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[caruga]

Vitamin C: 3 grams
Taurine: 1 gram
Glycine: 1 gram
Arginine: 1 gram
Lysine: 1 gram
Glutamine: 1 gram
Magnesium citrate: 2.5 grams

And b1 (100mg) and b6 (50mg)

30 minutes later had ass-pee. I'm guessing it's either the vitamin C or the magnesium citrate, although I thought you had to take a lot more C than that to get diarrhea, and the citrate was the stated dose for obtaining 400mg of elemental magnesium.

Going to eliminate bed-time taurine from now on incidentally, all it does is make me sleep longer and more dreamlessly, but feeling after waking is unchanged or slightly worse.

[chrono]

If it was the first time you took the mag citrate, that would be my guess. Even low doses gave me loose stool. Working up to a full dose slowly might give you better results. Or if you're prone to this, use a form like malate or glycinate, which seem less likely to have these effects.

Edited by chrono, 26 August 2010 - 05:43 PM.

[KimberCT]

Magnesium citrate is guaranteed diarrhea for me.

[mikeinnaples]

Magnesium citrate: 2.5 grams

100% the cause of your ass-pee guaranteed.

BTW, Magnesium Citrate is often sold in pharmacies ...as a laxative.

[ajnast4r]

2.5g magnesium citrate lol

[caruga]

I think I may have written it down incorrectly and it was 1.5 grams. Still too much I suppose. I'll have to take the dose in separate installments.

[ajnast4r]

are you talking 1.5g elemental magnesium?

[MoodyBlue]

I use magnesium glycinate (400mg 2x/day) and the instructions say never to take it close to bedtime, so I take one tablet with breakfast and one with lunch. It still softens the stool a little bit, but it's not a problem. I believe it is in this study article that it mentions that to eliminate diarrhea from high dose magnesium you should take one gram of L-Arginine 3 times a day with meals (3 grams of the same with each meal caused constipation): http://george-eby-re...-depression.pdf. I see that you do take 1 gram of Arginine before bed, but it needs to be with a meal and 3 times per day. With 1.5 grams of Magnesium, you might have to use a little more Arginine than 1 gram per meal. Start with 1 gram per meal 3x/day, and then if necessary increase the dosage gradually until you no longer have a soft stool but are yet not constipated.

Edited by MoodyBlue, 27 August 2010 - 02:31 AM.