Posted by janejane on April 20, 2010, at 11:53:42
In reply to Calcium/Magnesium and depression, posted by Lao Tzu on April 19, 2010, at 9:13:48
I take mag glycinate every morning because it's supposed to be good for calming, but doesn't make me sleepy. I haven't noticed any effect on depression but maybe if I discontinued it I'd feel worse. I don't plan to stop taking it to find out since something like 3/4 of Americans are mag deficient and any extra is dumped in the urine, anyway. I doubt I get enough in my diet. Oh yeah, it's also essential to something like 300 bodily processes so I don't want to be low.
I had been a long-time insomniac and discovered last year that pure mag citrate powder mixed in small amount of beverage helped me get drowsy. After a while I stopped taking it, and the insomnia didn't resume. (Note: I was taking this in addition to the mag glycinate in the morning.)
After starting on low dose prozac a few months ago, the insomnia resumed, so I took the citrate again and it didn't seem to work anymore. I then decided to try liquid cal/mag (both citrate form) and it didn't help much either. I think that there must be something about prozac that makes the insomnia more stubborn, at least for me. I'm still looking for an alternative.
As for calcium, I eat/drink a lot of dairy, and have one of those chews on days when I don't feel I've had enough in my diet. I don't really think it affects my mood much but I don't want to get osteoporosis. I never drank milk as a kid so I try to get a good amount of calcium now.
By the way, whenever I get a vitamin D test the doc also tests cal and mag and they are in the higher part of the reference range. I read that regular serum tests (at least for mag) might not be very useful, though. (Can't remember the name of the one that's supposed to be better.) Do you know anything about that?
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