Magnesium Taurate.

[ETHEL103]

Evening all. Anyone on here take Tom Oliver 600 mg Mag. Taurate. I've got some and it seems a lot more than recommended dose for females. Thanks.

[MichaelJH Heart Star]

You shouldn't supplement the drugs prescribed by your GP/cardiologist without consulting them first. The dose mentioned is very high and could cause additional side effects.

[LBCdance]

I think I'm a bit old-fashioned and while I know some GPs are more pro-active than others I avoid supplements - quite often benefit the manufactures and sellers of vitamins etc without being necessary, possibly no harm but not a lot of good, and if you are on medication anyway, as MichaelJH says they could cause side effects.

[Visitingcat]

I’ve been taking that brand for a while. I started taking magnesium taurate as it was mentioned on the Atrial Fibrillation boards and also because I was being woken at night with dreadful cramps in my feet and legs.It helped so much and with more as well including anxiety and insomnia.

Probably too much information but I stopped taking it for a while as I began to get awful problems with diarrhoea and cramps and naturally blamed magnesium, I thought it had built up in me and I didn’t need it so stopped taking it but the stomach problems did not stop.

I gave up artificial sweeteners, vit D, still no good and getting worse.

Gave up omeprazole which I had been on for around two years and it cleared in just over a fortnight. If anything I’m back to the opposite problem probably caused by my cocktail of other drugs.

I’d been off the magnesium about a couple of months. All my problems, cramp, pains at back of knees, trouble sleeping, were coming back so I’ve just started taking it again.

Someone on the afib boards mentioned this brand and said the 600 ml dose only equated to a lowish dose of actual magnesium but I can’t remember who it was and don’t know how they came to that conclusion. I keep meaning to look into it as it does sound high.

When I had a consultation with an EP and gave him my list of meds I mentioned the magnesium, he just wrote it with my list and didn’t comment on it.

Maybe check it out with your GP and pharmacist.

[runamok27]

Magnesium taurate is 8.9 % elemental magnesium by weight, so that 600 mg of Magnesium taurate is only 53.4 mg of actual magnesium. Way under the recommended daily amount. It should say something like that on the bottle.

[ETHEL103 in reply to runamok27]

It doesn't tho that's why I'm puzzled. How do you know this please.

[runamok27 in reply to ETHEL103]

Magnesium taurate, also known as magnesium ditaurate, is the magnesium salt of taurine, and a mineral supplement. It contains 8.9% elemental magnesium by mass. Accordingly, 100 mg of magnesium is contained in 1121 mg of magnesium taurate. That's on Wikipedia and this is a page from a vitamin supplier that puts the correct information on their bottles, doublewoodsupplements.com/p.... If you look at the picture of the label it tells you that you get about 120 mg of magnesium from 1500 mg of magnesium taurate.

[Visitingcat in reply to runamok27]

Thank you very much for clarifying that, I knew I’d heard something similar.

[ETHEL103 in reply to runamok27]

Thankyou. So my 600mg is OK. Thankyou for your reply.