help me make sense of magnesium

animal-inside said:
this is the potassium I take.. I only started taking it after I got on a hard keto diet for a few years.. same reason I upped my salt.

I only take the potassium 1/4 teaspoon on training days (3 days a week).
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Potassium is quite safe for many. Some with kidney issues or certain auto immune issues have scary issues with the kidneys not able to excrete and then becomes an issue for the heart. One can take a lot more than RDA and still be very safe and no issues.
I take about 1/2 - 3/4-1 tsp per day over the day. I put in a 2 liter glass bottle and drink with juice from 1 lemon added over the day along with salt and Magnesium flavored powder. But i don't ingest all at once..
Magnesium and potassium are very critical for health, vitamin D absorption, muscles and hydration to name a few. I said more than enough, i will come off as a Potassium magnesium shill here soon...lol
 
so last night I took 500mg magnesium and 50 mg zinc before bed. I hadn;'t eaten any food or taken other vitamins/supplments for 2 hours prior..
Woke up at 6am with a pretty bad headache. Not sure if the 2 instances are connected or not?
 
animal-inside said:
so last night I took 500mg magnesium and 50 mg zinc before bed. I hadn;'t eaten any food or taken other vitamins/supplments for 2 hours prior..
Woke up at 6am with a pretty bad headache. Not sure if the 2 instances are connected or not?
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Hydrate and take electrolytes as i mentioned, that is my 2 ccs....Then go see a doctor and get some more tests on blood etc. if not relieving itself. I can just say what helped me a few times when i was out of balance with electrolytes and dehydrated and gut issues, was hell, then i saw i was doing it to myself and i am one of these guys that needs to be reminded to drink, i dont ever get thirst feelings. I worked in some hot facilities and then once was out of balance it continued to spiral, i got theses items in check and its working very well, i still need to remind myself to drink water so i have it on my desk daily and a dispenser right beside my home gym and the electrolytes i take in as described 4-6 days per week. I dont over do it..I did that as well and learned from it..not fun...lol..
 
My good magnesium arrived yesterday..

So before bed I take 50mg zinc with 200mg magnesium glycentate.. I will bump it up to 300 if no change in bowels.
 
Still having eye twitches, but not nearly as bad after 2 days of the better magnesium taken properly. I'll up the dose in the next day or two.
 
About 9/10 days after starting magnesium glycinate before i go to bed on empty stomach at a dose of 300mg, I'm still getting eye twitches.. And I hit legs last night.. good hard workout.. on the drive home my left bicep started twitching like it was hooked up to one of those shock machiens.. Would twitch once or twice every 15-30 mins.. Did this from 9pm-11pm when I went to bed.. Twitchign is gone this morning, but eye twitching is pretty contstant.

Going to 400mg tonight.. bottle says 200mg is the recommended dose.
 
animal-inside said:
About 9/10 days after starting magnesium glycinate before i go to bed on empty stomach at a dose of 300mg, I'm still getting eye twitches.. And I hit legs last night.. good hard workout.. on the drive home my left bicep started twitching like it was hooked up to one of those shock machiens.. Would twitch once or twice every 15-30 mins.. Did this from 9pm-11pm when I went to bed.. Twitchign is gone this morning, but eye twitching is pretty contstant.

Going to 400mg tonight.. bottle says 200mg is the recommended dose.
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Twitching, especially after working out, could be an indicator of a misalignment pinching in on a nerve. Maybe unrelated to magnesium. At the end of training, you should try some mobility work.


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animal-inside said:
About 9/10 days after starting magnesium glycinate before i go to bed on empty stomach at a dose of 300mg, I'm still getting eye twitches.. And I hit legs last night.. good hard workout.. on the drive home my left bicep started twitching like it was hooked up to one of those shock machiens.. Would twitch once or twice every 15-30 mins.. Did this from 9pm-11pm when I went to bed.. Twitchign is gone this morning, but eye twitching is pretty contstant.

Going to 400mg tonight.. bottle says 200mg is the recommended dose.
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When I used to go on a week long bender, I knew it was time to slow down when my left eye would twitch and knees would ache, lol. Maybe your CNS is tired?
 
I could deffintely use mobilbity work..

My left bicep started twitching like mad again at 4:30.. out of the blue and its not 6:30 and its still twitching. It's slowed down a bit but still there. And of course left eye keeps twitching...

I will ask my chiro next time about nerves, possible causes etc
 
Oldguyjiujitsu said:
Twitching, especially after working out, could be an indicator of a misalignment pinching in on a nerve. Maybe unrelated to magnesium. At the end of training, you should try some mobility work.


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Tried the foam roller for the first time after my chest/shoulders/tri work out tonight. I've been missing out lol.. I followed a few youtube video's how to roll out shoulders.. I watched them and thought "my shoulders are tight there.. that's not going to do much".. I was proven wrong. It hurt a lot rolling, but lossened things up a lot.

As soon as I got home I ordered a really good roller for home. Looking forward to using it at home to be honest.
 
animal-inside said:
Tried the foam roller for the first time after my chest/shoulders/tri work out tonight. I've been missing out lol.. I followed a few youtube video's how to roll out shoulders.. I watched them and thought "my shoulders are tight there.. that's not going to do much".. I was proven wrong. It hurt a lot rolling, but lossened things up a lot.

As soon as I got home I ordered a really good roller for home. Looking forward to using it at home to be honest.
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Great!

You will get the true benefit from foam rolling about 3 months in.

Also youtube some vids from Squat University. They have some good videos on shoulder mobility exercises before benching, etc..


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Oldguyjiujitsu said:
Great!

You will get the true benefit from foam rolling about 3 months in.

Also youtube some vids from Squat University. They have some good videos on shoulder mobility exercises before benching, etc..


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thanks for the advice..

Until my roller gets here, I'll only be able to do it 3x a week at the gym. But I'll watch the videos and make a routine for the roller.. And take a look at the squat university
 
Just realized this morning that I can't recall when the last time my eye twitched.. I started the better magnesium on Jan 6th and it didn't seem to do much, but its Jan 29th now and I think the eye twitching is gone.. Used to be constant throughout the day..

I haven't changed anything else in my diet, workout etc.. I actually think my stress 2 weeks has been higher than previous.

50mg zinc with 300mg magnesium glycinate before bed on empty stomach.. No bowel side effects.

My muscle knotting is better as well, but I beleive that to be from weekly dry needling (in shoulders, arms, traps) and using a foam roller (back, lats, shoulders, legs). If I had to guess, low magnesium causes tight muscles which eventually knotted up on me over time..

WIll be interesting to see if my muscles tighten and knot up less on this new magnesium taken before bed or if I will still get knots.
 
No new muscle knotting.. This is really rare for me. I almost always have a muscle knotted up somewhere to some degree.. Nothing right now. knock on wood I hope this continues. Again, I think a big reason my muscle knots have been letting go is using my roller.. But I know magnesium is helped as well because my forearm, bicep and tricp knots are leaving too, but I can't and haven't rolled them out. I just haven't figured out how to use my roller to work those muscles. I Think I will get the wife to use a rolling pin on them this week though.

On a side note, I had a very very good back/biceps work out friday night. I even did some dead lifting which I took a break from for a few months. I only did one heavy set (455 x9 ) but nothing hits my entire back harder than one heavy set. Anyways, all yesterday my left bicep was twiching like I had my left bicep connected to one of those tense muscle contracting machines. ALL day and non stop. I didn't get as much water in me as I should have yesterday so I think that may have been a factor. Either way today it's not twitching today yet.
 
lol.. So my bicep twitching went away for about a week.. then out of no where 3 days ago it started up again.. same left bicep twitches non stop.. not even mild.. you can see it through my sweat shirt its that intense.

Should be noted that I had taken a full week off the gym and right in the middle of that week off, the twitching started again..

Still taking magnesium... still drinking lota of water.. nothing changed that I can think of to make it come back..
 
Magnesium bigylcinate is more absorbable, try diet tonic water from super store or save on, drink two cans with some koolaid squeeze juice stuff.

Try 1000mg or more of taurine.

Maybe try getting a decent amount of vitamin D in your body (take with vitamin k2). In order for your body to absorb vitamin D it needs to cleave off an ion from the magnesium molecule and attach it to the store bought vitamin D.
 
Devson said:
Magnesium bigylcinate is more absorbable, try diet tonic water from super store or save on, drink two cans with some koolaid squeeze juice stuff.

Try 1000mg or more of taurine.

Maybe try getting a decent amount of vitamin D in your body (take with vitamin k2). In order for your body to absorb vitamin D it needs to cleave off an ion from the magnesium molecule and attach it to the store bought vitamin D.
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I take 5,000 units of vitamin D. I don't take vitamin K, I'll look into it thank you.

Hmmm... The issue I cam see with tonic water is that it lowers stomach acidity to my knowledge. I have a condition of almost no stomach acid as is. I have to take 2,500mg of betaine HCL with every meal to digest the food. I'll look into this as well, but dirining 2 cans of tonic water a day would add up in cost over a few years to be much more than the pills no?
 
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