Magnesium Powder x 270g

Experience the benefits of our unique Magnesium Complex Powder, featuring three highly absorbable forms of magnesium: glycinate, malate, and taurate. Each serving provides 120mg of elemental magnesium, chosen specifically for their distinct health benefits.

Magnesium is essential for reducing tiredness and fatigue, supporting a normal energy-yielding metabolism, maintaining normal nervous system function, and ensuring proper muscle function.

Our carefully formulated blend does not include forms of magnesium like citrate and oxide, which are known for their laxative effects. Enjoy the full benefits of magnesium without any discomfort.

Our Optimised Magnesium Complex Powder is crafted with a unique blend of three highly absorbable forms of magnesium - glycinate, malate, and taurate - each selected for its unique health benefits. Each serving delivers 120 mg of elemental magnesium, divided equally among the three forms, providing 40 mg of each.

We specifically exclude magnesium citrate from our blend to avoid its common side effects, such as bowel irritation and laxative effects. This ensures more efficient absorption of magnesium without discomfort. Additionally, the exclusion of the citrate form helps prevent interference with ceruloplasmin, a crucial antioxidant copper protein involved in iron metabolism.

Magnesium is essential for reducing tiredness and fatigue, enhancing energy metabolism, and supporting the normal function of the nervous system and muscles. It is also effective in alleviating premenstrual symptoms, including cramps and pain, likely due to its anti-inflammatory and muscle-relaxing properties.[i],[ii],[iii]

Magnesium is needed for over 3,700 proteins with the body[iv]. 

• Supports energy production and cardiovascular health
• Promotes exercise and sports performance
• Supports muscle relaxation and contraction
• Supports brain health and a healthy stress response
• Supports bone structure and function
• Supports a healthy blood pressure
• Provides preventative role in cataractogenesis

 
Magnesium Bisglycinate is recognised as one of the most absorbable forms of magnesium. It includes glycine, which enhances magnesium's absorption through the intestinal wall, making it highly effective for enhancing magnesium levels in the body.

This form of magnesium is especially beneficial for promoting relaxation. It is often recommended to aid sleep and help reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression. The combined effects of magnesium and glycine can significantly decrease stress-related symptoms, enhance sleep quality by relaxing muscles, and support key biochemical pathways linked to sleep. This leads to better focus and reduced daytime fatigue.

The effectiveness of Magnesium Bisglycinate in reducing anxiety is due to its comprehensive impact on the nervous system. It helps modulate neurotransmitter systems by decreasing the release of excitatory neurotransmitters, acting as an antagonist at the NMDA receptor, and enhancing the agonist properties of GABA receptors.

Moreover, Magnesium Bisglycinate plays a vital role in mood regulation by influencing serotoninergic pathways, which enhances serotonin receptor transmission. It also interacts with the HPA axis, reducing ACTH release and modulating stress hormone sensitivity, thus alleviating stress responses.

Additionally, this form of magnesium helps mitigate oxidative stress and stabilise cellular and mitochondrial functions, which supports long-term mental health benefits by improving sleep quality and lowering stress levels. [v],[vi],[vii],[viii],[ix],[x],[xi]

Magnesium Malate plays a crucial role in the Krebs cycle and activates numerous enzyme systems vital for the metabolism of proteins and carbohydrates. This form of magnesium is combined with malic acid, making it relatively easy to digest and allowing it to stay in the body longer than other forms.

Due to its extended presence and absorption efficiency, Magnesium Malate is frequently recommended for alleviating muscle cramps and addressing specific muscle conditions such as fibromyalgia.

Magnesium Taurate is essential for supporting mental health, muscle, nerve, and cardiovascular function. It partners with taurine, an amino acid that enhances magnesium's role as an antioxidant. This particular combination of amino acid and mineral is also highly absorbable.

Magnesium Taurate is known for its antihypertensive and cardioprotective properties, attributed to its potent antioxidant activity. It is beneficial as a nutritional supplement for enhancing cardiovascular health. When taken with taurine, magnesium can help lower blood pressure, improve insulin resistance, slow the progression of atherosclerosis, prevent arrhythmias, and stabilise platelets. These benefits are likely due to the shared mechanism of magnesium and taurine in reducing intracellular calcium and sodium levels.[xii],[xiii],[xiv].

In an animal study, Magnesium Taurate was effective in halting the progression of cataract formation. This was achieved through the restoration of blood pressure, repair of oxidative damage in the lens, and improvement of lens ATPase functions in a hypertensive state. These findings suggest that Magnesium Taurate supplementation could play a beneficial role in managing hypertension and its associated risks, such as cataract development..[xv],[xvi]

Taurine has a mild diuretic effect, but is otherwise well tolerated without adverse effects.

The combination of these 3 forms of magnesium is unique and is aimed at combining the potential benefits of each of these forms of magnesium in at least an additive way, if not synergistically.

 
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