Posted by JLx on September 10, 2007, at 14:21:46
In reply to Re: Magnesium - JLX, posted by brooke484 on September 9, 2007, at 9:56:26
> Yes, that's the one I bought.
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> Is magnesium citrate as good as the taurate?Magnesium taurate is magnesium chelated with the amino acid taurine. Magnesium glycinate is magnesium chelated with glycine. With these kinds of magnesium, you get some of the same effect of the amino acid, primarily calming. Both of these are also considered very absorbable and so is magnesium citrate.
Magnesium citrate is the most likely to give me diarrhea in larger doses, but other people take it quite successfully.
Most everything in alternative health is trial and error, so you won't know how something works for YOU until you try it. Also, some things may work best in combination with something else, so again, trial and error.
>Or would eating pumpkin seeds be better than taking supplements? I'm a little clueless about all of this, can you tell?
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> Thanks again,
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> brookeI think food is always preferable to supplements -- in theory. In practice, it may not always be convenient to achieve higher doses of something with food. There may also be a question of absorption or something else preventing the body from utilizing the nutrients in food. A supplement may bypass that "something". That may not be scientific, it's just my theory.
If your magnesium oxide is not very absorbable for you, then you may benefit from eating magnesium rich foods like pumpkin seeds too. It just depends on how you feel.
See this nutritionist's page for some good info on magnesium. Note her recommendation for magnesium calculated by body weight, also taking into consideration possible factors that deplete magnesium: http://www.krispin.com/magnes.html
Why are you taking magnesium? What are you trying to achieve or why do you think you may be deficient?
I never would have thought I was deficient but am glad I tried it anyway.
JL
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