Best magnesium to supplement (based on current evidence) | Rhonda Patrick
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Magnesium is an essential nutrient readily available in the diet from dark leafy greens or nuts. Although clinical deficiency is rare, over time, deficiencies can lead to DNA damage. Magnesium is available in supplemental form but may cause some gastrointestinal distress. In this clip, Dr. Rhonda Patrick talks about the importance of obtaining adequate magnesium and describes her strategies, including her preferred dietary magnesium supplement.
Now, what do you— what do you take for something like this? Are you doing like a slow time-release magnesium? Because I know one of the big side effects is stomach upset. In what form? Because there's like 5 or 6 different forms out there. I actually try to get my magnesium from food because, yeah, because the GI problem where you can really cause like diarrhea and stuff, like if you're taking— especially if you're taking high doses. I've previously in the past supplemented with magnesium glycinate. Dose, I think it was like 200 milligrams or something like that. And that's, that's, that's kind of what I'll do when I'm supplementing with it. But you'll get your, your dietary requirements if you're just doing a pretty green leafy vegetable heavy diet. Is that right? Okay. Which is what I typically try to do. But if I don't, then I do, I do like to take a supplement.
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