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Without getting into the specifics of weather particular substances have any meaningful effect vs placebo, part of the issue was that there’s no guarantee that there is even the thing on the label inside the pills or that their formulated in a way that actually makes them available to the body. For instance this study in magnesium supplementation shows a 20-90% absorption based on brand.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6683096/#!po=0....




Yea, lots of different kinds of magnesium and brands are very annoying.

Stuff is amazing dramatically reduced headaches and muscle aches. Magnesium citrate.

I generally stick to the most expensive ones.

Other variations have not helped, I felt weird on them.

Problem is the same (though to a much lessor degree) for prescriptions.

Plaqunial name brand is drastically more impactful then it’s genetics. So much so, that I have to cut dosage 1/2 to 1/4.




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