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I've been taking Magnesium citrate as part of pauling/Rath therapy. ...is that the typical type I should be taking or is there just a plain Magnesium
Thanks

Ken

I just want to make sure there isn't any calcium since I'm trying to reverse heart disease
Thanks for the article
Ken

Joanna45, thanks for the great imformation.

Tried all better bio-available Mg supplements (citrate, malate, glycinate, taurinate, ascorbate, threonate..) because of a severe Mg deficiency (ie. painful muscle cramps) since 7 years.

After reading this post over at longecity about 4 years ago I experimented with Mg oxide too. And indeed, it doesn't really matter which Mg compound I used, just the same total elemental quantity of Mg, and I'm free from pain-full muscle cramps.

Then I added the mineral water with the highest Mg content as Sulfate. Of which I drank about a liter per day:

Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) 13197 mg/l
Calcium (Ca2+) 362 mg/l
Magnesium (Mg2+) 1040 mg/l
Sodium (Na+) 1570 mg/l
Potassium (K+) 17 mg/l
Chloride (Cl?) 74.4 mg/l
Sulfate (SO42?) 2092 mg/l
Fluoride (F?) 0.17 mg/l
Nitrate (NO3?) 0.1 mg/l
Manganese (Mn2+) 0.11 mg/l
Aluminum (Al3+) 0.2 mg/l
Strontium (Sr2+) 9.8 mg/l

Also contains Lithium at about 3 mg/l. Still no difference, as long as I get equal total amounts of elemental Magnesium.

However, everyone is different in their ability to take different Mg-compounds at certain doses without loose stools. In that case I heard many times glycinate and malate recommended. For me it doesn't make a difference except in price.

Pamojja, I've been suffering painful muscle cramps for many years. I found that in additional to magnesium citrate, I was not getting enough 'normal' salt or sodium chloride. I now supplement around 10g of Himalayan salt each day and 5g of magnesium citrate and this keeps cramping at a minimum (frequency and pain levels are well down)

I'm still reading Dr. Raths book, he recommendsaid calcium for some patients. I thought calcium was bad for heart disease

TommyTurtle wrote:Pamojja, I've been suffering painful muscle cramps for many years. I found that in additional to magnesium citrate, I was not getting enough 'normal' salt or sodium chloride. I now supplement around 10g of Himalayan salt each day and 5g of magnesium citrate and this keeps cramping at a minimum (frequency and pain levels are well down)

I also need at least 2g of elemental Mg to keep painful muscle-cramps away. 5g of Mg-citrate is about 4.5g citric acid and 0.5 elemental Mg - so you seem to need substantially less. I too supplement about 3.2g of elemental sodium (10g Himal. salt has about 3.8g) and 2.4g elemental Potassium.

I use Mg "oil" to spray my skin all over once or twice a day.