The Miracle Mineral for Women

Video Transcript:

Today, I want to talk to you about one of the most absolutely important minerals for ladies to take. If you are a mom or you might be dealing with hormonal imbalances or you’re just seeking to improve your overall health and wellness, these reasons are going to be highly impactful for you deciding to add our Magnesium 7 to your daily regimen.

Magnesium Can Help Balance Hormones

So, magnesium deficiency is so prevalent, it’s overwhelming our population. And magnesium deficiencies can lead to a whole cascade of health challenges. When you add magnesium to your daily diet, it has one really powerful effect here and it helps to balance your hormones.

So, especially for us women who are perimenopausal or going through menopause or are postmenopausal, when our estrogen starts decreasing and our progesterone also decreases, magnesium deficiency comes in to help save the day. It helps to balance and regulate not just our estrogen and progesterone, but it also helps to keep cortisol production at bay, which helps to enhance our capacity to make as much of the hormones as we can possibly make so that you see less of that major gap between estrogen and progesterone as it’s decreasing.

Magnesium Helps Promote Bone Health

And magnesium also plays a huge role in supporting our bone health. And, honestly, in my book as a naturopathic physician, I feel like our bone density assessments should be beginning in our mid-thirties to our early forties to get baselines on our bone density. And we can do scans to assess, are we dealing with an early onset of bone loss, called osteopenia? Or are we dealing with more pronounced osteoporosis?

But magnesium is a critical player in keeping your bones dense and optimized and supple, and helps to also articulate calcium into your bones and even your teeth. So, if you’ve had any dental cavities or bone loss around the gumline or have had more recent broken bones, your bone health can be supported by magnesium.

Magnesium Can Help Ease Menstrual Cramping

Now, for women who are menstruating, magnesium can also help lower menstrual discomfort. This can be during your ovulation. A lot of times you’ll have something called Mittelschmerzing [1], our ovaries cramp a little bit as they’re releasing a follicle. And it also supports the actual cramping, the endometrial lining shed, so the actual cycle that happens and we’re cramping.

Magnesium, in a deficient state, leads to increases in cramps. And for women who have endometriosis or any type of thickening of their endometrial lining, magnesium can help balance that out as well. Huge, huge, huge benefits to your uterus and the lining of the uterus, the uterine lining.

Magnesium Can Improve Mood Regulation and Balance Neurotransmitters

The other benefit here, which I think is honestly probably the most understated benefit, is that magnesium, when we’re in a deficient state, it actually affects our mood and the regulation of our neurotransmitters.

And this is really complex. There’s a whole bunch of neurobiology. And I’ve talked about that here in our blog and communicated with a lot of our Organixx community. But we see mood disorders affect women in their mid-to-late thirties all the way up into their seventies.

And it’s a really serious problem. We’re seeing more cases of women who are suicidal or having really debilitating anxiety and depression, sometimes after postpartum. And the mood regulation of magnesium is a huge player here.

Magnesium helps to balance our neurotransmitter communication and also helps to reduce inflammation in our brain that can lower cytokine production of the brain. And we’re seeing this effect with long COVID, we’re seeing this effect after certain viruses, and just overall aging. Our mood and the regulation of our neurotransmitters can be greatly improved when we level up and balance and optimize our magnesium.

Magnesium to Support Cardiovascular Health

And then this is honestly a huge, huge factor for women. We are prone, because of many reasons, and I talk a lot about that here.

I covered in our heart health awareness a lot of the factors behind heart disease for men and women, particularly women, the role of estrogen reduction. So, we are seeing a lowered estrogen and lower progesterone. We see instances of increasing cardiovascular health impairment.

So, we will see often a change in lipid metabolism, meaning you might have perfect cholesterol and then all of a sudden you’re going through perimenopause or you’re in your fifties and you’re like, “Wait a second. My triglycerides are increasing and my LDL is increasing. I’m doing nothing, no changes.” Nothing that’s pronounced where you say, “Okay, this is what’s happening.” The magnesium levels are a factor here, as are the decreasing of estrogen and progesterone.

Magnesium is a Key Mineral Women Need for Heart Health

So, when we look at what is one of the best supplements for women to take and one of the key minerals that women need every day to support cardiovascular health and be preventative for heart disease, it’s actually the role of magnesium to help balance lipid metabolism. This has massive impacts for reducing your metabolic syndrome, which is really common, from blood clotting to stroke risk to heart attack risk.

We also see regulation of our blood pressure. So, one of the things that’s really wild and we’re seeing more communication about this as women, but when we start to see lowered estrogen, and this can be applicable for my women in their twenties and thirties that might be medically-induced reduction of estrogen, we will see an increase in blood pressure imbalances.

And we’ll also see increases in their inflammatory cells and also a decrease in the endothelial cell function. Endothelial lining, it’s a single-cell lining, kind of like the gut lining, but in our vascular and arterial system, so in the mechanism of our veins and arteries. The endothelial function is what’s key for keeping things moving and the dilation and expansion and the increase and decrease of our veins. When we have endothelial dysfunction, we will see greater instances of cardiovascular episodes, heart attacks, stroke. We’ll even see increasing dysfunction of the accumulation of blood clots and even bone matter, so we’ll see atherosclerosis.

Magnesium is the Hormone-Cardiovascular Balancer

But when it comes to hormones playing a role in our heart health and our cardiovascular health, magnesium is the balancer. So, if you have a family history, like I have, magnesium is a must go-to because I’m trying to prevent two or three generations of heart disease and history with heart issues by, in my current state, I’m trying to minimize that as my own body is going through changes in estrogen and progesterone as I’m in my mid-forties.

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Get Magnesium Levels Tested

So, for women, it’s really critical we dial in and optimize our magnesium. So, I always recommend test, don’t guess. Really drill down and ask your provider when you’re getting a regular lab drawn, say, “I want to test my magnesium.” That’s not always done. We assume that certain values are being assessed, but don’t assume. Always ask for it. And then based on your magnesium level, don’t be surprised if you have high cholesterol, lower estrogen, have thyroid imbalances. Maybe you’ve gained weight recently and you’ve had really imbalanced cycles and crampy cycles in your history, don’t be surprised if magnesium deficiency is at the heart of that.

Magnesium is the “Miracle Mineral” for Women

So preventatively, you can use magnesium to help support your body. But for women, it really is a miracle worker. And I call it the miracle mineral because it’s just absolutely essential. And so many different functions and system interactions in our body that being deficient in magnesium is just so common.

And unfortunately, the symptoms are a part of the factor and the byproduct. And instead of addressing the symptoms, I, as a naturopath, like to recommend getting to the root cause. And magnesium deficiency is such a core root cause for women – hormonal imbalance and weight gain and stress management and bone density, all of the things that often start changing and sometimes being problematic as we age, we can drill down and dial in to supporting your magnesium levels.

And that’s why I recommend Magnesium 7. I take it. I recommend it to all my friends, family, and my patients, and my social community, and everybody here at Organixx because it’s so critical. And if there’s one nutrient or one supplement that you should never not take, it is a Magnesium 7.

So, we have the whole cascade of assorted versions and forms of magnesium to address all of the different body functions that we have that require optimal magnesium. And so you’re overall supporting your health and your wellness, but the longevity and your long-term care is benefited now in the current state by increasing your magnesium.

So, that’s my recommendation. Definitely test it. And you may end up fine. You might find that you need a thousand milligrams a day or even more than that. Just work with a professional and find where you’re at and start testing to make sure you’re getting to the optimal level.

So, those are my tips today for helping support women in optimizing their magnesium. And there’s just so many benefits that you cannot go wrong with increasing your magnesium.

Medications Can Decrease Magnesium Levels

And don’t be surprised, too, if you are on any medication. It’s very common that over-the-counter and even pharmaceutical medications can decrease your magnesium levels. So, be aware of that. Ask your pharmacist. If you have three or four pharmaceuticals, ask, “Does this decrease my magnesium?” That’s your tell you actually need probably more than what our normal recommendation, which is a daily recommendation of 375 milligrams. So, just be aware, ask questions, and definitely take Magnesium 7.

Magnesium deficiency is linked to stress, diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, anxiety, trouble sleeping, sore muscles, migraines, and many more debilitating health conditions.

If your body needs magnesium, you want the most beneficial kind your body can actually absorb. Organixx Magnesium 7 gives you seven (7) of the very best, most bioavailable types of elemental magnesium available.