About 48% of Americans
take in less magnesium than recommended from food and drink.
NIH Office of Dietary SupplementsElemental Magnesium is the lead active here, studied most for calm and steady mood. 21 human studies on Elemental Magnesium back this formula, each one cited. Each serving carries 500 mg of Elemental Magnesium, inside the range the published research used. Who it fits: for everyone, adults.
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About 48% of Americans
take in less magnesium than recommended from food and drink.
NIH Office of Dietary SupplementsMore than 1 in 3 US adults
regularly sleep less than the recommended seven hours a night.
Peer-reviewed analysis12% of US adults
regularly reported feelings of worry, nervousness, and anxiety in 2024, in the National Health Interview Survey.
CDC National Center for Health Statistics, 202439% of adults worldwide
said they worried a lot the previous day, in the Gallup World Poll fielded in 2024 across 144 countries and territories.
Gallup, 202437% of adults worldwide
said they felt stressed the previous day, in the Gallup World Poll fielded in 2024 across 144 countries and territories.
Gallup, 202457.6%
During 2017 to 2018, 57.6% of US adults aged 20 and over reported using a dietary supplement in the past 30 days.
CDC National Center for Health Statistics59 to 66 days
was the median time it took adults to make a new daily health habit automatic across the studies a 2024 review pooled, with individuals ranging from 4 to 335 days.
Systematic review and meta-analysis, 202461% to 74%
About 61 to 74 percent of adults refilling a long-term medicine on their own stopped within a year, versus 33 to 44 percent on one set pickup day.
Cohort study, 2015Systematic review, 2021
Across 3 trials in older adults, it shortened the time to fall asleep by about 17 minutes.
BMC Complement Med TherSystematic review, 2023
A combined analysis found magnesium linked to better scores on a low-mood symptom scale, though the trials feeding it were small.
Frontiers in PsychiatryRandomised trial, 2012
In 46 older adults with poor sleep, eight weeks of magnesium improved their scores on a sleep questionnaire against placebo.
older adults with poor sleepRandomised trial, 2026
In one trial, 20 adults on an antidepressant added magnesium, and low mood scores changed over six weeks, with the antidepressant doing part of the work by design.
East Asian Archives of PsychiatrySystematic review, 2024
Across exercise studies, magnesium was linked to less muscle soreness and better recovery, with people training hard possibly needing 10 to 20 percent more than sedentary people.
Journal of Translational MedicineRandomised trial, 2024
A double-blind trial tested probiotics with magnesium orotate in adults with low mood, reporting the trial's main comparison in one small study population.
Scientific ReportsMeta-analysis, 2022
Across 24 trials in 1,325 adults with high blood sugar, magnesium at about 300 mg daily for four months lowered fasting glucose 0.20 mM and HbA1c 0.22 percent.
Frontiers in NutritionSystematic review, 2016
Across 18 trials, oral magnesium lowered fasting glucose in adults with raised blood sugar and improved two-hour glucose readings in adults at raised risk, both moderate effects.
European Journal of Clinical NutritionMeta-analysis, 2025
Across over 20 trials, magnesium raised HDL cholesterol by about 1.2 mg/dL but showed no clear change in LDL, total cholesterol or triglycerides.
Nutrition JournalMeta-analysis, 2016
Across 10 trials, magnesium reduced how often severe recurring headache attacks struck.
Pain PhysicianSystematic review, 2017
The review found suggestive evidence that magnesium supplementation affects subjective anxiety and stress ratings, with the authors describing the quality of the available trials as poor.
NutrientsRandomised trial, 2019
In 63 active men, 8 weeks of 500 mg a day of a fulvic-acid-rich shilajit blunted the drop in maximal isometric strength after fatiguing leg extensions (8.9 percent decline versus 16.0 percent on placebo) in the stronger half of the group only.
Journal of the International Society of Sports NutritionRandomised trial, 2026
In 65 older adults with high blood sugar and low blood magnesium, magnesium raised blood magnesium by 0.056 mmol/L, cut fasting glucose by 0.50 mmol/L, with no change in HbA1c.
Frontiers in NutritionRandomised trial, 2018
In 91 adults taking a timed-release magnesium supplement, red blood cell magnesium rose 6 percent at 30 days and 30 percent at 90 days.
Journal of the American College of NutritionMeta-analysis, 2025
Across 23 trials in 1,345 adults with elevated blood sugar, magnesium raised blood magnesium, lowered fasting blood sugar by about 0.58 mmol/L, and only slightly moved longer-term blood sugar control.
Sultan Qaboos University Medical JournalRandomised trial, 2021
In a small 12-week placebo-controlled pilot trial, 400 mg daily of magnesium citrate lowered blood pressure and moved glycated haemoglobin from about 6.43% to 6.15% in adults with normal magnesium levels but clustered metabolic risk factors. A pilot this size suggests a direction rather than settling one.
Magnesium ResearchRandomised trial, 2025
In an open-label crossover design the authors examined how co-administered magnesium citrate changes levothyroxine pharmacokinetics.
Clinical and Translational ScienceRandomised trial, 2003
In 46 healthy adults, magnesium citrate raised serum magnesium more than magnesium oxide or amino-acid chelate after both a single dose and 60 days of daily use, indicating higher absorption of the citrate form.
Magnesium ResearchRandomised trial, 2019
In healthy adult women taking 250 mg twice daily for 14 weeks, a fulvic-acid-rich shilajit increased skin microperfusion versus baseline and placebo and raised expression of genes tied to blood vessel growth and extracellular matrix, which are laboratory markers rather than a visible skin outcome.
Journal of the American College of NutritionMeta-analysis, 2025
Across 38 trials, magnesium lowered the top blood pressure number by about 2.8 mmHg and the bottom number by about 2.1 mmHg, with bigger drops in people who started with low blood magnesium.
The paperMeta-analysis, 2025
Pooled trials reported changes in blood oxidative stress and inflammation markers with magnesium supplementation, markers rather than clinical outcomes.
AntioxidantsSystematic review, 2025
The review authors pool randomised trials of magnesium supplementation in adults and report that dose, salt form and trial quality varied enough that they rate certainty in the pooled estimates as limited.
Cochrane Database of Systematic ReviewsSystematic review, 2021
The review reports associations between magnesium status and circulating lipid markers, and the authors describe the direction of effect as inconsistent across the included studies.
NutrientsRandomised trial, 2003
Placebo-controlled trial of magnesium orotate in men attending a fertility service, reporting changes in semen parameters, which are laboratory markers rather than clinical outcomes.
Magnesium ResearchRandomised trial, 2026
Blood pressure and vascular stiffness measures were tracked in low-risk adults with elevated readings after a magnesium taurate plus potassium citrate combination, so the result belongs to the combination and cannot be assigned to magnesium taurate alone.
Magnesium ResearchRandomised trial, 2025
Short-term magnesium supplementation slightly worsened cycle ergometer performance in trained adults rather than improving it, a small effect the authors describe as modest and detrimental.
NutrientsSystematic review, 2020
In older adults with night-time leg cramps, magnesium showed no detectable difference from placebo in weekly cramp frequency at four weeks (mean difference -0.18 cramps per week, 5 studies, 307 participants), which is a failure to detect a benefit rather than evidence that none exists.
Cochrane Database of Systematic ReviewsRandomised trial, 2026
Magnesium supplementation did not produce a detectable reduction in serum calciprotein crystallisation or arterial stiffness in this randomised trial, which is a failure to detect a difference rather than evidence of no effect.
The American journal of clinical nutritionSystematic review, 2023
Across 18 studies, pyridoxine on its own and in combinations improved nausea scores in pregnancy on both the Rhode and PUQE scales, a use with a long clinical track record.
Archives of Gynecology and ObstetricsRandomised trial, 2014
In 862 adults preparing for colonoscopy, a split-dose sodium picosulfate plus magnesium citrate regimen produced adequate bowel cleansing in 85.8% of people compared with 69.8% on the standard dosing schedule.
EndoscopyOpen-label trial, 2026
A nonrandomised clinical trial reporting rapid heart-rhythm episode counts under a magnesium supplementation protocol. Without randomisation the supplement cannot be separated from the surrounding care.
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One pairing in this formula has been studied as a combination in human trials. Each finding below is what a named study measured, cited and dated, never written by the brand.
In an 8-week randomized trial of 264 stressed healthy adults with low magnesium, magnesium plus vitamin B6 and magnesium alone reduced perceived stress about equally overall. In the prespecified subgroup that started with severe stress, the combination improved stress scores 24% more than magnesium alone.
Research strength. Research strength says how much work stands behind the combination. It is never a product score.
Fail closed. Where actives were studied on their own rather than together, each shows on its own evidence, never a combined effect no trial measured.
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Findings from trials that studied these actives as a combination. Context for how the actives were tested together, not a statement about any individual and not a claim about this product.
Where a trial measured an actual number, we show it next to the claim. It is the average across the trials, never a promise about one person.
About 2 mmHg lower systolic and 1.8 mmHg lower diastolic, on average across the trials.
Read at the source. The magnitude sits beside the same trial the claim already cites. It describes what the trials measured, never what any one person will feel.
Time-to-effect windows the engine read from the trial record. Each is a window a named study measured, cited and dated, never written by the brand.
An expert consensus on vitamin B6 use, developed by a six-member Delphi panel with a structured evidence-quality assessment, calculated from pharmacokinetic parameters that complete clearance of vitamin B6 from the body takes a washout period of about 20 to 40 days after intake stops.
Windows measured in the cited trials. Context for how the active behaves over time, not a statement about any individual and not a claim about this product.
11 ingredients, from each one's own page.
Nothing quick. Conversion to the active coenzyme happens within hours, but plasma pyridoxal 5-phosphate takes a couple of weeks to settle at a new level.
A looser stool can turn up the same day at the higher end. Sleep and cramp changes usually settle in across two to four weeks, because it is refilling a body-wide store.
To fill muscle stores. The signal shows up as more work completed at the same effort rather than as a sensation on the day.
To settle in, and two to four weeks for magnesium stores to fill. Any steadiness in energy builds across those weeks rather than arriving with one dose.
For magnesium stores to fill. The exercise and circulation studies ran for weeks to months, so the change is measured rather than felt on a given day.
Magnesium status shifts over two to four weeks and reads on a serum or red cell panel. Any evening settling from the taurine side builds across days, not with the first dose.
The gut effect can arrive within six to twelve hours at a larger single dose. Magnesium status itself moves over weeks and shows up on a red cell reading.
There's no acute effect to time. Where intake has been low, enzyme activity responds over weeks, and it reads on a laboratory measure rather than in how you feel.
Nobody has measured a time course for this blend. Any change in mineral status shows up on a blood panel over weeks rather than as a same-day sensation.
Digestive changes, where they happen, land inside one to two weeks. There is no acute effect to clock, and its cation binding starts from the first dose regardless.
No onset has been measured in people. The chemistry is immediate, since it complexes metal ions the moment it dissolves, and that is read in a lab rather than felt.
How each ingredient usually behaves over time, from its own page on IngredientMD. General timing for the ingredient, not a measurement of this product.
What each form is, and where it fits in a formula. Measured findings carry the study that reported them.
Magnesium chelated to two molecules of the amino acid glycine, rather than carried as a mineral salt.
Magnesium held as a salt of malic acid, the four-carbon fruit acid that also sits in the citric acid cycle. The common di-magnesium form is roughly 15 percent magnesium by weight, dissolves in water and carries a mild tart note.
Magnesium cation paired with two orotate anions and crystallised with water of hydration. Orotate is a pyrimidine intermediate rather than an inert carrier.
One magnesium cation paired with two taurine molecules acting as the anionic partner, giving a low elemental magnesium percentage by weight because the organic carrier is heavy.
Magnesium bound to citric acid, and soluble in water.
The fraction of humic substances that dissolves in alkali and precipitates below about pH 2. Higher molecular weight and more aromatic than the fulvic fraction.
Descriptions of the form itself, read from the cited studies. Not a comparison between products and not a statement about any individual.
It is a capsule, so the amount per serving is fixed and travels without measuring.
Where two of this brand's products carry actives the literature has read together, the pairing and its basis are below. The evidence word is the corpus row's own confidence, never a score.
Magnesium is chelated by phytate in the same way as zinc and iron, which is why magnesium from whole grains and legumes is absorbed less completely than the label figure suggests. Phytase dephosphorylation frees the bound magnesium into a soluble form.
settled mineral-chelation chemistry. No combination trial has tested this exact pairing.
Phytic acid from grains and legumes chelates magnesium in the gut lumen and carries it through unabsorbed. Phytase hydrolyses the phosphate groups off the inositol ring and releases the bound cation. The interaction matters most in plant-heavy meals and very little in a fasted dose.
Established pharmacology. No combination trial has tested this exact pairing.
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