Researchers recommend avoiding wheat, as most wheat is now genetically modified and hard to digest properly, leading to excessive acid by-products and inflammatory responses – including digestion, elimination and detoxification issues. Scientists such as Stephanie Senneff suspect the glyphosate infused in the grain to be responsible. [9] It is a chemical now widespread in our environment and associated with the proliferation of autism, leaky gut syndrome and even obesity. Support your gut micro biome with a fresh food diet including fermented vegetables.
Have fun, smile, be happy
Finally, make sure the family takes some time out to relax doing fun stuff! Recreational and creative activities such as music, art, tai chi, yoga, dance, beach swimming, fishing, climbing or hiking offer unique opportunities to relax, get exercise and enjoy being a human. They also help to conserve magnesium loss!
Sleep well
Quality sleep is extremely important, so you may have to turn off that blue screen at 10pm. The brain works best adhering to natural biorhythms and sleep-wake cycles, which means going to sleep well before midnight, which promotes a deeper better quality sleep.
Avoid proximity to electrical appliances and darken the room to avoid light stimulation of the pineal gland. During deep sleep our pineal gland makes melatonin, which is the most powerful anti-oxidant in the body helping to clean up waste products in the brain. This is why sleep deprivation leads to ‘foggy brain’, lack of concentration, memory lapses, headaches, metabolism disorders and behavioural changes. The pineal gland also needs a lot of magnesium to function well.
A magnesium bath before bed relaxes muscles and helps to promote a deeper sleep. There is nothing like a good sleep to recharge your energy levels! Children readily pick up the stress of their parents and collectively a whole family can become magnesium deficient together. We bounce off each other’s stress and it can become contagious!
Transdermal magnesium helps to optimize magnesium levels by supplying the extra magnesium not able to be delivered by diet alone. Everyone can benefit by feeling calmer and more relaxed quickly. I say to all the moms out there, “If your family members become cranky, stressed and uptight, just dose ‘em up with plenty of magnesium nutrition. It will chill ‘em right out - naturally!”
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12. National Institutes of Health, Health Professional Fact Sheets – Magnesium. www.ods.od.nih.gov