Recommendation for a magnesium supplement

[Butterflycake1]

My sister has been diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease. She has been advised by her doctor to take 400mg of magnesium per day. As there are so many brands on the market, can anyone please advise, from their own experience, a good brand that has minimum bulking agents and gluten free. Thank you.

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

Butterflycake1

There are many different forms of magnesium, each help with a specific thing. Your sister should check them out and decide which is the right form for her:

naturalnews.com/046401_magn...

explore.globalhealing.com/t...

and ignore the fact that this is a supplement company, the information is relevant:

swansonvitamins.com/blog/ar...

Magnesium should be taken 4 hours away from thyroid meds and as it tends to be calming it's best taken in the evening

[Butterflycake1 in reply to SeasideSusie]

Thank you for your response.

[RockyPath]

Hi Butterflycake1,

I can't help but wonder if the doctor recommending the magnesium is the same one who misinterpreted the lab results in your prior posts. And what is this doctor expecting to not see inside her skull with a CT scan?

As a person with a traumatic brain injury, I can assure you that a CT will disclose a brain tumor, a steel framing nail accidentally shot into the brain, or a bleed, but, like an MRI it's not going to show anything subtle, such as a brain injury without bleeding -- which could still produce cognitive changes.

You're a good sister to be advocating for NDT. I began on levothyroxine and struggled for a long time before the endocrinologist saw what was happening (I had to order the tests privately) and got me off the levothyroxine. Theoretically, the lab results showed things were fine, but they weren't.

Vitamin D is essential to good cognitive function, as well as 90% of the other cellular functions in the body. Insufficient Vitamin D will drag down a lot of things. Sufficient is not just a level near the bottom of the clinical range. Finally raising my D levels has helped me a lot.

But what helped the most was neurostimulation from a practice certified in BCIA neurotherapy. The brain is a complex electrical appliance. Hardly anybody in medical practice understands the first thing about how it works. They just pretend it's like a automobile engine.

In the case of your most recent post, it sounds like somebody things the engine needs some magnesium. As SeasideSusie pointed out, there are many forms and you need to know which form the doctor thinks our sister needs -- if this person even has a clue.

Good luck on the journey.

[Butterflycake1 in reply to RockyPath]

Thanks so much Rocky Path. She was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease late last month after she found a new doctor. He prescribed one 60mg grain of NDT. Her bloods will be retested in 12 weeks. She’s on a much healthier diet (gluten free; no dairy milk chocolate - which she ate a lot of but wasn’t overweight) as well as supplements of Vit D3 (4000 iu) K2, Omega 3, Zinc and Selenium and we are now sourcing a good Magnesium supplement for her. (Thanks to all who shared their recommendations for Magnesium). Her T3 was very low, as expected and her TSH was 4.62. I think her doctor may up her dose of NDT to 1.5 or 2 early next March as she is tolerating it well. Yes, some doctors know more than others when it comes to treating the whole person and it’s finding them. The ‘new’ doctor said that it’s important to treat low T3 first rather than going directly to the the MRI or CT route, as some doctors prefer. I agree that this type of cognitive decline is not always obvious on brain scans. I’m really pleased that you had success with Neuro-stimulation and I will research it further. Thanks again and all the best to you on your journey.

[Batty1]

I take Solagar its free of everything and Im able to purchase through Amazon.

[Butterflycake1]

Thank you so much for your response.

[kiefer]

Doctor's Best has a high potency magnesium supplement (100mg elemental Mg per tablet). It is an amino acid chelate (Magnesium Lysinate Glycinate ).

[Butterflycake1 in reply to kiefer]

Thanks kiefer, much appreciated.