Comment · Fri, November 29, 2013 · Ceretropic
Chelated Magnesium
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physicsdood · 9 points
Interested in starting to take some magnesium, and heard chelated magnesium is the way to go for bioavailability. I went to whole foods and picked up a bottle of chelated magnesium, but now looking at the ingredients, it says it's 200mg of magnesium (as magnesium oxide and magnesium aspartate). Everything I'm reading online now says that magnesium oxide is not chelated magnesium. So, is "chelated" unrelated to the specific form of magnesium (i.e. you can have chelated magnesium oxide), or is the whole foods bottle just labeled incorrectly?
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silverhydra · 1 points
It gets absorbed nearly perfectly and can influence the brain in a depressive/protective manner
First, addressing my own point, I should clarify/take back what I said. The near perfect was in reference to both the intestinal wall and Threonate in general (a reason people don't like using it in supplements is that they feel overdosing on the minerals would lead to side-effects easier since uptake is not easily negatively regulated), if anybody read into it saying absorption across the BBB I will have to clarify that I did not mean that.
Based on that:
I am merely saying that there is not sufficient evidence to state the following about L-threonate
I would agree.
This makes me suspicious
Me too, actually.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic
The only reason I use glycinate is because I can get it for super cheap. Jason and I actually came up with some new magnesium forms that could be better than the current form. However, we have not attempted to get them synthesized yet. They could just as easily turn out to be the same as all the rest.