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There are even more symptoms. You could have some of them or all of them. The
simplest thing to do is just assume you’re low in magnesium, since most people

are.

When you decide to increase your body’s magnesium, just remember these two
problems:

1. Magnesium is tricky to absorb from supplements. Enteric coated
supplements are hard to absorb, magnesium oxide has low bioavail-
ability and high intestinal alkalinity lowers absorption of all mag-

nesium. Even well-absorbed magnesiums like chloride, lactate and
citrate aren’t fully absorbed unless the dose is low, but higher doses
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2. Healthy foods like leafy greens, nuts and whole grains should give

you plenty of magnesium. But they can’t if the soil where they grow
is depleted. The earth can only give us what it has. Our farm lands
have been stripped. That means, so have our bodies.

HOW TO GET THE MAGNESIUM YOU NEED.

The early believers in bathing in special waters were right, at least when it comes
to magnesium. Native Americans understood too. Geothermal springs were
sacred to them. Enemy tribes would lay down their weapons to soak in the

healing mineral waters. You can do the same thing at places like White Sulphur
Springs, Montana.

Or you can absorb magnesium at home. Epsom salts from any drug store is

a form of magnesium—magnesium sulfate. The only other requirement is a
bathtub and plenty of hot water. Epsom salts is also the secret behind the
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relaxation of float spas – that’s what magnesium does. It relaxes you.

Even easier than bathing or floating in magnesium rich water, try a magnesium
body spray or cream like Ancient Minerals. Leave it on your skin overnight or
wipe it off after about twenty minutes.

Sometimes magnesium spray makes my skin itch a little, so I don’t put it
everywhere—just on my legs— but the results are amazing. The first night I