MagTech Magnesium Complex

Without adequate amounts of deep, restful sleep, every other area in your life will forever be deficient.

You can have the “perfect” diet, ideal work and home life, the best exercise routine, but if you’re not sleeping well...

You’ll always be operating at half of what you could be, even if you’re one of those people who say they feel great on 4 hours of sleep per night.

Most people are so out of tune with their bodies and how much quality sleep they get, but it’s not hard to tell if something is off.

You know what stress feels like.

Sweaty palms, increased heart rate, racing mind…

This is when various stress hormones (adrenaline, cortisol, norepinephrine, and epinephrine) are elevated.

And you probably know the ‘fight-or-flight’ response, where your body senses a danger and secretes cortisol and adrenaline for a boost of energy to get you to safety.

You might be walking down the street and see a car approaching the sidewalk quickly, so you react by engaging in a full-on sprint to get to safety.

This is FLIGHT.

That boost in stress hormones are natural and needed in order to get you to safety.

But when these hormones are elevated chronically, they break down your body faster than it can rebuild itself.

And many diseases are said to be exacerbated by chronic stress.

Other stressors in your life might be a demanding job, heavy workload, or difficult relationships.

And while those might seem to pale in comparison to being smashed by a car, stress is still stress.

Your body doesn’t know the difference.

What’s worse is these stressors are enhanced by a lack of deep, restful sleep.

It’s been shown that sleep deprivation can increase the demands of our neuroendocrine systems more so than when we’re adequately rested.

Good sleep is like a reset switch you get to use every night. Think of it as a way to recharge your batteries.

But if you don’t recharge to full every night, you slowly go into a deprived stated.

The more sleep deprived you become, the more susceptible you are to the negative effects of stress.

When you’re operating on less than optimal levels of sleep, it can even make moderately stressful situations much worse than normal.

Think of the presentation you have to give at work.

You’ll normally feel a moderate level of stress, which can be good and help you perform, but it will be more pronounced when you’re heavily sleep deprived.

Focusing on important tasks will become much harder than before, and this typically makes you even more stressed… all due to a lack of sleep.

But it’s not just an increase in stress you’re dealing with…

A lack of sleep can also expand your waistline.

Excess stress causes weight gain in most people.

This is both a psychological and physiological phenomenon.

From a psychological perspective, some people rely on comfort food in order to ease their levels of stress.

And this makes sense given how eating sugar and calorie-heavy foods turns off the stress response.

So this behavior tends to make both your body and brain feel better.

But if you’re constantly reaching for sugary drinks or snacks due to a lack of sleep, you’re going to gain weight due to the caloric density of these foods.

You often stress-eat because of how sleep deprivation affects your hunger hormones, primarily those of leptin and ghrelin.

It’s been shown that when you’re sleep deprived, leptin goes down, ghrelin goes up, and overall body mass index increases.

Leptin is a hormone that tells your body you’re full.

Ghrelin is known as the hunger hormone.

When you’re sleep deprived, you tend to feel hungrier than normal, so you eat more.

And when you eat more sugary and fatty foods over time, you’re bound to gain weight.

It’s been shown that just one night of partial sleep deprivation induces a level of insulin resistance.

Insulin resistance is highly correlated with weight gain and obesity, so months and years of chronic sleep deprivation only makes it harder to stay at a healthy weight.

But sleep deprivation doesn’t only affect your waistline.

It affects your brain, too.

If you’ve ever caught yourself in a mental funk from staying up too late the night before, you know just how much it can hijack your cognitive abilities.

It’s documented that sleep deprivation impairs memory, inhibits executive function, and can limit basic motor control.

You’ll notice the effects of sleep deprivation when the easiest of tasks seem harder than ever.

Things like paying attention when your boss is talking to you, updating your calendar for a productive work week, or even your feeble attempts to focus on one task at a time.

This is the decreased executive function and it only gets worse the more sleep deprived you become.

Sadly, that’s not all of it...

According to a study done in SLEEP journal in 2018, those who received less than 7 hours of sleep in a 24 hour period are at risk for being involved in and responsible for car accidents.

This statistical risk increases with those who slept less than 4 hours.

In this study, researchers discovered that people who slept less than 4 hours in a 24-hour period were 15.1 times more likely to be involved in or cause a car wreck as compared to others who’d slept 7 to 9 hours.

When compared to the U.S. Department of Transportation...

The driver who’s on less than 4 hours of sleep can be compared to a person driving drunk at around 1.5 times the legal limit for blood alcohol concentration.

While all of that sounds bad, we’re just revealing the tip of the iceberg here.

Remember how the lack of sleep causes an increase in stress?

Well, that stress causes the depletion of minerals.

Sleep deprivation and high stress quickly becomes the cause of a major magnesium deficiency...

Especially if you’re not getting an adequate amount of the right forms of magnesium on a regular basis.

In short, stress depletes magnesium.

And since a large portion of the population are magnesium deficient, there’s a high chance you’re deficient in this mineral as well.

In fact, a paper from 2005 claims that most Americans are magnesium deficient.

They even go as far as stating: “Among US adults, 68% consumed less than the recommended daily allowance (RDA) of magnesium, and 19% consumed less than 50% of the RDA.

”For reference, the current adult RDA for magnesium is 310–420 mg.When you aren’t getting the deep sleep you need to repair and recover from the day before, you just dig yourself deeper into the sleep deprivation hole.

And the further you dig, the more your body depletes micronutrients, especially magnesium.

So the more stress you have from lack of sleep, the more magnesium deficient you are likely to become.

It’s a circular problem that gets worse over time.

But this hasn’t always been a problem...

It’s pretty well accepted that our diets have changed a lot in the last 100 years.

There was once a time fast foods didn’t exist and the majority of our diet came from whole food sources (plants and animals).

One of the many issues with our modern Western diet is the emphasis on convenience, rather than quality.

And with that comes a lack of micronutrients.

It’s been shown that our ancestors were able to obtain more nutrients from a varied, organic diet than we might be able to get today.

One paper, How the Mid-Victorians Worked, Ate and Died, mentions that the Mid-Victorians ate between 8-10 servings of fruits and vegetables (compared to just 2-3 daily portions) and 50-100% of of the calories than we eat on average today.

The most plentiful sources of magnesium are green vegetables, nuts and seeds, but how much of those foods are you eating daily?

Remember: The current adult RDA for magnesium is 310–420 mg. So to put this into context, if you ate an entire cup of pumpkin seeds, you’d get 168mg of magnesium, which puts you at just 40% of the RDA (420mg).

By deduction, we’re not eating near as many calories due to lower levels of activity as compared to our ancestors.

We’re not consuming nearly as many servings of fruits and vegetables, which is compounded with eating more fast food and sleeping less - resulting in more stress.

All of this is a recipe for a reduction in overall magnesium intake.

Magnesium fosters hundreds of biochemical reactions in the body.

It’s most known for helping regulate heartbeat, as well as playing a key role in nerve function and muscle contractions.

Magnesium also plays a crucial role in calcium metabolism, making sure that dietary calcium is deposited into bones, not in your arteries.

Remember how we mentioned earlier that low magnesium can be associated with weight gain?

Well, magnesium plays a positive role in glucose metabolism.

One paper states “24,516 cases detected a significant inverse association between magnesium intake and risk of type 2 diabetes” so an adequate intake of magnesium can help maintain insulin sensitivity necessary for good health and to avoid becoming diabetic.

But it doesn’t stop there.

It’s a common complaint — we can’t get enough sleep.

And while good sleep hygiene is vital...

No amount of sleep rituals will matter until you correct a mineral deficiency that is robbing you of the z’s you desperately need.

When you’re stressed, you’re activating the sympathetic nervous system...

Which increases heart rate, blood pressure, and secretes stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline.

But an adequate intake of magnesium helps activate your parasympathetic nervous system, which allows your body to be calm and relaxed.

In order to get to sleep, your body, mind, and nervous system must be able to relax...

Therefore getting adequate amounts of magnesium daily can help one get better, more restful sleep.

It’s been shown in research that insignificant intakes of magnesium can lead to sleep problems, especially people who have high levels of physical or emotional stress.

It also affects those who have certain conditions, such as those with type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, alcoholism, or gastrointestinal disorders either because these disorders cause rapid depletion of magnesium or medication prevents its absorption.

Oxidative stress is a phenomenon that occurs in the body from an imbalance between free radicals produced by the cells and antioxidants (produced in the body or consumed through food) in the body.

In short, the more free radicals present, the higher oxidative stress, and the faster breakdown of the body.

You’ve likely heard of antioxidants like Vitamin C, Vitamin E, or selenium.

All of these come from the food you eat, and they all play different roles in the body.

In order to combat oxidative stress, you want to balance out the free radicals with antioxidants.

What’s interesting is that while magnesium is not an antioxidant, it’s been shown that a magnesium deficiency can enhance oxidative stress in the body.

And an adequate amount of magnesium is essential for the production of glutathione, another potent antioxidant produced in the body that helps ward off oxidative stress.

So becoming magnesium replete will help shut down oxidative stress.

Now let us come full circle here...

Magnesium-L-Threonate: It’s been shown to increase the brain’s synaptic connections and density, which helps enhance short and long-term memory.

Scientists at MIT did a study on magnesium L-threonate, which showed to improve learning and memory functions.

Magnesium L-threonate can help relieve the brain fog and memory problems associated with sleep deprivation.

One of the major symptoms of sleep deprivation is distorted memory… but with magnesium L-threonate, you can get more restful sleep and improve your memory simultaneously.

Magnesium Glycinate: This form of magnesium is bonded with the amino acid, glycine. Glycine plays an important role in the body.

For one, glycine is a precursor to the antioxidant glutathione which helps reduce oxidative stress.

Remember how I mentioned earlier that magnesium is needed to produce this antioxidant?

Well having glycine attached to the magnesium further helps your body make this powerful antioxidant.

But this isn’t the only reason it’s important.

Glycine has been shown to promote better sleep quality and can help promote the ease of getting to sleep because it lowers the body’s core temperature slightly.

Among other reasons this form of magnesium is important is its high bioavailability, which means your body can absorb it easily and because glycine can help relieve fatigue associated with sleep restriction.

Magnesium glycinate helps the muscles relax and allows your body to enter a calm state. Therefore, taking this form of magnesium before bedtime is extra helpful for a full night of restful sleep.

Magnesium Taurate: This form of magnesium is unique because this complex works synergistically.

Taurine and magnesium both act as a sedative-like substance, calming the excitability of the nervous system.

Combining magnesium and taurine helps relax the brain and body, can help you get to sleep sooner and be much more relaxed for the deep sleep you need.

A team of researchers “discovered that taurine is a strong activator of what are known as GABA [gamma-aminobutyric acid] receptors in a regulatory area of the brain called the thalamus,.

”GABA is a neurotransmitter that plays a key role in inhibiting the excitatory state in the brain which helps your nervous system relax.

One study showed people with insomnia had nearly 30% lower GABA levels than those who didn’t have insomnia.

Now you know about the importance of these forms of magnesium…

And you also know that because of the data I presented and your general eating habits, you’re highly likely to be deficient in this mineral...

There’s a chance you might be deficient in magnesium.

You’ve probably been to the doctor for a check-up and regular blood work, only for them to say “you’re as healthy as a horse!

Everything came back just fine.

”But in the back of your mind, you’re thinking WHAT ABOUT MY SYMPTOMS?

The truth is blood tests can’t actually tell you if you’re deficient because magnesium is stored in your bones and tissues, not floating around in your blood.

So, of course it won’t show up there.

And remember what I said earlier about 68% of adults being deficient in this mineral?

It’s not because everyone is living on junk food…

Many of us are eating so-called healthy foods like nuts, seeds, leafy greens. But even then… it’s probably not sufficient.

Remember when I mentioned you’d need to eat an entire cup of pumpkin seeds to get 168mg of magnesium, putting you at just 40% of the RDA earlier?

That’s a load of seeds and it’s not even half of the RDA.

But even if you did find a way to choke down 2.5 cups of pumpkin seeds daily, it still might not be enough due to the fact that our foods today aren’t as nutrient-dense as before.

We can thank the industry of factory farming for this.

And it all comes down to the soil and how farming is done these days compared to 80 years ago.

A study done by David Thomas revealed the depletion of mineral content in our food since 1940.

See the table below:

From the table, you can see that the amount of magnesium has decreased by about 25%.

But it’s not just leafy greens, it’s all other foods too.

Think about it… the animals you eat are grazing on the grass that grows from the nutrient-depleted soil.

So if you were thinking about eating more meat or cheese to get the magnesium you need, you’re still at a loss.

And this should go without saying… but if you’re busy leading an active lifestyle, you probably aren’t prepping every single meal with a big side of magnesium-rich greens or beans at home.

Quick recap:

1. You know now that a blood test isn’t going to tell you anything about being magnesium deficient… and we know that 68% (probably more) adults are already deficient.

2. Foods deemed to be ‘high’ in magnesium aren’t as mineral-dense as we thought, so even the most perfect, magnesium-focused diet probably isn’t sufficient.

But wait… there’s more.

I mentioned earlier how low magnesium levels can make it hard to get the deep, restful sleep you need to recover.

And if you’re not resting fully and recharging each night, you’re prone to be more stressed in both the body and the mind.

You’re going to feel groggy and tired when waking up, which has a major effect on your ability to focus throughout the day.

Then the mental stress of feeling unrested and needing to focus compounds as the day goes on.

No amount of coffee will be able to get you to a calm, focused place.

This is the reality of sleep deprivation and it just creates more stress the longer you live in this awful state.

Now, that stress will actually deplete magnesium fast and it will only get worse until you are able to replenish your body’s levels of magnesium.

And that leads us to some bad news…

If you’re taking a multivitamin that contains magnesium, chances are it’s not the right form for your body.

You see, there are many different forms of magnesium in supplements these days.

And many of them are cheap, hard-to-absorb forms of this mineral.Let me give you a quick example of why some forms of magnesium aren’t the easiest to absorb.

There’s a term to know called bioavailability, which means your body is able to absorb the nutrient.

Some supplements have a high bioavailability and others are very low.

For instance, you can take the form of magnesium called magnesium oxide.

If your supplement has 200mg of this form, that’s basically 50% of the RDA.

Doesn’t sound too bad, right?

But studies have shown that only about 4% of this form can be absorbed by the body.

The rest is excreted in your urine.

And the sad part is this cheap form of magnesium is in many supplements, maybe even in your current multivitamin.