Posted by Jlx on October 24, 2006, at 11:34:25
In reply to Re: Magnesium for depression, posted by LOOPS on October 24, 2006, at 8:59:43
> When you say try a 2:1 ratio, do you mean Ca:Mg or Mg:Ca? I don't want to take too much calcium because my sleep starts to suffer after awhile.
I was thinking more mag than calcium. If you haven't tried that. I had insomnia most of my life too until I started taking magnesium. I'm sensitive to calcium, especially by supplementation.
You'll probably just need to keep experimenting.
Have you ever seen this nutrition site? They've got a lot of stuff there, but not the taurine content of foods.
Check out the difference between beef and pork:
http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-C00001-01c20td.html
http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-C00001-01c20Y6.html
The steak certainly has a much higher mineral content, especially zinc and potassium. B12 too. I get cravings for red meat sometimes, when nothing else will do.
That site looks pretty interesting -- includes an inflammatory rating for each food. Something different.
JL
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> I can't get magnesium taurate here - I can get mag-tab SR although it is ridiculously expensive (32 US$ for 30 tablets) - so I just ordered that online. I like the lactate.
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> I have tried taurine in the past and in the end didn't like it very much. My diet is already high in taurine and I find more actually exacerbates my insomnia. Also taking aminos generally ends up screwing up my balance. Taking magnesium glycinate for instance makes me feel really weird and not incredibly relaxed. That is why I go for the non-amino forms.
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> So I have the trace mineral drops (basically magnesium chloride with trace minerals), which might be very good for me, because each drop has 6mg Mg - I can just add a few drops to my tea or glass of water etc.
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> But I think I'm gonna need to continue supplementing Mg because my lifestyle still leaves much to be desired (alchohol, nicotine, late nights, noise).
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> I take zinc - funny - the nights I take it I notice less arrhythmia in general. I also use potassium salt in water whilst training.
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> VEry interesting about the chicken leg! I wonder how much red meat and pork has? I have been having big cravings for steak recently. When I first started low-carbing I was crazy about pork - now it's steak.
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> Loops
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