Recommendations for Magnesium tablets

I’ve been bothered by ectopics recently, and so have decided to try some magnesium tablets as a supplement. Last time I tried Holland and Barrett’s magnesium citrate, taking the recommended dose of 3x100mg tablets per day (£6.99 for 100 tablets). I wondered if there was anything known to be really good and possibly more effective than H and B’s. Has anyone had a recommendation from an EP?

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The best thing to do is search on YouTube for Dr Sanjay Gupta, York Hospital, Magnesium and 3/4 or more helpful videos will pop up which will indicate which version might be best........

[The_Lord_is_with_Us]

I wouldn't take any recommendation for what supplement to take from an MD.

For example, you can buy online or at a vitamin shop the best quality fish oil supplement for a reasonable price without a doctor. Or ......... the doctor can write you an extremely high-cost prescription for a fancifully-named fish oil supplement produced by one of the drug companies with inferior ingredients and unhealthful fillers and additives. It's your choice . . . . . .

I took online seller Swanson Vitamins Triple Magnesium Complex at 300mg twice a day to get rid of my serious ectopics case. Very effective and cheap. Might not work for everyone, but worth a try. They ship internationally.

[waveylines]

Magnesium supplements are not always well tolerated by the digestive system. Its worth considering sprays for the skin. You spray on at night and wash off in the morning. Spray inner thighs or inner arms or stomach......rotate round these areas.

Also worth checking your B12 level. Needs to be over 500 as per PA Society recommendation. Low B12 causes palpitations amongst many other symptoms - look at B12d.org. We beed B12 in every cell to survive.

[IndiraK]

Magnesium Taurate as recommended by Dr Sanjay Gupta worked for me very quickly. All the best. 🙂

[Ppiman]

There's no scientific reason to take one salt of magnesium over another since the magnesium element is very easily absorbed from all and the salt part is irrelevant; indeed, the evidence shows that a good diet with plenty of greens, nuts, pulses, and fibre will provide sufficient of this important mineral. Internet sites that push the more expensive complex organic salts such as magnesium taurate or palmitate cannot use science to support their recommendation, but if people who take these find success, even if it is a placebo effect, then good for them. It certainly boosts the coffers of the suppliers nicely, and the economy needs that these days.

Steve

[Auriculaire in reply to Ppiman]

It might be cheaper to take one of the less expensive salts like citrate and a taurine supplement separately. I believe mag taurate is recommended by docs like Gupta because the taurine part is beneficial in itself to the heart.

[Ppiman in reply to Auriculaire]

I know that Dr Gupta has a large following, and his videos are very helpful, but some of what he recommends is not widely considered useful.

Steve

[Auriculaire in reply to Ppiman]

If you mean does not fit with the medical consensus - so what? This changes all the time as one generation of docs with fixed ideas gives way to another. Any cursory look at the history of medicine illustrates this quite clearly. Only recently there was the ulcers caused by H. Pylori affair with the proponents of that mocked and attacked by their fellow medics ( to say nothing of the manufacturers of Zantac).

[Ppiman in reply to Auriculaire]

I'm wary, that's all. Not sceptical, just wary.

Steve