In this conversation, Sherry sits down with Natalie Jurado, founder of Be Rooted In, to explore one of the most overlooked yet life-changing minerals: magnesium.

If you’ve struggled with anxiety, insomnia, panic attacks, burnout, muscle cramps, headaches, hormonal imbalance, chronic stress, or that “tired but wired” feeling… this episode will open a new door.

Natalie shares her journey — from sleeping only two hours a night and having public panic attacks to reclaiming her nervous system, peace, and vitality through magnesium.

1. Natalie’s Story: From Panic to Peace
Natalie describes a season of snapping at her kids, constant anxiety, panic attacks in grocery stores, lack of sleep, and juggling business and motherhood. After countless tests and dismissals, a customer suggested magnesium. Within a week of topical magnesium chloride, her sleep improved from two hours to six, and panic attacks stopped — sparking her life’s work.

2. Why So Many Are Magnesium Deficient
Magnesium is stored mostly in muscles (60%) and bones (40%); only 1% is in the blood, so deficiency often goes undetected. Deficiency is common because: chronic stress, caffeine, alcohol, sugar (54 molecules of magnesium per sugar molecule), and exercise drain magnesium. Getting enough through food alone? You’d need 10 cups of raw spinach daily. No wonder 70% of people are deficient.

3. Stress, Cortisol & Magnesium
Magnesium supports the parasympathetic nervous system — “rest, digest, repair.” Stress burns magnesium, which makes regulating stress harder. Magnesium acts as a brake for the nervous system, and deficiency keeps us stuck in fight-or-flight. Culturally, we normalize burnout; magnesium offers a physiological path back to calm.

4. Symptoms of Deficiency
Common signs include headaches, migraines, insomnia, restless legs, cramps, inflammation, hormonal imbalance, anxiety, and depression. These are not “normal” — they are signs of a depleted nervous system.

5. How Do We Know If We’re Getting Enough?
Food high in magnesium includes leafy greens, nuts, seeds, and dark chocolate. But stress, diet, lifestyle, and environment affect absorption, and food alone may not suffice.

6. Types of Magnesium
Natalie breaks down 11 types:

• Avoid: Oxide (4% absorbed), Carbonate — mostly wasted.

• Prefer: Glycinate (sleep, anxiety), Malate (energy, muscles), Threonate (brain fog), Sulfate/Epsom (baths, cramps), Chloride (creams, transdermal).

7. Daily Magnesium Routine
Natalie spreads doses: cream after morning workout, supplement with breakfast, cream again in evening, and leg/foot application before bed to maximize absorption.

8. Dosage
RDA is 350–400 mg for healthy people. Chronic stress, caffeine, sugar, exercise, or sweating increases needs. Natalie takes 700–800 mg/day. Magnesium is hard to overdose — the body self-regulates.

9. The Heart Behind Her Work
Natalie’s mission: stop unnecessary suffering, provide the information she lacked, and reduce needless doctor visits. Her work is service.

10. Where to Find Natalie
Website: BeRootedIn.com
Social: @berootedin

Your Takeaways
Anxiety and exhaustion aren’t “just” what they seem. Normal symptoms aren’t always normal. Magnesium is essential for stress recovery, sleep, nervous system regulation, hormones, and mental health. Lifestyle factors impact magnesium needs. Don’t let others define what’s normal for your body. This episode is a permission slip to rethink your symptoms and reclaim calm.

This episode will change how you think about gluten forever.

If you’ve feared wheat…

If you’ve struggled with bloating, fatigue, pain, constipation, diarrhea, brain fog, or inflammation…

If you’ve avoided bread for years…

Today’s conversation will feel like freedom.

I sit down with Cindy Anderson, founder of Manny’s Choice and self-proclaimed “good gluten” advocate, who went from severe gluten intolerance and breast cancer to discovering a completely different kind of wheat — one that nourishes the body instead of inflaming it.

This episode gently dismantles everything we’ve been taught about gluten and offers hope for anyone trapped by their symptoms.

1. Cindy’s Story: Severe Gluten Intolerance, Breast Cancer & a Search for Answers
Cindy didn’t start a company — she tried to save her health. She shares how she went from:

• Violent diarrhea

• Migraines

• Bloating

• Joint pain so severe she felt “90 years old”

• Itchy skin and rashes

• Brain fog

…to discovering she could eat gluten freely in Italy without a single symptom. This breakthrough revealed the truth about American and Canadian wheat — and how it’s been altered beyond recognition.

2. The Real Problem Isn’t Gluten — It’s What We’ve Done to Wheat
Cindy explains why North American wheat causes extreme reactions:

• 1950s nuclear food testing altered wheat’s genetic “essence”

• “Dwarf wheat” engineered for profit, not health

• Modern milling burns the kernel, destroying nutrients

• Gluten concentrated 50–500x higher

• Synthetic folic acid sprayed on wheat — up to 80% of people can’t process it

• Roundup forces faster harvesting and remains on grain

• Potassium bromate added to most breads

Her passion isn’t for blaming gluten — it’s for exposing the deception and preventable harm.

3. The European Difference
European, Egyptian, and certain Middle Eastern wheat follow traditional farming and milling:

• No nuclear-altered seeds

• No rapid-burn milling

• No chemical sprays

• Nutrient-rich soil

• Natural gluten levels

Even those with Hashimoto’s, arthritis, brain fog, gut issues, or autism sensitivities often see dramatic improvements switching to these flours.

4. Why Bread Used to Be Nutritious
Bread isn’t supposed to hurt — it’s meant to nourish. Natural wheat is:

• Anti-inflammatory

• Mineral-rich

• Grounding

• Gut-supportive

• Toxin-binding

• A complex carbohydrate your brain needs

Cindy shares stories of:

• Arthritis disappearing after 25 years

• Diabetics whose blood sugar stays steady

• Children with autism who remain calm on Italian heritage wheat

These aren’t just recipes — they’re revelations.

5. The Emotional Connection to Food
I share my own fear of gluten and symptoms — chronic pain, bloating, sleep issues. Cindy explains why:

• We’ve been marketed to fear gluten

• We’ve blamed a natural molecule for chemically altered wheat
  Healing your relationship with wheat mirrors healing your relationship with food itself.

6. Manny’s Choice: Clean, Pure European Flour
Cindy’s company was born from personal need and community demand. Her mixes are:

• 100% European wheat

• Free of preservatives, GMOs, synthetic agents

• Simple (9 ingredients vs. 47 in major U.S. brands)

• Beginner-friendly

• Crafted for health and joy

Yes — I made the waffles with egg whites and loved them.

7. Coupons & Links
Website: www.mannyschoiceflour.com
Coupon code: MPWF for 10% off

Whether baking bread, artisan loaves, sourdough, or pizza, this is the place to start.

8. What This Episode Is Really About
This isn’t just gluten — it’s about making peace with food, releasing fear, and reconnecting with nourishment.

“In this short time, I feel like I’ve made peace with gluten. And that’s huge for me.”

If you’ve feared gluten, avoided bread, felt betrayed by your body, or longed to enjoy food again — this episode will give you hope and a path forward.