Posted by Larry Hoover on December 10, 2003, at 7:01:06
In reply to Re: Do you really CHEW your magnesium tablets? » Larry Hoover, posted by Ron Hill on December 9, 2003, at 21:13:49
> > Milk of magnesia (magnesium hydroxide), for example, is often supplied as a liquid, but it is not dissolved magnesium.....the milkiness is due to very fine solid particles suspended in water. It's no more absorbable than mag hydroxide tablets. They both need to be dissolved first. The only advantage is that the liquid form already has small particles, but if you chew the tablets (like you're sposed to)....
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> Kinda hard on the teeth, ain't it? Not to mention the taste! Do you truely advocate chewing Mg tablets or are you just pulling our collective legs?
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> What about your other vitamins? Do you chew them as well?
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> Say it ain't so!
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> -- RonIt ain't so....my example was intended only to disprove the quack's contention.....the case I offered was specific to milk of magnesia, and applies solely to the treatment of dyspepsia.
I don not chew my tablets, with the exception of chewable vitamin C (which I buy if they're cheaper than the swallow ones). I do not chew mag tablets, period. If I use magnesium hydroxide for upset tummy, I chug it out of a bottle of the liquid....
Lar
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