magnesium

[bigdrig840]

whats the best magnesium supplement out there? I did use magnesium glycinate cause i got suckered into this long website about how magnesium is soooo great.. I know that its good for u, but seriously that guy went on and on and on about it. I know magnesium hydroxide isnt the best. I am currently taking magnesium potassium aspartate.

[annelb]

Once upon a time there was some great magnesium information. But that info was lost in the crash last year that lasted for months. When we came back online a link to some good magnesium information was put here (http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2742), but for some reason this link has been blocked. :confused:

Too bad we lost so much data - too bad the link is blocked.
Anne

[Ted Hutchinson]

This forum provides a link to the same magnesium thread (http://www.latitudes.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=2319&mode=threaded&pid=15323) however as I've been banned for life from neurotalk for telling people that they can obtain Vitamin D at effective strength from links on The Vitamin D council website I cannot check that the link works. It's a pity when forum moderators become so arrogant, intolerant and interfering when censoring information put on their sites.

Still if the idiots don't want accurate science based useful practical information on their sites that's their problem.

[bigdrig840]

oh i feel ya brother, ive been on healthboards and they booted me for some nondescript reason too.

[Traveler]

To bigdrig840

whats the best magnesium supplement out there?

I have a book "Ultra-Prevention" by Mark Hyman, MD and Mark Liponis, MD
which has a lot of good health information. It says on P. 285 that "the most absorbable forms (of magnesium) are magnesium glycinate, citrate, taurate, and aspartate. Magnesium malate, succinate, and fumarate are also good. Avoid magnesium carbonate, sulfate, gluconate, and oxide. They are less well absorbed......."

"The RDA for magnesium is about 300 mg. a day. Most of us get far less than 200 mg."

"People with magnesium deficiency will benefit from 400 to 1,000 mg. a day."

"Magnesium is best taken as a team with other minerals in a multimineral formula."

"People with kidney disease or severe heart disease should take magnesium only under a doctor's supervision."

"Signs and symptoms of conditions associated with magnesium deficiency include irritability, heart flutters or palpitations, frequent headaches, migraines, trouble swallowing, muscle twitching, leg or hand cramps, restless leg syndrome, excess stress, reflux, depression, insomnia, fatigue, constipation, asthma, hypoglycemia, and heart disease. Among the diseases associated with magnesium deficiency are osteoporosis, constipation, congestive heart failure, insulin resistance, diabetes, and kidney stones."

"Some of the foods that contain the most magnesium are kelp, wheat bran, millet, dulse, almonds, wheat germ, collard greens, cashews, barley, filberts, pecans, dates, beans, tofu, shrimp, avocado, and soybeans."

I have read in other sources that green, leafy vegetables, turnip greens, and broccoli are also high in magnesium.

Here's to good health. (I have no connection to the authors of this book. I saw them on one of the morning shows some time back and bought their book.)

Traveler

[mrsdoubtfyre]

However, this board does NOT allow posting of links to there.

Put NeuroTalk into a Google search or search mrsdoubtfyre magnesium on Google and you will find it. If you use "mrsdoubtfyre magnesium" it is the 3rd choice on Google.

If you use just NeuroTalk, go the the vitamin forum and the magnesium thread is on page 1. I have a LONG discussion about types, doses, and usefulness of this important mineral with many links/papers.

I used to have it here (it was hugely popular) but after the crash and the non-restoration of data, I felt that all that work is wasted here.

See you there.

[robine]

My nutrition doc has recommended Magnesium Glycinate Chelate Capsules from a specific company. I have malabsorption due to celiac disease and adrenal insufficiency and tolerate the above magnesium well. At present I am slowly increasing the dose. I am taking 450mg daily in three separate doses of 150 mg each with food. I also have a vitamin mineral infusion twice a month with plenty of magnesium, but the hope is that the infusions will be discontinued at some point as absorption improves.

[Cry Tears]

I had PVC's often floored me were so bad.
They did every test possible...I was in my late 20's, was very healthy, physically fit in perfect conditon.
I had NEVER been ill a day of my life except normal childhood stuff.
Then all of a sudden began having chest stomping PVC's.
After was determined to be basically benign...
maybe to them, but this was very disconcerning to me...
having your heart flip flop around inside your chest,
beat after beat taking your breath away to where I couldn't hardly take a step!
I begged for Valium as these made me so fearful...I was given just a minimal amount and told these will not kill you.

But when the EKG's proved I had them Bi-gimeny...
they felt was time to take action, I was given Beta Blockers...
Inderal L 80 3X day.
All this did was make them "lighter", but managable...
I learned to just "live" with them, but often kept me from sleeping well as they really did worry me no matter what they said.

I was listening to radio program, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist talked about them,
that are often simply mineral/vitamin deficiency!
So I began supplimenting with Mag, Pot, calcuim...
within days they disappeared.
I soon weaned myself very slowly off the Beta Blockers...
that was 20+ years ago...
Is very dangerous to do so without doctors approval, but I'm stubborn!

I no longer have any PVC's unless I go without taking supps for some time.

What a saga that was! Is too bad all those cardiologist didn't know about this!
But then do they really know about vits/mins like they should?! NO!
Hope this adds some zip to your life!
Blessings, cheryl