In Episode 602 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore,” I’m pleased to bring you wellness coach, certified nutrition educator and bona fide magnesium expert Morley Robbins. We all know there are benefits to getting adequate amount of vitamins and minerals into our diets through both the foods we eat as well as added supplementation. However, many people neglect the importance of certain critical micronutrients that they need in their bodies to function as optimally healthy as possible.
That’s a message that Morley “Magnesium Man” Robbins is seeking to convey to the public regarding the subject of magnesium through things like the Magnesium Advocacy Group. While Vitamin D and Vitamin C get most of the headlines these days when it comes to their importance on human health, Morley makes the argument that magnesium deserves a place at the table of discussion within the context of gaining health. Listen in as Morley and I talk about this lesser-known but incredibly important nutrient that everyone needs to be more aware of getting adequate amounts of in their diet. ENJOY!
Listen to Morley “Magnesium Man” Robbins educate on magnesium:
- He needs a cape and a suit for the work he’s doing
- He was a “pre-med reject” and chose hospital work
- Hospital management and consulting were his expertise
- He had a “locked shoulder” that got him into wellness
- His views on chiropractors: “I don’t do witchcraft.”
- But he was able to get healed with chiropractic
- It made him think about what else he didn’t know
- He’s a “geek” looking into the research on health
- His eye-opening book How To Get Sick
- In 2011, he read Carolyn Dean’s book on magnesium
- Since then he’s become an expert on magnesium
- DNA synthesis is needed for protein synthesis
- These processes are dependent on magnesium to function
- What magnesium does in the body for your health
- 80% of our metabolism is dependent on magnesium
- There’s a “reverence” for magnesium amongst researchers
- Most people are looking at the downstream effects
- The brain is not much without magnesium
- 225 years ago, Americans averaged 3 pounds of sugar
- Now sugar consumption is 220-260 pounds annually
- When people are stressed, magnesium drains from body
- This ushers in calcium, mitochondria overwhelmed
- Insulin resistance is caused by magnesium deficiency
- Whether different levels of magnesium needed for food
- People just don’t know what magnesium really does
- Get a magnesium red blood cell test
- Your magnesium results should be 6.0 or higher
- Regardless of diet, you need to know magnesium levels
- Stress, coffee, toxins, sleeplessness remove magnesium
- The role magnesium plays in cardiovascular disease
- Magnesium is the “Rodney Dangerfield of nutrition”
- It’s “breathtaking” how magnesium impacts heart health
- Basis of congestive heart failure is magnesium deficiency
- The vital role magnesium plays in cellular energy
- It’s impossible for 15-year old to have coronary plaque
- What about a runner who dies at the end of a race?
- They have depleted their bodies of potassium/magnesium
- Why Vitamin D, calcium, Vitamin C get more attention
- When you examine magnesium, it eviscerates medicine
- Calcium, sodium and potassium regulated by magnesium
- It brings balanced, harmony and regulation to the body
- Follow the money–prescription drugs vs. magnesium
- Statins is directly causing magnesium deficiency
- The side effects of statins are magnesium deficiency
- Why magnesium can help you sleep better
- Magnesium has a great calming effect on the body
- Magnesium shuts down the sympathetic system naturally
- There’s a re-balance of the calcium in the brain
- Sea water has 3 parts magnesium to 1 part calcium
- Humans have 5 parts calcium to 1 part magnesium
- Magnesium encourages the production of melatonin
- Some people have “the opposite effect” with magnesium
- If you become too deficient, you become resistant
- Magnesium malate and magnesium glycinate are best
- If there’s any such thing as magnesium overload
- Charles Poliquin won’t work with low magnesium clients
- You’ll get diarrhea if you take too much magnesium
- Do two times the RDA for magnesium for optimal levels
- Chronic kidney disease is sensitive to magnesium
- Have lowest ionic magnesium despite high magnesium levels
- Treating kidney disease with magnesium is cutting edge
- The adrenal glands run on sodium and magnesium
- Work with a metabolic expert to find right levels
- He invites questions from people about magnesium
