Dr Pete's Health Secrets

    There are lots of supplements and multivitamins out there being marketed aggressively by big pharma, no wonder we get confused.  When one of the highest paid sportswomen in the world, tennis star, Maria Sharapova, failed a drug test, she tested positive for Meldonium.  She claimed that she used the drug to treat a magnessium deficiency which adversely affected her health and exercise tolerance. Whatever the merits of her case, it brought into the limelight the importance of magnesium a largely overlooked mineral. Magnesium is a very valuable mineral to the human body, but it is not a nutrient you usually hear about. For the rest of us we probably don't know we are deficient. Unfortunately, because of this lack of information about the mineral, many people come out as magnesium-deficient. It is the 4th most abundant mineral in the body after Calcium, Sodium and Potassium. Yet 60% of American adults are deficient in Magnesium. The daily requirement of t...