Yes it's what I take. Bio citrate magnesium gel caps by Solaray, 400 mg total daily. One in the morning, two at night. They do the trick. But be aware: magnesium can give you very loose bowels. It's normal but if it's too much in the beginning, cut your dosage until your body gets used to it.
I might be overly thinking things here, and that is one of my stresses that makes T worse for me. So after posting what I have to say I might vanish to forget things.
Alright, so I did a google search on "Solaray Magnesium Citrate". And then I read the part about this, "BioCitrate™ Magnesium is a specially chelated form of Magnesium using citric acid."
Then the warning flags go off inside my head about Citric Acid. Someplace on the internet years ago.. I read that Citric acid, Citrate (E 330) is an ingredient that often contain or produce processed free glutamic acid. Glutamic acid found in unadulterated protein does not cause adverse reactions. To cause adverse reactions, the glutamic acid must have been processed/manufactured or come from protein that has been fermented. Most of the citric acid used by the food industry comes from corn. This all leads back to the granddaddy of suspects.. MSG.
Speaking of excitotoxins, aspartame makes me dizzy. When people talk about Salts effecting their T's, is salt getting a bad rep here with they are probably using Season Salt and not just Salt?.. That __ MSG is all over the place.
I really want to try magnesium, but there are just too many types to keep track of and what binders are better. The last thing I want to do is add yet another nutrient to my ever growing list, seriously what happened to just eating good and losing weight? Seems like the more organic vegetables I eat the worse my T is getting for me. I can't seem to find the root cause! I don't eat out very much, but I did find out that my season salt had one of these other forms of MSG, so it's in the trash as of today.
Has anyone did any reading on Calcification of the Arteries? Last thing I want is for some nutrient to put my meat on a slab for doctors to poke around and show what I did wrong in life taking Magnesium. So what kind of magnesium should I take? I take Epsom Salt baths alot to help with soreness. And I do take diuretics for high blood pressure,
Losartan with hydrochlorothiazide. I do have some highend hearing loss and my T is in the highend with a constant tone.
... Sigh, I've not even moved off this page and already I ran into another problem. "Magnesium aspartate" is a mineral amino acid chelate containing magnesium bound to the amino acid known as aspartate or aspartic acid. Aspartate is known to be an excitatory neurotransmitter.
It's things like this that make me mirror-pound my forehead against the universe. Why would anyone take Magnesium with an excitatory neurotransmitter? Consuming aspartame and MSG (and similar excitotoxins) together greatly magnifies the toxicity problems. Aspartate is an amino acid present in aspartame.
My logic here is that when people take Magnesium to reduce T, are they consuming a binding element that also aggravates T? This would suggest that the wrong magnesium supplements could negate any positive benefits and thus no change is recorded.
Currently I'm thinking of buying Magnesium Glycinate.
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