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I’ve found exactly one supplement that had a major impact on my quality of life, and that’s magnesium. Something about magnesium supplements greatly reduced my daily anxiety, to the point that I was amazed because I’d always just imagined I was an “anxious person”.



Magnesium has an important role in the chemistry and development of neurons, and it is very common for people to have a shortage of it:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31336935/

In my case taking magnesium helps with insomnia and ADHD symptoms (although it's impossible to tell if the ADHD improved directly due the magnesium, or due to better sleep)


How much do you take a day an

In dosage?


I'm not the person you asked, but the most important part isn't the dosage, it's the form.

Basically, make sure the magnesium tablet is anything but magnesium oxide - our digestive systems cannot absorb that. Just about any other form (there's like... six of them) will work. Magnesium oxide only helps with constipation, which is also important I guess but a completely different problem.


I take Magnesium Glycinate personally, but have heard good things about Magnesium Threonate.


I take Magnesium Glycinate 400mg once a day. I feel super relaxed after taking it, although I have noticed an uptick in muscle twitches, which extra calcium seems to mitigate.




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