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Marshall Price
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 11:10 pm    Post subject: Magnesium citrate Reply with quote
Is magnesium citrate, sold in drug stores in the form of a carbonated
liquid for the relief of constipation, a good product for supplementing
one's dietary intake of magnesium?

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Jim Chinnis
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 1:42 am    Post subject: Re: Magnesium citrate Reply with quote
Marshall Price <d021317c@yahoo.com> wrote in part:

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Is magnesium citrate, sold in drug stores in the form of a carbonated
liquid for the relief of constipation, a good product for supplementing
one's dietary intake of magnesium?

I would recommend tablets instead! They are also available, but you may have
to look around. Solgar makes them, and I think the Vitamin Shoppe sells some
also.
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MikeV
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 11:24 am    Post subject: Re: Magnesium citrate Reply with quote
"Marshall Price" <d021317c@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Is magnesium citrate, sold in drug stores in the form of a
carbonated liquid for the relief of constipation, a good product
for supplementing one's dietary intake of magnesium?

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Marshall Price of Miami
Known to Yahoo as d021317c

Magnesium oxide is the preferred form for constipation. (note it is
less well absorbed, and remains in the bowel retaining moisture)
Magnesium citrate is better absorbed for othe r metabolic purposes,
and is more expensive.
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Marshall Price
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PostPosted: Fri May 05, 2006 5:05 pm    Post subject: Re: Magnesium citrate Reply with quote
I found the answer in _The Nutrition Almanac_, 5th Ed., not s.v.
"magnesium," but "kidney stones," p. 107. It's "yes":

"Magnesium--200 to 400 mg, in citrate form with meals, lowers risk of
stone formation."

[footnote:] Lindberg, J., et al. "Effect of magnesium citrate and
magnesium oxide on the crystallization of calcium salts in urine:
Changes produced by food-magnesium interaction," _J. Urol._ *143:*
248-51 (1990).

Sorry about responding to my own post, but I thought it was worthwhile.

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Is magnesium citrate, sold in drug stores in the form of a carbonated
liquid for the relief of constipation, a good product for supplementing
one's dietary intake of magnesium?

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