Magnesium
topic on 2 shows · 6 statements across 3 episodes
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Chouksey: Blood tests for magnesium are misleading due to bone mineral leaching
“A lot of people rely on blood tests for magnesium, which is not the right way. You should rely on you know, DEXA for that. So, because over a period of time, body's homeostasis would leach out magnesium and other minerals from your bones and still maintain you…”
Patrick: Nearly half of Americans have insufficient dietary magnesium intake
“Almost half of the US population is deficient in, or I would say they're, they get insufficient magnesium intake.”
Patrick: Nearly half of Americans have insufficient magnesium intake
“Almost half of the US population, they get insufficient magnesium intake.”
Patrick: Cooking vegetables increases bioavailability of magnesium and other minerals
“When you cook it does actually increase the bioavailability of not just magnesium, other minerals as well that are bound to that, that fiber matrix that which has phytate there.”
Patrick: Magnesium absorption caps out around 120 to 150 milligrams per dose
“I mean, it's about a hundred, I would say anywhere between a 120 to a 150 milligrams per dose. Like once you get above that, you're not really absorbing more. You're just kind of causing more GI distress.”
Magnesium Deficiency Prevents the Body From Utilizing Vitamin D
“It's actually a cofactor for both enzymes that convert vitamin D three into the circulating form of vitamin D that we go and we measure. It's called 25 hydroxy vitamin D and then eventually into the active steroid hormone. And so there's been studies showing t…”