The only Magnesium to pass the blood ,brain barrier and an aid to neuroplasticity.
Magnesium Threonate.
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Thanks for the heads up, Derek.
Is this what you take? What is your experience of it?
Anyway, I ordered it to try. I know a lot of Mg does not get absorbed.
So far, I have Liposomal Mg, before bed. We’ll see if this offers something different
Ciao, Roland
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@pando
Roland, I just ordered two bottles, so we’ll see. it certainly sounds interesting. I’ve been taking Mag. Glycinate which absorbs well but does not get to the brain. I understand that most people don’t get enough magnesium.
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I’m glad there are 40 views, hopefully our members see the importance of this.
I used to have a spray-on magnesium, I think it helped me, although it’s not possible to know how I would have been if not taking it. Apparently it gets absorbed more effectively than some taken by mouth. The company I got it from (I think) has just gone out of business. It wasn’t cheap so I am wondering if others have used it and found it helped with pain? I was also on calcium for years but stopped recently as I came across something that said it can contribute to Strokes. Mine were ‘mini Strokes’ (TIAs) but they do not feel like small events to me although have some additional MSK issues. Very difficult when you have multiple conditions…and particularly when you are on possibly meds and supplements that are interacting with each other.
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Hi @Shorn
As you say it is difficult to understand the complexities of combinations.
Everything we eat and breathe and drink and experience interacts with our experiences and feelings and emotions & etc etc
For example a release of adrenaline will change the way your blood flows and the combination of sugars in it and so the way your organs are being nourished.
I wonder if you’ve been on calcium for a long time - presumably for bone chemistry because you mentioned MSK - and you have read something about it that caused you to stop how many things would you have to read to cause you to start?
I only ask because I suspect that any conclusion that you wanted to reach would be supportable by writing somewhere out in the journals before we even got to the idea that you can prove anything and everything by reference to writings on the internet!
I guess I’m trying to ask " why does one thing have significance to sway your actions over (I presume, advice from the medics?)" - since everything interacts I speculate that there are no absolute answers? 
For magnesium sprays Google was happy to show me umpteen places still selling it most of whom would some in the post in exchange for a credit card payment there and then
Just my musings
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I had to speak to the GP on the phone about a recent scan result and mentioned I am taking magnesium. He advised me to discontinue with it but did not say why, so I am back at the beginning again. I have to take calcium and vitamin D daily ad also take iron with C and zic some days.
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