Healthy Soil vs. Healthy Supplements

Healthy soil grows healthy food. What we grow, we eat, and what we eat, we become. Both plants and people need the right nourishment to thrive, and this includes access to a correctly balanced diet.

Recently there has been a lot of talk about Magnesium (Mg) deficiencies negatively impacting our health–suddenly folks are appreciating the critical importance of this nutrient. The supplement market has been flooded with multivitamins, topical applications, and bath soaks, all advertised as an immediate solution to magnesium deficiency.

There's no denying it: Magnesium levels in our food have dropped over the past 50 years. This 2020 study identified the root causes of this drop. Even if you’re not a scientist, it’s critical to understand that a plant’s uptake of magnesium from soil directly competes against uptake of potassium (K). Potassium however, has an unfair advantage with priority status in the form of dedicated absorption pathways. Plant roots prioritize potassium over magnesium. 

This natural preference for potassium becomes problematic when soil is artificially supplemented using "N-P-K fertilizers". Containing potassium but no magnesium, these products make it impossible for plants to access any naturally occurring soil magnesium. Magnesium can't compete against the faster, stronger, more chemically-favoured potassium.

The great news is that, even if NPK fertilizers or soils have been used previously, adding biology back to the soil will fix these mistakes. My Probiotics for Plants Worm Manure and Raw & Regenerative Potting Soil immediately counteract mineral imbalances to restore plants’ nutrient uptake capabilities. Soil health regenerates naturally as balance is brought back to the biological ecosystem.

Magnesium supplements are advertised as the ‘quick solution’... but we simply ‘Can’t Rush Mother Nature’. Healthy plants, people, and planet all grow from the same place. True health accumulates naturally, nourishing the life we grow in the garden and the life we live every day.