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.
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> This may be the best supplement I've ever taken.
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> 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
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