Magnesium deficiency; cause of depression, anxiety, S.A.?...

Lately, I have done a lot of research on the benefits of magnesium, reading material on various sites and watching podcasts from eminent medical researchers in the field. Some of what I learned in a nutshell are that after vitamin D, magnesium is the supplement that we are most lacking in. It is difficult to get enough magnesium in our normal diets! 95% of us are magnesium deficient. There are over a dozen reasons for this, one of which is soil depletion...by chemicals such as pesticides!!..  This deficiency in magnesium impacts many systems in the body, especially the brain. It is believed that ADHD is a result as well as depression and anxiety...and IBS...because there is a brain/bowel connection. 

My own personal story is about my daughter, Valerie, our 3rd who was a messy, hyper, little wild thing as a child. She had ADHD for sure although never diagnosed. She had a hard time focussing and we got her tutoring. When she reached her mid teens, I happened to read about the benefits of magnesium on the brain, mood and on the ability to focus. I started giving it to her before tests and exams at school with incredible and dramatic results. She herself would come to me and tell me how much better she was able to study and focus and do well on her tests and exams. In that time period, she changed in a way I never thought possible. She became neat and organized (her room and her person and her thought processes). She became ultra focussed and suddenly started to do extremely well in school...and in university. I won't go on to brag about her successes in life but let's just say she has got it all together. And she, herself will state that it all started with magnesium supplementation. 

I urge you to read up on this natural mineral, magnesium and its extraordinary benefits.  I take 2 tablets of magnesium citrate (or glycinate) every night before bed in order to 

1. help me sleep better and 2. to keep regular in the morning.

I am always in a good mood and at age 65, I do have an extraordinary zest for life...so maybe it has benefitted my brain in ways I never realized. 

Like vitamin C, if you take in too much magnesium...which is highly unlikely, it is just excreted in the urine. 

We are a nation/world with far too many cases of people with mental issues. And perhaps many of them are due to a simple magnesium deficiency.

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