Paul Saladino· MD
the rda for magnesium is really absurd it's basically impossible to get the rda for magnesium by eating any food in this grocery store without supplementing you'd have to eat tons of almonds tons of kale you can't even do it
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the rda for magnesium is really absurd it's basically impossible to get the rda for magnesium by eating any food in this grocery store without supplementing you'd have to eat tons of almonds tons of kale you can't even do it
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I also incidentally had a pretty significant magnesium deficiency when I was a raw vegan but I was eating tons of things like kale and my and almonds which are supposed to be great sour of magnesium
Why the magnesium RDA might not be enough
these levels are set based on the minimum amount of magnesium necessary to avoid severe Health consequences they are not set on the optimal levels necessary to ensure maximum function in the over 300 different biological processes in your body that are magnesium dependent