Magnesium Recommendation

[CMCM]

I really need to take magnesium supplements but I have a hard time with them. Does anyone have a recommendation for a good one, perhaps a liquid, which doesn't upset the digestive system so much?

[Mother of Jibril]

I've been taking Nature's Way calcium/magnesium gel caps. You could probably open the caps and stir the powder into your food.

[RiceGuy]

The powders or liquids might be OK to mix into some foods, but it depends. You can get magnesium citrate powder, but it has a citrus taste, obviously, so I don't suggest that for most foods. I haven't tried the liquid ones, so I don't know what they taste like. Magnesium carbonate is fairly neutral in taste, and blends ok into moist foods unless you use a lot. I don't recommend mixing magnesium oxide into foods. Calcium should help buffer the magnesium, so that's probably a good combination to try.

In capsule or tablet form, it's a matter of potency, absorption, and what your digestive system is happy with. The forms I'm aware of include citrate, carbonate, malate, oxide, and orotate. I've heard the orotate form is supposed to be very good, but it's more costly.

Citric or ascorbic acid increases the absorption of magnesium, but persons sensitive to these might be better off with a different formulation.

[AdLucem]

I've always used the Calm Magnesium powder without problems. It doesn't taste that great though.

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