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Magnesium is a mineral that is essential for healthy bones, muscle, nerves, and maintaining healthy blood sugar levels. 

It is one of the most common nutritional deficiencies, followed by vitamin D, Approximately 80% of women are deficient in it! 

The only way to know for sure if you are deficient in magnesium is a blood test.

Magnesium – What It Is & Why You Need It

Below are the symptoms of low magnesium. If you are experiencing any of these, see your health professional to get tested.

•Muscle pain and spasms from feet cramps to chest pain (due to spasms in your heart muscle), and even restless leg syndrome
•Headaches and migraines
•Feeling constantly fatigued or weak
•Depression, anxiety and edginess
•Craving chocolate (cacao is high in magnesium)
•Quick exhaustion during exercise
•Insomnia and mid-night waking

Magnesium also plays a huge role in hormonal balance.
Namely:

1. Improves the thyroid function
2. Supports estrogen detoxification of harmful metabolites
3. Lowers blood sugar levels
4. Lowers adrenalin and cortisol
5. Supports testosterone production (women have testosterone, too!)
6. Increases serotonin
7. Increases DHEA

It’s also used to treat constipation and heartburn.

With this in mind, eating magnesium-rich foods such as dairy products, whole grains, leafy green vegetables, seeds, nuts, and legumes should be a dietary priority.

Spinach, Dark Chocolate, Pumpkin seeds, Almonds, Black beans, Avocado, Figs, Yogurt or kefir, and Bananas all are sources of magnesium 

If you need to supplement, this is the Magnesium supplement I use daily. It’s infused with Vitamin C and Bioflavonoids making it crazy effective and gentle on the body.

Check out my other health and wellness posts.

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*This September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month post contains affiliate links

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Only 4% of the National Cancer Institute’s budget is directed to pediatric cancer.

4%? Kids are not little adults. They need more research for chemo and other therapies just for kids!

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

Here are some warning signs of childhood cancer.

These are the major warning signs. But my cancer kid didn’t have any of these!

Appetite changes, but no weight loss. Kid just got picky, and didn’t like anything anymore. Including their favorite snack cake.

We had been going to the pediatrician for about a month with breathing issues. Only when laying down. We spent so many nights watching the kid to make sure they didn’t stop breathing. Put the kid in our bed, propped up on pillows so they could breath. Kid did not understand why we kept waking them up at night to sit up.

Pediatrician said asthma, and was treating for that but it didn’t help. We finally went to the ER one night. Kid was misdiagnosed by the ER doctor. But that chest xray led to the radiologist finally recognizing a problem.

A mass the size of a grapefruit in the kids little chest. Not a typical presentation for leukemia. Pediatrician sent us to a pulmonologist at UK. Poor pulmonologist had to be the one to tell us our kid had some kind of cancer, and sent us down the hall to the oncologist. We were admitted that day.

Kid is now a survivor! Coming up on 22 years since diagnose!
If you see that something is off with your kid, keep going to the doctor until you get an answer! Don’t let them put you off! Mom and Dad know when something is wrong!!

Books I Recommend

For more information, visit my Childhood Cancer Awareness Resources page.

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This What is Wellness post contains affiliate links

“Health and Wellness” is a phrase that has been around for years. It’s still going strong, and only getting more popular.

But what is wellness??

What is Wellness?

Dictionary.com defines wellness as:

1. the quality or state of being healthy in body and mind, especially as the result of deliberate effort.

2. an approach to healthcare that emphasizes preventing illness and prolonging life, as opposed to emphasizing treating diseases.

So wellness is not just one thing.

It’s everything we do to try and stay healthy. The food we eat, the exercise we do, the supplements we take, our mental and emotional health.

Wellness is the whole package. Emotional health, mental health, and physical health.

Most of the time we think that Healthy = not sick.

But it’s more than that. It’s being proactive. We need to make sure we are doing everything we can to maintain our mental, emotional, and physical health.

Start Your Wellness Journey

It’s never too late to start! It doesn’t matter our age.

If you are not where you would like to be with your health and wellness. Start now!

Start with a visit to your doctor.

Then start slowly making changes in your diet, your exercise routine, and your supplements. It’s been proven that if we make slow changes, instead of big changes all at once, we are more apt to keep up with the changes we do make.

Try and focus on your mental and emotional health every day, too.

Do something you enjoy, just because you enjoy it. Surround yourself with people that build you up, not tear you down. Religion is a big part of mental and emotional health as well.

If you need help making changes, I recommend finding a health coach. (It’s what I want to be when I grow up! lol)

You might also like Give the Gift of Wellness, and How to But the Best Hand Sanitizer.

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