesium, magnesium Toray. There was a report published, uh, back in 96 that indicated a administering patients with magnesium Toray made them more responsive to insulin. And I think you'd find that, uh, with, with not just that form of magnesium, but again, uh, using magnesium is a therapeutic, a tool to help with managing diabetes would be a really, really effective and very smart thing to do to begin that process of, of improving overall a sensitivity to insulin. Um, some hormonal benefits of magnesium and improves thyroid function. It supports estrogen detoxification of and detoxification of harmful metabolites, lowers blood sugar levels, uh, helps with adrenal function and, and cortisol production, uh, supports testosterone production, increases Serotonin, uh, improves or increases DHE. So these are a lot of different important hormones that again, in and of themselves have very far reaching effects on our, on our body and on our health.

Speaker 1: (12:12)
So, um, in, in terms of different ways to administer magnesium, most people I think, think of pills, powders, right? But what are some other things that we use, cause you talked about magnesium, but I don't think you went into specifics with these patients in terms of what former, what administration method you utilize with these guys. So, um, as far as with patients, we have sub again, we have powder supplements that you can mix as a, like a drink that they can take. Um, which I think are wonderful. Obviously it's going to break down more quickly and more easily absorbed. Again. There's tablet forms. There are again, even, um, even just taking the soak in the bath, you know, you will absorb the ball baths. Great way to go. We'll absorb that into your system. There are the, yeah, those are probably the most common magnesium lotion is going to be a big one though.

Speaker 1: (13:00)
Yet the tribe as well. Magnesium Lotion, a you could do a intramuscular injection can, you can do intravenous. Uh, that's a really popular therapy now. It's gaining a lot more popularity is doing kind of as a therapeutic approach. Uh, regular, uh, uh, intravenous injection. That's actually what they do for women who go into premature labor. That's right. I try to stop the contractions, they will do magnesium. So, so, um, so in terms of magnesium, where do you get it in terms of just diet? Well, the number one, uh, there's kind of 10 magnesium rich foods. You can look at a pumpkin seats full of magnesium, cashews. In fact, I just found a cashew that I love. Uh, I just found out it's probably not the most healthy necessarily cause it's probably got some sugar in it, but uh, it's uh, it's magnetic or not magnetic. It's going to say there are these cashews I got at Fred Meyer, uh, citrus chipolte lay.

Speaker 1: (13:57)
Oh, interesting. Mazing so good. Uh, so cashews, a salmon is high in magnesium. Right. And that, that would make sense just from a logical standpoint. You think about how muscular these fish are swimming upstream, you know, so their bodies probably required tremendous amount of magnesium. Absolutely. Um, so, uh, this is something that we're kind of Dr. Allen and myself, we're kind of spoiled with, cause we do salmon fishing every year. We typically come home with a cooler full of salmon. So we never, we never buy the store bought stuff. Oh, we're kind of spoiled that way. So magnesium, a dark chocolate, like we said, a spinach, a dried figs, peanut butter, almonds, bananas and Avocados. Um, so if you're, if you're ever in doubt in terms of food, what contains the most of this, that or the other? Avocados are always on the list just about the number one for just the number one super food full of everything.

Speaker 1: (14:49)
Right. So, um, anything else you want to add into this in terms of the miracle mineral, the miracle mineral? The one thing that I would like to make sure I don't forget to say is oftentimes what we do when we think, when we hear about something as, as benign and amazing as, as magnesium or other vitamins are, we think, well, if a little magnesium's good, a ton has got to be better, right? And so just be smart. Okay, go get help if you don't, if you don't understand vitamins and minerals and how they work in your body, find someone who does, find somebody who has training on clinical nutrition. Exactly. That can guide you through this process. If you're eating, if you just go through and be like, hmm, I want to naturally bump my magnesium up, look at this food list. You know, do like a doctor Walner just went over and just start eating more of those foods and you will naturally do that.

Speaker 1: (15:38)
But if you feel like if you have a bunch of these symptoms and you're like, I need a little bit of help, go find some that'll help you. Don't try to do the proverbial like if a little is good, a lot must be better. Absolutely. That's great. Great insight there. So hopefully this has been a valuable for you guys. Maybe, uh, open your mind and open your eyes to just how powerful magnesium is in terms of helping with a wide range of health conditions and uh, hope you start utilizing this and seeing really amazing results. If you do a and you start, start seeing how it helps with headaches and muscle spasms and cramps and things like that, shoot us an email. We love to see those. We will read those emails. Uh, let us know your experiences utilizing magnesium and a, and if you have questions about it, uh, that you would like us to talk about on a upcoming podcast episodes, uh, let us know. Uh, you can shoot us an email and I know we covered this in the end of the episode, but it's info@thehealthfundamentals.com and we'll answer those questions. So thanks for watching guys and have an awesome day.

Speaker 2: (16:41)
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