Pure Encapsulations Magnesium (Glycinate) – Supplement to Support Stress Relief, Sleep, Heart Health, Nerves, Muscles, and Metabolism* – with Magnesium Glycinate – 90 Capsules

I bought this product and was preparing myself to be disappointed. For a list of reasons, I was looking for a sleep aide like everyone else does. I would periodically take Melatonin but hated how I felt groggy and hung over the next morning. Thankfully I listened to a functional NP and opted for mag glycinate (the most bioavailable form). After taking it the first night, I remember feeling my muscles literally relax as I drifted off to sleep. Oh and I stayed asleep all night. I will actually wake up on my own earlier and will feel rested and alert as soon as I open my eyes. Getting out of bed has never been easier. I know I shouldn’t be so surprised because women are deficient in magnesium but wow, what a difference it makes to take high quality supplements! ALSO- I’ve recommended this to the anesthesia teams I work with and they’ve started using it personally. We’re talking people who make bookoo bucks putting people to sleep professionally also believe in Mag!! 1000/10, would recommend

My doctor recommended to take magnesium at night as I was having a hard time going to sleep and calming my mind but after taking the magnesium supplement, I’m able to go to sleep with no problem and sleep more than 5 hours continuously

My acupuncturist told me to get this and take before bed to help me sleep more restfully and boy was she right! I mostly don’t have a problem, falling asleep, but I wake up a lot in the middle of the night and have a hard time going back to bed. This helps me ease myself back to sleep after I wake up in the middle of the night and it also helps with my workout recovery. It’s nice that I can take it and feel side effects in the morning.

I’ve struggled with sleep for years, but since I started taking these capsules, I’ve experienced the best sleep in three years. I’m typically a 5-6-hour sleeper, and lucky to hit 7 hours, these supplements worked their magic within a week, granting me a solid 8-hour sleep. I take 2 pills before sleeping and thankfully, I never experienced any digestive issues unlike the other reviewers.While I initially wished for smaller pills, the benefits outweigh that preference.

Easy to swallow. I take this form of magnesium at night since it can have a calming effect to aid with sleep. This particular form of magnesium (glycerinate) is highly recommended by many health care providers. If you have constipation or you need brain support then you need to research the different forms of magnesium to help with those needs.

LOVE THIS VITAMIN! Quality product that helps aid in digestion, sleep and muscle repair. I have recommended to my friends and family to start incorporating into their daily vitamins.

Let me begin by telling you that I have suffered from night time cramps in my sleep for years. It’s because I have had a knee replacement, a hip replacement and an ankle that SHOULD HAVE been replaced but wasn’t and now the Orthopedic surgeon won’t do it because my bone around my ankle has deteriorated to the point where a prosthetic ankle replacement would fail because there’s no quality bone to lock it into. The surgeon offered me an ankle fusion and I said, “I don’t want to walk like a pirate for the rest of my life!” And the Surgeon said, “You already do!” Touche’ ! I asked what the prognosis was if I did nothing and he said, “If you can live the pain it shouldn’t deteriorate much further.” That was six years ago. He was wrong. But I can and I do live with the pain in my right ankle. It’s pain but it’s not like back ache pain which in my opinion is worse sometimes intolerable. I walk on my freekin’ ankle every day. At night it’s swollen. It’s black and blue you can literally see broken blood vessels. Okay. So now you have some background. I get foot cramps that are severe! My toes literally curl UPWARD and I have to physically take my hand and bend my toes back down. I have to “walk off” my cramps by walking around and around my house in the dark until the cramps are gone. It makes for a miserable night of sleep. Just freekin’ miserable. I’ve tried different brand Magnesium products over the years and they were only kind of “Meh” borderline helpful but NOT stopping my cramps maybe ameliorating them but not STOPPING them. So, ultimately I gave up on magnesium suppliments. At this point I should tell you, i have a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology with so much chemistry one more course i could have claimed a chemistry major but I wasn’t going to put myself through P-chem (Physical chemistry) which was basically an applied mathematics course in calculus. Anyway….I am well aware that many many many suppliments such as vitamins and magnesium are compounded in various chemical forms which has profound impact on the efficacy for YOU and in many cases undesirable side effects most people are not aware of. One common and simple example is Niacin. Many many people buy Niacin also known as Vitamin B3, as a supplement to increase high-density lipoprotein (HDL) the GOOD cholesterol to help remove LDL from the blood. But not all NIacin is equal in fact most Niacin sold in the vitamin section of your grocery store of even your pharmacy is the crap Niacin. You see, Niacin can be bought as Nicotinic Acid or it can be bought as Nicotinamide. We can call them BOTH Niacin hence the confusion sets in. Although similar in structure from a chemical standpoint, nicotinamide contains an amide group notably absent in nicotinic acid, thus conferring differing therapeutic effects. Nicotinamide does not demonstrate the same side effect profile as nicotinic acid, namely vasodilatory effects (flushing and hypotension) and pruritus (itchy skin irritation). MOST importantly, the efficacy of Niacin as Nicotinamide is key to what you would want. And so it goes with Magnesium. Magnesium can and IS bought in many different compounded forms and the average person would have NO IDEA as to what form is best in terms of efficacy which is primarily absorption in the case of Magnesium. Magnesium can be bought as Mag Oxide, Chloride, Sulfate, Carbonate, Hydroxide, and Glycinate. For YOU…for US…me and you…we want Magnesium Glycinate sometimes called ‘Bis-glycinate’ which just means two molecules of the amino acid glycine hooked up to the magnesium through a covalent bond with iron the process called chelation. WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU is Number #1- Superior Absorption by your body over all other forms of compounded magnesiums….AND…a GOOD SIDE EFFECT in that other forms of compounded magnesium has the unpleasant side effect of being a Laxative. Well, maybe you WANT a laxative. I don’t. Magnesium Glycinate is easy on your digestive system and does not act as a laxative. More importantly it has superior absorption into your body. ONE LAST THING. I’ve known that Magnesium Glycinate was the right choice for years when I was taking it with only “MEH” results. This spring with my leg and foot cramps intensifying to a nightly even to the point where going to bed was an apprehensive thing with me, I knew I had to buy some Magnesium. I decided to look around. I based my decision on a gut reaction. Intuition. Looking at the various magnesiums being sold on Amazon, the “Pure Encapsulations Magnesium Glycinate” jumped out at me. It had 21,000+ reviews and was more expensive than many of the others. There was another brand with 60,000+ reviews but when I looked at how many were purchased in the last week “Pure Encapsulations” registered 9K+ purchased in just the last week versus 2K+ for the one with 60K reviews. Why would that be? Hmmm…strange. When I looked at reviews on the many many many other Magnesiums being sold on Amazon…none even came close to 21,000 reviews. So, based on really the most unscientific judgement, I decided to go with “Pure Encapsulations”. OMG! Literally, from day one (or in my case ‘Night One’) I have not experienced even ONE cramp. It was delivered June 14th and today is Saturday June 24th so it’s been 10 days straight without one night-time cramp. I’m cramp free. Bottom Line: I have NEVER had such efficacy with any other Magnesium product and I mean any other Magnesium Glycinate product. PURE ENCAPSULATIONS is the “Real Deal” for me. I don’t know what that would mean for YOU. Everybody’s different. Every BODY is different. But if you are suffering night time cramps, I highly encourage you to give the Pure Encapsulations Magnesium Glycinate a shot. It may change your life. It changed mine!