Sources of Magnesium
To get magnesium, you probably need to consume more pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds, as well as leafy greens. You don’t need 4700 milligrams like potassium; you need about 420 milligrams of magnesium. You can also get both of these from a good electrolyte powder, but make sure the electrolyte powder is high quality and doesn’t have hidden sugars.
The Importance of Vitamin B1
So, that will fix the pump, but the very reason why the pump went bad is what we want to talk about next: a deficiency of vitamin B1. When you eat sugar in the body, it has to be broken down into a
smaller sugar molecule called glucose. Then it has to enter the mitochondria
to be turned into energy. In order for it to go from this step to this step, this one little enzyme, transketolase, requires vitamin B1. If you don’t have enough, you will not be able to use that as energy.
