Magnesium depletes fast during stress and perimenopause, but taking it alone without sodium and potassium can cause fatigue, anxiety, and heart palpitations. Balance all three by adding a pinch of sea salt and potassium chloride powder to your water.
When we're talking about electrolytes, we're talking about three key electrolytes. So we're talking about magnesium, we're talking about sodium, and we're talking about potassium primarily. So when we're under whatever stress your body perceives as a threat, which is everything, magnesium leaves the building. Okay, so it's called the magnesium burn rate, which is why, especially around perimenopause and menopausal women, it's it's quite the thing now to take magnesium because everyone's so depleted in it. Sodium and potassium are also Very very key. They all need to be in balance. They all help each other, and if you take magnesium, it can affect and disrupt further sodium and potassium. So when I hear practitioners talking about magnesium and huge amounts of magnesium without supporting the adrenals with sodium and potassium, people really hit a wall. You can become more fatigued. You can become more anxious. And you can have heart pounding, heart palpitations, that kind of thing. So you can feel good initially, the magnesium's doing its job, and then all of a sudden you'll hit a wall. And then people think, ah, you know, this electrolyte thing is not working for me. But what you want is a source of potassium, and you want a good salt. We're not talking about table salt, we're talking about a sea salt like Maldon or Celtic salt, Himalayan salt. Whatever salt you can get your hands on that's mineralized, right? It hasn't been processed. And a good clean source of potassium. My preferred choice is potassium chloride powder. Buy a big bag of salt and a big bag of potassium chloride and put a pinch of each in your drinking water and go about your merry business.
