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Re: Calcium:Magnesium ratio » sb417

Posted by JLx on November 4, 2003, at 7:54:02

In reply to Re: Calcium:Magnesium ratio » JLx, posted by sb417 on November 3, 2003, at 23:41:37


> I just checked a bottle of Calcium Magnesium citrate, made by Solgar. The Calcium is listed as 1000mg of "Calcium citrate," and the Magnesium is listed as 500mg of "Magnesium oxide, citrate." I guess the calcium is pretty well absorbed, but the magnesium is not (?).

That's my understanding. I have the idea that magnesium and calcium are both potentiating and antagonistic too, meaning that each benefits from the other while also counteracting the other. But I could be wrong about that as I don't really understand the chemistry involved.

In my experience -- or maybe just in my body -- calcium overpowers magnesium. In the above combo, I would think that I am getting primarily calcium, and not the magnesium.

I've concluded this from the fact that I used to take cal-mag supplements but yet wound up magnesium deficient and overloaded by calcium to the point of a calcium kidney stone.



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