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Do I get enough Magnesium?
Excerpt from www.ancient-minerals.com
One method of assessing your magnesium status is to simply contact your health care provider and request detailed magnesium testing. Yet magnesium assessment is typically done using blood serum testing, and these tests can be misleading. Only 1% of magnesium in the body is actually found in blood, and only .3% is found in blood serum, so clinical blood serum testing may not successfully identify magnesium deficiency.
What to do?
Fortunately, it’s possible to get a sense of where your intake may lie simply by asking yourself a few questions about your lifestyle, and watching for certain signs and signals of low magnesium levels.
Learn how to read your signs below, and find out what you can do to ensure magnesium balance and good health. If you answer yes to any of the following questions, you may be at risk for low magnesium intake.
#1Do you drink carbonated beverages on a regular basis?
#2 Do you regularly eat pastries, cakes, desserts, candies or other
sweet foods?
#3 Do you experience a lot of stress in your life, or have you recently
had a major medical procedure such as surgery?
#4 Do you drink coffee, tea or other caeinated drinks daily?
#5 Do you take a diuretic, heart meidcation, asthma medication,
birth control pills or estrogen replacement therapy?
#6 Do you drink more than 7 alcoholic beverages per week?
#7 Do you take calcium supplements without magnesium or
calcium supplements with magnesium in less than a 1:1 ratio?
#8 Do you experience any of the following:
-Anxiety?
-Times of hyperactivity?
-Difficulty getting to sleep?
-Difficulty staying asleep?
#9 Do you experience any of the following:
-Painful muscle spasms?
- Muscle cramping?
-Fibromyalgia?
-Facial Tics?
-Eye twitches or involuntary eye movements?
#10 Did you answer yes to any of the above questions and are
also age 55 or older?