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You take magnesium, and yet a calf cramp still jolts you out of sleep at night? What research says about magnesium, which other causes are possible and when you should have it checked by a doctor.

Your head feels as if it is full of cotton wool and you just cannot concentrate? Brain fog has many possible causes – from sleep and stress to iron deficiency. What can be behind it and what can be measured.

Always tired and drained, and often cold as well? In women, iron, the thyroid, the menstrual cycle or menopause are often part of the picture. What you should know and what you can have measured.

Your hair is falling out, but your blood tests are supposedly normal? Why hair often only falls out months after the trigger and which values are often missing when it comes to hair loss.

Wide awake at 3am every night? What happens in your body in the second half of the night, what role stress, cortisol and alcohol play, and how you can get to the bottom of your sleep rhythm.

You take iron or B12 – and your levels do not go up? How absorption in the gut works, what can cause absorption problems and what is proven about “leaky gut”.

Want to get a full check-up? What the German statutory health insurance Check-up 35 includes, which values it leaves out, and which ones can make sense depending on your age, diet and life situation.

Always tired, even though your blood tests are supposedly fine? Often the values linked to tiredness were never measured. What you can ask about and have checked.

Red wine, aged cheese, tomatoes – and afterwards a headache, a hot face or a rumbling belly? Which signs are described in histamine intolerance and how to find out step by step whether you have it.