Andrew Huberman· PhD
Despite magnesium's critical role in over 300 enzyme processes and its importance in muscle functions, energy production, and electrolyte balance, half the country doesn't even meet the RDA.
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Despite magnesium's critical role in over 300 enzyme processes and its importance in muscle functions, energy production, and electrolyte balance, half the country doesn't even meet the RDA.
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it's an important cofactor for a lot of the most essential you know sort of chemical reactions going on in our body magnesium is so it's it's really important
magnesium is is a co-actor in at least 300 enzymatic systems in the body it is very important as a co-transporter for the movement of potassium and calcium across membranes
how this smoothie is high in magnesium and how magnesium is a cofactor for over 300 different enzymes in the body and how magnesium is at the center of the chlorophyll molecule.
magnesium is a co-actor for about 300 different enzymes in our bodies which are special proteins that perform functions magnesium is required for these enzymes to work properly so to put that into perspective our bodies have around 75,000 types of enzymes so the enzymes that need magnes magnesium make up about 0.4% of all the enzymes in our body