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Nature's Bounty Magnesium 500 mg Tablets (Pack of 1)

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1 HN user recommended this in 2020, in one comment.

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Bear in mind that vitamins and supplements are not regulated by the FDA and manufacturers are largely left to their own devices, with vastly varying results.

For instance, in magnesium supplementation, all sorts of different formations exist -- and they're not particularly well studied. Some of them are pretty much totally ineffective. Here's a good study demonstrating the variability in terms of bioavailability of magnesium from different formulations -- ranging from 0% to 100% of the magnesium contained in the pill actually accessible to the body. [1]

For instance, Nature's Bounty comes out bottom of the pack, pretty much totally useless (19% bioavailable) [2], whereas Magnerot Classic [3] seems to be best in class (90% bioavailable)

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6683096/

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Natures-Bounty-Magnesium-Supplement-V...

[3] https://www.woerwagpharma.de/de/produkte/produkt/magnerot-cl...

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