Posted by Jlx on October 28, 2006, at 8:51:11
In reply to Re: Magnesium for depression tealady » teejay, posted by tealady on October 27, 2006, at 20:46:27
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> The Oz brand of Solgar, made for the Australian market (TGA) was Magnesium citrate or glutamate or aspartate I think from memory(poor memory still and getting worse)..
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> Solgar , I think from memory again pulled out of Oz earlier this year. Before they came here I used to be able to get oseas Solgar imported in some health foods shops(I know I got the Solgar Siberian gingseng then, but after Solgar Oz arrived it was extracts only of Ginseng.
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> The regime may be cracking down/tightening on healt food shops etc getting stuff from o'seas .. unsure
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> Iherb didn't have it the many times I checked, and Vitamin Shoppe and others that do have it don't export to Oz, so I'd be grateful if anyone does know where I can source some.
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> I really need to relax. I'm so tense in muscle clenching etc.
> I've always hated glutamate and the chelates over here can be anything. They refuse to disclose what is used, and are not required to which IMO is wrong and could ne harmful. It's usually aspartate or glutamate I've been told, as these are cheaper.. well that's the story I get anyway.
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> Lots of MgO and MgCO3 avalable of course.
> I have some Mg citrate I got form the US and some I bought from Holland and barrets in the Uk still too! , but citrate forms may make one's urine alkaline and mine was going way too alkaline, and CO3 forms do the same as well as reduce stomach acid(and mine tends to be low anyway), so I don't need that reducing. The oxide does have a noticeable effect but maybe not enough.. no stool softening anyway, and it's not, in theory anyway, very absorbable.(based I suspect of MgO not being dissolvable in water, and bond being strong between Mg and O)
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> I've got some magnesium orotate and that's the first one that is softening stools at all.
> It doesn't take much, but then B1 also softens stools so maybe its the combo, like maybe I needed B1 for th Mg to work at all?
> The citrate I once took 8 grams? (I think) of before I noticed any effect at all.. just to see how much it took (when I wnet funny when I was high on iron that time if you remember).. I'd need to check back somewhere on this though.
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> I don't like glutamate in foods, so I doubt I could tolerate Mg glutatmate , and aspartate is likely to also be bad as both are the more stimulating forms?
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> Thing is, I still would love to try the glycinate form and I still have this anxiety , no longer desperate, but still there and I keep clenching teeth ankles, legs, jaw etc sigh
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> I also have really dry skin at present so my skin would maybe benefit from the glycinate form if Jlx's experience is repeatable:)
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> Hope this is readable, I wasn't up to writing any reply b4.
> Jan
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