Comment · Sun, June 16, 2013 · Ceretropic
magnesium-L-threonate enhances spatial-context pattern separation and prevents fear overgeneralization.
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timevast · 2 points
Someone please explain whether magnesium-L-threonate is a special, different thing or whether this applies to magnesium sups people here would already be using. Thanks.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic
The absorption characteristics. Frankly, I've tried it, as well as a bunch of other forms of magnesium, and I do not find it to be any more effective than other highly bioavailable magnesium supplements. Magnesium glycinate seems to be just as effective, and is much cheaper.
Both are just magnesium chelated to either a glycine molecule or threonic acid. This prevents the magnesium from binding to insoluble salts in the GI tract. This is why other forms of magnesium are not as good. They are easily bound to insoluble salts, which cannot be absorbed by your intestines. This not only wastes your magnesium, but it makes you shit yourself. That is why certain laxatives use forms like magnesium oxide or magnesium sulfate. Threonic acid is not useful on it's own, so it should not have any beneficial effect when bound to magnesium. It's only there to provide transport across the membranes in your GI tract and BBB.