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10 Signs You’re Magnesium Deficient

Are you magnesium deficient? Very likely. Despite the fact that more people are hearing about the importance of magnesium, a recent study suggests that only about half of US adults reach the Recommended Daily Allowance (which generally is a “bare minimum” standard). Deficiency in magnesium has been linked to type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, osteoporosis, heart disease, asthma, colon cancer, and fibromyalgia… among other things. (Yikes!)

What is Magnesium?

Magnesium is a mineral responsible for over 300 metabolic processes. It’s an anti-inflammatory mineral that offers protection from a host if illnesses and diseases and has been used to remedy problems like high blood pressure, diabetes, respiratory issues, and more.

10 Commons Signs You’re Magnesium Deficient

1. Muscle Cramps

2. High Blood Pressure

3. Fatigue

4. Poor Memory and/or Confusion

5. Restless Leg Syndrome

6. Weakness

7. Delayed Recovery from Exercise

8. Respiratory Issues

9. Sound and/or Light Sensitivity

10. Sleeplessness (tip: take magnesium before bed )

Severe magnesium deficiency can lead to even more troublesome issues like:

• Numbness and tingling


• Muscle contractions and cramps


• Seizures


• Personality changes


• Abnormal heart rhythms


• Coronary spasms

Of course, just because you have these symptoms doesn’t mean it’s all related to magnesium. As always, it’s important to talk to your healthcare practitioner if you have these or any other serious symptoms. But considering that our soil is so deplete from bad farming practices, it’s very common for people to be deficient in magnesium. I know I was.

Easy Ways To Supplement Magnesium Naturally

My first indication that I was magnesium deficient was due to some annoying restless leg action. Oh boy! Just when I wanted to fall asleep my legs would turn on to hyper-drive. Thankfully, I learned about the importance of magnesium not too long after that. At first I tried using a magnesium spray as a way to supplement my diet. It definitely helped, but it was messy and burned my skin.

I already knew that *most* oral magnesium supplements weren’t that great. Most them use cheap magnesium oxide or magnesium citrate, which don’t absorb very well AND can be hard on the stomach. 

Thankfully after doing some more digging I found out that there are special forms of magnesium that actually do work well AND are gentle on the stomach. I also discovered that different forms of magnesium help different parts of the body. Some work better for cramps, others for sleep and relaxation, and others still for proper brain function.

At the end of the day I ended up using a blend of the top 4 bioavailable (means “absorbable”) forms of magnesium called Quad-Magnesium™, and I’ve never looked back. It’s also for sale on Amazon for a couple bucks more.

If you’re interested in getting a bit geekier into it, the types of magnesium used are:

• magnesium glycinate chelate


• di-magnesium malate


• magnesium orotate


• and magnesium taurate

Bonus:

During my second pregnancy, I had some MAJOR leg cramps. Upon the recommendation of my amazing midwife I added trace mineral drops (like these) to my daily routine in addition to magnesium. It was incredible what a combination of the magnesium and a few of those drops before bed would do. No more leg cramps. Plus I get to reap all the other benefits of adding the other trace minerals to my body, too.

Want to read more geeky stuff about Magnesium? Here are some additional resources about magnesium deficiency:

Magnesium Factsheet by the National Institutes of Health

Definition of Magnesium Deficiency from MedicineNet.com

Magnesium Deficiency

Want to eat healthier, but confused by all the information out there? You’re not alone!

It took me years to figure out this whole “healthy” eating thing, and that’s because the world is full of confusing information. Every “expert” is telling us something different, and it seems our lists of “shoulds” and “should not” eats are changing faster than we can keep up with.

If you’re like me and wish there was a simple, stress-free approach to healthy living then you’re in the right place. My guide Processed Free will help you easily navigate real food no matter where you are on your path to healthier living. Click here to check it out.

Tell me? Do you supplement with Magnesium? Have you noticed a difference?

References:

http://naturalsociety.com/ 16-magnesium-deficiency-symptoms-signs-low-levels/

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About the Author: Robin Konie

Hi! I'm Robin and I’m passionate about healthy living: feeling nourished, having energy, getting good sleep, and feeling strong. I believe healthy living does not have to be complicated or stressful.

I’m a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (RSMT) and a Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst (CLMA). I’m also an avid researcher and love to read about nutrition, the body, and toxic-free living. Learn more.

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Spoilers ahead for Episode 5 of Big Little Lies Season 2. If anyone deserves a break in Monterey, it's Jane. And with new love interest Corey, it really seemed she was getting one — until Bonnie saw him walk out of the Monterey police station. If Corey is a cop gathering information about the Perry Wright case, then Jane will have yet another betrayal to process, and may be in some legal danger too. Unfortunately, some fans think that's exactly what's going on.

Reddit has a few theories on what Corey could be hiding, but most agree that there's more to Jane's new boyfriend than meets the eye. Part of that may be due to the character's awkward nature: when Corey fumbles his words, it's hard to know if he's just nervous or trying to cover something up. But certain moments have struck viewers as suspicious.

Then there are the actor's own words to consider. When asked by Entertainment Weekly if there was something darker in Corey's history, Douglas Smith didn't exactly deny it. "Anything is possible," he offered vaguely. "We're all these complicated humans that have the propensity for good and bad, and this show is really good at exploring that. And just like any of the other people in this world, you never know."

Here are the clues that Corey could be an undercover cop — or hiding something even more devastating.

He Was Scanning The Room At Amabella's Party

One suspicious moment comes in the middle of "She Knows." When Celeste looks across the room, the scene cuts to Corey appearing to stare back at her — then quickly looking up and away. "He's totally a cop," one Redditor writes, "I've had this theory since episode 1 of season 2, but this moment clinched it for me, how he just looks over at Nicole Kidman's character for a split second then tries to play it off [...] he's scoping out the suspects, trying to get close to Jane so she spills the truth."

He's Subtly Compared To Perry

Another Redditor points out a moment that cuts from Jane dancing with Corey to a memory of Perry acting similarly with Celeste. That juxtaposition, the theory goes, suggests a parallel between the two characters. "It could be more possible foreshadowing that Jane's love interest isn't someone to trust," the user writes. A commenter agrees: "They're setting up Corey to be an emotional abuser. With the way he treated the waiter, to the way he's extremely warm and open for very little reason...abusers tend to have [Jekyll] and Hyde personalities like we saw last season. The parallels are mounting."

He's Very Interested In Ziggy

When Jane first mentions Ziggy, Corey's response is exactly what you would hope: "I'd love to meet him." But some fans aren't giving that moment as generous a read, and find Corey's eagerness here an indication that something more is going on. A few Redditors have posited that Corey is Perry's half-brother, since Mary Louise mentions that Perry's father went on to have other children in a second marriage. Corey "chimes in quickly" when she mentions Ziggy, fans suggest, because he wants to meet a relative — not because he's trying to get closer to Jane.

He's Caught Sneaking Out Of The Police Station

Finally, the most damning clue of all: Bonnie sees Corey coming out of the police station late at night, head down, after spending the day kayaking with Jane, Celeste, and the kids. As far as we know, Jane hasn't revealed anything about the night of Perry's death to Corey. But if Corey is a cop, he could be interpreting Jane's assault and subsequent trauma as motive to hurt Perry.

After how hard it's been for Jane to open up and trust again, it would be heartbreaking if Corey was reporting it all back to use as evidence against her. It's possible that Corey was at the police station for an unrelated reason (Monterey's got to have more than one unsolved crime, right?), but that still implies he's keeping a pretty big secret. Even if Corey does have ulterior motives for getting to know Jane better, hopefully seeing her in such a raw state will compel him to treat her with compassion.

In other words: even if Corey is a cop, let's hope his feelings for Jane are genuine.

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Spoilers ahead for Episode 4 of Euphoria Season 1. In the July 7 episode, HBO's teen drama Euphoria answers one of the questions that it's been building to since its premiere: is Jacob Elordi's Nate secretly a good guy? To put it simply, no, but there's value in exploring why that is. While Nate is marginalized in one sense due to his (likely) identity as a closeted queer man, he's also the textbook image of toxic masculinity. He's unable to separate love from control, relishing the role of being women's Great Protector without realizing how often he is actually the aggressor.

Nate's violent and overbearing tendencies have been apparent since the beginning. He has a laundry list of things he wants a woman to have, and reacts with disgust when they don't conform to his exacting beauty standards. He displays a worrying degree of ownership towards his on again, off again girlfriend Maddy, romanticizing himself as her Superman but hurting her whenever angered (he presses her face against the wall during sex and chokes her at the carnival). After she hooks up with another boy at a party (and then lies about being blackout drunk while it happened), Nate breaks into the guy's house and beats him bloody. Using violence to assert control is exactly what toxic masculinity is, but up until now, Euphoria balanced that out with Nate's sweeter ShyGuy118 persona, hinting that perhaps he was more than just an archetypal, macho jock.

We know from Rue's narration that Nate is likely gay or bisexual, but that he represses that aspect of his identity to damaging extents. Had he been raised in a less oppressive environment with a healthier role model, maybe he could have been different, but thanks to his father, Nate clearly suffers from internalized homophobia. That leads to, among other things, anger towards other LGBTQ people who are openly out and proud of their identity, like Jules is. We see this manifest early on when he catcalls Jules and drives her off the road, then unleashes his fury on her at Chris' party in Euphoria's pilot episode.

One of the issues underlying Nate's homophobia is that being queer doesn't stop him from being rampantly misogynistic (a sensitive issue that has real-life truth to it). Nate paradoxically puts femininity on a pedestal, but his expectations for women are so unrealistic that he ends up punishing them constantly for failing to meet his standards. He feels he can dictate how women act and what women's bodies should look like, and it's never clear if he eventually gravitates towards Jules (who is played by model Hunter Schafer) precisely because she conforms to his beauty ideal, or because he resents her.

With Jules in the park, we can see most clearly how Nate is unable to separate his negative feelings towards women from the love he may feel. If you were confused about his actions, you were meant to be: Elordi confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that neither he nor Euphoria creator Sam Levinson were entirely sure if Nate lashes out at Jules (threatening to turn her in for child pornography if she ever speaks a word about him or his father's orientation) because he was always manipulating her, or if their texts were sincere, but his anger at Maddy and his father bleed into the scene regardless. "Sometimes we didn't even know why he was doing it," Elordi said, "Because I don't think [Nate] knows either."

Whether or not Nate actually likes Jules, his turbulent inner dialogue is obviously hazardous for the women around him. Media tends to romanticize characters like Nate: villains who have difficult childhoods but who are eventually reformed by a woman's love. Real life is much messier than that. Nate is, at this point, old enough to push back against his father's machismo. Many abusive men have abusive childhoods, but not all men who had abusive childhoods become abusive. It requires an active choice to be better, and Nate is pretty spectacularly failing to do that, either because he doesn't want to or because he's too scared to.

It's possible Nate actually does have genuine feelings for Jules, but as of right now, he's unable to separate loving women from controlling them; to him, these concepts are one and the same. If Nate turned on Jules because he got angry that his father was with her first, that doesn't bode well for any potential relationship. Because Nate is so wrapped up in his toxic masculinity, his love comes with stipulations, and requirements, and a gilded cage. His love has all the markers of an abusive relationship: he thinks the best way to protect women (to keep them on that pedestal that he built) is to essentially own them. It's not the kind of love that Jules, or Maddy, needs.

In contrast to Jules, Rue sees Nate exactly for what he is. It's both why she hates him and why Nate's the perfect foil for her; unlike him, Rue's love for Jules doesn't come with conditions. Her love is pure and uncomplicated and accepting. Where Nate sees Jules as somebody so lovely and different that she needs to be contained, Rue is plainly in awe of Jules, and feels lucky just to be in her presence.

Perhaps the eventual centering of Jules, Rue, and the rest of the women has always been the driving point of the show. Euphoria's main love story was between the two lead girls from the beginning, and we see characters like Kat, Maddy, and Cassie come more into their own this episode. Nate may be wrapped up in his own warped perceptions of himself and others, but his toxicity doesn't mean the other girls can't connect to each other and find a way to feel free — even in spite of the oppressively patriarchal society they're navigating.

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Tailored suits are like fine wine — they get better with age. Of course, that can happen only if you treat them well, from hanging them on men’s wooden suit hangers to utilizing dry cleaning services. Take even better care of your garments by following these tips:

Hang Your Suits Properly

Suits are meant to be hung, not folded; but don’t use just any hanger made of wire or plastic. Men’s wooden suit hangers are the best for the job because they’re strong enough to support the fabric’s weight, and their rounded edges maintain the suit’s shape. Cedar and beech wood are recommended because they absorb moisture and odor. To keep the dust and bugs away, put a canvas garment bag over your suits. Canvas provides better ventilation over other materials.

Give Them Room to Breathe

Your closet should be a cool, dry, and dark place with little exposure to sunlight. It should also be big enough so that your suits won’t end up creased. Fortunately, men’s wooden suit hangers tend to be thicker than hangers made of other materials, so they serve as natural dividers between garments once hung. However, this works only if you don’t cram your closet full. Ideally, you should have a closet dedicated to your suits alone, if the space allows it.

Air Them Out Periodically

Suits don’t have to be dry-cleaned after every use. In fact, it’s not advisable to do so. To make suits wearable several times between cleanings, air them out immediately after taking them off. If there’s dirt, remove it with a soft-bristled brush.

Next, put your suits on men’s wooden suit hangers, hang them up in an open area where there’s plenty of air, and leave them overnight. If they’re made of a heavy fabric like wool, leave them for two days. Most of the wrinkles should be gone by then.

Steam them When Wrinkled

Sometimes, your suits won’t always come out wrinkle-free in spite of careful draping. To make them look fresh again, steam away the wrinkles. A handheld steamer should do the trick. Another option you have is to release steam from your regular clothes iron into the material of your suits as they hang. Keep the heat setting on low to avoid damaging your suits.

Banish Bad Smells

In cases where airing out and steaming your suits aren’t enough to get rid of unpleasant odors like sweat or smoke, you can use good old reliable baking soda, which is great at absorbing odors without staining fabrics. Turn your suits inside out and rub baking soda over the armpit areas and other suspect sections. After a few minutes, shake off the powder, then hang your suits back on men’s wooden suit hangers for another stint of airing out. Because of the baking soda, your suits should no longer be smelling funky after this process.

Clean Only as Needed

As mentioned, suits don’t need to be cleaned after every use. But when exactly should they be cleaned? How often? If your suits are noticeably dirty and stubbornly smelly, it’s time to slip your suits off and bring them to the dry cleaner. Otherwise, get your rarely-worn suits cleaned once or twice a year. For suits you wear a few times a week, once a month should be fine. Dry cleaning chemicals can weaken the fibers of your suits, so don’t do it often.

Invest in Quality Suit Hangers

Tailored suits are expensive, but they’re worthwhile investments with an impact that can last for years — as long as you treat them right. Start by hanging them on no less than high-quality men’s wooden suit hangers from a trusted brand like Butler Luxury.

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If you are stuck in a tiny dorm with only your roommates for company or you are tired of the same old campus food, then you might need some life hacks to see you through. College can be the best time of your life, but it can also be stressful wondering how to get all your work done and have fun at the same time. By incorporating some of these hacks into your life, you will find that campus life will not only become easier but also fun.

Cooking Hacks

Save time by making breakfast in a mug! Spray the inside of a microwavable mug with cooking spray, then crack two eggs and add a little milk. Simple, put it in the microwave for 45 seconds, stir it, then microwave for a further 45 seconds and you will have a hot, delicious breakfast in just 90 seconds. You can add any other ingredients you like, such as ham, vegetables or cheese to change it from day to day.

Health Hacks

To make sure you are prepared for when you get sick, put together a first aid kit filled with cold and flu medicine, aspirin, allergy pills, band-aids and anything else you can think of to ease discomfort when you are at college.

If you know that you are going out for a heavy night of drinking alcohol, try to prepare your body for it. Drink plenty of fluid in the day and make sure you eat three good meals, to ensure that the alcohol can get soaked up.

Taking a tablet aimed at reducing the effects of hangovers would be ideal, especially if you have lectures and studying to do. The question is, do hangover pills work? The answer is yes because the tablet helps accelerate alcohol metabolism in the liver and support the body’s inflammatory system naturally, therefore helping relieve the symptoms of excess.

Hacks for Studying

Seeing that you are at college to learn, not just party, you need to make sure you put the time into studying! Researchers have found that if you study before you go to sleep, you are more likely to remember it than if you try and learn it in the morning. This is because sleep cements the memories that you’ve made during that day, including any studying you’ve completed.

An important tip to remember is that you shouldn’t study all night for an exam or spend a whole day studying as you need to have regular breaks to study successfully. Your mind needs breaks from working; otherwise, it can’t continue to focus, and you will find you can’t concentrate and study effectively.

Using these college life hacks mean that you can have the time of your life without having to spend hours worrying about how to cook quickly or how to recover from a hangover! Make sure you utilize all the hacks to make sure you are doing well in college life both through studies and socializing and making friends.

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