<story><title>Challenges in the diagnosis of magnesium status</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6163803/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wincy</author><text>Interesting. I recently started using Magnesium Glycinate as a supplement and I feel it truly changed my life, not exaggerating. I’ve suffered from chronic general anxiety for most of my teens and adult life. Magnesium has completely cleared this up, things I thought were just part of my personality (being anxious and other associated things) were actually due to a chronic magnesium deficiency. I just have to make sure I get a decent amount of calcium in my diet (via canned mackerel mostly) to avoid muscle twitches from the magnesium.</text></item><item><author>esquivalience</author><text>From the source:
&amp;quot;The high rate of magnesium deficiency now postulated [5,6,7,8] can be attributed in part to a steady decline in general magnesium content in cultivated fruits and vegetables, a reflection of the observed depletion of magnesium in soil over the past 100 years [11,12,13]. A report to Congress was already sounding the alarm as far back as the 1930s, pointing out the paucity of magnesium, and other minerals, in certain produce [14].&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The easiest of those references to link to is &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;journals.ashs.org&amp;#x2F;hortsci&amp;#x2F;view&amp;#x2F;journals&amp;#x2F;hortsci&amp;#x2F;44&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;article-p15.xml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;journals.ashs.org&amp;#x2F;hortsci&amp;#x2F;view&amp;#x2F;journals&amp;#x2F;hortsci&amp;#x2F;44&amp;#x2F;1...&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Three kinds of evidence point toward declines of some nutrients in fruits and vegetables available in the United States and the United Kingdom: 1) early studies of fertilization found inverse relationships between crop yield and mineral concentrations—the widely cited “dilution effect”; 2) three recent studies of historical food composition data found apparent median declines of 5% to 40% or more in some minerals in groups of vegetables and perhaps fruits; one study also evaluated vitamins and protein with similar results; and 3) recent side-by-side plantings of low- and high-yield cultivars of broccoli and grains found consistently negative correlations between yield and concentrations of minerals and protein, a newly recognized genetic dilution effect. &amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>etaioinshrdlu</author><text>I have been heavy dosing magnesium (glycinate, citrate) for years and am still a nervous wreck. Your mileage may vary.</text></comment>
<story><title>Challenges in the diagnosis of magnesium status</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6163803/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wincy</author><text>Interesting. I recently started using Magnesium Glycinate as a supplement and I feel it truly changed my life, not exaggerating. I’ve suffered from chronic general anxiety for most of my teens and adult life. Magnesium has completely cleared this up, things I thought were just part of my personality (being anxious and other associated things) were actually due to a chronic magnesium deficiency. I just have to make sure I get a decent amount of calcium in my diet (via canned mackerel mostly) to avoid muscle twitches from the magnesium.</text></item><item><author>esquivalience</author><text>From the source:
&amp;quot;The high rate of magnesium deficiency now postulated [5,6,7,8] can be attributed in part to a steady decline in general magnesium content in cultivated fruits and vegetables, a reflection of the observed depletion of magnesium in soil over the past 100 years [11,12,13]. A report to Congress was already sounding the alarm as far back as the 1930s, pointing out the paucity of magnesium, and other minerals, in certain produce [14].&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The easiest of those references to link to is &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;journals.ashs.org&amp;#x2F;hortsci&amp;#x2F;view&amp;#x2F;journals&amp;#x2F;hortsci&amp;#x2F;44&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;article-p15.xml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;journals.ashs.org&amp;#x2F;hortsci&amp;#x2F;view&amp;#x2F;journals&amp;#x2F;hortsci&amp;#x2F;44&amp;#x2F;1...&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Three kinds of evidence point toward declines of some nutrients in fruits and vegetables available in the United States and the United Kingdom: 1) early studies of fertilization found inverse relationships between crop yield and mineral concentrations—the widely cited “dilution effect”; 2) three recent studies of historical food composition data found apparent median declines of 5% to 40% or more in some minerals in groups of vegetables and perhaps fruits; one study also evaluated vitamins and protein with similar results; and 3) recent side-by-side plantings of low- and high-yield cultivars of broccoli and grains found consistently negative correlations between yield and concentrations of minerals and protein, a newly recognized genetic dilution effect. &amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lk0nga</author><text>The RDA on Magnesium is almost never there on multivitamin formulas and so should be added separatedly, I can&amp;#x27;t really feel that (significantly) it helps for anxiety or jittery though, same goes for theanine, in fact theanine makes my jittery&amp;#x2F;anxiety worse. Best for jittery&amp;#x2F;anxiety is taurine, at around 2 grams per each 100mg of caffeine, YMMV.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve noted overall anxiety got noteacible better when I added DHEA, I&amp;#x27;d guess due to changes in the cortisol to DHEA ratio.</text></comment>