Posted by JLx on April 14, 2003, at 14:23:10
In reply to Re: magnesium glycinate » Larry Hoover, posted by johnj on April 14, 2003, at 13:30:37
Hi, John J.
I hope you can get this to work for you long term as it did temporarily.
I suggest that you check out what Eby has on his site about sleep. He has a link to his section "High quality sleep" right under the main title now, or click here: http://www.coldcure.com/html/dep.html#sleep
I follow all of his dietary advice (no caffeine, no sugar, no high glycemic foods, no aspartame, etc.), including taking 3 mg of melatonin and 50 mg of 5-HTP at night, plus 200 mg magnesium glycinate or a Epsom Salt bath. AND I also take about 1 gram of glycine at night. I have chronic back pain and also have a lot of tension in my back and I read that glycine is especially good to relax the spinal area. (Per "Depression Free Naturally" by Joan Mathews Larson.) I take 1300 mg of Evening Primrose oil with that, and usually a small piece of fruit such as apple. I figure it all helps with absorption. So far, it's been foolproof in getting me to sleep no matter how wound up I feel or how much my mind is worrying my financial situation.
I've also been so diligently avoiding calcium in my diet that now that some weeks have elapsed, I am adding back some by drinking spring water half the time, especially in the evening, with a 3:1 ratio of calcium to magnesium. It's supposed to be very absorbable that way, it's not much calcium overall and I figured I needed it because I was getting little cramps in my feet at night.
"Fiji" brand water has an almost equal amount of magnesium to calcium, btw. According to their bottle anyway. It also has silica and other minerals.
When I was taking Prozac and could never sleep, I started taking GABA before bed and that helped. I'm not sure of the chemistry there, I had just read about it in a book I have on amino acids and tried it. I mentioned it to my psychiatrist then, and she said it "made sense" that it would work and was going to recommend it to her other patients.
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