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