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This Stops Insulin Resistance by 71%. Or does it...?

This Stops Insulin Resistance by 71%. Or does it...?

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A YouTube video claimed magnesium cuts your risk of insulin resistance by 71 percent and lowers your chance of type 2 diabetes by 47 percent over 20 years. Those numbers are real, but look at where they come from. Both figures come from observational studies where nobody was actually given a magnesium supplement. People simply reported what they ate, and the ones eating the most magnesium happened to be eating the most whole food and the most fibre. When researchers strip out the effect of fibre, the link between magnesium and insulin resistance largely disappears. Magnesium was simply travelling alongside the food that actually mattered. When magnesium is tested properly, on its own, against a dummy pill, the effect on insulin resistance is small. It barely touches fasting blood sugar, insulin, or your long term marker HbA1c unless it's taken for months or years. The same video claimed vitamin D dropped diabetes progression from 28 percent down to 3 percent. The large careful trials show a real reduction of around 11 to 12 percent, and often not even large enough to be confident it isn't down to chance. There's a safety point worth knowing too. The suggested upper limit for supplemental magnesium is 350mg a day. Go above that and it commonly causes diarrhoea, which can leave you dehydrated and flush out other minerals your body needs. The standard blood test for magnesium is close to useless as well, since only around 1 percent of your body's magnesium is actually sitting in your blood. What genuinely shifted the numbers in proper trials was lifestyle. In the Diabetes Prevention Program, people who changed how they ate, moved, and walked around 150 minutes a week cut their diabetes risk by 58 percent. Metformin, one of the most prescribed diabetes drugs on the planet, only managed 31 percent. If you already eat real, whole food and move your body regularly, you're almost certainly getting plenty of magnesium from your plate already, and adding a supplement on top is unlikely to make any noticeable difference. The full list of research references for this video is in the description of the YouTube version. Disclaimer: This is not personal medical advice and does not override what your doctor says. #dralex #magnesium #insulinresistance
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