You wake up in the morning after tossing and turning all night, plagued with leg cramps. Then upon rolling out of (the wrong side of the) bed, you drag your aching body to the kitchen for the essential cup of coffee. Still tired, you threaten the kids with time out, and then develop a headache before you even get to the office.
Sound familiar? If it does, you may have a magnesium deficiency. Magnesium is easily depleted by stress, coffee, alcohol and a poor diet. Even a marginal deficiency can manifest as muscle cramping, twitching and discomfort, headaches, irritability, low mood, insomnia and low energy.
So don’t just carry on being a tired, sleepless, grumpy, crampy, twitching monster…