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Posted by verne on January 11, 2006, at 20:59:45
For the first time in my life I tried taking magnesium alone (not in a calcium formula) and noticed a huge difference. I felt calmer and more motivated at the same time.
I've been mixing the powder form in water or juice but need to switch to capsules soon. I finally realized the mag citrate solution was giving me sore throats and making my teeth sensitve.
Anyway, others noticed that I was smiling and laughing more after I started the magnesium. My blood pressure also went down significantly.
This may be the best supplement I've ever taken.
Verne
Posted by Declan on January 12, 2006, at 0:04:52
In reply to Magnesium Citrate, posted by verne on January 11, 2006, at 20:59:45
How much do you take? I take 300mg magnesium, from the citrate, at night. The label says I could take 4 times that in a day.
Declan
Posted by verne on January 12, 2006, at 0:14:01
In reply to Re: Magnesium Citrate, posted by Declan on January 12, 2006, at 0:04:52
At least 500mg, sometimes more, since I sprinkle it into whatever I happen to be drinking.
When I told my doctor how much it had helped me, his prescription was: "take it like a bandit".
Since I drink and do everything else like a bandit, these directions came easy to me.
Verne
Posted by blueberry on January 12, 2006, at 6:08:42
In reply to Magnesium Citrate, posted by verne on January 11, 2006, at 20:59:45
That's very cool! Super cool!
You might want to keep in the back of your mind that too much magnesium can bring on the same symptoms as not enough...dark depression and apathy. Find the right balance and watch out for over-accumulation and things could be rosey for a long time to come!
I too found amazing benefits with magnesium, but I think it was the glycine in the glycinate version of it that turned around and made me feel very depressed. And that was at a low dose of only 100mg. It scared me enough that I've been very shy about trying magnesium again. But I do have Mg Citrate onhand...hmmm.
Posted by JLx on January 12, 2006, at 10:05:51
In reply to Magnesium Citrate, posted by verne on January 11, 2006, at 20:59:45
> For the first time in my life I tried taking magnesium alone (not in a calcium formula) and noticed a huge difference. I felt calmer and more motivated at the same time.
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> I've been mixing the powder form in water or juice but need to switch to capsules soon. I finally realized the mag citrate solution was giving me sore throats and making my teeth sensitive.
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> Anyway, others noticed that I was smiling and laughing more after I started the magnesium. My blood pressure also went down significantly.
>
> This may be the best supplement I've ever taken.
>
> VerneIt's the best supplement I take. I wouldn't do without it. For the first 8 weeks I took it I felt so good I thought I was cured of depression. I was eating way too much calcium and had other habits that really depleted magnesium. In general, long term, magnesium by itself accounted for a 50-60% reduction in overall depression in my estimate, which is huge. It completely keeps me from feeling suicidal, which was common for me for years previously.
In my own experimentation, mag citrate is one that is most likely to give me diarrhea at higher doses.
Currently, I take magnesium malate, magnesium glycinate, magnesium orotate or magnesium taurate, 4-600 mg a day.
The "malate" of mg malate is malic acid which is made from apples, if I remember correctly. It's sometimes recommended for fibromyalgia, but I don't know how solid that is. It has a tolerable taste mixed with water, but doesn't dissolve that well. It's very economical when buying in bulk such as from Beyond a Century, but the tablets aren't that expensive either.
Mg glycinate can be quite sedating, best taken at night.
Magnesium orotate is something I've just started taking recently. It's especially recommended by some doctors for people with heart conditions. I have that in bulk form too and make my own capsules so I'm not entirely sure how much is in them, probably about 2,000 mg of orotate and 150 mg of magnesium. I take 2 each morning and they don't seem to make me sleepy. I took 3 once and had a terrible headache, from the orotate, I've been told.
Magnesium taurate is the type of magnesium currently recommended by George Eby on his site about magnesium, stress and depression, which is where I got the idea to take magnesium for depression originally. http://www.coldcure.com/html/dep.html I do think now too that magnesium taurate is probably preferable to mg glycinate. Amazon has a good price on mg taurate, Cardiovascular Research brand, via Vitamin Shoppe, right now, btw. $7.17 a 60 cap bottle (plus $5 shipping), versus $9.56 on the Vitamin Shoppe site. Each cap is 125 mg magnesium.
I have found it possible to take too much magnesium, especially when I was getting nearly no calcium in my diet. That calcium magnesium ratio is important and something to keep in mind.
JL
Posted by Sarah T. on January 13, 2006, at 4:42:25
In reply to Re: Magnesium -- different types, posted by JLx on January 12, 2006, at 10:05:51
I second that! Magnesium is the single best supplement I've ever taken. In fact, it's the only one that I have any faith in, other than vitamin C.
Over the years, I have spent so much money on supplements and alternative treatments. I have kitchen cupboards full of every supplement you can imagine, and what a waste, except for magnesium. Currently, I take magnesium glycinate. I think it's more relaxing than citrate. I take the Mg glycinate at night. Like others here, I stopped taking the combined calcium and magnesium supplements. I didn't like the way I felt on them. I do get some calcium in my multi-vitamin, and I eat a lot of yogurt and some other dairy products. I'm not sure whether I'm getting enough calcium, but calcium never made me feel better. Magnesium does.
Maybe we ought to start hoarding magnesium. Once words gets around about how beneficial it is, they'll probably raise the price!
Posted by Jakeman on January 13, 2006, at 19:45:55
In reply to Re: Magnesium Citrate, posted by Declan on January 12, 2006, at 0:04:52
I've taken varing doses and types of magnesium and have never felt anything.
~Jkse
Posted by honeybee on January 26, 2006, at 14:07:31
In reply to Re: Magnesium Citrate, posted by Jakeman on January 13, 2006, at 19:45:55
Are y'all taking the mag. as a supplement on top of a multivitamin or by itself? E.g. are you stopping at 400 (-600) mg or adding that to other supplments that you already have on hand.
I started taking magesium a few days ago b/c of some weird twitchiness and numbness that I was getting after a vaccine that I took. (I know! And I'm going to a neurologist next week.) In just three days since I started taking magnesium citrate (For two days, I took 800 mg. and now I'm bumping down to 400), most of the twitching and buzzing of the fingers has gone away. Phew!
Anyway, just curious how you are all folding it into your supplment regimens...
honeybee
p.s. And it sure makes sleeping easier! Like a rock.
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