Paul Saladino· MD
I think if we're eating sensible amounts of potassium and magnesium and our food we won't we should not need to supplement magnesium unless we are very deficient from prior
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I think if we're eating sensible amounts of potassium and magnesium and our food we won't we should not need to supplement magnesium unless we are very deficient from prior
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it does not include magnesium from dietary sources so in other words there's no evidence that going above the RDA for magnesium is harmful in fact some evidence suggest that it may even be beneficial particularly if the Magnesium is mostly coming from dietary sources
what makes the situation worse is that the RDA value is based on the absolute minimum amount necessary in order to prevent severe diseases associated with magnesium deficiency so even if you're meeting that 300 to 400 milligrams per day threshold you are still only running at the bare minimum necessary to function