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The Brain-enhancing Power of Magnesium You Never Discovered!

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Get my FREE PDF Guide on Magnesium 👉 https://drbrg.co/3UqTGTF Watch this episode next: Reset Your Body in 5 Days (With Zero Food) Just so you know, my full line of high-quality supplements is available on Amazon — search Dr. Berg Supplements. Different forms of magnesium help with different health issues. Learn more about the benefits of magnesium L-threonate. For more details on this topic, check out the full article on the website: ➡️https://drbrg.co/4dtxsbx DATA: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9820677/ 0:00 Introduction: Magnesium explained 0:10 What is magnesium L-threonate? 0:45 Benefits of magnesium threonate? 5:18 What is the best type of magnesium? 5:40 Get unfiltered health information by signing up for my newsletter Magnesium comes in many different forms. Today, I want to cover magnesium threonate or magnesium L-threonate. This is a specific type of magnesium. Threonate transports magnesium across the blood-brain barrier to the hippocampus. The hippocampus is involved in memory, learning, focus, and concentration. People typically take magnesium L-threonate when they want to support the brain. A magnesium deficiency can lead to various issues related to the brain and throughout the body. Benefits of magnesium L-threonate: • It may help reduce worry and anxiety (especially when trying to sleep) • It may help decrease neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration • It’s a calcium regulator and antagonist • It helps maintain and support the blood-brain barrier • It can act as an antioxidant • It helps support BDNF • It may help with androgenic alopecia If you want to use magnesium to support the brain, I would use magnesium threonate. To support other issues like cramping or fatigue or to support the heart, I would take magnesium glycinate. Magnesium citrate can be helpful as well, especially to help prevent kidney stones. Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio: Dr. Berg, age 59, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan, and is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media. Follow Me On Social Media: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Drberg/ YouTube Shorts: https://www.youtube.com/@UCpWhiwlOPxOmwQu5xyjtLDw Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drericberg Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drericberg/ Spotify Podcast: 🎧 https://drbrg.co/DrBerg-Spotify TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drbergofficial X: https://x.com/dr_ericberg Keto Recipes: https://www.youtube.com/@drbergketorecipes Disclaimer: Dr. Eric Berg received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1988. His use of “doctor” or “Dr.” in relation to himself solely refers to that degree. Dr. Berg is a licensed chiropractor in Virginia, California, and Louisiana, but he no longer practices chiropractic in any state and does not see patients, so he can focus on educating people as a full-time activity, yet he maintains an active license. This video is for general informational purposes only. It should not be used to self-diagnose, and it is not a substitute for a medical exam, cure, treatment, diagnosis, prescription, or recommendation. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Berg and you. You should not make any change in your health regimen or diet before first consulting a physician and obtaining a medical exam, diagnosis, and recommendation. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. #keto #ketodiet #weightloss #ket Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices ​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Brain-enhancing Power of Magnesium You Never Discovered!

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Dr. Eric Berg DCThe Brain-enhancing Power of Magnesium You Never Discovered!. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

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Magnesium comes in many different forms, like nine different forms, glycinate, citrate. Today we're going to talk about magnesium, three and eight. This is a very specific type of magnesium where this three and eight molecule transports magnesium across the blood-brain barrier, specifically to the hippocampus, which is involved in memory, learning, focus, concentration, everything cognitive, as well as this cerebral cortex, which is involved in a lot of higher level processing of the brain. The main reason why someone would use this type of magnesium versus other types is they want to improve something about the brain because all these other forms don't necessarily penetrate the blood-brain barrier. Let's talk about some of the benefits. Magnesium is generally involved in making ATP, which is the energy currency of the body. Since the brain uses 20% of all of your ATP, and it only comprises 2% of the actual weight,

it's an ATP hog. If there's a magnesium deficiency and you can't make enough ATP, you're going to get brain fog. You can have confusion. You can have all sorts of problems with your neurons. Also a very specific problem with the neurotransmitter called GABA, which is an inhibitory neurotransmitter that calms things down. It buffers anxiety to keep you nice and relaxed. If you're deficient in magnesium and you don't have enough GABA, you're going to be a little bit on edge. You might have a bit of anxiousness. Worry, things like that. This is why magnesium three and eight is really good for that brain chatter, that excessive worrying, especially at night when you're trying to sleep. If you add that to a natural form of B1, I think you'll have an awesome combination to help you with that specific issue. If we think about another function of magnesium, it's a electrolyte. Electrolites help with not just your muscles, but your nerves. The pacemaker of your heart, for example, needs these electrolytes.

Isn't your brain neurological? The answer is yes. When you're deficient in magnesium, you can start developing problems with your neurology. Two specific problems are related to that. Number one, neuroinflammation, as well as neurodegeneration. This is why people with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's and even MS are nearly always deficient in magnesium. One key point about MS, don't forget vitamin D. In other words, magnesium is a requirement for vitamin D and vitamin D is also a requirement for magnesium to work in the body. It's to are so essential in anything autoimmune, including MS or virtually any inflammation at all. It's a calcium regulator. It's a calcium antagonist. People that have hypercalcium, too much calcium in the blood, nearly always has a problem with the brain. There's all these issues. If you just look up hypercalcium in the side effects, you're going to see confusion.

You're going to see memory loss. You're going to see depression, anxiety problems with the cognitive function. It's very dangerous to have calcium build up in the brain. One reason is you don't have enough magnesium in the brain to regulate that calcium. Vagnesium keeps the calcium from being stuck in the cells in the brain. Not to mention in other parts of the body, too, like the kidneys, like the joints. Just like vitamin K2 also helps regulate and keeps that calcium from building up in the arteries and the joints. A couple of the interesting benefits of magnesium, it helps maintain and support the blood brain barrier. You see, you have this barrier in the brain that protects the brain against certain things, like infections, toxicity. You also have the barrier in your gut as well to protect things from going deeper inside. So, just like you can have a leaky gut, you can propel fitness water with Gatorade Electrolites, Zerosugar, and Vitamins. Propel hydrates better than water to help you get the most out of your workout and get

back to your best self. What propels you? Propel with Gatorade Electrolites. On any journey using Uber, it helps to know you're getting into the right car. Pin verification adds an extra step to make sure your ride is your ride. Before the trip begins, your app gives you a unique pin. Just tell it to your driver and they'll enter it in their app before the ride can start. Hey, what'd you pin? Mm-hmm. 2538. That way, you know you're in the right car taking the right trip and your driver knows you're the right passenger. Make sure your ride is your ride with pin verification from Uber. One more way Uber is putting safety at every turn. Learn more on the Uber app. I also have a leaky blood brain barrier in magnesium can help support that and help prevent that from happening. Bynesium helps to prevent oxidative stress so it can act as an antioxidant. Magnesium helps support this thing called BDNF. Brain-dried neurotrophic factor. You can look at that as like miracle grow for the brain.

It helps the brain neurons to grow and develop because as we get older and as we eat the wrong foods, our brain actually atrophies and gets smaller. So anything that supports this BDNF is a good thing and magnesium is one of them. Fasting is another, exercise is another one. Now just as a side note, okay, since we're on the topic of magnesium 3 and 8, it's also good for something called androgenic alopecia. That is hair loss that comes in patches that has developed from high levels of androgens, especially if someone has something called polycystic ovarian syndrome. So there are a few other benefits that go beyond just supporting the brain that this product can help you with. And so the point of this video is this, there are different types or different forms of magnesium for different conditions. Definitely if you have any type of brain issues, magnesium 3 and 8, for a lot of other types of issues, cramping, fatigue, heart stuff, I would use magnesium glycinate.

You can also use magnesium citrate. That does work as well, especially like preventing kidney stones. Now because of the censoring and the suppressing of the algorithms on YouTube, it's becoming more difficult to find my content. And there's a lot of content that I cannot put on YouTube, unfortunately. So to make sure you have full access of all my information, go to drbrg.com and subscribe to my newsletter by clicking the link down below in the description. I will see you on the other side. On any journey using Uber, it helps to know you're getting into the right car. Pin verification adds an extra step to make sure your ride is your ride. Before the trip begins, your app gives you a unique pin. Just tell it to your driver and they'll enter it in their app before the ride can start. Hey, what's your pin? Mm-hmm. 2538. That way you know you're in the right car taking the right trip and your driver knows you're the right passenger. Make sure your ride is your ride with pin verification from Uber. One more way Uber is putting safety at every turn.

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