Magnesium glycinate

Buy whichever you want, just don't buy the oxide.

Glycinate gives you 17 more minutes of deep sleep, which doesn't sound like much, until you count up the nights you've spent lying in the dark, wide awake, getting more pissed off by the minute.

I'm gonna make a bet.

that your time, 17 minutes of your time, is worth at least 66 cents.

But the point is that more magnesium will help vitamin D work and it'll also help cortisol be lowered.

Magnesium glycinate is the one that I like.

All right, number three, zinc.

I also did a video on that in relationship to vitamin D.

Um, magnesium, that's another one, and I'll touch on the magnesium more once we get to the sleep section.

But supplementing with magnesium, particular- particularly magnesium glycinate.

Most people probably need or should supplement with magnesium.

It's very hard to get a, a, an adequate amount of it from diet alone.

Um, whereas, you know, if you're taking it for sleep, you're, you're talking about, like, you know, 2.5 to 5 milligrams.

Um, okay.

Next on the sleep list, magnesium glycinate.

So I mentioned this on the electrolyte list.

But also, like a lot of medications, especially metformin, will deplete you of B1.

Let's say you do need magnesium, right? Magnesium glycinate is a good one.

Why? Uh, because it's especially good for sleep and anxiety because of the glycinate part.

The glycinate part of the magnesium is really glycine, and glycine is a calming amino acid.

When should you take, uh, magnesium glycinate?

The form of the supplement makes a huge difference.

For example, with magnesium, the one that has been studied very well and it seems to be a beneficial as a supplement is magnesium glycinate.

Anything else seems to be of poor quality that the absorbability is quite low.

Even with vitamin C, we are looking for ascorbic acid because that one has been well studied and shows that it's better absorbed.

So I have mild cramps in my legs, so not spasms, like regular mild cramps.

I have in the past couple of years been taking slow mag, which does tend to help a little bit.

I've even upped it by taking magnesium glycinate.

The problem I have is that I've stopped the slow mag because I thought maybe taking too much magnesium or both of them is a little bit too much magnesium.

So there's some studies that suggest magnesium supplementation may improve certain sleep measures, particularly if you're not getting enough magnesium, obviously, right? So yeah, that could make sense.

And this is where the magnesium glycinate comes into effect, right?

So magnesium glycinate is magnesium compound... oh my goodness, combined with amino acid called glycine, which is a popular nighttime option because it's generally well tolerated, but it tends to be easier on the stomach in other forms.

It's also commonly marketed for sleep, relaxation, and that's where people usually start with magnesium glycinate because they see it on the shelf and it will say may help with sleep.

It may help with sleep as we're trying if you struggle with sleep.

Yeah.

You walk in the store and there's magnesium, magnesium, magnesium, just like with any of the other vitamins.

There's multiple different ones.

And I came across this paper.

The paper suggested to me that maybe sticking with magnesium glycinate and leaving my errors in slightly better shape was more prudent at this point.

As such, I was wondering if you had any thoughts on this, maybe other evidence I should consider.

Thanks, as always, for the great service you provide.

The stuff works.

And depending on the individual, there's quite a lot of variability there.

Now, getting back to magnesium glycinate.

First of all, these are going to work very differently.

One, as I said to you in the pre-show, we've had three Australian guests in the last since Friday and yesterday.

And magnesium glycinate would come up.

Yours is literally the third or fourth.

And the other one, and I've not heard of this, and it may be just my ignorance, ubiquinol.

So magnesium glycinate, from what we talked to the other guests about, was helping them with better sleep, same as the growth hormone.

And what are you using it for? And then secondly, what the fuck, and it's only because of my ignorance, is ubiquinol?

So it's COQ10, you know, that supplement is?

One of the older readers of my little magazine, Muscle Mob, back in the day, wrote a big article about this and it was kind of almost... a way of older fellas getting energy versus the sense of energy you have when you're younger.