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Originally Posted by Ostfriese
What difference would that make? It's magnesium ions in both cases.
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In a nut-shell:
Bio-Availability.
Magnesium oxide is almost insoluable in water. It will not get released from its salt, as long as it is not soluable. Gastric acid helps to disolve it, but its a hard job for the body, and that is why only a small part of the amount of net magnesium in the magnesium oxide ends up being digestable, I mean: gets extracted in the guts and pulled over into the blood stream. You feel this problem: Magnesium oxide easily causes diarrhea if you take too much of it, and you probably will not be able to take as much of it as your body needs to slowly compensate the magnesium deficit and full up its reserves that according to various views affect 45-65% of Western populations. This underlying principle deficiency is hard to heal, it takes many, many months, the attempt will not create effects already after a few weeks.
There are various forms in which Magnesium binds, all of them that are not oxide have the advantage to be much easier soluable, and thus hava much higher bio availabilty: you absorb more of the net magnesium content included than with Magnesium oxide. That leads to the situaiton that you may have a magnesium form that has less net content of Magnesium per capsule than that Magneisium oxide you have , nevertheless your body will gain more net magnesium from it than from the capsule with Magnesium oxide and its higher net content of magnesium. Very importnt, many people suffer from loose stool if taking just a tiny bit too much of Magnesium oxide, me too. I learned I could completely bypass that symptom by taking a preparation that is made not just with Magnesium oxide, but also -glycinate, -malmat, citrite, and -ascorbat. All these different forms also have varying other secondary positve effects on your organs thta m ake them all slightly different from each other.
You have this problem of varying bioavailabuiliy with many nutrients in your food, also you may benefit from offering different forms of one and the same element. For example, iodine and iodide (iodine salt that is) both adress different functions and purposes in your body and cells while sharing others, you want both forms of it, although once inside the cell iodide gets reduced to elemental iodine again.
Nutritional supplementation should not be done with a picky approach of just a few singled-out items - if you do it like you eat your ordinary food (which supplements should not replace but supplement only, thats why we call them that).
Supplement broadly, a widely varying broadside of different ammunitions, and have certain micronutrients in it in different forms, if possible. They all may work together (some block each other from getting assimilated of you take them together however and are not separated by 2-4 hours or so, thats why I recommend not to use multi-vitamine pills), they all need also many co-factors the body must have in its ready-racks, else the supplemnts just pass through your guts and get thrown out and you spent the money and have little to no benefit, but your pee and poop is precious and costly.
. Its nothign for only soloists, its a big concerto of many, many voices, and the overhwelming majority of voices you do not, can not and should not try to just supplement: for that you do something else: you eat heathy stuff. We supplement just that that your food no longer contains in sufficient amounts, while it is nevertheless vital for us. And not many people know that for example over the past 110 years the vitamine content of apples have dropped by factors between 5 and 8. Just one apple a day keeps the doctor away? Considering the plant toxines in it and the abundance of fructose, i say: you can forget about your silly apple, its not good for you - and the lack of vitamines in it is the least of the concerns here. There is a reason why diabetics are told to not eat fruits: sugars. Plus the chemical warfare the plant wages against you trying to eat it. It does not want to get eaten, at least not by you.
The erosion if our fields and agriculkturla soil has led to a situation when practically all - at leats nmost of - our veggies and fruits nowadays contain just fracitons of the micro-nutrients they once contained.
And if you think you still must eat apples, at least stay away from the sweet ones, prefer the soar ones.
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bioavsilabultiuy, the one supolement that maybe is mroe affected by this than any other, is vitamine C. Vitamine C is water soluable and is not stored for long in the body if you are not ill. Most people take it as Ascorbat, but they have almost no benefit form that, they either must run to the toilet becasue the took too much, which you do eaisly when you are not ill, or it gets excreted verxy quickly with the urin: you would need ot take doses of it every 1-2 hours, and then woukd have a prbem with the dusprutoons yourconstant toiletbraces cause. Better take it as the - slightly more expnsive - liposomal vitam ine C. It bypasses all torbles in the guts compelktely, and cna be stored by the body for hours and hours and hours. If oyu are sick, you cna reach vitmaine C levels with this that usually only can get achieved by giving it as infusions. When you are ill, you will find that the demand for and tolernac eof vitmiane C in yoru body explodes, by factors, even by low two digit factors. They want to demonise it a lot, and like with vitmniane D'S demonizaiton its all bull so that their profit interests from selling heavy drugs get not touched upon. For some time the free selling of vitmniane C in the US, in the 80s, was even prohibited, but they could not sustain it, thankfully.