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roseydookey1987
roseydookey1987 Posts: 6 Member
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Who can tell me more about magnesium xx

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  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    edited March 2017
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    What do you need to know? What questions do you have?
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
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    It helps me sleep better, not wake up to pee, poo, and relieves muscle aches/cramps/restless legs
  • CyberTone
    CyberTone Posts: 7,337 Member
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium_in_biology
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
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    Magnesium helps my restless legs/cramps at night, and if i take 2-3 tablets before bed it relieves constipation by the next morning.
  • Schila64
    Schila64 Posts: 240 Member
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    livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
    It helps me sleep better, not wake up to pee, poo, and relieves muscle aches/cramps/restless legs
    Let me go get one then . I really need to sleep better
  • fupthesides
    fupthesides Posts: 71 Member
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    I take it to prevent/lessen my migraines along with a B vitamin supplement. Helps you stay regular.
  • rollerjog
    rollerjog Posts: 154 Member
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    here is a link on magnesium https://examine.com/supplements/magnesium/
  • awinner_au
    awinner_au Posts: 249 Member
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    There is also a difference between cheap Magnesium Oxide and Chelated Magnesium. Magnesium in its oxide form did nothing for my leg cramps, since i switched to Chelated Magnesium i haven't had a single cramp.

    Jury still out though as i haven't gone a whole year on Chelated Mg, so I cant exclude seasonal variation.
  • dpwellman
    dpwellman Posts: 3,271 Member
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    I take Magnesium for cramps and Reynaud's. I also recently encountered a reference to an older study (1991) that suggest magnesium can also mitigate stress on cardiac muscle for those of us participating in high intensity aerobic activity. I haven't researched that further, though.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
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    awinner_au wrote: »
    There is also a difference between cheap Magnesium Oxide and Chelated Magnesium. Magnesium in its oxide form did nothing for my leg cramps, since i switched to Chelated Magnesium i haven't had a single cramp.

    Jury still out though as i haven't gone a whole year on Chelated Mg, so I cant exclude seasonal variation.

    This is true. Oxide and citrate are great for fixing constipation though.
  • awinner_au
    awinner_au Posts: 249 Member
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    Christine_72 wrote: »

    This is true. Oxide and citrate are great for fixing constipation though.

    Citrate is actually chelated.

    http://www.livestrong.com/article/226149-what-is-chelated-magnesium/
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
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    awinner_au wrote: »
    There is also a difference between cheap Magnesium Oxide and Chelated Magnesium. Magnesium in its oxide form did nothing for my leg cramps, since i switched to Chelated Magnesium i haven't had a single cramp.

    Jury still out though as i haven't gone a whole year on Chelated Mg, so I cant exclude seasonal variation.

    I've been running a chelate for about a year now. Very notable difference between it and the cheap stuff. I have to take 1000 mg of oxide for comparable cramp reduction to 300 mg of chelate. Unfortunately, 1000 mg of oxide results in some rather unpleasant bathroom experiences as a side effect for me.
  • leadslinger17
    leadslinger17 Posts: 297 Member
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    I would get leg cramps on nights after going on runs (or sometimes on hard leg days) and asked my doctor about it. My doctor prescribed taking a magnesium supplement before bed and it has been working.
  • poppysierra
    poppysierra Posts: 79 Member
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    I stumbled across this post and I'm definitely going to try chelated Mg to help my broken sleep/anxiety/getting up in the night issues. I haven't slept more than 4 hours in one go for years :(
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,182 Member
    edited March 2017
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    I take 250 mg Mg every day and it doesn't do a thing to help my sleep. I'm confident it does help with everything else it's touted for.

    For leg cramps, I added salt to my bedtime routine. Before I had leg cramps, I was deliberately keeping my sodium intake low. After I started getting leg cramps frequently, I decided to have a few big grains of pink salt before going to bed. That proved so successful at eliminating my leg cramps that I completely discarded any effort to keep sodium low. Gimme electrolytes!
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,576 Member
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    The National Institutes of Health (NIH) can.

    https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Magnesium-HealthProfessional/

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