Peter Attia· MD
now again that's intravenous magnesium we're going to talk in a minute about oral magnesium which is the way most people are going to get magnesium um you know it's unlikely that oral magnesium is going to be able to provide relief acutely for this but intravenously and we're talking somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 to four gram intravenously um again I want you to keep that number in the back of your mind 2 to four grams of intravenous magnesium when we start talking about how much oral magnesium you need to take to get that now oral magnesium treatments May reduce the frequency and the severity of attacks but really provides uh very little relief in the acute setting