The Magnesium Crisis
Why Your Anxiety, Fatigue, and Muscle Tension Might Be From A Magnesium Deficiency
SECTION 1: Introduction
Imagine this: you're doing everything right. The organic diet, the evidence-based training routine, perfect sleep hygiene, and all the stress management protocols in the world. Yet, you're still dragging yourself through days fueled by coffee and willpower, battling anxiety that comes from nowhere, and wondering why your muscles feel like they refuse to chill out. Here's the uncomfortable truth that explains why so many health-conscious people remain stuck. Up to half of the population walks around without enough magnesium in their system, and standard blood tests likely make this statistic even more grim.
As you will soon find out, magnesium is a very big deal when it comes to our health. Magnesium participates in over 600+ (estimated to be up to 3174 bodily processes that it’s used in) enzymatic reactions that determine whether your cells produce energy or spiral into dysfunction. Every ATP molecule in your body only works when bound to magnesium. Without adequate levels, you're essentially trying to run a Ferrari on fumes while the check engine light flashes warnings that signal there’s a problem.
The real tragedy is that magnesium deficiency has become so normalized that we've renamed its symptoms as separate issues. Those anxiety problems? It could be a magnesium deficiency manifesting through NMDA receptor dysfunction. The insulin resistance that won't budge despite perfect macros? Magnesium is extremely important for controlling insulin receptor sensitivity at multiple points. Those migraines that ruin your entire day? Magnesium regulates the very neurovascular changes that trigger them. When we take magnesium, we're treating the smoke while the fire burns through our fundamental biochemistry.
*Note: None of this blog article is medical advice. This is strictly for educational purposes. Always consult with your physician.
SECTION 2: The Scope of Modern Magnesium Deficiency
Modern medicine operates under a dangerous delusion about magnesium status. While only 2% of the population shows overt clinical hypomagnesemia with serum levels below 0.75 mmol/L, this represents merely the tip of a massive iceberg. When researchers use more sensitive assessment methods, the picture shifts dramatically. Up to 45-60% of Americans fail to meet even the recommended dietary allowance for magnesium, while hospitalized populations show rates of 20-65% deficiency in ICU settings.
Here's another potential reason as to why your doctor keeps telling you that your magnesium is "normal" while you feel anything but normal. Serum magnesium represents less than 1% of your body's total stores. The other 99% hides in your bones, muscles, and cells, where the real action happens. Your body will ruthlessly maintain that 1% in your blood by cannibalizing magnesium from tissues. This creates a perfect illusion of adequacy while your cells starve. It's like checking your checking account while ignoring that you've been draining your retirement fund to pay the bills. This is why it’s important to test for serum magnesium AND RBC magnesium when you’re getting bloodwork done. They’re both incredible markers that can tell us different things about one’s physiological state.
The systematic depletion of magnesium from our environment is an entirely different conversation. Since the 1940s agricultural revolution, our obsession with NPK fertilizers has strip-mined secondary nutrients from soil. Approximately 55% of China's arable lands now show magnesium deficiency, with tropical and subtropical regions being hit the hardest. This translates directly to your dinner plate, just so you know. Vegetables today contain 10-35% less magnesium than our grandparents' generation consumed.
But soil depletion is just the opening act. Food processing delivers the knockout punch, with things like grain refining removing up to 80% of magnesium by discarding the mineral-rich bran and germ. Water softening strips naturally occurring magnesium from drinking supplies. Oh, and how about the fact that many people who use reverse osmosis aren’t replacing the minerals they’re losing in their drinking water? Then we compound the problem with medications that actively deplete what little magnesium we manage to absorb. Proton pump inhibitors, those supposed stomach saviors used by over 15-20 million Americans, impair magnesium absorption so severely that the FDA issued safety warnings. Diuretics increase deficiency odds by 2 to 4-fold. Even common antibiotics like aminoglycosides trigger deficiency in 30% of users.
The stress-magnesium spiral is another area to look into because it perfectly encapsulates modern life's assault on our mineral status. Psychological stress triggers magnesium loss through urine while simultaneously increasing our cellular requirements for it. But here's the cruel twist: Magnesium deficiency amplifies your stress response, making you more reactive to the same stressors. Each feeds the other in a downward spiral that explains why so many people feel increasingly fragile despite doing "all the right things."
SECTION 3: The Consequences - What Magnesium Deficiency Actually Costs You
Let's dispense with the idea that magnesium deficiency is merely inconvenient for a second. It seems that the meta-analyses encompassing over one million participants show us that each 100 mg increase in daily magnesium intake correlates with a 6-8% reduction in all-cause mortality. That’s massive. For cardiovascular mortality specifically, low serum magnesium at or below 0.80 mmol/L increases coronary heart disease death risk by 36%.
The metabolic consequences of a magnesium deficiency will cascade through many of our natural bodily systems that depend on insulin signaling. Type 2 diabetes risk drops by 22% when comparing the highest to the lowest magnesium intake quartiles, but that understates the full picture if we’re being honest. Magnesium deficiency drives the entire metabolic syndrome constellation. Insulin resistance, central obesity, hypertension, and dyslipidemia all worsen as magnesium levels decline. C-reactive protein often runs higher in those with low intake, while tumor necrosis factor-alpha increases in deficient obese individuals as well.
The neuropsychiatric implications of a magnesium deficiency will, of course, hit home for anyone who's been told their anxiety or depression is "all in their head." Meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials have demonstrated significant improvements in depression scores with magnesium supplementation. The mechanism reveals why this works. Magnesium acts as nature's calcium channel blocker and NMDA receptor modulator, literally changing how your neurons fire and communicate. Without adequate magnesium, your brain operates in a state of perpetual excitation, unable to properly regulate the glutamate-GABA balance that can contribute to whether you feel calm or anxious.
The effects of a magnesium deficiency on the musculoskeletal system cannot be understated. UK Biobank data from 156,575 participants revealed dietary magnesium associations with 1.1-2.4% differences in grip strength, 3.0-3.6% variations in fat-free mass, and measurable changes in bone mineral density. But these population-level statistics don't capture the individual experience of watching your body slowly betray you. The muscle cramps that strike without warning, the exercise recovery that stretches from days into weeks, and the bone density that mysteriously declines despite adequate calcium and vitamin D.
Hospital outcomes provide perhaps the most impressive example of magnesium's life-or-death importance. ICU patients with hypomagnesemia face significantly increased mortality risk, longer stays, and higher complication rates. Surgical recovery extends, wound healing slows, and infection risk climbs. Yet how many surgeons check magnesium status before operating?
SECTION 4: Some of Magnesium's Fundamental Physiological Roles
To understand why magnesium deficiency devastates health so comprehensively, you first need to grasp the breathtaking scope of its biochemical responsibilities. Magnesium is simultaneously the director, producer, and stage manager of cellular function.
Every single ATP molecule in your body requires magnesium to become biologically active. Without magnesium, ATP is just a molecular promise that can't be kept. The Mg-ATP complex forms the actual substrate for energy-requiring reactions. This explains why the deficiency of Mg2+ manifests as crushing fatigue that sleep doesn't fix.
The complexity multiplies when examining magnesium’s impacts on DNA and RNA metabolism. DNA polymerases use a two-metal ion mechanism where magnesium ions perform some molecular wizardry, if you will. One lowers the 3'-OH pKa while another coordinates the triphosphate, creating the precise geometry required for the nucleotide addition. Every time your cells divide, every time they manufacture proteins, every time they repair damage, magnesium is an extremely important aspect of the process.
Let’s not forget about magnesium’s role in protein synthesis. In this context, a magnesium deficiency is like trying to run a construction company when your workers keep walking off the job site. The bottom line is that cellular organelles such as ribosomes require specific magnesium concentrations to maintain their structure and function. It’s no wonder that the body is ON IT with tightly regulating magnesium. Drop magnesium levels, and ribosomes literally fall apart, with rRNA transcription declining quite a bit. Your cells can't build the proteins they need for structure, enzymes, or signaling.
In your mitochondria, magnesium becomes even more critical. ATP synthase, the molecular turbine that generates cellular energy, requires magnesium for the transition state during ATP synthesis. Three key Krebs cycle dehydrogenases all demand magnesium activation. Pyruvate dehydrogenase, isocitrate dehydrogenase, and α-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase won't function properly without it. As a matter of fact, computer simulations have identified mitochondrial magnesium as the single most important regulatory factor in the entire tricarboxylic acid cycle! Without adequate magnesium, your cellular power plants operate at a fraction of capacity.
SECTION 5: The Neurological and Cognitive Impacts of Magnesium
Magnesium is unbelievably important for supporting cognitive function and protecting the brain. At physiological membrane potential, magnesium blocks NMDA receptors through voltage-dependent binding at three distinct sites. This essentially creates a coincidence detection system that determines whether neurons strengthen their connections or remain silent. Remove magnesium from this equation, and neurons lose their ability to discriminate between important signals and background noise.
This NMDA receptor dysfunction explains why a magnesium deficiency produces such diverse neurological symptoms. Without magnesium's modulatory influence, glutamate can run wild and turn your brain into all gas, no brakes. Meanwhile, GABAergic inhibition weakens, destroying the delicate balance between acceleration and deceleration in neural circuits. The result feels like driving a car where the gas pedal is stuck while the brakes barely work.
Depression and anxiety often emerge naturally as symptoms from this neurochemical chaos. But magnesium's influence extends beyond neurotransmitter balance if we’re being real. Mg2+ also regulates brain-derived neurotrophic factor, influences hippocampal neurogenesis, and modulates the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis.
The migraine connection is another interesting area to consider because it demonstrates magnesium's vascular responsibilities. Migraine sufferers show consistently lower magnesium levels, particularly during episodes. Mg2+ regulates vascular tone, prevents cortical spreading depression that triggers aura, and modulates pain processing pathways. Intravenous magnesium can help with acute attacks within minutes, while prophylactic supplementation can reduce frequency and severity. Yet how many migraine sufferers endure years of pharmaceuticals before anyone checks their magnesium status?
Cognitive decline and dementia risk follow a U-shaped curve with magnesium levels. Both high and low levels increase dementia risk by 30% (Note: not universal in all cohorts), with the sweet spot hovering around 0.85 mmol/L. This suggests magnesium operates within an optimal range for brain health. Too little impairs neural function, while excess may indicate kidney dysfunction that itself threatens cognitive integrity. Mg2+ also influences tau protein phosphorylation, amyloid-beta aggregation, and neuroinflammation, touching many areas of our physiology implicated in neurodegenerative disease.
SECTION 6: Magnesium’s Impact on the Cardiovascular System
Magnesium's cardiovascular effects begin at the endothelium. The endothelium is a single-cell layer lining your blood vessels that determines whether you develop atherosclerosis or maintain youthful arterial function. An Mg2+ deficiency can trigger oxidative stress by increasing NADPH oxidase activity while simultaneously upregulating pro-oxidant proteins. Without adequate nitric oxide, vessels can't dilate properly, blood pressure rises, and arterial stiffness accelerates.
As nature's calcium channel blocker, magnesium competes with calcium at multiple sites throughout the cardiovascular system. It displaces calcium from vascular smooth muscle binding sites, preventing excessive contraction. It modulates L-type calcium channels in cardiac myocytes, stabilizing the cardiac action potential. This dual action explains why magnesium supplementation can reduce systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure in certain contexts.
When it comes to preventing sudden cardiac death, magnesium has saved countless lives in emergency departments worldwide. Torsades de pointes, a potentially fatal ventricular arrhythmia, responds to immediate intravenous magnesium even when serum levels appear normal. Magnesium stabilizes cardiac membranes, prolongs the refractory period indirectly, and prevents the triggered activity that initiates arrhythmias.
Beyond acute effects, magnesium influences long-term cardiovascular remodeling. It regulates matrix metalloproteinases that determine whether arteries remain elastic or become stiff. It modulates inflammatory cascades that drive plaque formation. It influences platelet aggregation and thrombosis risk. Magnesium can even affect circadian blood pressure patterns, with a deficiency linked to loss of normal nocturnal dipping. And that nocturnal dipping pattern? It's one of the most powerful predictors of cardiovascular events that we have.
SECTION 7: Magnesium’s Impact on the Musculoskeletal System
The muscle cramps that wake you at 3 AM represent just the visible tip of magnesium's musculoskeletal influence. High intracellular magnesium concentrations regulate calcium binding to troponin C, which can help determine the speed and completeness of muscle relaxation. Without adequate magnesium, our muscles remain partially contracted, creating the tension, trigger points, and eventual chronic pain that no amount of stretching seems to resolve.
Athletes face unique challenges that standard recommendations often don't address. Exercise increases magnesium requirements by 10-20% through sweat losses and increased metabolic demands. However, the consequences extend beyond just cramping. Magnesium deficiency can impair oxygen delivery, reduce VO2 max, increase lactate accumulation, and extend recovery time. Studies show that Mg2+ supplementation can reduce muscle soreness, improve strength gains, and enhance performance metrics across both endurance and power sports. Yet how many athletes obsess over protein (which is still so important) while ignoring the mineral that determines whether their muscles actually work?
Magnesium is also unbelievably important for bone quality. The mineral influences hydroxyapatite crystal formation, creating stronger, more flexible bone matrix. It also regulates the RANK/RANKL/OPG axis that controls bone remodeling, ensuring old bone gets replaced with new tissue.
Emerging research also shows us magnesium's role in preventing sarcopenia, which is the age-related muscle loss that transforms aging from inconvenience to a full-on disability. Magnesium also influences muscle protein synthesis, mitochondrial function in muscle cells, and the inflammatory processes that accelerate muscle breakdown. Maintaining optimal magnesium status throughout life might be one of the most underappreciated strategies for preserving functional capacity into old age.
SECTION 8: Magnesium’s Effects on Hormonal and Metabolic Regulation
Now, what if I told you that magnesium is important for your thyroid as well? Yes, it’s indeed true. Converting T4 to metabolically active T3 requires 5'-deiodinase enzymes that depend on, you guessed it, magnesium as a cofactor. But the relationship runs deeper than most people realize. Magnesium influences cellular sensitivity to thyroid hormones, contributing to whether T3 actually does anything once it reaches target tissues. That being said, it serves this role in our physiology more indirectly. It should be noted that for the thyroid, it’s also important to assess for things such as the FT3/FT4 ratio, TSH, and thyroid antibodies.
And by the way, magnesium is very important for the adrenals too. Magnesium modulates the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, which influences both cortisol production and cellular sensitivity. Under stress, magnesium requirements skyrocket while excretion increases. This double whammy explains why chronic stress inevitably leads to a magnesium deficiency in many people. Mg2+ also participates in catecholamine synthesis indirectly. This can affect your ability to mount an appropriate stress response and can lead to being stuck in sympathetic overdrive.
Now, let’s go over why magnesium is important for our sex hormones. Magnesium balances progesterone and estrogen, with deficiency particularly affecting progesterone levels. During pregnancy, this translates to increased miscarriage risk and complications. Randomized controlled trials have demonstrated that magnesium supplementation reduces intrauterine growth retardation, preterm labor, and low birth weight. For women battling PCOS, magnesium can improve insulin sensitivity, which is often at the heart of fixing dysregulated androgens. In men, magnesium supports testosterone production and sperm quality.
Blood sugar regulation depends on magnesium at multiple control points as well. Magnesium enables insulin receptor phosphorylation, facilitates glucose transporter translocation, and influences pancreatic beta cell function. But here's what makes magnesium unique. It improves insulin sensitivity even in people with normal glucose metabolism, suggesting a protective effect against future metabolic dysfunction. Each 100mg increase in daily intake correlates with a 15% reduction in diabetes risk. That's a massive effect for such a simple intervention.
SECTION 9: Magnesium’s Effect on Immune and Inflammatory Modulation
Your immune system's relationship with magnesium operates through sophisticated sensing mechanisms that determine whether you mount appropriate responses or spiral into chronic inflammation. Lymphocyte function-associated antigen 1 actually senses magnesium levels, with conformational changes triggered by mineral binding to metal-ion-dependent adhesion sites. This regulates CD8+ T cell function and helps to determine whether these cellular soldiers effectively eliminate threats or become exhausted and useless.
Now let’s get into the research. Daily supplementation of magnesium can modulate T-cell responses, reducing inflammatory interferon-gamma from CD8+ and CD4+ cells while simultaneously decreasing IL-4, IL-5, and IL-13 production from T-helper 2 cells (the cytokine reductions will vary based on the study context, though). In other words, this is a form of intelligent immune modulation that reduces excessive inflammation while maintaining pathogen defense.
The gut immune interface shows a particular sensitivity to magnesium status that should be considered. An Mg2+ deficiency can alter microbiome composition in predictable ways. These shifts influence systemic inflammation, metabolic function, and even brain chemistry through the gut-brain axis.
SECTION 10: Testing Methods and Their Limitations
The tragedy of magnesium testing is that most people are not being tested for serum magnesium AND RBC magnesium.
For serum magnesium, we’re mainly looking at the 1-5% of magnesium that is found extracellularly. Since this test is based on such a small %, it’s entirely possible that you could be in range and still have a magnesium deficiency.
In general, you want to see serum magnesium between 0.9-1.0mmol/L OR 2.19-2.43mg/dL. Low serum magnesium can often be indicative of things like adrenal hyperfunction, metabolic dysfunction, fluid loss, or even excessive alcohol intake. On the other hand, high serum magnesium can signify a hypothyroid state, adrenal insufficiency, dehydration/poor kidney clearance, or even excess red blood cell breakdown.
Red blood cell (RBC) magnesium, on the other hand, is excellent when it comes to checking for an internal magnesium deficiency. This is because the body pulls magnesium from red blood cells to maintain normal serum levels when deficient. A serum test may appear normal even when red blood cell magnesium stores are depleted, but an RBC test provides a more accurate reflection of the body's overall magnesium status. In general, you want to see RBC magnesium between 6-6.8mg/dL OR 2.48-2.82mmol/L.
SECTION 11: Optimizing Supplementation and Absorption
The magnesium supplement aisle always seems to have an interesting array of options, with each form claiming superiority. Let’s get into what some of the best sources to use are and which contexts they’re useful in.
Magnesium Taurate: Great for bile flow purposes, also is excellent for GABA/glutamate balance, which can calm brain activity down. It’s also great for calming down the heart and supporting fat & protein digestion. Excellent bioavailability.
Magnesium Glycinate: Glycine is extremely important for things like glutathione production, nervous system health, brain health, cellular functions, etc. Excellent bioavailability.
Magnesium Malate: The malic acid here will feed into the Krebs cycle, which is an essential aspect of energy production in the mitochondria. As a result, it’s my go-to daytime magnesium due to its anti-fatigue effects and scavenging effects on glutamate. Research demonstrates excellent bioavailability with magnesium malate.
Magnesium Chloride: This might just be the coolest form of magnesium. Literally, most of the forms of magnesium that we consume orally are eventually turned into magnesium chloride. When we consume any form of oral magnesium, the magnesium ions we consume interact with the hydrochloric acid in our stomach to make magnesium chloride. I like to use this orally AND topically and apply it to the back of the neck/head and feet. However, it’s important to note that there are many people who are sensitive to magnesium chloride. Why is this? One situation can actually stem from candida end products that react to the magnesium chloride. To resolve this, you will have to look more internally and take a nuanced approach.
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Magnesium Bicarbonate: This is a good form of magnesium because it provides bicarbonate, which can aid in the transport of magnesium into the mitochondria. And as we discussed above, mitochondrial magnesium is unbelievably important. Add this to water or a liquid solution for better uptake.
Magnesium Threonate: The idea that ONLY magnesium threonate can cross the blood-brain barrier is a LIE. If we look at the magnesium chloride section above and how the chemistry works, it’s clear that ALL forms of magnesium can cross the blood-brain barrier. DON’T FALL FOR THE MARKETING TACTICS.
Magnesium Aspartate: Aspartate is an excitatory amino acid, so it is somewhat counterproductive to magnesium’s calming effects. AVOID.
Magnesium Sulfate: This can be a nice form to use in classic Epsom salts for baths. Do NOT take this orally, only topically. Overall, this is pretty solid for skin health and detoxification due to the sulfur/sulfate content. Make sure to do your research before applying it topically as well.
Magnesium Hydroxide: I only really use this if someone is dealing with constipation. This will help pull water into the intestines to help with motility and proper bowel movements.
Magnesium Oxide: I only really use this if someone is dealing with constipation. This will help pull water into the intestines to help with motility and proper bowel movements.
Magnesium Citrate: I only really use this if someone is dealing with constipation. This will help pull water into the intestines to help with motility and proper bowel movements.
Ozonated Magnesium: I only really use this if someone is dealing with constipation. This will help pull water into the intestines to help with motility and proper bowel movements.
Magnesium absorption optimization requires strategic planning beyond just choosing the right form. Vitamin B6 enhances cellular uptake, with studies showing superior stress reduction when you combine 30mg B6 with 300mg magnesium versus magnesium alone. Taurine also improves both the absorption and cellular retention of magnesium while providing its own cardiovascular benefits. The timing matters too. Divided doses 2-3 times daily dramatically improve bioavailability versus single large doses that overwhelm one’s absorption capacity.
The factors that sabotage absorption highlight the need for returning to ancestral wisdom and using techniques to remove antinutrients from our food. Phytates in whole grains and legumes can reduce absorption by 20-60%; however, traditional preparation methods neutralize these antinutrients. Soaking, sprouting, and fermenting bring back what our ancestors knew intuitively. High calcium intake will also create competitive inhibition. Medications like PPIs compound the problem. Proton pump inhibitors impair absorption, diuretics increase excretion, and antibiotics damage the gut bacteria that facilitate uptake.
And since you’re probably wondering, here’s the stack that I would personally use for magnesium:
500mg magnesium malate every morning
Topical magnesium chloride in the afternoon or when I notice my nervous system is getting ancy
BASED Magnesium Glycinate (1-2 servings) OR Nootropics Depot Magnesium Taurate every evening
I personally LOVE the BASED brand because they are unbelievably adamant about getting the highest quality sources that they can find. Their magnesium glycinate is literally from the Dead Sea to put it in perspective. This company does NOT play games when it comes to quality. If you want to purchase their magnesium glycinate, you can use code MITO for an epic discount.
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SECTION 12: Food Sources and Practical Considerations
When it comes to getting magnesium from our food, it’s evident that factors like soil quality make it tempting to supplement. However, there are actually some great bioavailable sources of magnesium that we can get from food. Pumpkin seeds are the best source at 150-170mg per ounce, followed by cooked spinach at 157mg per cup, though spinach's oxalates may limit absorption. Black beans provide 120mg per cup with superior bioavailability when prepared properly, while quinoa offers 118mg. Dark chocolate will give you 64mg per ounce, providing the perfect excuse for feasting on some delicious 90% Lindt dark chocolate.
Water is basically humanity's forgotten magnesium source. Depending on geological factors, water historically provided 1-120mg per liter (Gerolsteiner brand is great). Hard water regions actually tend to show lower cardiovascular disease rates, possibly explaining the "French Paradox" beyond red wine consumption. But modern water treatment strips these minerals, eliminating a source our ancestors took for granted.
Cooking methods matter more than most people realize as well. Boiling vegetables can leach 30-75% of magnesium into cooking water that we typically discard. Steaming preserves more, while fermentation can actually increase bioavailability by neutralizing antinutrients. The traditional preparation methods our esoteric grandmothers used intuitively all optimize mineral availability in ways modern convenience cooking abandons. We traded nutrition for speed and wonder why half the population has an inadequate intake of magnesium.
SECTION 13: The Path Forward
The magnesium crisis is much more than just a simple nutrient deficiency. It's a fundamental breakdown in the mineral foundation required for human health. With involvement in over 600+ enzymatic systems and critical roles in energy production, DNA synthesis, neurotransmission, and cellular regulation, an adequate magnesium status is fundamental to preventing disease and optimizing function.
The combination of factors such as soil depletion, food processing, chronic stress, and medication use has created a perfect storm of deficiency affecting up to half of our own population.
The solution isn't complicated, but it requires passion and critical thinking on our end. Combining highly bioavailable supplementation with absorption optimization, dietary improvements, and stress management can restore one’s magnesium status. But this requires patience. Cellular repletion often takes months, not days. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.
As chronic disease rates soar and pharmaceutical interventions increasingly fail to address root causes, addressing fundamental mineral deficiencies remains a key intervention that supports the origins of our health. Magnesium's favorable safety profile, extensive research base, and versatile physiological effects position it as one of the most important yet underutilized interventions in modern society. The question isn't whether you need more magnesium. The question is whether you'll address it before deficiency manifests as disease, or after.
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