Ana Marie Schick
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Episode 406: Ana Marie Schick: Using Magnesium for Sleep Fitness + Why You Should Skip the Gummies
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Episode 406: Ana Marie Schick: Using Magnesium for Sleep Fitness + Why You Should Skip the Gummies
The wrong types of magnesium at the wrong types of day because excessive amounts of magnesium can also cause you to use the restroom. So it's typically when I supplement with magnesium, which I do, I take mine at night because I know that I feel like it helps me fall asleep. And I don't take a sleep supplement. We're trying to get people off of dependency of chemicals in general. Right.
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Episode 406: Ana Marie Schick: Using Magnesium for Sleep Fitness + Why You Should Skip the Gummies
And this includes alcohol. This includes… Marijuana.
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Episode 406: Ana Marie Schick: Using Magnesium for Sleep Fitness + Why You Should Skip the Gummies
So the sleep quality is terrible. I have not spoken yet to someone who can show me their hypnograph, their sleep quality, having fallen asleep using CBD, THC, marijuana, alcohol. They'll fall asleep fast. but they won't stay asleep and get quality sleep. And especially with alcohol, they won't stay asleep because A, it's a diuretic. They'll have to get up and use the restroom.
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Episode 406: Ana Marie Schick: Using Magnesium for Sleep Fitness + Why You Should Skip the Gummies
And B, it elevates their body temperature. So they're not going to get that deep sleep, right? Because it's sugar. So you're burning off that sugar, the alcohol, and so it elevates your body temperature. You may fall asleep, but it's not going to be quality sleep. And then the same thing happens with marijuana. What we have found in hypnographs is that even though it mellows you out,
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Episode 406: Ana Marie Schick: Using Magnesium for Sleep Fitness + Why You Should Skip the Gummies
It's not slow brain waves that occur, so it's not deep sleep that occurs. So they might get sleep, but it's not quality sleep. It's not restful sleep. What is it then? It's very light stages of sleep.
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Episode 406: Ana Marie Schick: Using Magnesium for Sleep Fitness + Why You Should Skip the Gummies
They'll probably have the vivid dreams, right? Right, that part. They'll get that part. So they're sorting through the memories, but then they're never getting to the point where they're filing them permanently. Right, and restoring their body. And restoring, right. And so that's an issue that, you know, people are like, oh, but I have to have my gummies to fall asleep.
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Episode 406: Ana Marie Schick: Using Magnesium for Sleep Fitness + Why You Should Skip the Gummies
Again, maybe here and there might be your stopgap solution because you can't fall asleep. Right, right. I'm not going to say nobody should ever do it. I'm not going to recommend it either. But sleep quality is just not there. It is just not there with people that use gummies for sleep. What's worse? I'm sorry. I hate to be the messenger.
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Episode 406: Ana Marie Schick: Using Magnesium for Sleep Fitness + Why You Should Skip the Gummies
I mean, I think they're one in the same when you look at someone's sleep score. They're the same? I would say so. Probably worse as alcohol, mainly because of the effects that it has on the metabolism and on body temperature. But I would say either way, it's just not sustainable for quality sleep over a long period of time. It just isn't.
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Episode 406: Ana Marie Schick: Using Magnesium for Sleep Fitness + Why You Should Skip the Gummies
You know, people a lot of times, excuse the interruption, a lot of times people say, oh, I had some procedure and I had the Michael Jackson drug or I had the propofol. It's also not restful sleep. When a nurse comes in and says, get ready for a nice nap, it's a nap, but it's not a nice nap. It's not quality sleep. Again, they've tracked brainwaves of people who are under anesthesia.
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Episode 406: Ana Marie Schick: Using Magnesium for Sleep Fitness + Why You Should Skip the Gummies
It's very light sleep. It's sleep. You're closing your eyes, but it is not quality sleep.
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Episode 406: Ana Marie Schick: Using Magnesium for Sleep Fitness + Why You Should Skip the Gummies
So magnesium, again, so many different forms of magnesium.
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Episode 406: Ana Marie Schick: Using Magnesium for Sleep Fitness + Why You Should Skip the Gummies
Yeah.
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Episode 406: Ana Marie Schick: Using Magnesium for Sleep Fitness + Why You Should Skip the Gummies
That's a really good question. And I'll start answering it by saying, I could already tell what that does for you because of your smiling and your body language and telling me about it. It's mindset, right? So again, the signals that we're giving our brain, like, this is a good thing for me. Relax. Relax. I'm smiling. I'm happy.
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Episode 406: Ana Marie Schick: Using Magnesium for Sleep Fitness + Why You Should Skip the Gummies
I'm not bogged down by the stresses of the day and the stresses of tomorrow. I'm able to check out. Exactly. And it's not like the news and it's not like things that are depressing you or adding more stress and anxiety to your day. If that is what makes you feel relaxed and if that is what helps you get there, then that's what you need to do. Should we do it while we're lying in bed?
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Episode 406: Ana Marie Schick: Using Magnesium for Sleep Fitness + Why You Should Skip the Gummies
I would suggest against that because, again, we're giving the brain the signal of, oh, okay, well, we can do this in bed instead of sleep in bed. So I would recommend against. I just recommend against having a TV in the bedroom, period. Yeah. But... If that is what it takes, you know, a lot of times if you think about what does it take to get me, I call it down, we call it down-regulating.
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Episode 406: Ana Marie Schick: Using Magnesium for Sleep Fitness + Why You Should Skip the Gummies
What does it take to send the brain the signals because I'm not in a cave anymore and I don't have the sun setting in my living room? What does it take for my brain to say, okay, let's go? It's time. It's now time because it's habits. Again, it's habits. It's what we're telling our bodies, what we're telling our brains. That's what we're going to put out is the result of the signals, right?
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Episode 406: Ana Marie Schick: Using Magnesium for Sleep Fitness + Why You Should Skip the Gummies
So if you think about the routine that we create for babies, right? Is it a lullaby? Is it a book? Is it a warm bath? Is it... Whatever it is, some people like sleep music, some people like a noisemaker, some people like comedy before bed. Whatever it is that works for you, that's what you need to do.
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Episode 406: Ana Marie Schick: Using Magnesium for Sleep Fitness + Why You Should Skip the Gummies
So what magnesium ultimately, in a nutshell, it is for muscle and tissue relaxation, right? So a lot of people have the tension from the day, from the stress, from the workouts, from your day-to-day activities. And so the magnesium helps to release that tension, relieve that, and get into balance. and stay into that sleep cycle, those sleep cycles that you want to be in.
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Episode 406: Ana Marie Schick: Using Magnesium for Sleep Fitness + Why You Should Skip the Gummies
And if you're qualifying your sleep, whether it's with a sleep tracker or not, if you find the next morning that going to bed and beforehand you watch some comedy, if that works for you, that's what you need to do.
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Episode 406: Ana Marie Schick: Using Magnesium for Sleep Fitness + Why You Should Skip the Gummies
A lot of people like to take magnesium or Epsom salt baths, right? So again, a different form of magnesium, and you can absorb it through your skin as well. And then the bath, the warm bath, helps you kind of relax. So whatever, whether you're taking it or whether you're absorbing it, cutaneously, whatever you find that helps you. And that's what we tell people.
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Episode 406: Ana Marie Schick: Using Magnesium for Sleep Fitness + Why You Should Skip the Gummies
We've got to meet you where you're at. What helps you and what doesn't help you? And a lot of this has to do with documenting. Just like when you're doing a fitness plan or a nutrition plan, what seems to be working and what can we tweak? What can we change? So that has a lot to do with it. So a lot of people will find that