I take magnesium citrate for anxiety reduction and mood boost. I can't say I've ever noticed anything huge in terms of benefits, but I am fairly well persuaded by the argument that magnesium deficiency is common and I've certainly never noticed it make my anxiety worse, so I continue to take it. Just in case it's helping. I take around 300-400 mg a day.
I buy the stuff in power form, put it on my tongue and just chug it down with some water. It's cheaper this way. I used to buy the Nowfoods bulk powder but last time I bought from Myprotein.com. The Nowfoods powder was extremely acidic tasting, pretty rank actually. I figured this was about right considering it's a citric acid salt. The myprotein stuff barely has a flavour at all, not nearly in the same ballpark in terms of acidity. They both claim to contain about the same percentage of elemental magnesium. The myprotein stuff has a larger grain size, a courser texture. The Nowfoods powder was very finely powdered.
Why on earth is there such a large difference in the flavour? Neither product claims to contain anything but magnesium citrate. Surely they should taste the same?
Edited by Dark Vision, 06 October 2013 - 08:53 PM.