How to Tell If You’re Magnesium Deficient

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For your mind and body to function at its optimum it’s important to make sure that you are eating sufficient vitamins and minerals in your diet otherwise this can lead to problems, which you may not even be aware of.

Magnesium is quite an important mineral, and if you are deficient in it. You may encounter a whole host of different symptoms, which you may not associate with having a mineral deficiency.

So here are the things that can happen, if you are deficient in magnesium.

• Do you feel anxious at all and or suffer from panic attacks? If so, then it could be the possibility that you have lower than normal levels.

• Respiratory problems, do you suffer from asthma at all? If you do, then you could have lower than normal levels.  It can cause bronchial spasms, and histamine production is higher.

• Keeping your blood thin, it will prevent blood clots from happening. So you won’t have to take aspirin as some people may have adverse reactions to it.

• Bowel problems, if you have low levels, it can slow your bowel function down, and you may get constipation. So if you’re constipated this may be something worth looking into.

• Do suffer from depression? If you are, then you could have lower than normal, serotonin levels, which is a symptom of depression.

• Body detox, magnesium, is good at removing harmful minerals, which your body doesn’t need e.g. aluminium, lead.

• Do you suffer from diabetes?, if so, then you may need this mineral. The reason being is it helps to increase insulin secretion and moves the sugar from your body into your muscles, where it is used for energy. If your levels are low, then you will have higher levels of insulin in your blood as well as too much excess glucose.

• Feeling tired a lot, if this is the case then, certain enzymes within your body aren’t being processed properly, if you’re feeling constantly fatigued. And this can be a symptom of lower levels of Mg.

• Cardiovascular disease, when people have lower levels of magnesium. The two tend to go hand in hand. So this is something very important to note.

• Low blood sugar, it helps to keep insulin levels, more stable otherwise you’re liable to go hypoglycemic.

• Disturbed sleep, if you haven’t been sleeping very well, this can be a sign that your deficient.

• Migraines, if you’re serotonin levels are low. This can cause you to have headaches, which is one of the symptoms of migraines.

There are one or two more. However, these are the ones that people will probably recognise more than the other’s You wouldn’t think something so simple would cause so many problems. However, we can see that is not the case, this is why it pays to eat the right foods, because if you eat junk, then you will feel like junk hence the term junk food.

Have you noticed any of these symptoms yourself? It would be nice to get some feedback, please leave your thoughts and opinions in the relevant section below. Sources and references: http://drcarolyndean.com

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