I might have figured out the source of my anxiety

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So, this anxiety problem of mine that has been ongoing for almost a month might have a simple cause after all. In January and February, I had certain dates that interrupted my normal diet. In that diet, I routinely ate specific foods that I had gotten used to, and stopped eating them in light of running around. It occurred to me as I was reading the list of foods to combat anxiety that one of them was baked beans. I thought it was odd, but it contains magnesium. Also on that list is leafy vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes, and a few other things. Since I am allergic to two of those seeds, I wasn't eating those. I haven't been eating much in the way of spinach after the first week of March, because it reacted poorly with my gut (I'm not used to eating it), and broccoli and kale haven't been the first thing on my mind. Because of the anxiety, I have stayed away from nuts as well, until I know my allergens. That basically cut off all my sources of magnesium in my diet, without me knowing. What I learned about low magnesium is that it causes cramps (which I get a lot), increased heart rate (which I have had), anxiety/depression (which has been super strong all this time), asthma-like symptoms (my shortness of breath), and other things that I don't know whether apply or not. I have been taking a multi-vitamin every day, and thought that had magnesium in it, so never considered looking at it. It does not. And with no sources from my diet, I've been cut off. I woke up this morning feeling better than I have in a while, and last night I ate an artichoke heart, which is high in magnesium. Of course, it didn't last long until I started feeling bad again. After reading about the baked beans though, I ate most of a can of them... I'm a little stuffed. After giving it some thought, this whole time I've had this problem I can only remember a few times eating any of the food containing magnesium. Hard boiled eggs (which contain almost none), some spinach leafs, some broccoli, one artichoke heart, no baked beans, no brown rice, no wild rice, no seeds (allergic to them), no nuts (wary of them with my allergies uncertain), no oatmeal (never thought of it), no dark chocolate, some bananas, and some avocados. So basically, I'm very, very low on magnesium. Now that I have this suspicion, I am going to raise my magnesium count by eating the things that I can eat, and see if that finally destroys this anxiety problem once and for all. Even if it doesn't get rid of it all, I need the magnesium in my system to stay healthy.