Should I take magnesium?

[patience4]

Hi can anyone give me advice about taking magnesium and if so in what form should it be taken?

I have had two heart attacks, stents installed have high cholesterol for which of course I take statins. I can get rather tired mid afternoon. I’m active and have no weight issues

Thank you in advance for any advice.

[PeterpPiper]

I generally shy away from individual vitamins and go for a high quality food source multivitamin. The go to supplement to try for us on statins is Q10 coenzyme . Google it and see what you think.It is possible to take too much magnesium.

Good health to you .

[patience4 in reply to PeterpPiper]

Thank you very much. I will check this out. Good health to you.

[Gela64 in reply to PeterpPiper]

I agree - we have been taking MitoQ for several years - it's not cheap but it definitely helped with muscle pain

[patience4 in reply to Gela64]

Cheers. A bit more info. Gosh what a brilliant source of info. Take care

[MikeBB]

Why are you contemplating taking magnesium? I take it in tablet form having had a suggestion from my osteopath that it may help with the dreadful leg cramps I suffered most nights. Certainly said cramps are far less frequent these days.

[patience4 in reply to MikeBB]

Thank you. I am led to believe that I may well benefit from extra magnesium. It’s all very complex and takes time to get ones head around it all. Take care.

[JC35]

Due to its size there is rarely enough magnesium in multi vitamins, and it is practically gone from our food due to modern farming methods. When you suffer a heart attack the emergency doctors will inject you with magnesium. When your body does not have enough magnesium you suffer a heart attack. Magnesium can be hard to absorb so a good way is to buy magnesium salts for your bath or make a skin spray as this is the best way to absorb it, I would get a good absorbable supplement too. All this is allegedly, I have found out from Clive De Carle and others on you tube, but I am not a doctor so please research it first.

[patience4]

Thank you for your great advice, take care.