Re: magnesium?
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 10:45 pm
thanks! On Friday I stayed up too late and had a bit too much wine so that sabotaged me and then last night I stayed up until 2 so it's my own fault. We'll see how tonight goes!
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ultraslacker wrote:
I still feel sleepy this morning though. :/ maybe that will improve when I head to the office and have a coffee.
Dr. S wrote:You guys have convinced me to try it so just bought 500mg pills.
ultraslacker wrote:Dr. S wrote:You guys have convinced me to try it so just bought 500mg pills.
Just magnesium? They say you should take it with calcium because the two help each other work more effectively, but if you take too much of one without the other then it can backfire.
ultraslacker wrote:well you can actually buy a calcium-magnesium-D supplement all in one (in fact those are more common than straight magnesium).
All the articles I read said to take calcium and magnesium together.
I bought a calcium-D supplement and a magnesium supplement separately because I wanted specific ones, but I take them together.
CAW wrote:Might as well just take a multi-vitamin.
This is why I just take the magnesium. For a while I was taking some iron too, since I am borderline anemic, but then that counteracted all the digestive benefits I was getting from the magnesium, if you know what I mean.
Maybe all the benefits I see are placebo affect. Maybe the magnesium is helping. Maybe I'm off balance and really should be taking Calcium. But how am I supposed to know really. Do I listen to what the supplement companies tell me, and buy more of their product? What are the signs of being off balance? I'm not breaking bones any more frequently than I was...which was one bone (coccyx) in 38 years...
jgore wrote:If you like to eat pumpkin seeds, they're a very good source of magnesium.
ultraslacker wrote:I had a one week relapse on the sleep front. TERRIBLE sleeps last week, all week. But it seems to be settling again.
Interestingly, the relapse occurred when I reduced the Calcium that I'm taking with the Magnesium. Not sure if that is what caused it but I've upped the Calcium again.
Also, In spite of a tough long run yesterday I am amazingly not sore today, at ALL. I was hurting last night after the run but this morning I feel 100% (legs just a bit fatigued).
Of course my appetite is always biggest the day after the long run....
ultraslacker wrote:yeah I don't know what was up last week... it was back to my "normal".
I'm still feeling pretty wiped today but I had a tiring weekend so I think I'm recovering from that.
La wrote:ultraslacker wrote:yeah I don't know what was up last week... it was back to my "normal".
I'm still feeling pretty wiped today but I had a tiring weekend so I think I'm recovering from that.
I guess it depends on what the root cause of the insomnia is.
drghfx wrote:Call me crazy but shouldn't you (the generic you, I'm not directing this at any one person) go and get your blood tested to see if all of your blood levels are appropriate? If they aren't, your doctor can recommend a way to get them more in line. I suspect a doctor would be better able to tell you what you should and shouldn't be taking than "I read an article that says...."