Ever Since I Started Using This Specific Type Of Magnesium, My Sleep Score Has Doubled
What you need to know about the smart supplement.
Okay, so, magnesium to help you sleep, I can see some plausible scientific mechanisms for why it could help sleep, but this is high-grade garbage. If you take a load of magnesium, what's almost certainly going to happen (apart from diarrhoea, if oral) is that the kidneys will just pump a load of it straight back out into your urine, because that's what the kidneys do. The chance you are going to make a significant change to the brain's levels of magnesium are low to nil. Just for context here, the average human body contains over 20g of magnesium and the RDA is about 300-400mg. 500mg (the suggested dose) isn't very much.
Anyway, some detail is lovingly explained with a load of words that you might indeed see in a neuroscience textbook ("GABA"! "Glutamate!") by someone who is a "functional medicine practitioner" - a job title that amounts to saying "no qualifications required". I'm guessing there is a chance that a "functional medicine doctor" might actually need to be a doctor, but bear in mind it won't necessarily be doctor in medicin, and I wouldn't guarantee the doctorate were from an accredited institution.
What I particularly love about this is squirting this magnesium on your feet because some nutrients are poorly absorbed in the gut. And you think the fucking feet are better for absorption? It's so bafflingly stupid and ridiculous.
You might realise it's a bit iffy when the owner of the company that makes the product says things like: "In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the feet are also key energetic gateways..." which is tacitly admitting a lack of scientific rigour. He tactically skirts some claims that might upset regulators with carefully concealed honesty: "help relax the nervous system and promote sleep, either through local absorption or the calming ritual itself". I think we all know it's the "calming ritual", isn't it?
Near the end he comments: "Oral supplements provide systemic support, while topical forms may offer more local, targeted relief" This is true in a general sense, but another polite way of saying the product is bollocks if you think about it. After all, you're hardly going to provide targeted relief for sleep - like, targetting your brain - with local application at the other end of your body, are you?
I'm sure the article author, Morgan Faro, is just paid to write a load of crap about a product for money. I mean, it's basically an advert for the magnesium spray. But the amount of utterly stupid things that you don't even need to be a scientist to think might be dodgy as hell...
