Ever gotten an anxiety attack from smoking pot? Take Magnesium.

It's happened to me many times (I have general anxiety) and I know of at least 4 other people off the top of my head (who don't have an anxiety disorder) that have also gotten anxiety attacks. Nothing serious, just that feeling of "impending doom" and "my heart is skipping beats, I think I'm going to die."

Anyway, I just wanted to highly recommend you consider taking a highly bioavailable Magnesium supplement.

Magnesium Facts:

• 0. According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control) and NIH, 68-80% of Americans are deficient in Magnesium. Basically everyone who reads this topic is likely to have magnesium deficiency. Magnesium is by far the most common nutrient deficiency on planet earth. Magnesium is even more difficult to acquire from your diet in 1st world countries (USA, Canada, UK, etc.)
  
• 1. Magnesium activates your Parasympathetic Nervous System (Rest & Digest) and inhibits your Sympathetic Nervous System (Fight or Flight.)
  
• 2. Magnesium inhibits calcium absorption to a degree. However, magnesium is also necessary for proper calcium absorption (if you want strong bones, you need magnesium to absorb the calcium.) Calcium activates your Fight or Flight response.
• 2.5 Flouride (the stuff in your drinking water and toothpaste) competes for absorption with Magnesium. There is a total of 0 metabolic reactions in your body that require Flouride. There is absolutely no reason why humans require flouride, be it for dental health or anything else.
  
• 3. Magnesium is needed for a properly functioning liver (just because your liver is in fine shape, doesn't mean you're not magnesium-deficient. The human body is amazing at compensating for nutrient deficiencies, for a while until the damage becomes too great and symptoms start showing.)
  
• 4. Magnesium is needed to digest any and all Carbohydrates. All Carbohydrates = Sugar.
  Every time you eat anything with carbohydrates, your body must "spend" magnesium. (Think of the type of food you crave when you have munchies. I'm willing to bet many of you aren't guzzling butter and meat, but you're probably reaching for the cookies, pasta, other high-carb food.)
  
• 5. Magnesium is extremely difficult to get in your diet because of the way we eat our food and the food we eat. People typically eat:
  -High-Carb foods
  -High-Calcium (dairy)
  both of which deplete magnesium.
  
• 6. Plants are good sources of magnesium, however, modern soil is Magnesium-depleted. Plants get their nutrients from soil (obviously.) If there's no magnesium in the soil, the plant will have no magnesium within the cellulose. Chlorophyll (the pigment that makes plants green) has a magnesium molecule in the center.
  
• 7. Processing food removes magnesium. Any time you heat food (pasteurization) or run food through factory machines, magnesium is depleted from the food. Some magnesium was inevitably lost between Mother Nature -> Factory -> dinner plate.
  
• 8. Most magnesium supplements suck. They're in a form that your body can't absorb and they pass through you in your urine and poop.

After I started taking magnesium, my anxiety attacks completely stopped. They didn't even just better, they ceased entirely. I take magnesium twice daily, since I'm a daily smoker.

Many people have experienced relief from anxiety symptoms or anxiety attacks with magnesium supplementation. Even IF you don't get anxiety attacks from smoking pot, it's worth taking a magnesium supplement for the myriad of health benefits. Do your research first before picking any old mag supplement. I can suggest 2 brands, but I won't post them here or mods might think I'm spamming or something. PM me if you wanna know the name.

 

It's from a variety of sources. I'll look through my bookmarks and post it here, but this isn't something I learned recently. I've researched the matter extensively a while ago, for the very exact reason that pot was giving me anxiety attacks and I didn't want to quit pot.

 

I know dozens of chronic stoners who call weed pot. Not sure where you live that people don't refer to marijuana as pot. Evidently it's the same with FluffyBud.

Anxiety attacks are not primarily psychological. Psychological issues can come into play, but that's maybe 5% of the total equation.

You've clearly never had an anxiety attack if you think anxiety = just feeling "shaky."



I'm sensing a smidgen of hostility from you. Perhaps you should try some Magnesium + more pot to calm down?

Go for it. I think it could really help you.

 

Yup. You can also buy Magnesium Taurate, which is Taurine bound to Magnesium. It's a highly bioavailable form that's super good for your liver and not expensive either. If you can afford bud, you can afford a magnesium supplement.

Citrus fruits like grapefruit are CYP450 group inhibitors, so they can really screw with your liver. If you're on any prescription medication, I wouldn't eat or drink any citrus. Not sure if it would do anything for magnesium, since neither magnesium nor taurine are vitamins. Magnesium is a mineral and taurine is an amino acid.

 

I definitely would not take antibiotics and grapefruit or citrus. Your doctor/derm should have told you that when he/she prescribed it to you.

The enzyme inhibitors in grapefruit aren't necessarily bad, but they can allow too much of the drug to remain in your body. Your liver destroys the drug so it can do its job and exit the body quickly. Citrus inhibits the liver's ability to "clean up."

Many people who do recreational drugs will drink grapefruit juice before to get even more fucked up. Less enzymatic activity in liver = get fucked up more.

I believe everyone on planet Earth should be taking magnesium personally.