Mental Health - Body Health - Mental Health – Revolving Door
We should be treating the body as one whole unit because we cannot separate the mind and brain from all the other cells of the body. If there is ill health and disease from low magnesium somewhere in the body - then it's really everywhere in the body.
The revolving door works like this: After many ‘rinse and repeats’, recovery times start to take longer and energy becomes more depleted. Less energy metabolism can lead to binge eating of sugary and processed carbohydrates, excessive alcohol consumption or addiction to opioids and other pain medications.
The body seeks more and more stimulants to try and rev up the energy supply because the brain consumes a lot of energy to function. When energy drops too low the brain can go into a kind of ‘safe mode’ of sub-optimal function where it is rationing the energy it does get. Dysfunctions creep in such as migraines, brain fog, memory glitches and illusory fears or paranoia.
As magnesium drops lower from excessive stress, there is less control over adrenaline and cortisol release, so that these catecholamines (stress hormones) escalate and chronically flood the system in a fight or flight (sympathetic) mode.
We can get stuck in that mode, unable to relax and move back to rest and recover grazing (parasympathetic) mode. The stress hormones prompt glutamine to overstimulate neurons causing rapid and incessant calcium firing. Without enough magnesium to control the calcium and switch off the catecholamine release, we can’t relax. [3]
Constant firing without rest causes free radical damage, killing neurons. Without proper rest and sleep we can’t build new neurons to replace the damaged ones, leading to brain deterioration and degeneration.