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- 0:03Speaker 1: This is Your Pain Game podcast where we talk about
- 0:06Speaker 1: the game of living in and with chronic pain and
- 0:09Speaker 1: trauma get into the heart of how to heal. I
- 0:12Speaker 1: am your host, Lindsay Soprano. On the show, I plan
- 0:18Speaker 1: on discussing with doctors, chronic pain patients, holistic practitioners, loved ones,
- 0:23Speaker 1: and anybody that is interested in having their voice.
- 0:25Speaker 2: Heard in the chronic pain and trauma world that we
- 0:28Speaker 2: live in.
- 0:38Speaker 3: Insomnia, pain, and stress.
- 0:41Speaker 1: Those are words that are spoken in my household every
- 0:45Speaker 1: fricking day, and as you all know by now, I
- 0:48Speaker 1: have issues with all three of those, amongst many others also,
- 0:52Speaker 1: as you know, and I have for as long as
- 0:55Speaker 1: I can remember. Over the years since my painful diagnosis
- 0:58Speaker 1: of CRPS coupled with lime disease, sleep has not been
- 1:02Speaker 1: my friend. Most of it is due to pain and
- 1:05Speaker 1: also busy brain disorder, which I talk about often, and
- 1:07Speaker 1: that busy brain disorder comes from my anxiety, panic, attacks, stress,
- 1:11Speaker 1: all of those things that we talk about a lot
- 1:13Speaker 1: on this show. So what I'm getting at here is insomnia, stress,
- 1:18Speaker 1: and pain is all connected, at least from my perspective.
- 1:21Speaker 3: And I don't know about you, but i'd like to
- 1:23Speaker 3: sleep deeper.
- 1:24Speaker 1: I'd like to stress less, and I want to feel
- 1:26Speaker 1: my absolute best, which I don't even know the last
- 1:29Speaker 1: time I felt wonderful.
- 1:30Speaker 3: That is sad to say out loud.
- 1:33Speaker 1: Without depending on Big Pharma, because you know how I
- 1:36Speaker 1: am about Big Pharma. All these addictive, toxic supplements and
- 1:40Speaker 1: medications that we take. I mean, it just adds up
- 1:43Speaker 1: and adds up in our body and certainly our bank
- 1:45Speaker 1: accounts as well.
- 1:46Speaker 3: And I mean, we have spent so much money on
- 1:48Speaker 3: supplementation to.
- 1:49Speaker 1: Get well, to sleep, to cure this, to cure that,
- 1:52Speaker 1: and I'm sick and tired of it. I'm sick and
- 1:54Speaker 1: tired of being tired. I'm sick and tired of migraines.
- 1:57Speaker 1: I'm sick and tired of anxiety. And I'm still certain,
- 2:00Speaker 1: constantly right for us to find some form of solution
- 2:03Speaker 1: for this. So today I would like to talk about rest,
- 2:07Speaker 1: relief and tranquility by using magnesium. Now, before you're like,
- 2:11Speaker 1: magnesium makes me poop, just wait for our guest today
- 2:15Speaker 1: because she's going to debunk that entire stigma and chat
- 2:19Speaker 1: with us about how we can deliver magnesium straight into
- 2:23Speaker 1: ourselves so we can say goodbye to the Big three,
- 2:26Speaker 1: which I coined for this episode, insomnia, pain, and stress. So,
- 2:30Speaker 1: without further ado, I would like to introduce you to
- 2:33Speaker 1: my guest today, Natalie Dorado.
- 2:35Speaker 4: Hello Darling, Hello, Hello, thanks for having me on. I
- 2:38Speaker 4: am psyched to talk about my favorite topic in the
- 2:41Speaker 4: entire world, magnesium.
- 2:43Speaker 1: Who'd have thought, like we're in elementary school, like I'm
- 2:46Speaker 1: going to be like a gung ho magnesium chick.
- 2:50Speaker 4: Never never would.
- 2:51Speaker 3: I thought never would.
- 2:53Speaker 1: I thought that I would be in a wheelchair for
- 2:55Speaker 1: half of my life either, So you know, shit happens.
- 3:00Speaker 1: So Natalie is the founder of Rooted In. It's a
- 3:03Speaker 1: company with a line of therapeutic magnesium infused moisturizers, right,
- 3:08Speaker 1: not supplements. We're going to talk about that that actively calm.
- 3:13Speaker 3: A word I'm not used to and relax your mood.
- 3:16Speaker 1: Natalie is a sought after thought leader, educator, and speaker
- 3:20Speaker 1: and has worked at the forefront of the wellness industry
- 3:23Speaker 1: for almost a decade. She's considered an expert in all
- 3:26Speaker 1: things magnesium, and her mission is to spread awareness of
- 3:29Speaker 1: this powerful mineral to all who struggle with the Big Three,
- 3:32Speaker 1: Like I said, amongst other ailments, to live their most
- 3:35Speaker 1: vibrant lives. And I don't know about you, but that
- 3:37Speaker 1: sounds pretty awesome to me. So all right, I'm rolling
- 3:40Speaker 1: out the red carpet for you, babe. I'd like to
- 3:42Speaker 1: start talking about what magnesium actually is and why our
- 3:46Speaker 1: bodies need it, and then let's take it from there.
- 3:49Speaker 4: Absolutely. So, magnesium is ultra super uber trendy right now.
- 3:53Speaker 4: You turn on any you know, Instagram, post, TikTok and
- 3:55Speaker 4: all over the place, and a lot of times people
- 3:57Speaker 4: are like, Okay, what is it, I need this, you know,
- 4:00Speaker 4: to go bonkers for it. But it's all it is
- 4:02Speaker 4: is a mineral, right. It's just a mineral that that's
- 4:05Speaker 4: present in our food. It's not a drug. It's not
- 4:08Speaker 4: something we need a prescription for. It's a mineral that's
- 4:10Speaker 4: present in our food that we're supposed to be getting
- 4:13Speaker 4: through our diet. We're supposed to be eating all of
- 4:16Speaker 4: those mineral rich foods and drinking that mineral rich water
- 4:19Speaker 4: so that we can fuel our bodies with magnesium. This
- 4:22Speaker 4: mineral is responsible for over seven hundred different biochemical reactions
- 4:27Speaker 4: in your body.
- 4:28Speaker 3: WHOA seven hundred things? Holynesium? Wow?
- 4:35Speaker 4: It's also present in every single one of our trillions
- 4:38Speaker 4: of cells. So without magnesium, we wouldn't live anymore. Like
- 4:42Speaker 4: it'd be game over. So it is that vital, It
- 4:45Speaker 4: is that unbelievably important to all of our bodily functions.
- 4:49Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, in researching this, it's talking about regulating
- 4:52Speaker 1: muscle and nerve function, balancing blood sugar and blood pressure,
- 4:55Speaker 1: making protein and bone and DNA is supporting immune system
- 5:00Speaker 1: and an energy like.
- 5:01Speaker 3: All of these things. I'm like, holy crap.
- 5:03Speaker 1: So she has this magnesium quiz on her website which
- 5:06Speaker 1: I took and I totally epically failed it, right, because
- 5:10Speaker 1: I know with my stuff, as you guys know, I
- 5:12Speaker 1: have a little, a cute, little eating disorder that happened
- 5:14Speaker 1: with all this pain stuff.
- 5:15Speaker 3: So I definitely don't get a lot of the nutrients
- 5:17Speaker 3: that I.
- 5:17Speaker 1: Need from food because food is now a bigger challenge
- 5:20Speaker 1: than it used to be for me. So why did
- 5:22Speaker 1: you even get into magnesium?
- 5:25Speaker 4: Well, first of all, lindsay, you're not alone, Like up
- 5:27Speaker 4: to seventy percent of our population fails to get enough magnesium.
- 5:31Speaker 4: So like, if you're hearing this, you're probably low in
- 5:34Speaker 4: magnesium too. So it is really unbelievably widespread. It's become
- 5:38Speaker 4: an epidemic because our standard American diet just isn't really
- 5:42Speaker 4: what it's supposed to be. So it really is a
- 5:44Speaker 4: huge issue in our society.
- 5:46Speaker 1: Oh for sure, especially here in America. I mean, I
- 5:48Speaker 1: go travel into Europe, I have no issues with food.
- 5:51Speaker 1: My stomach doesn't have any problems. Wine doesn't drive me crazy,
- 5:54Speaker 1: Like it's it's unbelievable what.
- 5:56Speaker 3: We do to our food here in America.
- 5:57Speaker 4: It's terrible, absolutely true, tragic, what we allow in our
- 6:02Speaker 4: food system and what we are conditioned and programmed to
- 6:05Speaker 4: eat on a regular basis.
- 6:06Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
- 6:07Speaker 1: So we you mentioned in the beginning about being psyched
- 6:09Speaker 1: about magnesium, So talk a little bit about why you're
- 6:12Speaker 1: so psyched and how you got into it, because I
- 6:14Speaker 1: know your story is similar to mine in some nature.
- 6:17Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, So, like most people, our solution comes from
- 6:21Speaker 4: the problems that we personally face.
- 6:22Speaker 3: Right.
- 6:23Speaker 4: So, I was struggling with severe insomnia, sleeping about two
- 6:26Speaker 4: hours a night, and that two hours wasn't even two
- 6:28Speaker 4: hours straight. It was like I'd sleep and then I'd
- 6:30Speaker 4: wake up, and then I'd it was awful. So too,
- 6:33Speaker 4: severe severe insomnia anxiety that just really upended my entire life.
- 6:39Speaker 4: And then coupled, of course by panic attacks. So I'd
- 6:42Speaker 4: be at the grocery store, right in line to check out,
- 6:44Speaker 4: panic attack would happen, leave all the groceries run out
- 6:46Speaker 4: the store. So it was absolutely like I was struggling
- 6:49Speaker 4: to drive, I was struggling to take care of my kids.
- 6:51Speaker 4: I was struggling to hold down a job. Like people
- 6:53Speaker 4: really had gotten out of control. And I was doing
- 6:56Speaker 4: what everybody tells you you're supposed to do, you know,
- 6:58Speaker 4: eating a good healthy pip whole foods diet, and making
- 7:02Speaker 4: sure that you exercise regularly and take time out for yourself.
- 7:06Speaker 3: Air quotes for sure self care.
- 7:11Speaker 4: Yes, of course, when people say, you know, hey, you
- 7:14Speaker 4: just have to stop stressing. Sure I'll do that.
- 7:16Speaker 3: I'll just stop thanks man, Yeah, I'll just knock that
- 7:18Speaker 3: off exactly.
- 7:20Speaker 4: So I was doing everything you're supposed to do, and
- 7:22Speaker 4: I was still really, really struggling. So I did what
- 7:25Speaker 4: most people, you know, most normal people do. You go
- 7:28Speaker 4: to the doctor and you say, hey, doc, i'm not working,
- 7:30Speaker 4: fix me. And so the doctor sent me to a
- 7:32Speaker 4: bunch of specialists. She did so much blood. I took
- 7:35Speaker 4: so much blood work. I felt like a human pincushion.
- 7:38Speaker 4: And when it was all said and down done, she
- 7:40Speaker 4: sat me down and she said, Natalie, there's nothing wrong
- 7:42Speaker 4: with you. She's like, there's your blood work is perfect,
- 7:45Speaker 4: you're in range. Everything's great. And then she sent me
- 7:49Speaker 4: on my way with a litany of prescriptions that all
- 7:52Speaker 4: made me feel like a great out zombie like it
- 7:54Speaker 4: made me feel like somebody had sucked all the color
- 7:56Speaker 4: out of my world and that I felt nothing. And
- 7:59Speaker 4: so in my world, I'd rather feel something than feel nothing.
- 8:02Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah, absolutely.
- 8:05Speaker 4: So I decided, you know that the doctor was not
- 8:07Speaker 4: going to be in charge of what I consider normal.
- 8:09Speaker 4: So my blood work may have been normal, but my
- 8:12Speaker 4: behaviors and the feeling my mental health was not. And
- 8:14Speaker 4: so I decided to take control and just dive into
- 8:17Speaker 4: everything I possibly could. I did acupuncture, I met with nutritionists,
- 8:20Speaker 4: I met with dieticians, I met with energy healers, I
- 8:24Speaker 4: know chirorect I did.
- 8:25Speaker 3: Everything, Yeah, for sure, all the things.
- 8:27Speaker 4: All of the things. Spent all of the money and
- 8:30Speaker 4: did all of the things. And at the end of
- 8:32Speaker 4: the day, it wasn't until I bumped into a random
- 8:34Speaker 4: stranger at a farmer's market. She was an older lady
- 8:37Speaker 4: and her and I got to talking. She's like, have
- 8:39Speaker 4: you tried magnesium. I'm like, lady, I've tried every pill
- 8:41Speaker 4: under the sun. And she's like, no, no, have you
- 8:43Speaker 4: sprayed it on your skin? Put it on your skin.
- 8:44Speaker 4: I'm like, all right, ran to the health food store,
- 8:46Speaker 4: bought a bottle of magnesium spray, sprayed it all over
- 8:49Speaker 4: my body and it itched, irritated and burned the heck
- 8:51Speaker 4: out of my skin. But I slept that night, and
- 8:54Speaker 4: then I kept using it for a week. I went
- 8:56Speaker 4: from sleeping two hours a night to sleeping six hours night.
- 8:59Speaker 4: Anxiety started away. Did not have a panic attack in
- 9:01Speaker 4: an entire week, which was huge for me. Wow, what
- 9:04Speaker 4: made me go, wait a second, This this lady at
- 9:07Speaker 4: the farmer's market, she was onto something, and that spurred
- 9:09Speaker 4: all the research. I kind of went down the rabbit hole,
- 9:12Speaker 4: you know. I got hyper focused on it, went down
- 9:13Speaker 4: the rabbit hole and started realizing that we have a
- 9:16Speaker 4: serious problem in this country, Like people shouldn't have to
- 9:19Speaker 4: spend the amount of money that I spent on treatments
- 9:21Speaker 4: just to get no answers, especially when it's an answer
- 9:23Speaker 4: that's right there in front of us.
- 9:25Speaker 1: Well, and you're talking about all of the blood work
- 9:28Speaker 1: and anybody that has been ill chronic pain, all of us,
- 9:31Speaker 1: we've been through that litany of blood. Like you said,
- 9:34Speaker 1: you're a pincushion. I absolutely understand it because I've been
- 9:37Speaker 1: sliced and diced and poked and prodded.
- 9:39Speaker 3: I'm like, I am not cattle.
- 9:41Speaker 1: Like this is the worst and my body took such
- 9:44Speaker 1: a beating. I mean, some of it's my own fault,
- 9:47Speaker 1: because you know, we all go research and Google is
- 9:49Speaker 1: our worst enemy sometimes and.
- 9:52Speaker 3: You're like, oh, I'll try this ball, try that.
- 9:54Speaker 1: We give everything a try because we always say, well,
- 9:57Speaker 1: let's throw more spaghetti at the wall and.
- 9:58Speaker 3: See what sticks.
- 10:00Speaker 1: I'm still seeking, especially when it comes with sleep, and
- 10:04Speaker 1: pain is what keeps me up, mostly with sleep. But
- 10:06Speaker 1: I've been insomniac since i was nine years old. I
- 10:09Speaker 1: wasn't in pain when I was nine. I had childhood trauma,
- 10:12Speaker 1: which of course came out, and you know, through this show,
- 10:15Speaker 1: I'm trying to work through that. Thank you for being
- 10:17Speaker 1: my therapist. By the way, listeners, it's pretty unbelievable that
- 10:22Speaker 1: something that's natural in our environment, in our world, magnesium
- 10:26Speaker 1: of all things, can tackle all of these ailments. I'm
- 10:30Speaker 1: just I'm I'm just stoked about it.
- 10:34Speaker 4: Absolutely. It's I always like to compare it to like
- 10:37Speaker 4: gas in a car. You know, when you put gas
- 10:39Speaker 4: in your car runs because it's got the right fuel.
- 10:41Speaker 4: But when we fill our car with sugar and processed
- 10:44Speaker 4: foods and all the stuff that's not gas, then the
- 10:46Speaker 4: car is not going to work right. And we are
- 10:48Speaker 4: the same way that because magnesium is involved in all
- 10:51Speaker 4: of those different functions in our body. Without it, our
- 10:54Speaker 4: body just doesn't function the way that it's supposed to it.
- 10:57Speaker 4: It's a foundational nutrient that we need in order to exist.
- 11:01Speaker 3: So when you first decided, you went down all your
- 11:03Speaker 3: rabbit holes.
- 11:04Speaker 1: You're reaching out to nutritionists and doctors and all of this,
- 11:06Speaker 1: and you started this whole journey for yourself. You decided, okay,
- 11:11Speaker 1: this is helping. But you started with that spray and
- 11:13Speaker 1: it was itchy and I wreck. I know because I
- 11:15Speaker 1: did the same thing. It actually burned me. And with CRPS,
- 11:19Speaker 1: I don't know how familiar are with CRPS. It's super rare,
- 11:22Speaker 1: but I feel like I'm on fire twenty four hours
- 11:25Speaker 1: a day from my bone marrow out from head to toe.
- 11:28Speaker 1: So for me, anything that even gives like capsation, for example,
- 11:31Speaker 1: anything that has any kind of like tingling or heat sensation.
- 11:35Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's like I'm standing in a fireplace.
- 11:38Speaker 1: So that rings really true to me about the spray
- 11:41Speaker 1: versus what your products do. So I want to get
- 11:44Speaker 1: into a little bit about how you started. Now I
- 11:47Speaker 1: want to do this for a living. And your story
- 11:50Speaker 1: is great with your family packing things up in your
- 11:52Speaker 1: in your living room and then making a garage out
- 11:55Speaker 1: of it, and your story is so wonderful, So let's
- 11:57Speaker 1: get into that a little bit.
- 11:58Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely, So I start doing all this research and
- 12:01Speaker 4: I started thinking, okay, what we've got to take this
- 12:04Speaker 4: spray and put it into a cream because the spray
- 12:07Speaker 4: is awesome, but it feels horrible. So I'm like, if
- 12:09Speaker 4: you mix it into a lotion and make that lotion
- 12:11Speaker 4: work for us, let's do that. And I started looking
- 12:13Speaker 4: at what is out there, and there are magnesium creams
- 12:16Speaker 4: on the market. Unfortunately, the ones that are out there
- 12:19Speaker 4: are either made on Etsy by some lady in her
- 12:21Speaker 4: kitchen and you don't know if her cats are dancing
- 12:23Speaker 4: all around the formula, and.
- 12:28Speaker 1: I'm dead cats dancing around the kitchen in that sea store.
- 12:34Speaker 4: Look, I don't need from everybody's house. I don't use
- 12:36Speaker 4: products from everybody's else.
- 12:37Speaker 1: Oh my god, exactly.
- 12:41Speaker 4: You know, so you never really know. And the other
- 12:43Speaker 4: side of that is does it have a therapeutic comount
- 12:45Speaker 4: of magnesium? And you can't guarantee that when you're buying
- 12:47Speaker 4: that from somebody who's making it in their kitchen, right,
- 12:49Speaker 4: they can't tell you how much magnesium is actually in
- 12:51Speaker 4: the product. And we know from the studies whether we
- 12:54Speaker 4: need about five hundred milligrams and magnesium chloride twice a
- 12:57Speaker 4: day on our skin in order to adically raise at
- 13:00Speaker 4: raise our magnesium levels. So we know that there is
- 13:03Speaker 4: a therapeutic goal when we're going when we're using magnesium cream.
- 13:06Speaker 4: The other side of the spectrum is that the magnesium
- 13:09Speaker 4: cream is on the market all. The other side of
- 13:11Speaker 4: that is that they all come from like chiropractor's offices,
- 13:13Speaker 4: and they smell, look and feel like medicine. So they're
- 13:17Speaker 4: sticky and they smell like your grandmother's medicine cabinet. Like
- 13:21Speaker 4: you don't want to put it on your skin.
- 13:23Speaker 3: It's like, does it smell like ben gay in hair
- 13:25Speaker 3: or what? Yeah?
- 13:26Speaker 4: Exactly, like you know you know who that person is.
- 13:29Speaker 4: With the ben Gay, I can see right for sure.
- 13:32Speaker 4: And so like I wanted something that felt good, that
- 13:34Speaker 4: looked good, and that would seamlessly replace your regular everyday
- 13:38Speaker 4: body moisturizer. Because the truth is, especially when you've gone
- 13:41Speaker 4: down journeys like yours and eyes, where you've tried every
- 13:43Speaker 4: supplement under the sun, you are sick and tired of
- 13:46Speaker 4: remembering to take a supplement. And now percent of the
- 13:49Speaker 4: time my ADHD kicks up and I'm gonna forget for
- 13:52Speaker 4: at least two weeks in a row. So like I
- 13:54Speaker 4: needed something that was seamless, something that like, Okay, I
- 13:56Speaker 4: already put lotion on every day, let me put on
- 13:58Speaker 4: a lotion that actually does something for me and that
- 14:00Speaker 4: way I don't have to think about it. So that
- 14:02Speaker 4: was the whole intent behind the cream, is to create
- 14:04Speaker 4: something that I can use, my kids can use, my
- 14:06Speaker 4: pregnant friend can use, and my elderly grandmother can use,
- 14:09Speaker 4: like everybody can use it. And it's simple to use.
- 14:11Speaker 1: And I just ordered her products actually the other day,
- 14:14Speaker 1: and so I'm looking forward to trying these out. And
- 14:17Speaker 1: I like that it's a moisturizer, like you're talking about
- 14:19Speaker 1: because especially with us women, every morning we get ready, we're.
- 14:22Speaker 3: Used to doing that. Men not so much.
- 14:24Speaker 1: They stink at moisturizing and they stink at taking care
- 14:26Speaker 1: of their skin and their hair and all of that
- 14:28Speaker 1: because they're not myopically looked at like women are. They're
- 14:34Speaker 1: not waking up putting ama scare lipstick every morning, are they.
- 14:38Speaker 1: So I want to talk about the benefits of magnesium
- 14:44Speaker 1: that you can see fairly quickly with using your product.
- 14:47Speaker 1: Because on the show, I don't do products like I'm
- 14:49Speaker 1: doing right now. I do not do this because this
- 14:52Speaker 1: isn't a show to sell. It's a show to help
- 14:54Speaker 1: give people hope in their living environments. But you, particularly
- 14:59Speaker 1: your and your product is something that I feel very
- 15:03Speaker 1: very strong about.
- 15:03Speaker 3: So can we talk a little bit about that. Yeah?
- 15:06Speaker 4: Absolutely, So. In order to truly truly understand the benefits
- 15:09Speaker 4: of magnesium, we have to understand the symptoms. So what
- 15:12Speaker 4: it looks like what a typical magnesium deficient person is
- 15:15Speaker 4: going to look like. They're going to struggle with sleep,
- 15:17Speaker 4: They're gonna have a hard time falling asleep and staying asleep.
- 15:19Speaker 4: They're gonna have restless legs, they'll have cramping, in their muscles,
- 15:23Speaker 4: muscle twitching. They'll have chronic headaches and migraines. They'll have
- 15:26Speaker 4: hormonal swings and hormonal issues, moodiness, irritability, mind excessive mind chatter,
- 15:32Speaker 4: they'll have I mean, and if you hear these symptoms,
- 15:34Speaker 4: you're like, wow, that's a lot.
- 15:35Speaker 3: That's me.
- 15:36Speaker 1: You literally just listen every single thing that I do.
- 15:39Speaker 1: I like the men, what was the mindless chattering? That's
- 15:42Speaker 1: what I call busy brain disorder. I just like, I'm
- 15:44Speaker 1: trying to solve the world's problems all night long. Oh yeah, absolutely,
- 15:48Speaker 1: But if I think I'm God every problem while making
- 15:51Speaker 1: a real cheese right, exactly, right. Yeah, So that is
- 15:55Speaker 1: that's classical symptoms of magnesium deficiency. And the problem is
- 15:59Speaker 1: it's often referred to as invisible deficiency because if you
- 16:02Speaker 1: go to your doctor with those issues, they're not going
- 16:04Speaker 1: to say, oh, that's probably no magnesium. They're going to say, oh,
- 16:07Speaker 1: you have this, you have this, you give you every
- 16:09Speaker 1: other label under the sun, which is what they did
- 16:11Speaker 1: to me, and not even discuss nutrition.
- 16:14Speaker 4: And the role of these minerals in our diet. So
- 16:16Speaker 4: that's why it's typically overlooked and diagnosed for something else.
- 16:20Speaker 4: So that's why it's so often called the invisible deficiency.
- 16:23Speaker 4: So when we look at the benefits of magnesium, the
- 16:25Speaker 4: benefits are when you give your body the nutrients and
- 16:28Speaker 4: minerals that it needs, it functions the way it's supposed to. Right.
- 16:32Speaker 4: So oftentimes I'll tell people that magnesium is going to
- 16:34Speaker 4: knock you out and help you sleep, but it's also
- 16:36Speaker 4: going to give you energy throughout the day. And people
- 16:39Speaker 4: often ask, Okay, how does it make you sleep and
- 16:41Speaker 4: give you energy?
- 16:42Speaker 3: Right, That's what I'm going to ask.
- 16:45Speaker 4: It's because it helps your body do what your body
- 16:47Speaker 4: is supposed to do. Our bodies are built to be
- 16:50Speaker 4: able to sleep at night and rest and recover, and
- 16:53Speaker 4: our bodies are built to have energy throughout the day
- 16:55Speaker 4: and be able to get all of our things done.
- 16:57Speaker 4: So it literally makes our body do what it's supposed
- 16:59Speaker 4: to do. And so it makes your body function though
- 17:02Speaker 4: just in a wonderful, practical way, right.
- 17:05Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 17:05Speaker 1: And I find that it's interesting and reading more about
- 17:08Speaker 1: this and obviously going through all of your stuff with
- 17:10Speaker 1: a fine tooth com that it also helps, like you mentioned,
- 17:13Speaker 1: boost mood, but it.
- 17:14Speaker 3: Also helps with your workouts. It helps reduce belly fat.
- 17:17Speaker 1: It helps you lose weight again because it's helping your
- 17:20Speaker 1: body do what it's supposed to do. And it sounds
- 17:23Speaker 1: like magic in a jar, right of course it does,
- 17:26Speaker 1: and everyone's like, yeah, yeah, sure, it's a cream.
- 17:28Speaker 3: I don't know, guys.
- 17:29Speaker 1: Everything that I have taken over my entire journey here
- 17:33Speaker 1: with my pain, there has been only a few things
- 17:36Speaker 1: that have worked. And that was changing from normal western
- 17:39Speaker 1: medic medicine to functional That's how I found out I
- 17:43Speaker 1: had lime disease. That's how I found out I had
- 17:45Speaker 1: all these co infections around that.
- 17:47Speaker 3: That's nuts to.
- 17:48Speaker 4: Me, absolutely, And it's funny you said, Akiba's word your cholesterol,
- 17:53Speaker 4: So let's talk about my basic cholesterol.
- 17:55Speaker 3: Let's do that.
- 17:56Speaker 1: Because my cholesterol is three twenty five and I weigh
- 17:58Speaker 1: one hundred and ten down, It's like what And I
- 18:01Speaker 1: don't eat anything that could raise my cholesterol at all.
- 18:05Speaker 4: So it could be and I'm not, of course not diagnosing.
- 18:08Speaker 4: You speak with your functional medicine doctor. Yeah, I will
- 18:10Speaker 4: fine print right, but it could be due to low
- 18:13Speaker 4: magnesium so actually limits the activity of a cholesterol enzyme
- 18:18Speaker 4: called hmg CoA reduct taste, and that enzyme basically is
- 18:23Speaker 4: responsible for turning on and turning off cholesterol. It's your
- 18:26Speaker 4: on off switch for cholesterol. It's the same switch that
- 18:28Speaker 4: drugs like statins activate, right, so cholesterol because they activate
- 18:33Speaker 4: that same enzyme. So magnesium's job in the body is
- 18:37Speaker 4: to activate that shut off switch. And when you don't
- 18:40Speaker 4: have enough magnesium, that switch doesn't get shut off, and
- 18:43Speaker 4: so you're pumping out more and more and more cholesterol.
- 18:46Speaker 4: And so people find that when they start supplementing with magnesium,
- 18:49Speaker 4: they find that they one of the great side effects
- 18:52Speaker 4: is that their cholesterol starts to go down rather quickly actually,
- 18:55Speaker 4: so it really can be an effective way to intervene
- 18:58Speaker 4: with cholesterol.
- 18:59Speaker 1: So how does it work as far as dosing is concerned?
- 19:02Speaker 1: Because it is a cream, right, and so when we
- 19:05Speaker 1: think about supplements, there is a specific pill and there's
- 19:07Speaker 1: a certain amount in it. How do you actually dose
- 19:10Speaker 1: yourself when you're using the cream.
- 19:12Speaker 4: So the beautiful thing about using magnesium on your skin
- 19:15Speaker 4: is that your skin will help regulate how much magnesium
- 19:17Speaker 4: you absorb, so you can't overdose on magnesium through your skin.
- 19:22Speaker 4: I like to compare it to swimming in the ocean.
- 19:24Speaker 4: So the ocean is actually made up of thirty five
- 19:27Speaker 4: percent magnesium chloride, and we can swim all day long
- 19:30Speaker 4: like I'm a Florida girly. We're at the beach any
- 19:32Speaker 4: chance we get, and I can swim all day long.
- 19:35Speaker 4: And nobody ever in the history of time has ever said,
- 19:38Speaker 4: get out of the water. You're going to overdose on magnesium. Right, So,
- 19:44Speaker 4: our skin will regulate how much magnesium we do absorb,
- 19:48Speaker 4: so you can use it freely as often as needed
- 19:50Speaker 4: without ever having to worry. It's also why it's so
- 19:53Speaker 4: safe to use while you're pregnant. It's also safe to
- 19:55Speaker 4: use on your children. Children desperately need magnesium. It is
- 19:59Speaker 4: so un believably overlooked. There are just incredible studies done
- 20:04Speaker 4: on ADHD and children showing that the participants in the
- 20:08Speaker 4: studies who all had ADHD were just severely low in magnesium,
- 20:13Speaker 4: and when they started supplementing with magnesium, a lot of
- 20:15Speaker 4: those symptoms improved. So we are seeing correlations with a
- 20:18Speaker 4: lot of childhood diseases and low magnesium as well. And
- 20:21Speaker 4: it's primarily because our kids are not eating the foods
- 20:24Speaker 4: that are high in magnesium, like spinach, nuts, leafy greens, seeds.
- 20:29Speaker 4: I don't know about you, but my teenagers, like I
- 20:31Speaker 4: have to force them to eat a vegetable. So it's
- 20:35Speaker 4: really hard to get enough magnesium into our children.
- 20:38Speaker 1: And yeah, the diet thing is a huge thing, especially
- 20:40Speaker 1: with kids. I mean, I've got nieces and nephews, and
- 20:43Speaker 1: two of my nephews they literally live on fast food.
- 20:46Speaker 3: That's it.
- 20:47Speaker 1: It's like every single thing that they pay for is
- 20:50Speaker 1: like Jack in the Box and like Uber Eats and
- 20:53Speaker 1: door dashing, and it's all this fast food that is
- 20:56Speaker 1: all they're eating. And it makes me sick to my
- 20:59Speaker 1: stomach to even think about why that's happening, much less
- 21:02Speaker 1: what they're missing out on in their development and their
- 21:05Speaker 1: focus and their mood and their sleep. These sleep they
- 21:09Speaker 1: eat like shit and then they crash and burn and
- 21:11Speaker 1: then they have to sleep like half of the day away.
- 21:14Speaker 1: And it's really frustrating to watch because you're like, guys,
- 21:17Speaker 1: it's a beautiful day out, like let's get out, let's
- 21:19Speaker 1: go do some stuff, and they're totally tired and run down.
- 21:23Speaker 1: And it's really sad because we're watching. It's like an
- 21:25Speaker 1: epidemic with our kids.
- 21:27Speaker 3: You know.
- 21:29Speaker 4: We couple that with the fact that we put these
- 21:31Speaker 4: ridiculous demands on these kids, especially when they're younger, to
- 21:34Speaker 4: stay seated in a classroom for eight hours a day
- 21:38Speaker 4: and then take a bunch of tests and do homework
- 21:39Speaker 4: when they get home. I'm like, oh my goodness, it's
- 21:42Speaker 4: awful what we're doing to our children.
- 21:44Speaker 3: It is.
- 21:44Speaker 1: And COVID didn't help us either at all. And so
- 21:47Speaker 1: we've especially in the younger age brackets where you know,
- 21:51Speaker 1: they didn't have anything. What were they were they all
- 21:54Speaker 1: eating McDonald's time during COVID. I have no idea how
- 21:58Speaker 1: any of it worked, because I wasn't around my nieces
- 22:00Speaker 1: and nephews during that span of time. But it just
- 22:03Speaker 1: it drives me nuts that we tend to do the
- 22:06Speaker 1: quick fix. Our doctors Western medicine specifically, just like you've
- 22:10Speaker 1: mentioned and I have as well, is they're like, well,
- 22:12Speaker 1: you have anxiety, well, let's put you on an anti
- 22:14Speaker 1: anxiety medication. Let's do this for depression, let's do this,
- 22:17Speaker 1: and then they cause all these other side effects and
- 22:19Speaker 1: you're like, wait a second, so now I have to
- 22:20Speaker 1: take this for that side effect because of this pill
- 22:23Speaker 1: that gave me the It's just it's unbelievable, and that's
- 22:25Speaker 1: why I started in the beginning talking about how I
- 22:28Speaker 1: have worked very very hard to not do the big
- 22:31Speaker 1: pharma thing, especially with my pain, and it took me
- 22:34Speaker 1: almost like dying, for me to change my mind about
- 22:38Speaker 1: Western medicine. I mean, they have it has its place obviously, right,
- 22:42Speaker 1: but in our case, for this type of conversation, I
- 22:45Speaker 1: don't feel that it does because a lot of doctors
- 22:48Speaker 1: are now bogged down with paperwork and they're not asking
- 22:51Speaker 1: nutrition questions, they're not asking about lifestyle. They don't have
- 22:54Speaker 1: time to spend with us. And that's what functional medicine
- 22:57Speaker 1: they do. They legitimately spend an hour and a half
- 23:01Speaker 1: with you, like it's wonderful for all of that testing.
- 23:04Speaker 1: So it's clear that magnesium changed your life. I mean
- 23:08Speaker 1: that is a powerful.
- 23:10Speaker 4: Message, absolutely, And and like I said earlier, you can't
- 23:13Speaker 4: supplement your way out of a bad die. So always
- 23:15Speaker 4: make sure you're doing the right steps you're taking, you know,
- 23:17Speaker 4: taking care of yourself, doing everything else. Because a lot
- 23:20Speaker 4: of people will say, well I tried magnesium and it
- 23:22Speaker 4: didn't work, and I'm like, okay, what did you eat,
- 23:24Speaker 4: how are you living? You know, what type did you take?
- 23:27Speaker 4: Don't give magnesium a bad name because you're taking it wrong,
- 23:29Speaker 4: you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so like you know, so
- 23:31Speaker 4: I always had these follow up questions. And when it
- 23:33Speaker 4: comes down to it, most of the time they're taking
- 23:35Speaker 4: the wrong type, or they're living just a fast food
- 23:39Speaker 4: fueled lifestyle, or they're they're you know, maybe not taking
- 23:44Speaker 4: a good quality brand. So there's always more to it.
- 23:46Speaker 4: When somebody says, oh, magnesium didn't work for me.
- 23:49Speaker 1: After researching so much more about this, I fell in
- 23:51Speaker 1: love with this mineral.
- 23:52Speaker 3: I'm because it seems too good to be true.
- 23:55Speaker 1: But how can you well, you know, there are some
- 23:57Speaker 1: people that don't believe in science, so you guys can
- 23:59Speaker 1: just hang up. But when it comes to science based,
- 24:02Speaker 1: you know, information, I tend to follow it. And this
- 24:06Speaker 1: is this is pretty unbelievable.
- 24:08Speaker 4: Absolutely, and I always tell people everything that I'm saying
- 24:10Speaker 4: you can find it on the National Institute of Health
- 24:12Speaker 4: is actually readily available for people to find. It's just
- 24:14Speaker 4: if you don't know what to search for. Just likewise,
- 24:16Speaker 4: if you don't know which questions to ask your physician,
- 24:19Speaker 4: it's hard to know to know what you don't know.
- 24:22Speaker 4: And that kind of leads me to another thing. A
- 24:24Speaker 4: lot of people will go get their magnesium check. They'll
- 24:27Speaker 4: go and say, hey, doc, I heard some crazy lady
- 24:29Speaker 4: talking about magnesium. I need to get my magnesium level shecked. Yeah,
- 24:33Speaker 4: they'll go make that appointment with their physician. They get
- 24:35Speaker 4: a magnesium serum test and the magnesium comes back perfectly fine,
- 24:38Speaker 4: and then they reach out to me saying, well, my
- 24:40Speaker 4: magnesium's fine. What you know. Does that mean they need
- 24:42Speaker 4: to supplement? Yes, one hundred thousand million percent. And the
- 24:45Speaker 4: reason why is because magnesium blood tests are not a
- 24:48Speaker 4: good indicator of overall magnesium deficiency. And that's because about
- 24:53Speaker 4: sixty percent of your body's magnesium is stored in your bones,
- 24:56Speaker 4: the other forty percent is in your muscles, tissues, and organs,
- 25:00Speaker 4: and less than one percent is actually short in your blood.
- 25:02Speaker 4: So if you like, gosh, looks fine, that doesn't mean
- 25:05Speaker 4: that you haven't been struggling with deficiency all throughout your
- 25:07Speaker 4: body for the last ten years, even though your blood
- 25:09Speaker 4: works perfectly fine. So and physicians, unfortunately, they don't often
- 25:13Speaker 4: know that. So it's really important to be informed and
- 25:16Speaker 4: to make sure you have these conversations with your doctors
- 25:19Speaker 4: and ask them the right questions.
- 25:21Speaker 1: And how do you get magnesium tests then that are
- 25:23Speaker 1: accurate with your bones and your muscles and all of that.
- 25:27Speaker 4: So the National Institute of Help has said that there
- 25:29Speaker 4: is no accurate test for magnesium deficiency that's available to
- 25:33Speaker 4: the public. You would have to do some of these
- 25:35Speaker 4: really wild, you know, bone tests. That is just not
- 25:38Speaker 4: something that we have access to. So what they say,
- 25:41Speaker 4: what they recommend is to go based off of your symptomology.
- 25:44Speaker 4: So if you have all of those symptoms of magnesium deficiency,
- 25:47Speaker 4: try it, start supplementing with it, and if your symptoms
- 25:50Speaker 4: go away, then you know it was just magnesium deficiency.
- 25:52Speaker 4: The beautiful thing is magnesium is safe, safe to supplement
- 25:55Speaker 4: with the only people who really should avoid it are
- 25:57Speaker 4: people who have very low blood pressure or people who
- 26:00Speaker 4: have kidney disease, as your kidney's process magnesium and get
- 26:03Speaker 4: rid of any excess, so if those aren't working, then
- 26:06Speaker 4: you could put yourself in danger. So those people need
- 26:08Speaker 4: to be cautious. But outside of that, it's relatively safe
- 26:11Speaker 4: to use.
- 26:12Speaker 1: Does that affect people with diabetes? Just out of curiosity
- 26:16Speaker 1: in terms of does magnesium effect people with diabetes? Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah,
- 26:20Speaker 1: Magnesium actually helps regulate your insulent insulin levels, so people
- 26:25Speaker 1: who have diabetes tend to benefit from taking magnesium. The
- 26:28Speaker 1: other side of that is that sugar will deplete your
- 26:31Speaker 1: magnesium levels. So for every one molecule of sugar that
- 26:34Speaker 1: you eat, it takes fifty four molecules of magnesium to
- 26:36Speaker 1: balance that out. So the more wow, the more sugar
- 26:41Speaker 1: we eat, the more we torture magnesium. The lower magnesium is,
- 26:43Speaker 1: the less responsive we are to insulin. So we see
- 26:47Speaker 1: that there's this real vicious cycle when it comes to
- 26:49Speaker 1: blood sugar and magnesium deficiency.
- 26:52Speaker 3: I honestly cannot even believe this conversation.
- 26:58Speaker 1: I needed to two and a half years ago when
- 27:00Speaker 1: I started this show. Actually, then I probably wouldn't even
- 27:03Speaker 1: have a show anymore because I'd be just fine. No,
- 27:06Speaker 1: everybody knows I'm crazy. I'm never going to be fine.
- 27:09Speaker 1: But when it comes to the magnesium supplementation, because I've
- 27:12Speaker 1: read so much about it, especially in the pain department.
- 27:14Speaker 1: So can you touch this real quick before we hit
- 27:16Speaker 1: the dusty trail here on how magnesium can help with pain.
- 27:20Speaker 4: Absolutely, So, magnesium is responsible for relaxing our muscles, so calcium,
- 27:25Speaker 4: on the other hand, is responsible for tightening our muscles.
- 27:28Speaker 4: So essentially, when our heart beats, since our heart is
- 27:30Speaker 4: a muscle, it's calcium and magnesium doing this beautiful dance
- 27:33Speaker 4: tightening and relaxing that muscle. The issue is is that
- 27:36Speaker 4: in our standard American diet, we get entirely too much calcium.
- 27:40Speaker 4: Like the other day at the grocery store, I saw
- 27:41Speaker 4: calcium and rich cereal, calcium and riched orange shoes, calcium
- 27:45Speaker 4: and rich bread. Everything has calcium in it, and unfortunately
- 27:48Speaker 4: we're not getting enough magnesium. There isn't enough magnesium and
- 27:51Speaker 4: rich products out there to really balance that out, so
- 27:53Speaker 4: we wind up with all of this calcium, not enough magnesium,
- 27:55Speaker 4: and our muscles are constantly tight, tense, twitching, and causing
- 28:01Speaker 4: just pain throughout our body. The other side of that
- 28:04Speaker 4: is that magnesium is an incredibly powerful anti inflammatory. There
- 28:09Speaker 4: was a study done, I believe it was back in
- 28:10Speaker 4: twenty sixteen that tested people's CRP levels right and they found,
- 28:15Speaker 4: you know, participants that all had dramatically high CRP levels,
- 28:19Speaker 4: and after supplementing, they found that those CRP levels went
- 28:22Speaker 4: right back to normal. So they are seeing a really
- 28:25Speaker 4: interesting correlation between high CRP and low magnesium as well.
- 28:30Speaker 1: Wow, I'm well, like I've said, I'm kind of mind blown,
- 28:34Speaker 1: especially because we've tried so many things and it sounds
- 28:37Speaker 1: so simple. But for something so simple that affects so
- 28:42Speaker 1: many processes within our bodies, I'm just like, I'm going
- 28:45Speaker 1: to shout you off the rooftops if this stuff works
- 28:47Speaker 1: for me. I can't even begin to explain I'm going
- 28:49Speaker 1: to make you a millionaire.
- 28:54Speaker 3: Send me an affiliate marketing link. I'm in.
- 28:57Speaker 1: I'll take it seriously because in all of these conversations
- 29:01Speaker 1: that I speak with doctors and practitioners and all of
- 29:04Speaker 1: this about pain, not one time has magnesium shown up
- 29:09Speaker 1: in the conversation.
- 29:10Speaker 4: It is absolutely wild. I feel like Oprah needs to
- 29:13Speaker 4: do a show about magnesium. Like, honestly, I feel like
- 29:15Speaker 4: everybody needs magnesium. It's funny because in our household, anybody
- 29:19Speaker 4: has anything wrong, I'm like, you should need a magnesium
- 29:20Speaker 4: you just know.
- 29:21Speaker 3: Us just cram on.
- 29:25Speaker 4: Everything.
- 29:26Speaker 3: Do you have stocking suffer sizes? You know.
- 29:30Speaker 4: Everybody's getting it this year?
- 29:31Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Well, this is just unbelievable. What an
- 29:34Speaker 1: awesome conversation today. Before we head out of here, is
- 29:38Speaker 1: there anything that you'd like to leave our listeners with.
- 29:41Speaker 4: Just to not accept anybody else's version of normal. You
- 29:45Speaker 4: get to decide what your normal is. No doctor, no physician,
- 29:49Speaker 4: no one else in your world is allowed to tell
- 29:51Speaker 4: you what you consider normal. So don't give up.
- 29:53Speaker 1: Oh I love that for sure, Yes, absolutely, Because our
- 29:56Speaker 1: body is our body and we do not act the
- 29:58Speaker 1: same as the person next to us. Our bodies are
- 30:01Speaker 1: not the same, and I hate that we're treated, especially women.
- 30:04Speaker 1: We're treated like we're making it up, or we're dramatic,
- 30:08Speaker 1: or we're.
- 30:08Speaker 3: Emotional, We're all these things.
- 30:09Speaker 1: We're emotional and we're dramatic because we feel like crap
- 30:12Speaker 1: all the time.
- 30:14Speaker 4: We have so many bands on us all the time.
- 30:17Speaker 3: All the time, for sure.
- 30:18Speaker 1: So she's got we can find her online everywhere at
- 30:21Speaker 1: be rooted in dot com. She is on Insta and
- 30:24Speaker 1: Facebook and TikTok at be rooted, And thank you for
- 30:26Speaker 1: being consistent with your handles.
- 30:28Speaker 3: By the way, it's so much easier to find you.
- 30:30Speaker 1: She's got that magnesium type cheat sheet on our website
- 30:33Speaker 1: as well.
- 30:33Speaker 3: I'll put this in show notes and in social as well.
- 30:37Speaker 1: And thank you so much for educating us on this
- 30:40Speaker 1: incredible magnesium riffic supplementation. Because the pill form. I can't
- 30:46Speaker 1: believe how much of it I have in my house
- 30:48Speaker 1: right now. That's all getting dumped.
- 30:50Speaker 4: Well, thank you, Lindsay for doing what you're doing to
- 30:53Speaker 4: really spread awareness and just help people out all around
- 30:55Speaker 4: the world. It's pretty awesome.
- 30:57Speaker 3: Thanks. I'm doing the best I can, you know.
- 30:59Speaker 1: Like we said in the beginning, I had no idea
- 31:01Speaker 1: that I would ever be doing something like this, and
- 31:03Speaker 1: it is.
- 31:04Speaker 3: It is my joy and my world.
- 31:07Speaker 1: It is my soul food to do this show and
- 31:09Speaker 1: to meet people like yourself. So thanks so much for
- 31:11Speaker 1: being here. I really appreciate it. You are exclusively invited
- 31:14Speaker 1: to share this magnesium Riffic VIP.
- 31:18Speaker 3: Pain journey together.
- 31:19Speaker 1: Let's get to the heart of how to heal with
- 31:21Speaker 1: you by my side. There's absolutely got to be one
- 31:25Speaker 1: of you out there that needed to hear this conversation
- 31:27Speaker 1: right or you know somebody that needed to send them
- 31:30Speaker 1: our way. Both Natalie and I are here. We will
- 31:32Speaker 1: one hundred percent answer questions that you might have. You
- 31:35Speaker 1: can reach out to me on social media and I
- 31:37Speaker 1: can connect you with her. If you have any additional
- 31:39Speaker 1: questions about these products.
- 31:40Speaker 3: And about magnesium as a whole.
- 31:42Speaker 1: I would love to help all of you guys feel better,
- 31:46Speaker 1: including myself. That's what we do here right give our
- 31:48Speaker 1: pain some purpose. Please follow the Pain Game Podcast wherever
- 31:52Speaker 1: you digest your podcast content, we.
- 31:54Speaker 3: Will be there.
- 31:55Speaker 1: Visit us at the pain gamepodcast dot com and follow
- 31:58Speaker 1: us on all the socials. Thanks for listening my little VIPs.
- 32:02Speaker 1: Catch you on the other side.