Microblog: Carnivore Foods High in Magnesium

I’m a fan of beef-only but only while healing.

🦄There are stories of beef-only for decades but for many, it’s not an ideal long-term diet.

Magnesium is one reason why.

⚠️For many, magnesium is hard to come by on a meat-based diet. If you stick to beef only, it becomes increasingly difficult.

⚠️If you are male, it’s even more difficult (the recommended DV for men is ~35% higher than for women: 420 vs. 310 mg).

⚠️Add carbs to the diet, and the need of magnesium becomes even greater.

❗️Remember, sugar intake has shown to increase the excretion of magnesium by the kidneys. So, more sugar intake requires more magnesium.

PMID: 16808892, 26322160

🐮The truth is that magnesium isn’t rich in any part of the cow. Even the liver.

👥The RDAs don’t hold true for every single person (RDAs are set for the average person and if the average person is sick…)

💡But magnesium is one mineral you don’t want to skimp on.

🥩EVEN IF you eat 32 ounces of ribeye daily, you won’t hit 50% of the DV.

❗️Beef only isn’t ideal and why many carnivores struggle with leg cramps.

Magnesium isn’t like vitamin C.

⚡️Magnesium is needed as a spark plug. It’s involved in 600+ cellular reactions, like making DNA.

Magnesium also helps muscles contract.

⬇️Mg deficiency can cause high blood pressure, cardiac arrhythmia, cardiovascular disease and sudden cardiac death.

💔Yes, low magnesium can cause heart attacks.
PMID: 23719551

So yeah, magnesium’s pretty important.

⚠️And before you blame a carnivore diet for magnesium deficiencies, 50-80% of people ARE deficient in magnesium. PMID: 29387426

💇🏼‍♀️PS. blood levels DO NOT reflect intracellular levels. HTMAs shine here.

💡Maybe eating a meat-only diet gets you closer to root cause healing, like figuring out magnesium deficiency.

☀️If you’re deficient in magnesium, you can’t properly metabolize vitamin D. (you also need good gallbladder/liver function (bile) to best utilize vitamin D).

⛑If you’re low in vitamin D, first look at magnesium. If you’re low in magnesium, first look at your sugar load.

🌈Eat a rainbow of meats. Your body will thank you for it.