Episode 406: Ana Marie Schick: Using Magnesium for Sleep Fitness + Why You Should Skip the Gummies
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What role does magnesium play in sleep?
Hey friends, you're listening to Fitness Friday on the Habits & Hustle podcast, where myself and my friends share quick and very actionable advice for you becoming your healthiest self. So stay tuned and let me know how you leveled up. What about magnesium? Why is it that magnesium helps us fall asleep?
So magnesium, again, so many different forms of magnesium.
What are the different forms of magnesium?
That's the other question I was going to have. There's so many different forms of magnesium. How do you know which one actually works for what? Because it's confusing for me. This is what I do.
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. 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.
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 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.
And this includes alcohol. This includes… Marijuana.
How do alcohol and gummies affect sleep quality?
And these are all, by the way, ways that people are medicating themselves, like Ambien, marijuana, whatever, to fall asleep. So I'm glad that you said that because what I was going to ask you is like a lot of people I know are taking gummies to fall asleep. That's like the new Ambien thing. Especially here where I live in LA, right? Like, I don't even think it's only in LA, but like, it's because it's legal. They're like, okay, I'm going to pop a gummy. It will calm me down. It will like de-stress me. And then I'm going to go to sleep. What is the effects of using gummies as a way to fall asleep? Marijuana? Is it the same type of effect as alcohol in terms of the sleep quality that people are getting?
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.
Why is falling asleep too quickly a concern?
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, 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.
So there's no benefits to it. You're not getting the muscle repair, the hormone, the human growth hormone. You're not getting the emotional, as you were saying earlier, REM sleep. Well, they might get some REM sleep.
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