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Magnesium — Without the Runs!

Magnesium has long been recognized as a critical nutrient needed to "help solve the puzzle" of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. Unfortunately, magnesium does have, shall we say, a bit of a "laxative action." This can sometimes be problematic in CFS and fibromyalgia, where underlying bowel infections are very common. For many people, this has limited their ability to get enough magnesium — even though they have found that taking magnesium markedly decreases their pain and improves their energy.

The good news is there is a solution to this problem!

Jigsaw Health, Inc. has developed a sustained release magnesium product that really works. I was pleasantly surprised (because I'm used to seeing a lot of marketing hype) to find that it really did not cause diarrhea — yet was very effective. It also contains malate (malic acid), another energy booster. Another bonus: its low cost.

Magnesium isn’t just important for folks with CFS and FMS — it’s important for everybody. Magnesium plays a critical role in more than 300 biochemical reactions in the body. But our bodies rarely get enough: over 50% of magnesium in food is lost during processing, resulting in a nearly universal magnesium deficiency among people who live in America and other Western, industrialized nations. That deficiency is one reason why hundreds of thousands of Americans suffer a heart attack every year — even a little more magnesium in the water supply (so-called "hard water") significantly decreases the risk of death from heart attack. Meanwhile, magnesium supplementation helps improve heart function (for more information on magnesium and heart function, see Magnesium Orotate and Congestive Heart Failure).

Magnesium can also help relax tight muscles, improve sleep, increase energy, ease migraines, decrease anxiety, and reduce the symptoms of allergies, dry eyes, dry mouth, and restless legs syndrome — and that’s not even anywhere near being a complete list!

Because higher doses caused diarrhea, we limited the recommendation for magnesium intake for most people to the 200 mg found in the Energy Revitalization System vitamin powder. Now, with "diarrhea free" magnesium available, I recommend you try adding 2 to 4 tablets of the Jigsaw Health sustained release magnesium at bedtime. You'll be glad you did!