Magnesium; Good vs. Bad Mag – With Coach Edward

Magnesium is critical for optimal health, being involved in hundreds of enzymatic reactions in the body from muscular, cardiovascular, detox, and nerve function to name a few.

The more active or stressed you are the more magnesium you will deplete in your body – approximately two thirds of the world’s population is deficient in it, putting it on the list of concerns for the World Health Organisation.

So are all Magnesiums the same? No. There are two main types of magnesium; Chelates and salt. Chelates are absorbed by the body far better than salt forms of Magnesium, as they are bound to amino acids. However with this more complex molecular structure makes them more expensive to buy?

Or does it? Yes, at first if you look at a bottle of chelated Magnesium Glycine, threonate or taurate compared to a Magnesium oxide, yes the oxide is going to be a lot cheaper, however, due to the much poorer absorption rate of the oxide, the more expensive chelated version is actually far more cheaper per magnesium element actually absorbed by the body!