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This is a nice idea but unfortunately doesn't translate to significant decreases in blood pressure for most people. 4g of IV magnesium sulphate barely affects t

• FollowingTheDao 5y ago
  This is whey we need to be talking more about nutritional genomics. Magnesium will help for people who have a need for magnesium based on their genetics. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22051430/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22051430/ I do not care if a supplement works for "most people", I only care if it works for me.
  • lambdaba 5y ago
    Everybody has a need for magnesium and MOST people are deficient. Searches will give you a less dramatic percent, but those are measuring serum magnesium, while the important number is red blood cell magnesium. I don't know if that's enough for everyone, but the other major factors are also evident: excess weight, lack of exercise, chronic high blood sugar, etc.
• lambdaba 5y ago
  Even if it were so (no acute effect, seems unlikely based on, err, anecdata), I've seen claims of it taking up to a year or more to fix a deficiency. It's nt just a nice idea, it actually works. And blood pressure medicine, often diuretics, only worsens magnesium deficiency and thus a magnesium deficiency treated symptomatically with such medicine becomes a chronic hypertensive condition.