Laura Schoenfeld: With magnesium, I generally only use either glycinate or citrate. I guess I use taurate sometimes, too. Glycinate tends to be a little bit more gentle on the GI tract, so if somebody is prone to loose stools, then I won’t do magnesium citrate. Magnesium taurate can be potentially helpful for people that have fatigue because taurine is a good nutrient for energy production, but honestly, I don’t really have any specific conditions that the magnesium is for. I usually will base it on tolerance.
There is a product that I’m going to look up. I forget which company it’s from, but it’s called … Oh, it’s Integrative Therapeutics Tri-Magnesium. Let me see what’s in this one. This is one that I’ve recommended frequently. This one is a combination of citrate, oxide, and malate. I wouldn’t do a totally oxide supplement because that’s definitely more of a laxative-type magnesium, but this one is 300 milligrams, and it has the mix of all the magnesiums, so I find that it has been helpful, but again, the magnesium glycinate and the magnesium taurate have worked totally fine. If you just wanted to pick one, I’d say glycinate is probably the safest for most people.
Oh, yeah. Someone says magnesium oxide only has 4 percent bioavailability. Again, magnesium oxide is definitely more of that laxative-type magnesium. It’s very effective at being a laxative, so if somebody wants to have the bowel movement benefit, then oxide can be helpful, but I don’t use it as a single supplement. It’s only in this Tri-Magnesium that I’ve used before.