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Brainiacs listen up: Magnesium + taurine can also be achieved from a (high seafood) diet. You will remember that the year 2017 saw the publication of the first study to lend credible support to the use of transdermal magnesium . If you go back to my article discussing the results of the study, you will find the following items in the overview of CNS symptoms of magnesium deficiency (48% of the Americans don't get enough Mg | Moshfegh 1997 ): "Nervousness, increased sensitivity of NMDA receptors to excitatory neurotransmitters, migraine, depression, nystagmus, paraesthesia, poor memory, seizures, tremor, vertigo." What you will also find is a figure depicting the effects of administering different forms of magnesium (orally) to rodents on plasma, bone, and red blood cell (#RBC) magnesium levels. Mineral water contains Mg, a lot of other minerals and bicarbonate you don't want to miss: Hydrogen Rich Water = Quackery? Glass of Water Before Meals as Diet ...

D3 and Mg Supplements not mandatory w/ sun + balanced diet If you subscribed to the @SuppVersity Facebook Page, you will have read the news, already: "Magnesium status and supplementation influence vitamin D status and metabolism" ( Dai 2018 ) - that is both the title and the main results of a recent study from the Vanderbilt University  that is important enough to make it from the short format on Facebook  to a detailed SuppVersity article of its own - the article at hand ;-) The 25OHD-balancing effects Dai et al. observed in their 180 participants (aged 40–85 y) could after all do much more than point towards a reason why everyone and his mama seems to be D-ficient - it could force us to redefine what "optimal" 25OHD levels are - significantly below those many Internet "health experts" recommend. Learn more about vitamin D at the SuppVersity How Much Vitamin D Shall You Take? Leucine, Insulin, Vitamin D and Your Gainz Vitamin D Speed...

Supplement producers have built their business on the (unwarranted) premise that you cannot get enough magnesium from your diet, alone. Unlike the effectiveness of oral magnesium supplementation for the treatment of magnesium deficiency, which has been studied in detail, the ever more popular transdermal magnesium preparations are a "scientifically not yet proven form of magnesium application" (Gröber 2017)... that was true earlier this year when Gröber and colleagues from the Akademie für Mikronährstoffmedizin and the  IPEV Institute for Prevention and Nutrition in Germany was written. With the recent publication of a study from the  University of Hertfordshire (Kass 2017), there's finally a single-blind, parallel designed pilot study that deserves the title "study". Mineral water contains Mg, a lot of other minerals and bicarbonate you don't want to miss: Hydrogen Rich Water = Quackery? Glass of Water Before Meals as Diet Tool Every Sip...

Blindfolds and earplugs can improve your sleep quality significantly. The special beauty of blindfolds is: unlike earplugs, blindfolds may also be used to refresh 'other things' you may be doing beneath or on top of your sheets, which in turn will help those who are struggling with getting restorative sleep ( learn more ) While every idiot will tell you that ZMA is "the shit" (it indeed is, literally ) its purported benefits are either insufficiently proven or even disproven, as it is the case for the alleged  anabolic effect of ZMA, which clearly don't exist (Wilborn 2004) outside of the "alternative facts" supplement companies use in pamphlets people call "write ups". Obviously, this won't stop the bros at the gym from telling you: "Dat ZMA gives me an amazingly anabolic sleep, bro!" The reasons ZMA (unfortunately) hasn't disappeared, yet, is still in the TOP10 of an unfortunately high number of supplement retailers...

1952, Italian Fausto Coppi is drenched with water by a fan during the golden years of the Tour. Question: Can the topical application of K & Mg do the same magic? Answer: That's very  unlikely, ... What sounds like a supplement producer was trying to sell his product with a sponsored study is, in fact, the gist of a 1968 study from the Departments of Clinical Physiology and Internal Medicine at the venerable Karolinska Institute  in Stockholm, Sweden (Ahlborg. 1968). The authors' conclusion that "[a]fter administration of potassium-magnesium-aspartate [KMgA] the capacity for prolonged exercise increased about 50 per cent" (Ahlborg. 1968) can thus not be discarded as marketing babble. And, before we decide whether it's too good to be true, I'd suggest we take a closer look at the way the data was generated before we either (a) discard it as outdated or (b) get totally excited for nothing. Mineral water will contain some K and Mg, too - and it will...