Posted by JLx on April 8, 2003, at 9:54:42
In reply to Re: Miraculous results with magnesium!, posted by fuji on April 8, 2003, at 8:43:49
> I would love for this stuff to be the beall and end all of depression!!
I would love to see it work for everyone else as well as it has for me too.
What brand of magnesium glycinate are you taking? I recall George Eby saying that someone wrote him and said "Oh, it didn't work" until he suggested changing the brand. (I wonder if that was KAL brand, as it's fairly easy to find, whereas Carlson's is not.)
I've had contradictory reactions to meds too, but remember magnesium is not a medication. If you started drinking a form of mineral water with magnesium, happened to change your diet to include many more magnesium rich foods, and/or started taking Epsom Salt baths to relax, you'd be getting more magnesium and probably not even think about it. (And that's still an option if you feel the magnesium glycinate is the problem.)
Perhaps the magnesium is changing how your body/brain reacts to your psych meds? I don't understand the chemistry to all this so I can't reason out how it might, but perhaps someone else here can. I quit taking my meds right away, which was easy for me as I always felt terrible while on them anyway.
I was also waking up after an hour or two of sleep the first few days on magnesium, but feeling quite refreshed when I did so. I started taking melatonin and 5-HTP at night and now sleep well through the night.
I'd suggest that you e-mail George Eby. I wrote to him to thank him and received a prompt, courteous reply. I got the impression that he is used to receiving e-mail from people for whom magnesium did NOT help, which is one reason why he includes all of the other advice he does regarding other dietary changes and factors. He might be able to sort out this reaction too.
You've already considered if you're doing anything else different that might be keeping you awake?
If you weren't deficient before, I can see how magnesium supplementation might not help, but it's harder for me to understand why it would contribute to sleep probs.
I suspect that for each of us optimal "brain health" may be a matter of a lot of fine tuning. I'm beginning to feel very lucky that I am having such great success with what I'm doing.
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