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Dr. Brad, I have a question. If one buys your supplement, is the packaging somehow protected against the heat? Many vitamins get damaged when exposed to heat, and the delivery companies do not really do much to protect the goods they deliver.
Does age,weight, sex etc effect how many mg you should be taking? Also, everyone's recommend dose is different. I take 1, 400mg (135mg elemental) a day. Is that too much?
5:21 we know the mechanism with which Magnesium bisglucinate or taurate improve deep sleep length, and you do not need placebo randomised trials when you know the mechanism.
Please, don't get me wrong. I love your videos and have total trust in your knowledge and honesty. My point is, I've got the feeling that most, if not all, of your videos will inevitably lead to you talking about the benefits of Microvitamin. I understand it's a really great product, and I wish it were more cheaply available here in Brazil. However, I can't shake the feeling that this constant mentioning of your product might tarnish the channel's reputation, or even your own. But, please, do continue bringing us all that really helpful and reliable information, which is a rare thing here on UA-cam
@@FWFWFWF More people need to understand this. Almost nobody is making UA-cam content just to get the info out there, there is almost always a monetary incentive involved.
The burden of proof is on you. If you want to prove to people that magnesium helps cramping, become a scientist and set up a trial. If this is too much work for you, then it will remain a theory.
Mg-Gly is just about perfect. Relatively very cheap, very absorbable, and Gly is a great supplement for us older farts. And at least the version I take has fiber as well.
@felipejotz7054 I took 500mg daily spread in doses of 250mg each 12 hours. Now I found out that 1 gram (1000mg) contains 200mg elementary magnesium. I believe that's the part of the daily requirements. Now I take 1 gram daily spread in doses of 500mg around each 12 hour's. So my daily intake from magnesium supplements is now 200mg (taking 1 gram)
@@pascallangenberg2251 that’s what I thought. Not getting enough elemental might be the reason, don’t understand why all the directions on the containers tell you to use 100-200 mg. Than you
I take glycinate in the evening and am finally falling asleep easily. A blessing. I know you recommend diet..and plant foods etc.. but with the denuded soil from over farming, I can only wonder how even our unprocessed foods are fairing in their mineral content? I’m Eating organic fresh and as minimal processed as possible.. but I still take supplements because of the repots on soil conditions. I live in a farming area and organic is getting sprayed from the nearby farms on windy days. You just can’t count on “fresh” to do it all. It sounds wonderful, but you have yo be realistic about individual farming and soil conditions.
I saw something and I can't remember where it was but they tested the organic vs the regular food and the organic was actually missing a good bit of the minerals because they couldn't use the synthetic fertilizers and still be "organic".
Magnesium L-Threonate ruins my sleep (a common problem) and did not affect my toe cramps. Using salt on my food is the only thing that cured my toe cramps.
@@TheOfficialArthurMorgan Very true. Nearly everyone says 'more magnesium'. I used to be zero salt in my diet. My toe cramps were getting worse both whilst exercising and in bed and night. For years I took magnesium & calcium (bad idea!) and ate potassium rich foods. Zero effect. I went on a low carb diet, decided to use salt and the problem was gone incredibly quickly. Literally 15 minutes. I now salt my food and no longer get cramps for nearly 5 years.
@@pramuanchutham7355 They didn't say it couldn't cross the BBB. It might work for some people, but over 5 years of reading people's comments about it, I've lost count of the number of times it ruined people's sleep. On that basis, it apparently does cross the BBB... and ruins some people's sleep.
And if you go for Mg-Glycinate, there's another thing to take care of. Most of the sold Mg-Glycinate, is so called 'buffered' Mg-Glycinate with 20% elemental Mg. However, since Mg-Glycinate only has 14% elemental Mg, this means it is mixed up with Mg-Oxide to reach the 20%. As a result, this means that 39% of the elemental Mg is coming from Mg-Oxide. And this is usually not even declared.
1. Water is treated to soften it and the agents remove calcium and heavy metals. Magnesium is stripped to some degree,. 2. All the food surveys are skewed as most involve testing from selected sources. The magnesium (and other elements) come from historical surveys and do not cover specific countries. 3. In Australia we have very low levels of iodine and protein levels are low. For example pasta from most Australian wheat (ca 9-11%) is lower than high quality Italian pasta (ca14-6%) 4. And in cheeses the levels of Vitamin K2 MK-7 vary by location with European cheeses having sometimes double the levels of Vitamin K2 compared to cheeses from other countries (including Australia and NZ) Few if any tests are done or released due to commercial interests.
Is the wheat protein difference because of different strains of wheat which are used for different purposes? Gluten protein is very important for the variation in different wheat products like pasta and bread. Would you mind sending the source you're pulling that from?
@@Colin-yu7pcThere are different types of wheat. Most countries grow monoculture varieties for climate reasons and also resistance to common herbicides. Even if he doesn’t provide his source, the agriculture department compiles this info in western countries.
My muscle cramps at night go away when I take magnesium regularly and return quickly if I stop taking it. So I believe from personal experience that magnesium definitely helps reduce muscle cramps. Even magnesium oxide, the cheapest, helps me. When researchers say otherwise I am convinced they are wrong in the same way that I have learnt to ignore doctors persistant advise on taking statins as I know from personal experience that statins are harmful to me and have caused muscle pain/damage. (This is not cramp as often reported. It is a localised pain in a few places deep inside the muscle that is possibly due to local muscle death).
It's a pity that the evidence for Magnesium L-Threonate is weak because for me personally it's working very well. It helps me fall asleep faster and I sleep longer. During the day it makes me feel more relaxed.
Who cares if theres much scientific evidence yet as long as it works for you. This channel calls tongkat ali snake oil yet it works great for me, so IDGAF what he says.
I personally discovered a link between my muscle cramps and magnesium. To me, magnesium is absolutely essential for staving off cramps, and I can easily test for it. I can overflex my arm or leg muscles to induce a cramp if I am short on magnesium. I can then take 240g elemental magnesium (my supplement has it in multiple forms), and an hour later I will have lost the ability to induce cramps.
@@dwaynemorris3079 I use the NOW brand "Magnesium Transporters". It contains Magnesium Citrate, Taurinate, Malate, Glycinate, and Aspartate. I use 2x recommended dosage.
Mg glycinate is generally much cheaper than Mg taurate, while at the same time Taurine is dirt cheap by itself. So if you want to supplement with Taurine, you need gram quantities of it to really make an impact according to research (over 50 yo). Really makes no sense to choose Mg taurate. Molecular weight of glycine is 60% that of taurine, so you are always getting more Mg per tablet. Again, much cheaper. Glycine important in many roles not least of which is the formation of glutathione.
Almost all the magnesium compounds are about as good as the next for absorption aside from oxide. I mean a person could use mag chloride which is dirt cheap if they wanted to also... it is in fact the form that was used to cure polio and reverse virtually all side effects from people who survived it. The prob with glycinate is a lot of products use a mix of glycinate and oxide and call it mag glycinate "buffered". It's a scam. I personally like taurate and also mag bound creatine which has an extremely high mag content.
I've always had hypertension (>145/90). A year ago I started supplementing magnesium. Recently I realized that I no longer have hypertension (118/80). I'm unsure if it's the magnesium that caused this, it could've been other supplements like vitamin B, vitamin D or zinc, but it probably contributed.
Double ditto from me..i'm 79 and at 118/70 relaxed at home, but jumps to 140/80 when driving in San Diego traffic. I take Mg glycinate 200mg 6am,12pm, and 6pm. No leg cramps or pins and needles pain in feet.
As a lifelong insomniac, as soon as I started applying magnesium topically, I no longer experienced insomnia. It was such a drastic improvement, I fired my doctor due to the fact that he never once mentioned it to me. My husband suffered from horrible leg cramps, waking two or three times a night to walk them off. Once he started applying magnesium before bed, they stopped...almost totally. It's rare for him to wake with cramps now and it's usually after a very strenuous day out in the heat. The problem is that most magnesium in drug stores is magnesium oxide and sold in a pill. That stuff is horrible and should be avoided. The best way to get more mag is to use it topically or even better, do an epsom salt soak. While calling out those meta-studies can be helpful, I'll take my personal experience over anything. And for me and my hub, magnesium just works.
I recently made some discoveries myself, it's better to get magnesium through the skin not the gut .. That way you can avoid all the complications and negative side effects, just don't over do it as some people always manage too.
Very surprised Magnesium hydroxide wasn’t mentioned. It must be infused into carbonated water to make mag bicarbonate but it is supposed to be one of the best forms.
interesting, and bicarbonate and mag are both important electrolytes. If you do it in tonic water instead of basic carbonated water then you would also get the benefits of quinine as another upgrade.
I alternate glycine for immune taurine for heart and threonine for mood…citrate for hardened stool…never oxide. I like mineral water and natural spring waters…
Similar correlation occurs with saturated fat/high cholesterol and atherosclerosis. And this correlation is much weaker than magnesium studies when the manipulated data is removed. Magnesium is an electrolyte that is essential so I take it daily in both supplemental (mag. chloride) and dietary form. Most mineral levels (including magnesium) are reduced in foods because of long-term monoculture, especially grains.
I understand what you are saying that we supplementation shouldn't be our first resort, but to your point, it looks like a primary dietary source of magnesium, water, no longer provides it. I've found that when I try to optimize my diet for magnesium, for example, I just rob Peter to Paul with the foods that I'm eating. Yes, foods rich in magnesium are rich in other vitamins and minerals, but I end up hitting one daily intake requirement just to miss another. I look at potassium for example. If I ate potatoes and spinach for every meal and a few bananas for snacks, I could get my daily recommend intake, but I'm not sure I could stomach eating anything else.
it would make more sense to dose the magnesium taurinate at a dose that would contain 126 mg of elemental magnesium. considering that magnesium taurinate at a doge of 126mg is going to yield a low concentration of elemental, magnesium.
Hi Brad, I watch your articles. I have seen quite a few times before your analogy of association doesn't mean causation - which is otherwise cliche phrase used generously in medical research. The fact of the matter is that association provides an indication that it "might" be related to causation. Note the word might (aka possibility). To rule out this "possibility" out of hand on the argument that association doesn't mean causation would be downright foolishness. An association, depending upon the degree as perceived warrants an investigation to find out if there's really any causation taking place and if that is the case, then to what degree. Let's make no mistake association, in general, is the precursor and the beacon to further research.
Magnesium oxide is well absorbed at reasonable doses with normal GI function. Magnesium oxide is very poorly soluble... in water, not dilute HCl. If your stomach is filled with pure water, you'll struggle to absorb MgO, but you'll also die in not too long, so that's the bigger worry. If on PPIs, or taking higher doses, more water-soluble salts might be better, but the anion is irrelevant. Dissociated Mg2+ ions don't "know" what anion they were once bonded to, and neither does your body.
The market gardens where I live supply the freshest source of vegetables during the season however this acreage has been used for a hundred years. Fertilizer is used but magnesium is never added to the soil. Veggies are not a good source of magnesium in my area.
Please do a video addressing how to relieve nocturnal leg/toe/foot muscle cramps. I take magnesium, potassium and calcium supplements to help with excruciatingly painful nocturnal muscle cramps. It seems to help, but it doesn't make them completely go away.
Magnesium cintrate can impact sleep quality negatively since it improves energy production. Magnesium bisglycinate is one of the best before bedtime, it really calms my system
Dr. Stanfield, could you please do a video on Trigonelline? There's been talk lately that it is effective at raising NAD levels unlike NMN or NR. Thank you and please continue with the great work.
You've actually misread the conclusion of the Denmark study at 10:14. You claimed it says lower magnesium leads to more strokes, but in fact, the conclusion states: "Low concentrations of magnesium ... were associated with DECREASED ... mortality due to stroke". It's a bizarre & counterintuitive conclusion, claiming low Mg increased mortality due to acute myocardial infarction but somehow, also, decreased overall cardiovascular mortality (& decreased stroke). Very odd. Does low magnesium somehow reduce mortality from other causes like progressive heart failure maybe. I don't know but this conclusion seems to be suggesting something like that.
What type of magnesium is found in plants? Does plants have different types of magnesium as well? What should a recommended magnesium level be in drinking water? I swear that when I was drinking from a private well somewhere over some time I experienced vertigo on my blood pressure medicine. Maybe I should get this water mineral tested 🥳
Testing magnesium blood levels is like, trying to determine the volume of water behind a Dam based solely upon the water flow in the steam below the Dam.
How do you establish the RDI of any supplement? Recently I purchased a multivitamin that had way over the RDI. The company said it was because RDI’s in the past had been under estimated. Would love you to comment on that please.
Lots of good info here but the question I have is what do you do if you've been magnesium deficient for a long time? You're not going to be able make that up with diet and/or a small dose of a magnesium supplement. You need to go bigger with the supplementation or you're never going to get enough.
… so if assay of magnesium is so difficult … how are the RDAs calculated … particularly since RDAs, I assume, are more subject multifactorial confoundeds than Mg assays e.g. body weight and distrubution of Mg in different tissues, sex, fitness, physical and mental exercise etc.?
It took me years to figure out the cheap magnesium had a laxative effect. I thought it might had been dairy or something else. Now I take it at night so in the morning I meditate on the porcelain throne to clean my pipes out.
The only reason I started taking magnesium was because I had restlessness in my legs at night and weird heart palpitations, and I think it was several youtube videos with DrBerg and other influencers telling that magnesium would cure this, so I tried and it made the symptoms go away instantly. At this point I had been to the doctors for more than a year, several bloodwork and no help.
There's too little magnesium in drinking water - a few milligrams per liter (otherwise it'd be as salty as seawater). I can't believe that switching to desalination for tap water production can have any immediate impact on magnesium deficit in people living there. There must be a better explanation of such a coincidence.
There's no correlation between the amounts of magnesium in water and its saltiness. I regularly consume small amounts (a glass) of mineral water which naturally contains 1000mg/L of Mg, along with calcium and sodium and it's perfectly drinkable.
Apparently it’s one of the best to be absorbed…..it gives you energy….although Thomas deLauer did say it gives him mild palpitations….hope this helps I take a complex of citrate/malate/ glycinate…..seems to work for me
Very well absorbed, but most people who use it have pain and/or mitochondrial issues, aka M.E., Fibromyalgia, autoimmune diseases, etc. It may not provide much benefit over mag bisglycinate for the average, healthy person, especially given the cost of it.
I love the information and thank you for that. May I ask though... Have you made your videos AI created videos made from a transcript? It would certainly make your more productive but...
I take Magnesium Taurate from Cardiovascular Research Center. It says 125mg of Magnesium as Magnesium Taurate, but it also says that this is 30% of the daily value. That seems to equate with the your MicroVitamin 126mg of magneseum from Magnesium Taurinate (not sure if it's different from Taurate?) But the Microvitamin label also says 30% of the daily value, even with the full 5-pill serving, so is this 30% enough, or should we actually be trying to get to 100%?? According to Cronometer I'm getting around 200mg of magnesium, but I don't know how accurate that is. If it is accurate that's another, what 45%? So do I still need to add one more capsule of the 125mg?
I take a multivitamin and a magnesium supplement that, combined, gives me 86% RDI. I also eat spinach, mixed nuts, and flax seed every day which I'm sure gets me to 100%.
You can easily use cold CO2 water to make your own magnesium bicarbonate. Just add 1/3 tsp of magnesium hydroxide powder to 500 cc of cold CO2 water, shake for 30 seconds, wait an hour and shake again for 30 seconds. Wait one more hour and it will be ready to drink. Add 100 cc teach each glass of water you drink through the day.
Magnesium Taurate is unfortunately a lot more expensive. I'm sticking with a cheap combo pill of different types, plus have chia and pepita seeds on my porridge, yum
Given that the studies only suggest a correlation rather than a causation. Could the perceived benefits rather stem from the source of what contained the magnesium ie fiber etc. rather than magnesium itself? I suppose the Danish water study speaks against that but still.
I agree that supplements should be supplements not meal replacements. That being said, when I switched my diet to a low keto carnivore type, two changes took place. First, I felt better and still do. Second, an intolerance to leafy green vegetables appeared where none had been except for lettuce. Vitamin trace mineral replacements it is then.
Hey Brad, just out of interest. If such a high daily dose for your supplement, why did you opt for a capsule as the delivery method for your product? - Geniune curiosity here as I'm a supplement developer.
I have been taking molecular hydrogen for the last month and a half (just started it) and it uses elemental magnesium in a binder to create the hydrogen bubbles when added to water. Have you considered it's usage for supplementation? about 80 mg per pill. The hydrogen is the main goal here as it is an antioxidant. Dr. Jeffrey Gladden swears by it.
Wondering, does Mg-Taurate supplements interfere with Statins? Pharmacy is recommending to avoid Mg based anti-acid tablets a few hours around taking statins.
My blood tests always showed normal magnesium but when I had a hair analysis done, my calcium levels were off the chart and my magnesium level was very low! Makes sense since too much calcium can interfere with magnesium absorption. Being lactose intolerant, I was drinking lots of soy 'milk' that said "50% more calcium than dairy milk" as if that's a good thing. So I'm guessing I was getting too much calcium in my diet from calcium fortified drinks and food creating the off balance of my magnesium and calcium. If manufacturers want to fortify everything with calcium, they need to also fortify with magnesium! Or don't fortify with calcium at all.
Sure if you want to consume about 450 calories worth of seeds to reach daily needs and have no guarantees it has the magnesium you think it does due to varying soil quality.
@@Radjehuty According to the package 30g (1/4 cup) is 180 calories and 160mg Magnesium, so you are correct about the calories. I don't rely on the seeds for full daily needs. My magnesium taurate supplement says 40mg magnesium and 500mg magnesium taurate per pill.
I don't know if the researchers made sure to examine if the people who consumed more magnesium didn't just consume more plants. But magnesium could just be a proxy biomarker for plant consumption.
also you have to consider, people who use magnesium supplements are more likely to make health-related decisions than the people who don't take magnesium supplements. So it's not just about diet. Research like this is very weird
Dr. Stanfield, thank you again for your videos. I like that you are teaching your audience to analyze medical literature. It's helpful and appreciated!
Please provide a short text description for each Internet link you give to research you cite in your presentation. Now, you only give a listing of such links - with no description of their associated paper. So now, a viewer needs to go through perhaps your entire list of links to find the one of interest to each viewer. This is a very burdensome and time consuming task, and which effectively renders your listing of links almost useless. So it will be much more convenient for viewers and professional for your presentations, if you include a brief description of the paper associated with each link. Thank you.
Eating cheese causes dreaming (according to folklore). More vivid dreams could cause you to tangle up in your bed sheets. There must be a research grant available to go deeper!
I do a mostly plant diet and I eat dark chocolate which has magnesium. When I started a supplement of mg. citrate I got leg cramps at night, tried it several times and then went off it, not sure why this was happening. Good video today, thanks!
Could there be any correlation on daily recommended mineral amounts and the amount of phytic acid people consume for example? They genuinely just gets less of it even if they eat high-magnesium foods
Cool content brother, very interesting. And so interesting your comment that is there is no money in funding studies such as these involving magnesium. Obviously in reality there is money in these studies overall but not initially for some company to obtain a patent and market a drug etc. I feel us Consumers need to orhanise ourselves and flex our Consumer Power.
All 13 studies and review articles are linked in the video description
💊MicroVitamin (multivitamin & mineral that I take): drstanfield.com/products/microvitamin
📜Roadmap - how to look young & feel strong: drstanfield.com/pages/roadmap
Dr. Brad, I have a question. If one buys your supplement, is the packaging somehow protected against the heat? Many vitamins get damaged when exposed to heat, and the delivery companies do not really do much to protect the goods they deliver.
Does age,weight, sex etc effect how many mg you should be taking? Also, everyone's recommend dose is different. I take 1, 400mg (135mg elemental) a day. Is that too much?
$49 should not equal but 45 eur ;x
5:21 we know the mechanism with which Magnesium bisglucinate or taurate improve deep sleep length, and you do not need placebo randomised trials when you know the mechanism.
Please, don't get me wrong. I love your videos and have total trust in your knowledge and honesty. My point is, I've got the feeling that most, if not all, of your videos will inevitably lead to you talking about the benefits of Microvitamin. I understand it's a really great product, and I wish it were more cheaply available here in Brazil. However, I can't shake the feeling that this constant mentioning of your product might tarnish the channel's reputation, or even your own. But, please, do continue bringing us all that really helpful and reliable information, which is a rare thing here on UA-cam
Magnesium oxide is best for patients with chronic kidney disease. You are not qualified to talk about supply, maybe Lipitor is your area of expertise
at the end of the day most of these guys are trying to sell you something
@@FWFWFWF More people need to understand this. Almost nobody is making UA-cam content just to get the info out there, there is almost always a monetary incentive involved.
You hit the nail on the head.
@@bobvalley2221 And that''s fine. They also need to live and support their family just like everyone else.
Hmmm, odd correlation that taking magnesium stopped my severe muscle cramping every time and resumed after days of not taking it.
Not odd at all magnesium is also a well known muschle relaxant often used in preterm labor contractions to stop labor. Physician
The burden of proof is on you. If you want to prove to people that magnesium helps cramping, become a scientist and set up a trial. If this is too much work for you, then it will remain a theory.
@@thegreaterconundrum It's not even a theory; just my personal experience.
@@zeuso.1947
I trust your personal experience.
I’ve had the same .
The other guy just doesn’t seem to understand.
As a 57 yr old builder..trained over 35 yrs... started mag Gly few months ago and I swear! Pain in muscles.athritis feel fabulous..mind bog..💪👍
Mg-Gly is just about perfect. Relatively very cheap, very absorbable, and Gly is a great supplement for us older farts. And at least the version I take has fiber as well.
How much do you take a day? I’m doing 400 mg and don’t see much benefits from it.
@@felipejotz7054 1000g not over night thing..give couple wks
I've up it too. mag cit.in morning too see if befits gut and over all.👍
@felipejotz7054 I took 500mg daily spread in doses of 250mg each 12 hours. Now I found out that 1 gram (1000mg) contains 200mg elementary magnesium. I believe that's the part of the daily requirements. Now I take 1 gram daily spread in doses of 500mg around each 12 hour's. So my daily intake from magnesium supplements is now 200mg (taking 1 gram)
@@pascallangenberg2251 that’s what I thought. Not getting enough elemental might be the reason, don’t understand why all the directions on the containers tell you to use 100-200 mg. Than you
10g of hemp seeds sprinkled on your oatmeal gives you 70mg of magnesium. Perhaps somebody will find that info useful
And lead too.
Surely I did, big thanks
9g of beetroot powder gives you 1g TMG, betaine
@@oshkotosh2341 Thank you 🌺
Oatmeal and Hemp seeds....do me a favour.
I take glycinate in the evening and am finally falling asleep easily. A blessing.
I know you recommend diet..and plant foods etc.. but with the denuded soil from over farming, I can only wonder how even our unprocessed foods are fairing in their mineral content? I’m Eating organic fresh and as minimal processed as possible.. but I still take supplements because of the repots on soil conditions. I live in a farming area and organic is getting sprayed from the nearby farms on windy days. You just can’t count on “fresh” to do it all. It sounds wonderful, but you have yo be realistic about individual farming and soil conditions.
I saw something and I can't remember where it was but they tested the organic vs the regular food and the organic was actually missing a good bit of the minerals because they couldn't use the synthetic fertilizers and still be "organic".
Magnesium L-Threonate puts me to sleep faster and has reduced the occurrence of muscle cramps by over 95%.
Magnesium L-Threonate ruins my sleep (a common problem) and did not affect my toe cramps. Using salt on my food is the only thing that cured my toe cramps.
Mg-threonate research is just completely unconvincing. Really an overpriced way to get Mg.
@@TheOfficialArthurMorgan Very true. Nearly everyone says 'more magnesium'.
I used to be zero salt in my diet. My toe cramps were getting worse both whilst exercising and in bed and night. For years I took magnesium & calcium (bad idea!) and ate potassium rich foods. Zero effect.
I went on a low carb diet, decided to use salt and the problem was gone incredibly quickly. Literally 15 minutes. I now salt my food and no longer get cramps for nearly 5 years.
Over 95%? How did you calculate that? Lol! What if it's 94% or 96% or any imaginable number? 😆🤣
@@pramuanchutham7355 They didn't say it couldn't cross the BBB.
It might work for some people, but over 5 years of reading people's comments about it, I've lost count of the number of times it ruined people's sleep.
On that basis, it apparently does cross the BBB... and ruins some people's sleep.
And if you go for Mg-Glycinate, there's another thing to take care of. Most of the sold Mg-Glycinate, is so called 'buffered' Mg-Glycinate with 20% elemental Mg. However, since Mg-Glycinate only has 14% elemental Mg, this means it is mixed up with Mg-Oxide to reach the 20%. As a result, this means that 39% of the elemental Mg is coming from Mg-Oxide. And this is usually not even declared.
caught that scam too, it's outrageous I was mad when I found that out when the mg weren't adding up.
1. Water is treated to soften it and the agents remove calcium and heavy metals. Magnesium is stripped to some degree,. 2. All the food surveys are skewed as most involve testing from selected sources. The magnesium (and other elements) come from historical surveys and do not cover specific countries. 3. In Australia we have very low levels of iodine and protein levels are low. For example pasta from most Australian wheat (ca 9-11%) is lower than high quality Italian pasta (ca14-6%) 4. And in cheeses the levels of Vitamin K2 MK-7 vary by location with European cheeses having sometimes double the levels of Vitamin K2 compared to cheeses from other countries (including Australia and NZ) Few if any tests are done or released due to commercial interests.
Why would NZ have low vit K in dairy and meat?It's grass fed
Is the wheat protein difference because of different strains of wheat which are used for different purposes? Gluten protein is very important for the variation in different wheat products like pasta and bread. Would you mind sending the source you're pulling that from?
@@Colin-yu7pc
@@Colin-yu7pcThere are different types of wheat. Most countries grow monoculture varieties for climate reasons and also resistance to common herbicides. Even if he doesn’t provide his source, the agriculture department compiles this info in western countries.
My muscle cramps at night go away when I take magnesium regularly and return quickly if I stop taking it.
So I believe from personal experience that magnesium definitely helps reduce muscle cramps. Even magnesium oxide, the cheapest, helps me.
When researchers say otherwise I am convinced they are wrong in the same way that I have learnt to ignore doctors persistant advise on taking statins as I know from personal experience that statins are harmful to me and have caused muscle pain/damage. (This is not cramp as often reported. It is a localised pain in a few places deep inside the muscle that is possibly due to local muscle death).
It's a pity that the evidence for Magnesium L-Threonate is weak because for me personally it's working very well. It helps me fall asleep faster and I sleep longer. During the day it makes me feel more relaxed.
Who cares if theres much scientific evidence yet as long as it works for you.
This channel calls tongkat ali snake oil yet it works great for me, so IDGAF what he says.
Can I ask when you take it and how much you take ?
I just liked bc of OP
@@paulgal 3-4 capsules of Magmind spread over the day. The final one about 1 hour before sleep.
I tried it and it didn’t do anything for my sleep
I personally discovered a link between my muscle cramps and magnesium. To me, magnesium is absolutely essential for staving off cramps, and I can easily test for it. I can overflex my arm or leg muscles to induce a cramp if I am short on magnesium. I can then take 240g elemental magnesium (my supplement has it in multiple forms), and an hour later I will have lost the ability to induce cramps.
Yes if I go off my magnesium my neck and shoulder tension returns
How long did it take you to get over that. I have the same with muscle tension.
TashiRogo what supplement do you use?
@@dwaynemorris3079 I use the NOW brand "Magnesium Transporters". It contains Magnesium Citrate, Taurinate, Malate, Glycinate, and Aspartate. I use 2x recommended dosage.
Much better pace in your presentation Brad 👍
Mg glycinate is generally much cheaper than Mg taurate, while at the same time Taurine is dirt cheap by itself. So if you want to supplement with Taurine, you need gram quantities of it to really make an impact according to research (over 50 yo). Really makes no sense to choose Mg taurate. Molecular weight of glycine is 60% that of taurine, so you are always getting more Mg per tablet. Again, much cheaper. Glycine important in many roles not least of which is the formation of glutathione.
Wow, thanks!!! :)
I’ve thought the same.
Almost all the magnesium compounds are about as good as the next for absorption aside from oxide. I mean a person could use mag chloride which is dirt cheap if they wanted to also... it is in fact the form that was used to cure polio and reverse virtually all side effects from people who survived it. The prob with glycinate is a lot of products use a mix of glycinate and oxide and call it mag glycinate "buffered". It's a scam. I personally like taurate and also mag bound creatine which has an extremely high mag content.
I take Taurate and Glycinate
I've always had hypertension (>145/90). A year ago I started supplementing magnesium. Recently I realized that I no longer have hypertension (118/80).
I'm unsure if it's the magnesium that caused this, it could've been other supplements like vitamin B, vitamin D or zinc, but it probably contributed.
Double ditto from me..i'm 79 and at 118/70 relaxed at home, but jumps to 140/80 when driving in San Diego traffic. I take Mg glycinate 200mg 6am,12pm, and 6pm. No leg cramps or pins and needles pain in feet.
@@stilllearning7434
Fascinating video, as ever. Do you over-dub your own voice when you’re looking at the camera, or is it a slight syncronising issue?
Thank you Dr. Stanfield. I joined from Pretoria, South Africa
As a lifelong insomniac, as soon as I started applying magnesium topically, I no longer experienced insomnia. It was such a drastic improvement, I fired my doctor due to the fact that he never once mentioned it to me.
My husband suffered from horrible leg cramps, waking two or three times a night to walk them off. Once he started applying magnesium before bed, they stopped...almost totally. It's rare for him to wake with cramps now and it's usually after a very strenuous day out in the heat.
The problem is that most magnesium in drug stores is magnesium oxide and sold in a pill. That stuff is horrible and should be avoided. The best way to get more mag is to use it topically or even better, do an epsom salt soak.
While calling out those meta-studies can be helpful, I'll take my personal experience over anything. And for me and my hub, magnesium just works.
I recently made some discoveries myself, it's better to get magnesium through the skin not the gut .. That way you can avoid all the complications and negative side effects, just don't over do it as some people always manage too.
I use an oil spray every other day. If I use it every day it’s hard to wake up!
@MySkinnydip does it contain magnesium chloride?
Very surprised Magnesium hydroxide wasn’t mentioned. It must be infused into carbonated water to make mag bicarbonate but it is supposed to be one of the best forms.
interesting, and bicarbonate and mag are both important electrolytes. If you do it in tonic water instead of basic carbonated water then you would also get the benefits of quinine as another upgrade.
@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep
I make my own with a soda stream. I don't want to trust any water or tonic water that comes in plastic bottles
I alternate glycine for immune taurine for heart and threonine for mood…citrate for hardened stool…never oxide. I like mineral water and natural spring waters…
lmao just missing mag ascorbate and mag chloride for infections and toxin exposure/food poisoning.
Similar correlation occurs with saturated fat/high cholesterol and atherosclerosis. And this correlation is much weaker than magnesium studies when the manipulated data is removed. Magnesium is an electrolyte that is essential so I take it daily in both supplemental (mag. chloride) and dietary form. Most mineral levels (including magnesium) are reduced in foods because of long-term monoculture, especially grains.
I understand what you are saying that we supplementation shouldn't be our first resort, but to your point, it looks like a primary dietary source of magnesium, water, no longer provides it. I've found that when I try to optimize my diet for magnesium, for example, I just rob Peter to Paul with the foods that I'm eating. Yes, foods rich in magnesium are rich in other vitamins and minerals, but I end up hitting one daily intake requirement just to miss another. I look at potassium for example. If I ate potatoes and spinach for every meal and a few bananas for snacks, I could get my daily recommend intake, but I'm not sure I could stomach eating anything else.
it would make more sense to dose the magnesium taurinate at a dose that would contain 126 mg of elemental magnesium. considering that magnesium taurinate at a doge of 126mg is going to yield a low concentration of elemental, magnesium.
Hi Brad, I watch your articles. I have seen quite a few times before your analogy of association doesn't mean causation - which is otherwise cliche phrase used generously in medical research. The fact of the matter is that association provides an indication that it "might" be related to causation. Note the word might (aka possibility). To rule out this "possibility" out of hand on the argument that association doesn't mean causation would be downright foolishness. An association, depending upon the degree as perceived warrants an investigation to find out if there's really any causation taking place and if that is the case, then to what degree. Let's make no mistake association, in general, is the precursor and the beacon to further research.
I love your sense of humor. The correlation examples were hilarious. Thank you for the info.
Can you make a video on taking singular vitamins and minerals vs a mutli?
I've always been a little worried about Nicholus Cage. Now I know the truth.
It never occurred to me to be worried about Nicolas Cage.
😂😂😂
I have found Nicholas Cage to be almost as good an actor as Bob Nelson.
Got rid of my irregular heartbeat after about three weeks was taking citrate , now take a complex. It works.
Magnesium oxide is well absorbed at reasonable doses with normal GI function. Magnesium oxide is very poorly soluble... in water, not dilute HCl. If your stomach is filled with pure water, you'll struggle to absorb MgO, but you'll also die in not too long, so that's the bigger worry. If on PPIs, or taking higher doses, more water-soluble salts might be better, but the anion is irrelevant. Dissociated Mg2+ ions don't "know" what anion they were once bonded to, and neither does your body.
Betaine HCl can raise stomach pH, so it can help here.
I wish you'd say something about magnesium malate, whether it's beneficial. Thanks.
I take it for muscle soreness.
The market gardens where I live supply the freshest source of vegetables during the season however this acreage has been used for a hundred years. Fertilizer is used but magnesium is never added to the soil. Veggies are not a good source of magnesium in my area.
Question: How do they arrive at Recommended Daily Intake (RDI) ?? And how reliable is that figure ??
Yeah, and also, we on Keto (or carnivore) needs less?
@@contrarian717 Yeah wonder where these ideas come from? And if they are backed by evidence!?
Please do a video addressing how to relieve nocturnal leg/toe/foot muscle cramps. I take magnesium, potassium and calcium supplements to help with excruciatingly painful nocturnal muscle cramps. It seems to help, but it doesn't make them completely go away.
Eat more salt
Dr. Stanfield is amazing. This could change my live.. yeah and my health.. ok.. at 66 I gotta do it. Now.
Magnesium cintrate can impact sleep quality negatively since it improves energy production. Magnesium bisglycinate is one of the best before bedtime, it really calms my system
I was talking magnesium citrate at night. I should take it in the morning. Do you have a reference to read about citrate promoting energy?
Thank you for putting a spotlight on how dangerous Nicholas Cage movies are. They've really gone down hill. 😢
Do a video asking why the NIH has not funded these kinds of studies.
Dr. Stanfield, could you please do a video on Trigonelline? There's been talk lately that it is effective at raising NAD levels unlike NMN or NR. Thank you and please continue with the great work.
Why is it that nobody talks about L-Threonate I take 2,000mg one a day
You've actually misread the conclusion of the Denmark study at 10:14. You claimed it says lower magnesium leads to more strokes, but in fact, the conclusion states: "Low concentrations of magnesium ... were associated with DECREASED ... mortality due to stroke". It's a bizarre & counterintuitive conclusion, claiming low Mg increased mortality due to acute myocardial infarction but somehow, also, decreased overall cardiovascular mortality (& decreased stroke). Very odd. Does low magnesium somehow reduce mortality from other causes like progressive heart failure maybe. I don't know but this conclusion seems to be suggesting something like that.
I'm about to take Magnesium bisglycinate mostly to ensure quality sleep, and i'm wondering what's the difference between glycinate and bisglycinate?
How likely is it that someone could possibly over do it on magnesium between healthy diet and a supplement?
What type of magnesium is found in plants? Does plants have different types of magnesium as well? What should a recommended magnesium level be in drinking water? I swear that when I was drinking from a private well somewhere over some time I experienced vertigo on my blood pressure medicine. Maybe I should get this water mineral tested 🥳
Testing magnesium blood levels is like, trying to determine the volume of water behind a Dam based solely upon the water flow in the steam below the Dam.
Good stuff Dr Brad 👍
How do you establish the RDI of any supplement? Recently I purchased a multivitamin that had way over the RDI. The company said it was because RDI’s in the past had been under estimated. Would love you to comment on that please.
Lots of good info here but the question I have is what do you do if you've been magnesium deficient for a long time? You're not going to be able make that up with diet and/or a small dose of a magnesium supplement. You need to go bigger with the supplementation or you're never going to get enough.
Great video on sales pitch and a nice tour of what's wrong with magnesium but where was this video supposed to go?
What if the water I drink comes from an aquifer rather than a desalination plant?
How does mg help with sleep or muscle cramps if the blood levels are so tightly controlled?
… so if assay of magnesium is so difficult … how are the RDAs calculated … particularly since RDAs, I assume, are more subject multifactorial confoundeds than Mg assays e.g. body weight and distrubution of Mg in different tissues, sex, fitness, physical and mental exercise etc.?
Great review Brad and thank you for explaining the dosing amount of MIcroVitamin for those of us planning/using your supplement.
Please make a video on Rhodiola rosea supplement Please 🙏
What do you think of magnesium carbonate with citric acid?
It took me years to figure out the cheap magnesium had a laxative effect. I thought it might had been dairy or something else. Now I take it at night so in the morning I meditate on the porcelain throne to clean my pipes out.
I use Magnesium Chloride, also very cheap and effective - recommended by Dr Mark Sircus.
@@TheOfficialArthurMorgan Potassium Iodide for sure (as also recommended by Jason Hommel); Selenium is taken as a daily supplement.
Yes I do the same and it can cost peanuts.
@@dennisward43 Very versatile stuff, and can also be used to make Magnesium Oil for external application.
The only reason I started taking magnesium was because I had restlessness in my legs at night and weird heart palpitations, and I think it was several youtube videos with DrBerg and other influencers telling that magnesium would cure this, so I tried and it made the symptoms go away instantly. At this point I had been to the doctors for more than a year, several bloodwork and no help.
There's too little magnesium in drinking water - a few milligrams per liter (otherwise it'd be as salty as seawater). I can't believe that switching to desalination for tap water production can have any immediate impact on magnesium deficit in people living there. There must be a better explanation of such a coincidence.
There's no correlation between the amounts of magnesium in water and its saltiness. I regularly consume small amounts (a glass) of mineral water which naturally contains 1000mg/L of Mg, along with calcium and sodium and it's perfectly drinkable.
What about magnesium malate? Is that absorbed by the body well or poorly?
Apparently it’s one of the best to be absorbed…..it gives you energy….although Thomas deLauer did say it gives him mild palpitations….hope this helps
I take a complex of citrate/malate/ glycinate…..seems to work for me
Very well absorbed, but most people who use it have pain and/or mitochondrial issues, aka M.E., Fibromyalgia, autoimmune diseases, etc. It may not provide much benefit over mag bisglycinate for the average, healthy person, especially given the cost of it.
I love the information and thank you for that. May I ask though... Have you made your videos AI created videos made from a transcript? It would certainly make your more productive but...
How about magnesium spray?
Is that the same as wasps spray. 😂 😂
@@earnestcharles9513 sometimes it works on cockroaches too
so whats the conclutionso do we take magnesium for sleeping yes or no
For me personally it really made me fall asleep even if I don't want to... So yes, For me it contributes with sleep, I guess for others also then.
I take Magnesium Taurate from Cardiovascular Research Center. It says 125mg of Magnesium as Magnesium Taurate, but it also says that this is 30% of the daily value. That seems to equate with the your MicroVitamin 126mg of magneseum from Magnesium Taurinate (not sure if it's different from Taurate?) But the Microvitamin label also says 30% of the daily value, even with the full 5-pill serving, so is this 30% enough, or should we actually be trying to get to 100%?? According to Cronometer I'm getting around 200mg of magnesium, but I don't know how accurate that is. If it is accurate that's another, what 45%? So do I still need to add one more capsule of the 125mg?
I take a multivitamin and a magnesium supplement that, combined, gives me 86% RDI. I also eat spinach, mixed nuts, and flax seed every day which I'm sure gets me to 100%.
If you eat spinach every day you should really look into oxalates poisoning your body over time.
You can easily use cold CO2 water to make your own magnesium bicarbonate. Just add 1/3 tsp of magnesium hydroxide powder to 500 cc of cold CO2 water, shake for 30 seconds, wait an hour and shake again for 30 seconds. Wait one more hour and it will be ready to drink. Add 100 cc teach each glass of water you drink through the day.
CO2 water or H2O water? huh?
Magnesium Taurate is unfortunately a lot more expensive. I'm sticking with a cheap combo pill of different types, plus have chia and pepita seeds on my porridge, yum
I don't know why people just don't eat mag glycinate and supplement with taurine which is cheap, as magnesium taurate as you say is expensive.
Given that the studies only suggest a correlation rather than a causation.
Could the perceived benefits rather stem from the source of what contained the magnesium ie fiber etc. rather than magnesium itself?
I suppose the Danish water study speaks against that but still.
What about L-theanine for blood pressure?
Isn't it for the brain?
@noJobProgrammer , it has many purported benefits. Not sure if it works tho?
See what Huberman says about magnesium.
@@TheJaniceJoy , no disrespect, but Huberman's credibility is lower than Stanfield's.
I agree that supplements should be supplements not meal replacements. That being said, when I switched my diet to a low keto carnivore type, two changes took place. First, I felt better and still do. Second, an intolerance to leafy green vegetables appeared where none had been except for lettuce. Vitamin trace mineral replacements it is then.
Hey Brad, just out of interest. If such a high daily dose for your supplement, why did you opt for a capsule as the delivery method for your product? - Geniune curiosity here as I'm a supplement developer.
How did they come up with the recommended daily intake number? What is the process to derive this number?
Yes and we on Keto/carnivore needs far less I've heard
I have been taking molecular hydrogen for the last month and a half (just started it) and it uses elemental magnesium in a binder to create the hydrogen bubbles when added to water. Have you considered it's usage for supplementation? about 80 mg per pill. The hydrogen is the main goal here as it is an antioxidant. Dr. Jeffrey Gladden swears by it.
I would like you to share your thoughts on nicotinamide as a SIRT inhibitor in vitro. Meanwhile, in living organism studies NAM is a SIRT stimulator.
Wondering, does Mg-Taurate supplements interfere with Statins? Pharmacy is recommending to avoid Mg based anti-acid tablets a few hours around taking statins.
My blood tests always showed normal magnesium but when I had a hair analysis done, my calcium levels were off the chart and my magnesium level was very low! Makes sense since too much calcium can interfere with magnesium absorption. Being lactose intolerant, I was drinking lots of soy 'milk' that said "50% more calcium than dairy milk" as if that's a good thing. So I'm guessing I was getting too much calcium in my diet from calcium fortified drinks and food creating the off balance of my magnesium and calcium. If manufacturers want to fortify everything with calcium, they need to also fortify with magnesium! Or don't fortify with calcium at all.
I take magnesium oxide and bicyclinate nightly. Helps with sleep and the morning dump.
Oxide doesn't work can cause upset stomach issues
@@rayvac7743 It works for me. I got the tip on magnesium oxide for bowel movements from an actual gastrointestinal doc. Not a youtuber lol.
Pumpkin seeds for magnesium.
very high in oxalates though
Sure if you want to consume about 450 calories worth of seeds to reach daily needs and have no guarantees it has the magnesium you think it does due to varying soil quality.
@@Radjehuty According to the package 30g (1/4 cup) is 180 calories and 160mg Magnesium, so you are correct about the calories. I don't rely on the seeds for full daily needs. My magnesium taurate supplement says 40mg magnesium and 500mg magnesium taurate per pill.
I have an inverse correlation to magneisum intake, when I take glycinate or taurate I get more PVCs that when I do not takes them...
I don't know if the researchers made sure to examine if the people who consumed more magnesium didn't just consume more plants. But magnesium could just be a proxy biomarker for plant consumption.
also you have to consider, people who use magnesium supplements are more likely to make health-related decisions than the people who don't take magnesium supplements. So it's not just about diet. Research like this is very weird
That's exactly what I was thinking.
Dr. Stanfield, thank you again for your videos. I like that you are teaching your audience to analyze medical literature. It's helpful and appreciated!
Please provide a short text description for each Internet link you give to research you cite in your presentation.
Now, you only give a listing of such links - with no description of their associated paper. So now, a viewer needs to go through perhaps your entire list of links to find the one of interest to each viewer. This is a very burdensome and time consuming task, and which effectively renders your listing of links almost useless.
So it will be much more convenient for viewers and professional for your presentations, if you include a brief description of the paper associated with each link. Thank you.
I use Magtech, which has three forms of bioavailability magnesium. Glycinate, L Threonate, Taurate. Good stuff. MAGTEIN!
@@TheOfficialArthurMorgan Outstanding
@@JesusGarcia-Digem Stupendous!
Not really you should not take combinations of magnesium cuz you're not getting the benefit of any of them
@DrBadStanfield, the roadmap at your website is updated? can I follow without any major downsides?
Thanks Dr with your info, what you take, what you no longer take. Too bad about Dr Sinclair & Resveratrol
Eating cheese causes dreaming (according to folklore). More vivid dreams could cause you to tangle up in your bed sheets.
There must be a research grant available to go deeper!
The video says magnesium taurate, but your supplement says taurinate. Are they the same thing?
Can we alternate between mgcitrate and mg glycinate .
Magnesium is a central atom in chlorophyll , which is the pigment that givesplants their green colo
For the full sotry on Magnesium, check The Root Cause Protocol. Been doing it 3.5 years with fantastic results.
What do you think about adding Lutein and Zeaxanthin to your Vitamin. I take it and was wondering whether the studies back up adding those.
Hello everyone and Dr.Stanfield, I’ve been taking micro-vitamin for a while now and my new bottle has capsules instead of the normal pills…..
There are "salty" mixers people can start adding to their drinking water like LMNT.
I do a mostly plant diet and I eat dark chocolate which has magnesium. When I started a supplement of mg. citrate I got leg cramps at night, tried it several times and then went off it, not sure why this was happening. Good video today, thanks!
@@TheOfficialArthurMorgan Have you tried Malate?
Yeh… magnesium glycinate is preferred over the oxide !
Cheers Doc ;)’
Could there be any correlation on daily recommended mineral amounts and the amount of phytic acid people consume for example? They genuinely just gets less of it even if they eat high-magnesium foods
Cool content brother, very interesting. And so interesting your comment that is there is no money in funding studies such as these involving magnesium. Obviously in reality there is money in these studies overall but not initially for some company to obtain a patent and market a drug etc. I feel us Consumers need to orhanise ourselves and flex our Consumer Power.
The 2016 study on cognitive ability had Cohen's d = .91. This is a large effect, not small!
Magnesium and chronic kidney disease please Doc ??
Magnesium eleminated my heart PVC's and muscle cramps.. magnesium is also great fighting afib.