Magnesium Glycinate

This might be super specific but I feel like my biggest ADHD struggle lately is how fast I go from fine to overwhelmed. Like one small thing and suddenly I’m spiraling or shutting down. I’ve seen people mention magnesium glycinate for calming the nervous system and now I’m thinking if anyone here actually felt that. Not expecting miracles but even a small buffer would be life changing at this point. submitted by /u/imatwork_rn5 to r/adhdwomen [link] [comments]

Started it mostly for sleep since I'd seen it recommended here constantly. Wasn't expecting much. Sleep quality genuinely improved within the first two weeks. Not dramatically, but I'm falling asleep faster and waking up less at 3am which used to be a regular thing for me. Muscle soreness after the gym also feels slightly less, though that could be placebo. What didn't change: anxiety, which is what I was secretly hoping it would help with. Might need a higher dose or just different expectations Running 400mg elemental before bed. Anyone pushed higher than that and noticed a difference or does it plateau pretty quickly? submitted by /u/ExpensiveDecision268 to r/Supplements [link] [comments]

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hi all. need input on this? those who have used it, pl share your reviews, does this actually work? what benefits have you seen personally and after how long? if not this brand, then which one do you use that does? cuz i've heard there are a lot of supplements out there that aren't legit. submitted by /u/Key-Statistician9880 to r/Fitness_Pakistan [link] [comments]

I just discovered my 4yo has covered my cat (8m) in human moisturizer. I’m about to wash him off now in the bath. Do I need to worry about skin absorption of toxins? (Pictures of cat and moisturizer ingredients) Update: thanks all! The cat has been washed with cat-safe soap. Luckily it was a water based moisturizer and it came off really easily. (She'd washed him before she moisturized him, so he isn't saturated with moisturize to the extent the picture suggests.) Child and I had a good conversation about why you don't moisturize the cat, or paint the cat or put anything on the cat. submitted by /u/ladymaggot to r/CATHELP [link] [comments]

I bought magnesium tablets to stop the racing thoughts and to help me get some sleep. I am 48 and into the fifth year of perimenopause. Anyway the magnesium glycinate dose is 250mg per tablet x 2 day. It zombiefied me out: fatigue in both body and mind. I then dropped to 250mg a day, hoping that would help. Still the same. So I have had to stop taking them. I understand why doctors recommend these to people who cannot sleep. I am also autistic so maybe this is why I am ultra sensitive to meds/vitamins. Anyone else had a similar experience? If so what do you take instead to calm those racing thoughts down? Thanks. submitted by /u/Melodic-Baseball-279 to r/Perimenopause [link] [comments]

I’ve always struggled with insomnia and had previously been using a sleep aid that worked wonders, but had to stop using and I’ve been in absolute hell. I consistently wake up at 2 or 3 am and am unable to fall back asleep. Melatonin didn’t work, Tylenol PM is fine, but not for long term use, and I was desperate to get some rest. My doctor recommended magnesium glycinate and I was not convinced it would work. I was wrong. For the first time in months, I got genuine, restful sleep and didn’t wake up for any significant length of time. I’m hopeful it will continue 🙏🏻 submitted by /u/wikiwikipedia13 to r/ouraring [link] [comments]

Not theory. Not 10 tips for mental clarity. These are the interventions that produced measurable changes in my cognition when I tested them one at a time with a 2 week baseline between each. I used Cambridge Brain Sciences daily at 7am to track working memory, reasoning, and verbal ability. Same time, same conditions, fasted. Here is what actually did something. Tier 1: The stuff that worked immediately and obviously CO2 management. Bought a $40 CO2 monitor. My bedroom was hitting 1,800ppm by 5am with the door closed. A Harvard study showed cognitive scores drop roughly 50% at 1,400ppm compared to 550ppm baseline. I cracked the window 2 inches. Never exceeded 700ppm again. Morning grogginess I had blamed on sleep quality for years was largely gone within 3 days. Cost: $40 once. Morning electrolytes before caffeine. 500ml water with 1/4 tsp salt and a squeeze of lemon within 20 minutes of waking. Before coffee. Before anything. Research shows 1 to 2% dehydration impairs working memory and you will not feel thirsty at that level. After 8 hours of sleeping you are dehydrated. Most people's first move is coffee which is a mild diuretic. You are draining an already dry system. This took 3 days to notice. Working memory scores up about 15% on testing mornings where I did this versus did not. Phone in another room during deep work. Ward et al. 2017 in JACR showed the mere presence of a smartphone on your desk reduces available cognitive capacity even face down and on silent. I tested this for 2 weeks phone on desk versus 2 weeks phone in kitchen. The difference in sustained focus was not subtle. Verbal fluency scores were consistently higher on phone-away days. Tier 2: The stuff that took 2 to 4 weeks but the effect was real Ferritin optimization. Mine was 22. Doctor said normal. It is not normal for brain function. Soppi 2018 showed cognitive symptoms at ferritin 15 to 30 that resolved above 50. I took iron bisglycinate 25mg every other day. Not daily. Research shows alternate day dosing has better fractional absorption because hepcidin peaks 24 hours after a dose and blocks absorption of the next one. At week 6 my ferritin was 58. Processing speed on cognitive testing improved noticeably around week 4. Vitamin D loading. Mine was 19 ng/mL in February. Supplemented 5,000 IU daily for 8 weeks then dropped to 3,000 IU maintenance. Retested at 52 ng/mL. The fog improvement was gradual. Not a single moment where it kicked in. More like I looked back at my scores after 6 weeks and realized the bad days had stopped. If you live above 35° latitude and have not tested your D levels you are probably deficient October through March. Magnesium glycinate 400mg before bed. Slutsky et al. published in Neuron 2010 showing magnesium enhances learning and memory. Serum magnesium is a garbage test because it only drops when you are severely depleted. Most people in western countries are sub clinically deficient. The sleep improvement was the first thing I noticed. Deeper sleep within 3 nights. The cognitive effect followed the better sleep by about a week. Do not use magnesium oxide. Bioavailability is terrible. Glycinate or threonate. Tier 3: The stuff people do not want to hear Caffeine elimination. I tapered from 400mg per day to zero over 8 weeks. Days 1 through 3 at each step down were rough. By week 10 at zero caffeine my baseline cognitive scores were higher than my best caffeinated scores. Caffeine does not add energy. It blocks adenosine receptors. Your brain compensates by building more receptors. Now you need caffeine to reach the baseline you would have had without it. I was borrowing from tomorrow every single day for 12 years. 30 minutes of cardio. Not negotiable. Not replaceable with supplements. A single session increases BDNF by 200 to 300%. One session. BDNF is the protein that drives neuroplasticity and repair. A year of regular walking increased hippocampal volume by 2% in clinical trials. That is 1 to 2 years of age related brain shrinkage reversed. Nothing in a capsule does this. Nothing. Cutting alcohol entirely. Not reducing. Cutting. A 2017 BMJ longitudinal study followed 550 people for 30 years. Even "moderate" drinkers at 14 to 21 units per week had significantly increased hippocampal atrophy. Ebrahim et al. showed alcohol destroys deep sleep architecture at any dose. I wore a sleep tracker. Zero deep sleep on drinking nights versus 80 to 90 minutes without. That was enough data. I stopped. Tier 4: The testing that found the actual root cause Full panel bloodwork. Not a CBC. Not a basic metabolic. This is what I asked for specifically: ferritin (not just hemoglobin), B12, folate, 25-OH vitamin D, RBC magnesium, TSH plus free T4 plus TPO antibodies, fasting insulin, HbA1c, CRP. Two things came back off that my DR never would have caught. The ferritin at 22 and the vitamin D at 19. Both technically in range. Both functionally impairing my brain. What did not work: Lion's mane. Took it for 8 weeks. No measurable change on cognitive testing. Maybe it works for some people. Did nothing for me. Alpha GPC. Same. 8 weeks. Nothing on testing. Noopept. Slight subjective feeling of clarity. Nothing on objective testing. Stopped. Modafinil. Worked acutely. Tolerance built within 2 weeks. Sleep quality tanked. Net negative after a month. The takeaway nobody wants to accept: The boring stuff works. The exciting stuff mostly does not. Fixing your air, water, iron, vitamin D, magnesium, sleep, movement, and removing alcohol and excess caffeine will do more for your cognition than every nootropic stack on this sub combined. I know because I tested both. One at a time. With a cognitive testing baseline. The supplements are a rounding error on top of the fundamentals. Fix the fundamentals first or you are optimizing a system that is broken at the foundation. Studies referenced: Allen JG et al. CO2 and cognitive function scores. Environ Health Perspect. 2016. DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1510037 Armstrong LE et al. Mild dehydration affects mood in healthy young women. J Nutr. 2012. DOI: 10.3945/jn.111.142000 Ward AF et al. Brain Drain: smartphone presence reduces cognitive capacity. JACR. 2017. DOI: 10.1086/691462 - Soppi ET. Iron deficiency without anemia — a clinical challenge. Clin Case Rep. 2018;6(6):1082-1086. DOI: 10.1002/ccr3.1529 Slutsky I et al. Enhancement of learning and memory by elevating brain magnesium. Neuron. 2010. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2009.12.026 Topiwala A et al. Moderate alcohol consumption as risk factor for adverse brain outcomes. BMJ. 2017. DOI: 10.1136/bmj.j2353 Ebrahim IO et al. Alcohol and sleep. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2013. DOI: 10.1111/acer.12006 Feel free to follow on r/whatisbrainfog where I will be releasing a free website dedicated to my findings over the last 10 years. submitted by /u/Sureokgo to r/Biohackers [link] [comments]

I was that person who rolled my eyes every time someone in here said magnesium changed their life. Sounded way too good to be true for a $15 supplement. Started taking 400mg glycinate about 6 weeks ago because my sleep was garbage and I was getting calf cramps during runs. Figured worst case I'm out fifteen bucks. Within the first week my sleep was noticeably deeper. Not just "I feel kinda rested" — I mean I stopped waking up at 3am staring at the ceiling for no reason. The cramps stopped almost immediately. But the thing nobody warned me about? My overall anxiety just… dialed down. Not gone, but the baseline mental chatter got quieter. That was the one I didn't expect. I've tried plenty of stuff that did nothing. This is the first time I've felt like a supplement actually did what people said it would. What's the one supplement that surprised you by actually working? submitted by /u/mike_thompson_inno to r/Supplements [link] [comments]

I had been suffering from insomnia for about 3 or 4 months and couldn't work out what the cause was. I would wake at 3am and then was unable to get back to sleep. Like my mind was switched on like a light switch. I tried many of the things suggested to rectify this. Eating 2 x kiwis as night. Some peanut butter before bed, apigenin, breathing techniques, antihistamines, ashwaganda and other cortisol lowering supplements. Even prescription sleep meds wernt working for me at this point. Which I requested out of desperation. Melatonin would get me off to sleep but I'd still wake again at 3am and not get back to sleep. I even started taking lemon balm and apigenin when I woke and this would work somewhat but I didn't want to be reliant on having to take supplements every night at 3am just to get back to sleep. Oddly I never suspected magnesium glycinate because it's widely championed as one of the best all round sleep aids. I had alternated between taking it at different times instead of at night I would take in the morning. Then I would take both at night and in the morning. As I wanted to get my RDA by spreading the pills out throughout the day. I began eliminating supplements to determine if any of them was causing this issue and when I eliminated magnesium glycinate I began to sleep soundly again. I swapped it for magnesium taurate and now still wake up at 3am (as usual) but can now effortlessly and consistently get back to sleep and wake feeling rested. I know this won't effect everyone the same but believe there are some of us that just dont get on with this form of magnesium and perhaps Glycine. submitted by /u/i--am--the--light to r/sleep [link] [comments]

I have been seeing an influx of posts describing long term debilitating anxiety and it’s made me feel like I need to share my experience so that hopefully it helps someone. I’ll keep it short. I have had anxiety my whole life but it got really bad a few years ago and I couldn’t leave my house without feeling like I was fainting. I am reluctant to take psych meds because I have a very sensitive system so I looked into lifestyle and diet changes to try to help at the source of the anxiety which was my heart. I was obsessed with my heart and something being wrong with it. Well if you google enough you’ll come across magnesium glycinate (DO NOT buy CITRATE. You WILL SHIT YOURSELF) and it is described as a long term heart health supplement. I bought it immediately. I’ve been taking it for 3 months now and I feel like a new person. I feel in control and I feel less obsessive over my heart and heart rate. I’m also getting more sleep and more restful sleep. Please consider grabbing a jar and take it every night before bed. I take the Nature Made gummy version you can get from Walmart and Publix. Best of luck to you all. I am with you in spirit 🫶 submitted by /u/swishyfishes to r/Anxietyhelp [link] [comments]

I’m about to fall asleep but if you don’t already take magnesium glycinate, take it, it takes a few days / weeks to notice a difference, but to me, it helps like 10% for my anxiety, which honestly is a win in my book. Take it at night, an hour or two before you sleep. I think there’s something in it that relaxes your muscles or something, I wish I knew the mechanism behind it. Also, I know it sounds crazy, but before you sleep if you can, eat a banana, I think it’s the tryptophan in it, and I think it’s a great combo with the magnesium. I’m sending you my love, I know it’s hard, but we’ll get better, please trust the process 🧡 submitted by /u/Ok_Bandicoot_4543 to r/Anxiety [link] [comments]

M 28. On most days I sleep around 6 hrs and 7 hrs is the max I sleep on weekends. So I took Magnesium Glycinate from MgD360k tabs for 2 nights at around dinner time. I have seen lot of people claiming Magnesium Glycinate helps you sleep better and what not. I didn't find any such improvement in sleep. Instead I had slight trouble going to sleep in the 2nd day of taking it. I will be taking the remaining 8 tablets also before coming to final conclusion. But currently the case can be that my sleep isn't that bad or that I am getting sufficient Magnesium from food itself. Also if someone says that did you got tested for Magnesium deficiency. Well I have 2 points: 1) I won't recommend anyone to try I am trying it on myself as an experiment. 2) Testing for Magnesium deficiency is actually very difficult. Edit 1: Attaching the link which shows why determining Magnesium status is difficult in the body. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6163803/ Edit 2: If your sleep breaks in between multiple times then Magnesium Glycinate can definitely improve the sleep. But in my case mostly it is the onset of sleep so yeah Magnesium Glycinate didn't improve much. Sorry it took me time to update the results here. submitted by /u/bs_123_ to r/Fitness_India [link] [comments]

Last night me and my roommate left the bar around 1:30 AM and decided to see who could walk the furthest without giving up. After about 10 miles we realized we were way too far from home and no one was awake to drive us back so we just went for a full marathon. We got back around 10:20 AM after walking for 8 hours and 23 minutes straight. We’re both college students and only really run 2 to 3 miles a week so we were not prepared for this at all. We were wearing jeans and sweatshirts with Converse and New Balances which made it miserable once it started raining. It poured for about three hours starting around 4 AM and it was around 45 degrees out. Our shoes were killing our feet and our soaked jeans and sweatshirts made every step harder. Somehow we didn’t need a single sip of water the entire time which still makes no sense to me. Once we sobered up it was just straight pain and trying to prove we could finish. We thought it would be easy at first but it humbled us quick. The last few miles were brutal. Our legs hips and the bottoms of our feet were aching so bad we almost couldn’t finish. It honestly might be the hardest mental thing I’ve ever done. Me and my roommate don’t regret it but we’ll never do something like that again. Now both of us can barely walk and I’m not sure if I can even make it to class tomorrow. Any tips on how to help the soreness or recover faster It hurts extremely bad to walk. submitted by /u/Dry-Transportation59 to r/walking [link] [comments]

Post-COVID lockdown, I had a tough time sleeping and wasn’t too keen on seeing a doctor for it. So I gave MuscleBlaze Magnesium Glycinate a shot for two weeks, just wanted to share my experience in case it helps someone. Week 1: I started slow with 1 tablet/day (the recommended dose for men is 2/day) to let my body ease into it. Results: - Woke up feeling refreshed Even with just 5 hours of sleep, I felt well-rested. Had deep quality sleep. Can’t speak much about muscle recovery, but I didn’t experience the usual soreness I’d get when not taking anything. Week 2: Bumped it up to the full dose — 2 tablets/day (2000mg total) And honestly… I slept like a baby. It really made a noticeable difference. Side note: I was on a carb deload the second week and wasn’t getting enough fiber, so I had some stomach issues. Not sure if it was the diet change or the magnesium dose causing it, just something to watch out for. submitted by /u/CompetitionNo4315 to r/Fitness_India [link] [comments]

I've been messing around with supplements this past year. Last week I've been trying magnesium glycinate for the first time and after a few days I realized there was an effect. I thought it was a sense of calm? But then I started lurking in this subreddit and realized it actually causes sleep. Which makes sense because I've also been napping during the hottest time of day for a few days now. I almost never ever sleep during the day, because I'm so restless and I feel unsafe in my childhood home. So the amount of at ease, safety and comfort I was/am able to feel disarmed me. I take it first thing in the morning without food and I usually feel it at 2-3pm. This basically the first supplement ive take to help with mood. Ive taken multivitamins before and biotin. One day I want the courage to take shrooms. But until then I'm trying supplements submitted by /u/Additional-Mistake32 to r/Biohackers [link] [comments]

I took Magnesium Glycinate daily for 2 months (500mg) but the Glycine in Mag Glycinate gave me horrible brainfog, short term memory loss, lowered intellect. It has made me slow and unable to think or recall memories clearly. I used to be an intelligent kid and was able to think critically :( I've stopped taking it from 2 weeks (taking L-threonate now) but the brainfog effects have not gone away completely. It ruined such an important time in my life where i needed my brain to work :( Just needed to vent. submitted by /u/biggiecheesegrindset to r/Supplements [link] [comments]

Hello!! I stumbled upon this subreddit and found that everyone SWEARS by magnesium glycinate. They said it helps their muscles relax, sleep, cognitive function, etc. like a silver bullet. So I bit the…bullet…and bought some mg glycinate and took it an hour before bed. Not 30 minutes later, my heart rate started going up. Strange. Went to sleep…then woke up at 4:00 AM. Tossing and turning. Hot as hell. Not a fever, but clearly lots of anxiety. Could not sleep whatsoever. It’s now the late morning and I’m finally losing the effects of it and going back to normal. To make sure this wasn’t a fluke I did this again a week apart and the same thing happened. I don’t know why. EDIT: Woah, okay this post blew up! Everyone who's new to supplements--never take them with no one else in the house or before something important. And don't take the full dose at once, go half and ramp it up to the recommended. It should go without saying but you never, ever know how your body will react so just putting that out there! submitted by /u/NouvelErmitage to r/Supplements [link] [comments]

2 nights in taking 240mg around 9/10PM and I’m falling asleep within 20-30 mins and getting deeper, more restorative sleep. Beyond sleep, studies show an impact on focus and hyperactivity but I can’t quite measure any positive impact yet. I don’t know if I will be able to at all, because I’m starting magnesium and adderall concurrently. Bought the Pure encapsulations brand on Amazon per recommendations. My “brand” of ADHD has me needing quality research in order to believe and buy into certain protocols. I’m stubborn in that something I try could make a big difference but it’s not until I read enough evidence that I’m motivated to commit to implementing it long term. For those that are similar, here’s a few sources: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30807974/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9368236/ https://www.zrtlab.com/blog/archive/mineral-imbalance-adhd-magnesium/ If interested, here’s one (of many) that report magnesium’s impact on lessening depressive symptoms: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1333261/full submitted by /u/Due-Exit-8310 to r/adhdwomen [link] [comments]

To start off I’m a male in my 20’s, I was experiencing constant fatigue, insomnia, headaches, increased blood pressure, and anxiety. I felt like I wasn’t going to see 30, just deathly tired all the time but could never rest. I changed my diet multiple times, quit smoking, and I was already exercising for 1.5 hours everyday, but nothing was helping. I ended up trolling around here and googling some supplements that would help, after ashwagandha didn’t improve anything, I moved to try magnesium glycinate. I wasn’t someone who really believed that supplements could change my life as much as they did. The first 3 days I had the best sleep I’d seen in the past year. Headaches are almost entirely cleared and my energy levels are way better throughout the day. Almost a month strong and I’m still feeling these benefits. After looking up my symptoms there’s a very good chance I was magnesium deficient the whole time. If you’re reading this and experiencing the same symptoms please try magnesium! submitted by /u/CosmicMover to r/Supplements [link] [comments]

Hello, I just want to warn of the dangers of this supplement, especially for those with prior insomnia and anxiety. I have had GAD since last December and despite removing the "stressors" by June I was still getting episodes of insomnia. I decided to try magnesium glycinate (recommended by ND for sleep). Initially, it increased the amount of deep sleep I had on my tracker, but left me fatigued when I woke up. The first day I took it the phrase "you know" started repeating in my head. This coincided with hyperactivity and decreased focus and attention, but I shrugged it off at the moment. I took it for a week and a half slightly increasing the dose each day. I started to feel VERY wired, on edge, low impulse control could not hold a thought too long in my head. The phrase repeating in my head proved to be an overwhelming distraction from thinking about anything else, and clouded my normal thought process. In the middle of the 2nd week of taking it I started jolting awake multiple times during the night (characteristic of glutamate toxicity, I later learned), and discontinued it on the 3rd night. I laid it off, nonchalantly confused as to why an amino acid found in food can have these effects, and waited for the effects to disappear. However the repeating phrase did not disappear but garnered intensity. To give you an idea of the cognitive impairment, I could not hold a conversation, focus or work upon an idea, or attentively listen and understand a school lecture, or summon the focus to remember something, as the phrase spliced in and interrupted anytime I wanted to use my brain for anything else. My problem solving and visualization got trashed. 1 night I took a high dose of DHA and the symptoms were gone for 15 minutes the next morning, only to reappear. Working out initially turned down the volume of the phrase (or was I just ignoring it?), but the effects wore off again. Now my brain has shifted from phrases to repeated 3-5 second music loops (earworms, or broken record syndrome). The phrases return whenever I try to listen to a podcast/audiobook, and the music when I listen to... music. It has gotten better over time though if I ignore it. My theory for the repetition is that it is fueled by high cortisol (HPA dysfunction) and mild ADHD, although confused by how it was triggered by neurotoxic insults. If there was brain damage the protocol is I should fix it soon. If anyone has advice for high cortisol+ADHD nootropics that would be a good fit, I would appreciate it. As for removing the repetition, I tried: * smartPS and feel like it worked but I get paresthesia from it. * NAC initially got rid of the glutamate toxicity, but has no effect afterwards on the repetition * ashwaghanda solved my anxiety and another unrelated issue, fatigue, as well as most of the repetition, but don't want to take it longterm for the possible thyroid issues, and possible GABA desensitization? * ALCAR (low dose) worked, but scared of TMAO. Going to find L-Carnitine IV source * Going to try Semax/Selank/Cortexin if I find a trustworthy source * vitamins/creatine/omega 3s don't help ​ TLDR; if you get any sort of repeating after taking magnesium glycinate halt immediately!! submitted by /u/leadwalls to r/Supplements [link] [comments]

If you’re taking ANYTHING that increases glycine in your brain you are contributing directly to excess glutamate floating around by over activating your NMDA receptors. Magnesium is great for NMDA antagonism which should be our goal but take it from someone who mistakenly thought glycine was inhibitory in the brain (it is only inhibitory in the spine/brainstem) and supplemented for too long and harmed himself irreparably. If anything you should be taking NMDA receptor antagonists to help with twitching as anxiety and stress elevates glutamate in the brain. We need to cool that off not increase it. I had no idea about this and totally harmed myself by eating tons of jello on top of glycine supplements. submitted by /u/dissidentdukkha to r/BFS [link] [comments]