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In terms of supplementation, magnesium is one of these things that's pretty safe to supplement with. Unless you have kidney disease. If you have chronic kidney issues, your body might not be able to get rid of magnesium and that can cause problems. But most of us will run into bowel tolerance, which means we'll get disaster pants, diarrhea, before we run into issues with magnesium levels rising too high in the body.
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with magnesium you can really overshoot it in the context of most clinical scenarios I.E modestly normal kidney function and the worst thing that's going to happen to you is you're going to get a belly ache and maybe some some diarrhea
Magnesium, though, is pretty inert. It's okay. You start tinkering with iron, you got to really be paying attention. But magnesium seems to be like pretty okay. Like the worst thing we're going to deal with is GI distress.
They've also in large part dosed these things so that GI distress is not huge anymore.
Magnesium, though, is pretty inert. It's okay. You start tinkering with iron, you got to really be paying attention. You start tinkering with other rocks, you got to really understand. But magnesium seems to be like pretty okay. Like the worst thing we're going to deal with is GI distress. And as I talked about like most people are okay now. It's not a big deal. So I'm not super concerned with going a little bit aggressive with magnesium because of that because we also um are asking so much of them in in other areas of performance or movement. It's one I'm saying like don't worry a ton about the dosage on that one. If you're a little bit high, you want to go a little more aggressive. I'm fine with that.