Magnesium is the regulator for Calcium, but flushing out excess calcium in your body also slightly depletes your Magnesium. Americans have a very high calcium diet with all the dairy products we consume. The interesting twist is that if your magnesium levels get too low, your body looses the ability to regulate Calcium and you may end up calcium deficient, while eating too much calcium. This is why in a society that has a naturally high calcium intake, we suffer often from osteoporosis!
A sure sign of magnesium deficiency is muscle cramps. If you suffer from cramps a quick remedy is a powdered magnesium citrate supplement you mix in water and drink. If the cramps are due to magnesium deficiency your cramps will clear up in minutes.
Magnesium is stored on the surface of your bones, you should over time restore your magnesium supply. Do not take more than 1000 mg of magnesium in a single dose, it puts ex-lax to shame.
Note that the above mentioned forms are more usable to the body than the oxide form. Magnesium Oxide is cheaper, but you will get more for your money with the better vitamins.
Magnesium is known as a Macro Mineral, critical to the proper functioning of the body. Note that the soil in America in most areas is low in magnesium so Americans tend to be deficient if they do not take steps to correct the issue.
By the way, fast food is NOT a good source of magnesium, The burger wrapper probably has more magnesium in the ink than the burger does. (not a suggestion to eat wrappers)
Really good post and I agree wholeheartedly. And, just to expand on the calcium issue, it’s not that you don’t have the calcium in your system per se’, it’s that it crystalizes and doesn’t dissolve, hence it doesn’t absorb unless consuming sufficient amounts of mag in a form that is absorbable.