Re: Hormones, Foods, and Heart Palpitations

Thanks for your response.
I had blood tests done along with the hormone tests and they came back perfectly fine. I had more blood tests at the emergency room and everything was perfect except my potassium being low. A week later I had another blood test and everything was perfect again.

Serum tests are fairly unreliable in assessing true cellular stores of minerals.  Serum levels can vary from day to day (dietary factors) ... the body always looks to maintain "homeostatis" and will do this by pulling minerals out of storage into the blood in order to keep this equilibrium.  That is why hair analysis or using exatest can provide some better view of the actual mineral stores.  

Are you saying I could be magnesium deficent without it showing up on a blood panel? If so, that would be something to look into.

Yes, a normal magnesium level in serum would be called "normomagnesia"  while cellular could be woefully inadequate.   Magnesium is a gate keeper of many cellular functions that are quite important, regulation of potassium is one of those.  You can google magnesium and Mildred Seelig (md) for some excellent papers on magnesium research.   Of course there are many other resources available on magnesium research.  But keep in mind that it is vitally important and often overlooked.   When I looked last, Medline or PubMed which catalogs all medical journals had over 40,000 articles on magnesium and cardiovascular health.  Seelig has a paper addressing this very issue.    Use the right form for you.  I would also consider supplementing w/ potassium - use a quality form as well.  Check with doctor of course.