Boosting Magnesium

will make you feel better

Happy Hoildays Everyone! I hope this post finds you snug and well. Here is a present for you. It will have a positive long term impact on you health is you can use it well. From wikipedia ”Magnesia or Magnesia on the Maeander was an ancient Greek city in Ionia, considerable in size, at an important location commercially and strategically in the triangle of Priene, Ephesus and Tralles. The city was named Magnesia, after the Magnetes from Thessaly who settled the area along with some Cretans. It was later called “on the Meander” to distinguish it from the nearby Lydian city Magnesia ad Sipylum. “

Milk of magnesia primarily contains magnesium hydroxide, which is the active ingredient that helps relieve constipation and indigestion. It was in this area (Magnesia)we first see documented used of the mineral to help such things. Hence the name Milk of “magnesia” “.

Magnesium is one of those thing we cannot do without. And i do not believe you can easily get it from your diet, because stress alone depletes it to an alarming degree. Nor are we designed to absorb in in a big chunk like a supplement, BUT, you can take it with certain foods that will help if this is how you want to do it. Our limited understanding admits to over 500 different process in our bodies that us it. Magnesium also has a clear impact on social behaviors, especially in young children who may be stressed and Need more of it at that time. It helps the old and crotchety as well. No magnesium = no energy. No copper also = no energy. No zinc… No selenium.. you get where i am going. On this list magnesium is not a trace mineral, you need it in large amounts. Here are some recommendations to support this.

• Avocado - 58 mg. per avocado.

• Buckwheat groats has 270mg. per 520gram serving.

• Pumpkin seeds (raw)80 mg. per 14 gram serving.

• Carefully sourced cacao, raw35mg. per tablespoon- see my article on this for further explanation.

• Cooked spinach 100mg. per one cup serving.

• (If you can tolerate it) black beans, again depending on serving size.

• steel cut oats- 105 mg. per 73 gram serving.

• cashews 80 mg. per 20 gram serving.

• Turkey breast 80mg. per 206 gram serving

• banana 60mg per one fruit. (it used to be a lot more)

• Ribeye filet 65mg per 220 gram serving.

OR, you can drink it. By soaking a banana peel in distilled water in the refrigerator over night. the water becomes infused with potassium and magnesium. Very bitter. keep cold and use right away.

Or a bit of apple cider vinegar in juice and or distilled water to taste, like an old tyme switchel. Also called “haymakers Punch” by people are pretentious or who want to use more syllables that is needed to describe it. For the young people out there, This is what people drank before “soft drinks and other thing you are sold at the grocery store. There were no grocery stores, so you made your own. If you sweeten in with blackstrap molasses, this has 100 mg. of magnesium per tablespoon. A lot of people did not add juice, they added this. But remember to brush your teeth after, because that acetic acid will strip your tooth enamel, and we do Not want that.

Or, some peppermint tea, which you can grow yourself. many herbal teas contain magnesium, and in this form are easily taken in by the body. I am sure you could find a flavor you like.

I am not at all against supplementation either. It works for many people. Not everyone tho.

Do you like fresh oregano? pretty high in magnesium. A fine pesto sauce may be in your future. Other spices are rich in Magnesium, like Coriander, It has 12.9 mg. ( it was not called the spice of happiness for nothing) - per table spoon! This is super easy for your body to absorb because it has many things needed to so so. Other herbs with magnesium are Chives, dill, spearmint and sage.

There are magnesium oil sprays that are trans dermal, and those are great for some people. Epsom salt baths are also a transdermal (through the skin) way to get you magnesium. So you do, have options. let me know if you have questions and again Happy Holidays!