In addition, the magnesium in oral supplement form can interact with some types of antibiotics and other medicines. High doses of magnesium from oral supplements or medications can cause nausea, abdominal cramping and diarrhoea. Transdermal magnesium, meaning absorption through the skin, is the preferred method of increasing magnesium stores as edible variations of the mineral can cause digestive discomfort. Prolonged soaking in Epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) has been shown to effectively increase blood magnesium concentrations. The Australian Bureau of Statistics suggests that 1 in 3 people do not meet the minimum daily magnesium requirements.

Magnesium is involved in over 300 enzymatic reactions in the body and is necessary for energy, to utilise glucose within the body, for muscle contraction, nervous system function, protein synthesis, bone development, the balance of ions within cells and for nearly all hormonal reactions. They also showed a 50.5 percent decrease in cortisol spikes during stressful situations. In a recent study, people who floated eight times in two weeks saw their cortisol decrease by 21.6 percent.

Sensory deprivation has been shown to lower these damaging cortisol levels. In short, we inherently suck at multitasking in a world that rewards and encourages it and we are becoming increasingly unhealthy - physically, mentally and emotionally - because of it. The foremost reasons being constant attention shifting uses up the fuel required to maintain focus, splitting attention during study recruits new data to be kept in incorrect and inconvenient places in the brain - meaning that later recall becomes difficult and inefficient and the system of reward/pleasure chemicals become reliant on ever increasing stimulation as each hit of dopamine we receive becomes less satisfactory over time. Neuroscientists are considering this addiction to hyper-connectivity to be harmful in many ways. This results in chronic stress that if unaddressed causes damage to brain regions responsible for learning and memory, emotional regulation, attention, executive functioning and higher order processing - aka the “CEO” of your brain.

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