Depression affects the way a person eats, feels, thinks and sleeps. Not getting enough sleep can contribute to depressive disorders. How can you stop this cycle and get some sleep? Depressed people can suffer from sleep onset insomnia which is not falling asleep easy or sleep maintenance insomnia that is difficulty staying asleep, both types result in daytime drowsiness, lack of concentration, moodiness, irritability and stress. Did you know in 2006 there was an article published in the Medical Hypothesis called Rapid recovery from major depression using magnesium treatment and that a magnesium deficiency can actually cause depression as well as other behavioral disturbances, headaches, muscle cramps, seizures, psychosis and irritability that can be reversed with magnesium repletion? WOW! Read more »
Too Much Magnesium Side Effects – Hypermagnesemia
If you do not get enough magnesium you can develop sleep disorders such as not being able to fall asleep easy due to anxiety, insomnia and restless leg syndrome (RLS). It is also known to cause muscle weakness, abnormal heartbeat, low blood pressure, hyperventilation, mental confusion and possibly eye twitches. It is best to contact your doctor to see if you have a magnesium deficiency otherwise too much magnesium side effects are drowsiness, blurred vision, difficulty breathing, coma and muscle paralysis. Although not very common is hypermagnesemia a condition when the kidneys are unable to eliminate excess magnesium from the body. Your body regulates magnesium levels by shifting magnesium into and out of cells. When there is a breakdown or destruction of cells, the electrolyte magnesium moves from inside the cell, to outside of the cell wall. This shift of magnesium outside of the cells causes hypermagnesemia. Read more »