Maximizing Magnesium Benefits with Mineral Rich Foods and the Root Cause Protocol

Magnesium rich food sources

Magnesium is a critical nutrient for optimal health that most people are deficient in.

Enhancing your magnesium intake can improve periods, decrease PMS, prevent headaches and migraines, support better sleep, reduce stress, ease muscle aches, boost energy, and so much more! 

Magnesium helps our body to process other minerals, vitamins, and neurochemicals. Plus, it supports our body to fight off infections. It’s incredibly important!

There used to be much more magnesium in people’s diets due to soil health and more nutritious foods, but now 80% of people are deficient in magnesium! So most likely, you need more magnesium. 

Some of the best foods for magnesium are:

  • Dark chocolate

  • Wheat bran

  • Cashews

  • Pumpkin seeds

  • Sunflower seeds

  • Flaxseeds

  • Peanuts

  • Mackerel

  • Salmon

  • Avocados

  • Black beans

  • Quinoa

  • Spirulina

  • Dried figs

  • Yogurt

  • Raw milk

  • Bananas

  • Swiss chard

  • Spinach

  • Almonds

  • Grass-fed beef

  • Mineral water

  • Brazil nuts

  • Organic chicken

  • Halibut

You can also supplement with magnesium and take Epsom salt baths. However, it’s also important to raise your potassium levels to be able to absorb the magnesium. Adrenal cocktails are great to support potassium.

The Root Cause Protocol is very supportive of increasing magnesium levels in the body through whole food nutrition and evidence-based research.

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Magnesium and the Root Cause Protocol

The Root Cause Protocol

I am impressed with the evidence-based nutrition research shared by Morley M Robbins and his Root Cause Protocol on the vital importance of magnesium and copper for optimal biological health.

I highly recommend reading his book, CUre: Your Fatigue by Morley M. Robbins.

This book has a ton of info including lots of science supporting his nutritional advice, but you can also download his free Root Cause Protocol Handbook at his website here - which is a great concise reference to have with all the summarized recommendations for optimizing whole food nutrition, magnesium and copper, and why. 

[CU]re: Your Fatigue by Morley M. Robbins

Robbins explains a deeper understanding of how magnesium and copper are of prime importance in the body for energy production and mitochondrial health.

How synthetic vitamins, multivitamins, iron supplements, and other popular nutrition supplements and additives actually increases oxidation, cellular damage, and fatigue by depleting our magnesium and copper resources and causing the storage of iron in the tissues and organs.

How most people are magnesium deficient and when we have proper magnesium levels, then more of the other nutrients our body needs become bioavailable and our body naturally is able to get the iron, zinc, copper, and other micronutrients it needs from good food - and produce our own hormones, like Vitamin D.

Over the past two years, many people have encouraged taking a lot of ascorbic acid, Vitamin D, and zinc to support immune health. But these very vitamins could be causing mineral dysfunction, hormone disruption, and fatigue and are best not to be taken in synthetic forms. This could lead to adrenal exhaustion, mood issues, anxiety, brain fog, and more.

Whole food nutrition and optimal mineralization are critical to energy production and cellular health in the body.

I had already been doing some of the supplements that were recommended in this protocol, such as grass-fed beef liver and whole food vitamin C, but after reading the book threw away the last of my other vitamins that had zinc, Vitamin D, or B in them, and am focused on whole food sources of vitamins and minerals, plus upping my magnesium. I’ve also added in adrenal cocktails each day and that feels very helpful for energy, hydration, and minerals.

I am excited to have an evidence-based nutritional strategy for optimizing my mineralization!

In addition, I’ve been using the LifeWave X39 phototherapy patches which stimulate a copper peptide in the body which is vital for stem cell production. I’m excited to maximize my bioavailable copper in my body through whole food nutrition to support the resources being abundant to support stem cell production!

I feel that this nutritional plan is an excellent combination with the LifeWave patches for activating stem cells and have been feeling increased energy, better sleep, and mental focus by using both methods together.

Before adding in more supplements, the first thing to do is stop things that are preventing optimal magnesium and copper use in the body.

The Root Cause Protocol recommends first stopping supplementing or consuming fortified foods with: iron, calcium, Vitamin D, ascorbic acid or citric acid, zinc, and avoiding high fructose corn syrup, industrialized omega-6 oils, and processed foods.

Then, in addition to eating whole foods that are rich in magnesium as listen above, people can add in food-based nutrient-rich supplements.

Supplements to Support Bioavailable Magnesium & Copper:

These are all minerals and nutrients to optimize magnesium levels, increase energy, and fight fatigue recommended in the Root Cause Protocol, see the book [CU]re: Your Fatigue for more info.

Mineral Drops - add to water for trace minerals including magnesium, copper, sodium, potassium, and boron

Adrenal Cocktails - whole food vitamin C, mineral-rich sea salt, potassium to nourish adrenals and balance potassium and sodium which is needed for the body to utilize magnesium. Morley Robbins recommends drinking one or two adrenal cocktails a day before starting supplementing with magnesium.

Whole Food Vitamin C - in addition to the whole food vitamin C in the adrenal cocktail, the body can use whole food vitamin C but not citric acid, ascorbic acid or synthetic vitamin C (much of which is conventional grown on black mold cultivated on GMO corn syrup).

Magnesium - Magnesium malate in the morning, magnesium glycinate in the evening, Epsom salt baths in the evening, topical magnesium lotion or oil in the evening.

Grass-fed Beef Liver - highest food source of bioavailable copper and great natural source of Vitamin B-12 and folate

Cod Liver Oil - natural bioavailable source of vitamin D

I share the beef liver, magnesium, minerals, cod liver oil, and adrenal cocktail that I use, which are all approved in the RCP, in my wellness faves page here.

Optimizing mineralization in the body is key to supporting a healthy metabolism, cellular repair, energy, sleep, mood, and more.

Magnesium is a critical mineral that enhances our health in a myriad of ways.

Supporting your magnesium levels can enhance your overall health and reduce your stress!

Many blessings,

 
WellnessKara Maria Ananda