Magnesium - T NATION

The Mineral Deficiency That Kills Your Gains

TC Luoma — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Can a Mineral Deficiency Lower Your T Levels? If you're an athlete or lifter, you sweat and thus you're likely deficient in zinc, which, along with selenium, maintains high testosterone levels and the immune system. That's a mineral deficiency you certainly don't want. If you're a plain old human, you're also likely deficient in magnesium.

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Anxiety & Depression Treatment: Can a Mineral Help?

Chris Shugart — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 13:00:00 +0000

A Cheap and Simple Depression Treatment? A while back, 126 people diagnosed with mild to moderate depression were each given a bottle of pills. They were told to take one tablet per day as a depression treatment. Two weeks later, half of those people reported feeling a little better. Four weeks after that, those same

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Heart Health Supplements: 5 Strategies You Don't Know

TC Luoma — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Heart Health Supplements: Beyond Cardio & Clean Eating When it comes to your ticker, everybody knows about the merits of fish oil, regular exercise, stress avoidance, not snacking on lard, and trying not to let electrical appliances fall into your bathwater. But there are several lesser-known, albeit equally important, heart health supplements and strategies. Here

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Tip: The First Supplements to Buy

Chris Shugart — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Fill the Gaps, Get the Gains One of the most common questions we get here at T Nation is, "What supplements should I take?" That of course depends on your goals. Are you mainly after muscle gains, fat loss, or performance improvement? Well, whatever the goal, here's a radical idea. Before you buy any muscle

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Tip: Why Your Vitamin D Isn't Working

Chris Shugart — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 11:00:00 +0000

A Butt-Load of Studies If you printed out every scientific study on vitamin D and taped them all together, end to end, the length of that paper would stretch all the way around Kim Kardashian's fake ass... twice. Yeah, that's a LOT of studies. And they pretty much all say the same thing: most people

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Tip: Two Things That Beat Coffee for Workouts

TC Luoma — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Caffeine and Robbing the Sleep Bank Too many of us view sleep as a bank account filled with hours, minutes, and seconds. When we don't have enough time to do the things we want to do during normal waking hours, we just make a withdrawal from the sleep bank by going to bed later. One

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Tip: The Mineral for Chronic Muscle Soreness

Tessa Gurley — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 11:00:00 +0000

Inflammation Is Your Frenemy Chronic inflammation will kill you. It's the root cause of just about every disease or illness you can name. At the very least, it contributes to or exacerbates hundreds of different aliments, from cancer and depression, to diabetes, baldness, and obesity. But without some acute (not chronic) inflammation, you wouldn't gain

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Tip: Get More Magnesium

TC Luoma — Thu, 19 May 2016 15:00:00 +0000

Eighty-five percent of Americans are deficient in magnesium, and that percentage is even higher among athletes. Maybe you think you're immune to such deficiencies because you occasionally buy bananas at Whole Foods, but think again. You'd have to eat nine organic, free trade, non-GMO, fertilized-with-angel-poo bananas to just meet the RDA, let alone meet your

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Tip: Fight Inflammation With These 10 Tips

John Meadows — Sun, 24 Apr 2016 17:00:00 +0000

Inflammation is the body's first response to an injury or infection. Acute inflammation is a normal part of life. The benefit of the temporary discomfort and swelling is that inflammation allows large numbers of immune cells to rapidly move into areas where they're needed to kill any invading microorganisms and begin the healing process. The

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Tip: Maximize Testosterone with Two Minerals

Erick Avila — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 17:00:00 +0000

If you're deficient in zinc and magnesium, as many athletes and rigorous exercisers are, your natural testosterone level will plummet. Here's why and how to fix it. Magnesium Numerous studies on men have shown magnesium to be positively associated with total testosterone. Unfortunately, deficiencies in magnesium are common because people don't generally get enough of

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