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How did you hear about these substances and what conviced you to swallow 4(!) pills a day with our national drug caffeine ?

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Pretty sure that I initially heard about them through Tim Ferriss's podcast with Charles Poliquin (a world renown strength coach). He talked about them when outlining his sleep routine.

http://tim.blog/2016/11/06/charles-poliquin-mass-building-pr...

(you will sleep like a rock with a large dose of Magnesium Glycinate, especially if you've been deficient for a while (most coffee/soda/alcohol drinkers are))

I've always shied away from magnesium because of the laxative properties. Have you not experienced that with the glycate form?

Even taking in excess of 1,000mg, it may be a fairly running bowel movement but it's nothing that a normal session to the toilet can't handle.

Body gets rid of the excess and I move on with my day. I could back it off, but honestly, it just isn't that burdensome and I enjoy the consistency of taking the same amount every day.

And there may be days where I'm more stressed and the body could use more magnesium, so I just stick with my dosage.

There's another way to get magnesium that doesn't involve the digestive tract, avoiding any laxative effect. Epsom salt baths. Magnesium is well absorbed through the skin this way, and the digestive tract is not involved.

I don't know about the op, but I've also seen similar recommendations on https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/

I tried a simple caffiene and l-theanine routine, but couldn't properly self-evaluate the results.

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