Attention all runners!
Happy New Year, the days are getting longer now and spring is just around the corner...
Will be here in fact, in eight weeks.
Today's topic is MAGNESIUM.
(No, not super-light forged wheels, heheh.)
Years ago, I would hear advice from older people, my family etc.
Someone would sprain their ankle or twist their knee or something, or would be stiff & sore, bad back, whatever.
The advice would be: take a hot bath with Epsom Salts.
I thought, man is that stupid. Soaking in the hot water is going to do 99% of that, LoL.
I mean, how is that bath powder going to miraculously heal your knee?
Turns out that our skin is the body's largest 'organ' and it readily absorbs things from the environment!
And Epsom Salts are mostly Magnesium.
Here's the thing: if you go to the doctor and ask about Magnesium, the doctor doesn't like explaining all about health and fitness etc, which takes time.
The doctor's time is always in heavy demand.
So he'll order blood tests, and report that your Magnesium is "fine".
But Magnesium needs to be very precisely concentrated in your blood, not too high or too low, and if you have walked into the doctor's under your own power, of course your blood Magnesium is "fine".
Therefore blood tests will never, ever identify a Magnesium deficiency! Which 90% of people have.
Your body will exhaust every trace of it, from every tissue in your body, to maintain the exact level in your blood required to keep your heart beating.
But Magnesium-deficient tissues and cells are suffering, hurting, and not functioning in good health!
All your muscles require Magnesium, and also your nervous system (which controls the muscles), your brain, and your autonomic nervous system which controls involuntary muscles like your intestines and bowels...
Since I became aware of all this - and I wish I had known years ago - I began to supplement my diet with Magnesium
Bisglycinate (in which the amino acid Glycine is used to enhance the absorption of the Magnesium by your body).
Dramatic! would be an understatement, heheh...
Right away I noticed I was dropping the deuce, instead of once in the morning, like three or four times per day! Yikes.
My whole system is revived! No more 'slow' stomach, heartburn, acid reflux, belly-ache, swollen gut, constipation etc. etc.
I lost one pant-size right there, just emptying out my Magnesium-starved guts deficient in involuntary muscular contractions.
My whole nervous system is awake again, and I can think far more clearly, 'foggy-headedness' being banished.
(I used to sometimes feel hung-over like I'd been drinking the night before - only I had not been, heheh...)
Anyway: just a heads-up! Try it yourself. Especially if attempting running or physical fitness etc.
MAGNESIUM. Seems there's some truth to those old wives tales and Epsom Salts baths after all...
Here's something I stumbled upon just now, which prompted (reminded?) me to write about Magnesium:
http://www.naturalnews.com/045224_magnesium_nutrient_deficiency_heart_disease.html
L8R guys
