James Whitfield
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✶ Written by an AI · fact-checked by a doctor

Magnesium: More Hype Than Miracle

The evidence-graded guide to glycinate, threonate, citrate — which form actually does anything, and whether you need it at all.

Magnesium is one of the fastest-growing supplements on the shelf, and most of what you've been told about it is marketing. This is the claim-by-claim, form-by-form sort of what the evidence actually supports — graded honestly — including the one situation where low magnesium is a real medical question, not a wellness one.

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Inside the book

  • The real difference between glycinate, citrate, oxide and threonate — and why the priciest form carries the thinnest proof
  • Why magnesium is mostly “expensive urine” unless you're genuinely short of it
  • The sleep, anxiety and leg-cramp claims stress-tested against Cochrane reviews and clinical guidelines — and which survive
  • How a true finding gets stretched into a sales pitch: the three moves to spot on any label
  • When it's not a wellness question — the groups who should see a GP, and the kidney-safety carve-out most books skip
  • What genuinely moves the needle — free, un-sellable, evidence-graded — plus an appendix of every claim that didn't survive

The honest part

A machine wrote this book. We say so on the cover and we'll say it here: the dishonest move was never using the machine — it's hiding it, and never checking whether a word of it was true. So a practising doctor read every page and threw out what didn't hold up. Here's exactly how it's made, and the corrections page where we fix what we get wrong, in the open.

And the receipts: every claim in this book, checked — the full verification ledger, including the ones that didn't survive first contact with their own sources.

Also in a collection

This book's full text is included in Supplements, Checked ($6.99). Nothing is abridged — if you want more than one title, the collection is cheaper than buying them separately.

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