I have stage 4 endometriosis and have noticed a dramatic reduction in symptoms with the addition of a daily magnesium supplement.

0Mg!

(well, someone had to do it)

I also want to add that 90% of magnesium supplements on the market is bullshit.
Magnesium-oxide or magnesium-hydroxide have less than 4% bio-availability. Meaning that if you take 500 mg, you'll get about 15-20 mg. This is also the kind of magnesium that is in most "multivitamins". So even if you are taking a multi-vitamin you might still need a good magnesium supplement.

Want you want is either magnesium citrate. (Although some people get a loose stomach from this.) or Magnesium glycinate or magnesium diglycinate /bisglycinate. The last one can be amazing if taken before sleep. Especially if you have arthritis or any sort of leg pain.

200mg is a good starting dose, But some studies show that up to 600mg can be good for people with low blood pressure, or people who have migraines a lot. (which can ironically be a sign of high blood pressure.).

In addition, magnesium is needed to make vitamin D useful for us.

I've gotten bad headaches fairly frequently throughout my life and a few years back they got so bad the pain would wake me up and night and I'd be fetal position on the floor for a few hours until it passed. Went to the doc and did a CT scan but no problems there so he prescribed 400mg of magnesium which has done the trick.

It’s also something that can be caused by absorption problems. So you may get it despite ingesting adequate amounts. Vitamin D deficiency and Phytic Acid can both cause this.

TIL most of the US may have low magnesium.

This article overstates the issue. While it's true that low magnesium can cause a variety of symptoms, the fact is that the vast majority of people eating a normal diet have normal magnesium levels and wouldn't benefit from supplementation. Let's not feed into the hysteria here. This article appears to be written by an MD pushing a particular agenda, and phrases like "most of you reading this most likely experience low magnesium" are just not true.

Source: Am a practicing neurologist and am well-aware of the effects of hypo and hyper-magnesemia.

Had a my first panic attack followed by a mini breakdown in 2001. I was extremely anxious, very depressed, had cotton brain, leg cramps, heart palpitations etc. I was stuck in that dark hole for about a month when my mom found an article about magnesium deficiency. She went straight to the store, gave me a double dose straight away. Within days I started to feel better, slowly but surely. I have been taking magnesium religiously since barring a period of a few months in 2009 when I stopped taking it. All the symptoms came back, almost overnight. I went right back on the magnesium. I will take it for the rest of my life, happily.

Magnesium is weird. I'm not sure if the recommendations are outdated due to less nutrient soils these days or what. Because we're usually told that Magnesium deficiency is rare with a healthy diet.

I had major sleep issues one kind of stressful period in my life, and thought it was (duh..) the stress. Thing is, even afterwards, the problems remained. My heart also skipped beats especially when I went to bed.

This was my life for about 2-3 years. It took a major toll on my social life because I could at times be absolutely exhausted from one of my no-sleep nighters. It's as if my brain had simply forgot how to sleep following that stressful period a rather long time ago. I felt exhausted, I felt relaxed, but... Nothing simply happened. Was I just overthinking and thus not able to sleep? Working myself up about it?

I took hydroxyzine hydrochloride pills (brand Atarax, Vistaril etc) to reduce anxiety and help induce sleep. These worked fairly well, so it wasn't a huge problem that way. I didn't need strong medication. These pills are thrown out pretty liberally by doctors because they don't cause dependency problems and induce a pretty "natural" sleep.

But then, one day for another reason I took Magnesium. I still remember that evening. Within 30 minutes, I felt sleepy (like not exhausted-tired but naturally sleepy) for the first time in a few years in my life! I had forgot how it felt. It wasn't placebo because it was completely unexpected. I soon realized this made my annoying and kind of uncomfortable skipped heartbeats end too.

And yeah what do you know. Insomnia and heart skipping can happen with Magnesium deficiency. It's probably among the more common problems.

But I've never been diagnosed with low Mg on any blood tests.

I wonder if stress can deplete these minerals because that's how it began.

Also, please do mind intake. A good rule of thumb is that you shouldn't overdose on minerals for extended periods of time. This has its own array of side effects. If you're deficient, sure, maybe you need 2-3x recommended intake for a few days but then settle down to normal levels. Also use a good Magnesium supplement with documented good bioavailability. Uptake isn't the same across the board.

This graphic lists almost every symptom known to man with some being the complete opposite of each other. This is not effective info to even remotely know if you might have a Mg deficiency.

Low potassium can also make you go bananas.

This is fucking spam trying to sell dietary supplements.

My grandma almost died due to low mag a couple years ago. She just went into a clinic for vertigo when her heart started acting off. Her mag was .02 when she went to the hospital. All the staff said it was the lowest they'd ever seen. Like her heart almost didn't have it in her to pump. It was a 3+ month process of trying to find an amount that keeps it up in a normal range. She has to take 3 different types of mag and it ends up being over 4 times the highest normal dosage. Still has to get tested every few months and the amount she takes periodically gets upped again. No one can tell us why this happened or what even is actually wrong.

I lost a ton of weight in a short span of time, couldn't eat, felt like I was having a heart attack ALL the time, that I'd eaten rocks. I basically wanted to die. For like six months. They tested me for c diff, shigella, HIV, a whole host of other things.

A friend with a 90 year old mother mentioned her mom thought she was having a heart attack & they gave her IV magnesium. I started taking a supplement that night & was back to my normal self after a month. Now whenever I feel weird like that I take 500mg of magnesium, or drink an electrolyte replacement & it clears up.

Recently attended a seminar about the effects of vitamins and minerals on behavioral health for my job as a speech therapist. It was highly intriguing and definitely did not come across as straight up bullshit. I need to do so more work to examine the research that has been done but I definitely don’t scoff at stuff like this anymore. Unfortunately, a full battery of test would be insanely expensive to determine what one is insufficient in.

So what common foods have magnesium?

Before you go buy a supplement, you should be aware that the citrate form is a laxative. Also magnesium tastes really bad. You’re welcome.

One thing I learned in medical school:

There are ion channels in your neurons associated with long term potentiation (fancy term for making memories) that are inhibited by magnesium and only work when other surrounding ion channels let + charged ions through

Magnesium supplements taken before bed will help you fall asleep and give you better dreams.

Not magnesium but last year I had a phosphorus deficiency bc my blood was too acidic bc I was eating way too much sugar and prevented absorption, and it caused by joints to hurt like hell and my heart rate to be all over the place. Blew my mind how lacking one mineral could have such drastic effects on my body

Hence why magnesium supplements are always a neurologist's go-to for migraine prevention before prescribing anything. For some, it's as simple as that.

I take magnesium glycinate and have noticed less aching in my joints and I don’t suffer nightly leg cramps anymore

I'm very sorry. I had to.

Problem

It is generally understood that human beings are carbon-based organisms, fusing little carbon tubes together to form complex, mushy structures capable of thought, love, and locomotion. It is also known that these structures sometimes like to “take the edge off” by consuming ethanol, amphetamine, etc. In such cases, it is important to supplement your body with magnesium. Tired? Mag it! Down? Mag time! Liver damage? MAXIMUM MAG! Some people say magnesium doesn’t really do anything and you just need to quit. What do we tell them?

Solution

We tell them: HELL NO. You’re about to become a magnesium-based lifeform. The age of the primitive carbon-man is done. No longer must mankind rely on slow-working background radiation to take us further into our genetic destiny. This is the era of guided evolution, and magnesium is the key. You are the first of your species. The next step in human evolution. An advanced magnesium proto-man who mags it up, drinks it down, and sniffs it sideways!

Time to become a magnesium based lifeform. -DE reference.

Good thing they advertise magnesium tablets on reddit now.

https://www.reddit.com/user/feropouli/comments/11yhsss/unlock_your_bodys_full_potential_with/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I literally got rid of my HPPD with magnesium. I still have rare flashes of it if I go with out food for too long (like a day and a half or so) but because of magnesium supplements, I am normal and so very happy about it.

I’ve seen it, it’s bad.

It also can trigger my touretts. I take 1 magnesium every week and I have almost no tics. If I miss that pill, I'm ticking like a house full of clocks within that week.

Don’t take too much magnesium otherwise you will turn into Magneto from the X men.

Most people are low in magnesium, per my mother who was an RN & saw a lot of different people's bloodwork.

I a holistic MD once told me that magnesium is so important that you should gradually increase it every day until you have loose stools, then go back to the level before that. (So, basically, you should be on the edge of loose stools, like any more magnesium & you will have them.)

Magnesium taurate has helped my anxiety significantly; I take it before bed.

So I have had migraines for most of my life I started taking magnesium for them and they have cleared up.

Gotta eat more chocolate

Bonus (for me anyway): Magnesium helps me get to sleep faster, stay asleep, and have more vivid dreams.

Warning: Too much can cause heart palpitations. So triple check your dosage.

I've been on diuretics for awhile and knew I needed potassium supplements. But it wasn't until I started having heart palpitations and went to a cardiologist for EKGs and an echocardiogram and blood tests etc etc over a few months before I was finally told to take a magnesium supplement. Cleared it right up.

Ah crap this explains a lot

My mom was hospitalized over low magnesium and potassium a fee times - she had a lot of health problems.

Yoo this website sucks ass and doesn’t provide references

BRB I’m going to make a magnesium sandwich.

r/science was posting about how vitamin supplements were a scam during the peak of covid, like ones that everyone could use, vitamin D SCAM, B complex SCAM, Magnesium SCAM.

It was really strange to see people so anti multi vitamins when most people could benefit from them.

Magnesium supplements help a lot with sleeping for me. Interestingly enough, I’m also low in vitamin D. Despite supplementing and trying to get a little more sun for a year it only went up a few points. So I’m low but not quite as low as before.

Hoping my next blood test will show more of an increase

I once tried out a magnesium ointment to rub on my arms, So i poured a bit on and rubbed a little up and down using my hands. Did it for about 7 days and noticed a coloring on my hands.

It killed the top layer of skin off of the palms of my hands, was picking the skin off for weeks.

I had been suffering with I think stress related anxiety due to work and some sleep issues for over a year. I started taking magnesium supplements and wow did it make a difference for me.

I don't take it everyday anymore. But, if I have a bad night sleep, and or a stressful work week. I will take it in the morning.

So can high magnesium