Today I had a conversation with my friend, and I brought up how when I sleep, its generally low quality. She then mentioned that she had a similar issue (insomnia), but after taking a magnesium supplement, her sleep improved. She then suggested that I try that.
Now, I don’t want to EVER take “supplements”. Its too fake and I don’t agree with the use of them. What foods can I eat that are a good source of magnesium? And I suppose as an even better question, DOES magnesium help with better sleep?
Now, I don’t want to EVER take “supplements”. Its too fake and I don’t agree with the use of them.
It’s interesting you picked the forum of a supplement company to have this philosophy…
We’re magnesium deficient as a species because we no longer drink from fresh streams and our agricultural practices have taken many of these nutrients out of our soil, which means the plants and animals we eat that eat these plants that grow in this soil are also deficient. Supplements are a pretty effective way to even the odds when the environment that you live in is fake.
Magnesium absolutely goes a long way toward improving sleep. I apologize for not having a direct answer as it relates to food (my solution is a supplement), but more an explanation for how attempting to live “not fake” can set you up for a fake deficiency.
Well, I never realised that when I originally came to this website, it was just a search result, and I liked it, so I stayed.
I live near a creek. Though, I would NEVER call it fresh or clean, plus it has had legionairres disease in there before, plus who knows how polluted it is. Hm. I could do a small study.
Im not denying the supplements are useful, but, philosophically I am against them.
I live near a creek. Though, I would NEVER call it fresh or clean, plus it has had legionairres disease in there before, plus who knows how polluted it is. Hm. I could do a small study.
Yeah, don’t do it now: our waterways are completely polluted.
You can Google that and save me typing a ton of keystrokes.
One easy thing to do is never drink or cook with softened water. The Na+ ion replaces all the mineral cations (Ca++, Mg++) that are beneficial to your health.
I read this at first as “The Nation replaces all the …”, with the + as a censorship sign (though I suppose its not wrong either?)
How do I tell if its softened water? Is tap water softened? What about bottle water? We use tap water for cooking, but we would never drink that crap.
My house has softened water and I never knew this. Thank you.
Na+ is the chemical symbol for the sodium ion. It is helpful if you feel comfortable with jargon of chemistry. The “+” is to note that the sodium ion has a single electron removed for a simple ionic bond with an anion which has an extra electron.
A water softener is a simple ion exchange to replace the minerals in water that plate scale in water lines with sodium instead.
Oh, yeah, im familiar with the symbology of it. I just misread at first.
Magnesium glycinate is what you want. That and L Theanine.
I eat spinach for magnesium but let’s be real a couple cups of spinach isn’t fixing a mag deficiency. Like pwnisher said our entire environment is “fake”. Everything is polluted and genetically modified. Our soil is stripped of it’s nutrients. Just take some pills of mag gly and l theanine.
Note make sure its glycinate. The other kind is a laxative.