Many of us have struggled with depression at times and I found a story about a man who used magnesium. This might be of interest to people who don’t like prescription drugs. The document contains a great deal of information. He said magnesium oxide, magnesium aspartate and magnesium glutamate are inferior forms of magnesium.
From early 2000 to summer of 2003, this essay focused upon magnesium glycinate as the preferred source of magnesium. Now, in late summer of 2003, I have shifted emphasis from magnesium glycinate to magnesium taurate, which appears superior to all other forms of magnesium in treating treatment resistant depression due to its content of taurine (more on taurine here). Other effective magnesium compounds mentioned throughout this essay are ranked well behind magnesium taurate and are not recommended unless magnesium taurate can not be obtained. After years of study, I remain truly amazed at the tremendous benefits of magnesium and other nutrients in treating and preventing depression. In particular, I see magnesium as an important research topic for survival considering its limited availability from our Western diets and due to its ability to inexpensively cure and prevent many expensive diseases, life threatening or not. As you will see from this essay, our dietary choices and our over consumption of certain foods are contributing to much illness, including depression.
I have major PRECAUTIONS at this link concerning potentially harmful magnesium compounds and at this link concerning ineffective compounds of magnesium for treating depression. For brevity and simplicity: (a) magnesium oxide and magnesium hydroxide are ineffective and (b) magnesium glutamate and magnesium aspartate are potentially harmful.
coldcure.com/html/dep.html