Vitamin D and anxiety: What you need to know 🤔

Does taking vitamin D make you anxious? In this video, you're going to learn why. You've probably heard about vitamin D and how it's so important for your health, your bones, your immune system, anxiety and depression. But what if your vitamin D levels are low and every time you try to supplement with vitamin D you feel anxious? The answer has to do with magnesium. Magnesium and vitamin D are both used by all of the organs in your body, and depleted levels of both of these can make you feel really anxious. Even though insurance doesn't typically cover vitamin D testing, it is widely available. But the problem is the reference ranges are so wide that it's ridiculous. So we have to look at the gold standard called the Vitamin D Society, which says your vitamin D should be around 80, which is all fine and dandy until you supplement with vitamin D and get panicky. Next up, magnesium. When you take vitamin D, it depletes magnesium, and low magnesium can make you anxious. But maybe you're thinking, I've had my magnesium tested and it's normal. Hang with me here because there's a huge snafu with magnesium testing. Your magnesium blood tests can say that your magnesium is normal, even if you have moderate to severe magnesium deficiency. To date, there is no single laboratory test to determine accurately the total body magnesium levels in humans. So what does that mean? When you supplement with vitamin D, always take it with magnesium and its other cofactors, vitamin A, K and calcium. If you're still anxious, you may need to up your magnesium dosage.