One of the principal reasons doctors write millions of prescriptions for tranquilizers each year is the nervousness, irritability, and jitters essentially brought on by inadequate diets lacking Magnesium.
Persons only slightly deficient in Magnesium become irritable, highly strung, sensitive to noise, hyper-excitable, apprehensive, and belligerent. If the deficiency is more severe or prolonged, they may develop twitching, tremors, irregular pulse, insomnia, muscle weakness, jerkiness, and leg and foot cramps.
If Magnesium is severely deficient, the brain is particularly affected. Clouded thinking, confusion, disorientation, marked depression, and even the terrifying hallucinations of delirium tremens are primarily brought on by a lack of this nutrient and remedied when Magnesium is given.
Suggestive early warning signs of magnesium insufficiency:
Physical and mental fatigue
Persistent under-eye twitch
Tension in the upper back, shoulders, and neck
Headaches
Premenstrual fluid retention and breast tenderness
Possible manifestations of magnesium deficiency include:
Low energy
Fatigue
Weakness
Confusion
Nervousness
Anxiousness
Irritability
Seizures (and tantrums)
Poor digestion
PMS and hormonal imbalances
Inability to sleep
Muscle tension, spasms, and cramps
Calcification of organs
Weakening of the bones
Abnormal heart rhythm
Severe magnesium deficiency can result in low calcium levels in the blood (hypocalcemia).
Magnesium deficiency is also associated with low potassium levels in the blood (hypokalemia). In addition, magnesium levels drop at night, leading to poor REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep cycles and unrefreshed sleep. Headaches, blurred vision, mouth ulcers, fatigue, and anxiety are early signs of depletion.
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