Low magnesium levels increase disease risk, new study shows

It doesn't show this! It shows that there's a correlation between low magnesium, and biomarkers which are themselves correlated with disease. But that could mean anything. Maybe foods that are high in magnesium are also more satiating (because junk food doesn't have much magnesium), so people with high magnesium diets also eat less, making them healthier. Or maybe high magnesium foods also tend to have some other chemical X, which has good health effects even though the magnesium doesn't. Or maybe bad health causes the body to absorb magnesium poorly, or to get rid of too much magnesium. We saw this with vitamin D: low vitamin D correlates with everything bad, because people who are sick and unhealthy get less sun. But supplementing vitamin D doesn't fix the badness.

I salvaged some dandelion roots from one of my beds. They're currently bunched together in a plastic pot - I ought to find a place to put them. Dandelions are easy to grow because they grow themselves back from the roots every spring. Dandelion broth is simple to make: chop up the greens, boil them for an hour, then strain the fiber.

Dandelion nutrients: https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/169226/n...

A magnesium supplement is easy to make with carbonated water and magnesium hydroxide. Purebulk sells powdered magnesium hydroxide, otherwise every grocery store sells this as a liquid laxative in the pharmacy. This pdf has the directions: https://www.afibbers.org/Wallerwater.pdf

My experience is that cheap magnesium oxide tablets act like sleeping pills for me and can be too sedating if I take too many. I've also tried more expensive pills that claim to be more bioavailable but I'm not impressed.