Transdermal Magnesium - Finally a Human Study Suggests That Low-Dose Mg2+ Cream Works, at Least in Non-Athletes
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...