Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by TheSpiceIsLife 3103 days ago
About three months ago, I started taking Magnesium Amino Acid Chelate 500mg, equivalent to elemental magnesium 100mg, at a dose of twelve capsules a day for three weeks, then dropping back to six capsules a day as a maintenance dose. Changed my life. I'm calmer, more emotionally resilient, I sleep better and longer and when I want. My interactions are others go much more how I'd like most of the time: that is, I feel I'm being a reasonable person.

I recently started taking 8000IU of Vitamin D per day, as I realise I hardly ever spend any time in the sun. This, along with the magnesium, seems to have made my emotional roller coaster and suicidal ideation completely evaporate.

I also regularly take zinc, C, lipoic acid.
1 comments
bloopernova 3103 days ago
My SO and I both read about the study that suggested an RDA of 8,000IU of vitamin D. I've started on 10,000IU every other day and haven't noticed much of an effect yet.

I too am a vampire and very pale skinned so I spend practically no time in the sun. I think I'm going to have to make a concerted effort to change that once winter is done here.

Regarding the other supplements you are taking: Do you have any links to literature/studies that support taking more Magnesium, Zinc, vitamin C, and lipoic acid? I have terrible time sleeping because I take Suboxone which disrupts my sleep something awful, so if there's anything else I could take to mitigate that effect, I definitely want to try it.

Thanks for reminding me that I need to get my blood tested for D and Iron, on the recommendation of my pain doc.

I hope you continue to get beneficial results from those supplements, I'm very glad to hear the ideation being beaten down. You rock!

Peace and Joy for the New Year

link
TheSpiceIsLife 3101 days ago
With regard to magnesium, I'd recommend you start at the Wikipedia entry for Magnesium Deficiency,[1] and read about all the common forms of magnesium supplements: Magnesium chloride, oxide, gluconate, malate, orotate, glycinate, ascorbate and citrate are all used as oral magnesium supplements.

Same with the others.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium#Deficiency

link