Advanced Magnesium

MAGNESIUM BISGLYCINATE CHELATE — bound to glycine

The form most people are looking for when they buy magnesium, and the reason this formula leads with it. Magnesium bound to two glycine molecules absorbs through an amino acid pathway rather than a mineral one, which is what makes it sit easily in the stomach. Glycine is also an inhibitory neurotransmitter in its own right, which is part of why bisglycinate became the standard recommendation for taking magnesium at night.

MAGNESIUM CITRATE — bound to citric acid

The most researched magnesium form there is, and the one other forms get measured against. Citrate absorbs well and has decades of human data behind it. At high standalone doses it pulls water into the bowel, which is why it shows up in laxatives, but at the share it occupies here it is doing absorption work and nothing else.

MAGNESIUM ASPARTATE — bound to aspartic acid

Magnesium attached to aspartic acid, an amino acid your body uses in protein and in the urea cycle. It is one of the more readily absorbed forms and it has a long history in clinical magnesium research. It is here to add another absorption pathway rather than to do a job the other forms cannot.

MAGNESIUM CARBONATE — the buffered form

The only inorganic form in the bottle, and it earns the spot. When magnesium carbonate meets stomach acid it converts into magnesium chloride, which absorbs well, and it buffers acid on the way through. It is also the same compound as lifting chalk. What it is not is magnesium oxide, the cheap high-weight form most of the shelf runs on.

MAGNESIUM MALATE — bound to malic acid

Malic acid is not a carrier picked at random. It is an intermediate in the citric acid cycle, the process running inside your cells that turns food into usable energy. That makes malate the form people reach for when magnesium is going toward training and recovery rather than sleep.

MAGNESIUM LYSINATE GLYCINATE CHELATE — bound to lysine and glycine

A double chelate, magnesium held by two different amino acids instead of one. Lysine and glycine are absorbed by different routes, which means this form is not competing with bisglycinate for the same doorway. Two chelates in one formula is uncommon and it is one of the reasons this label is worth reading closely.

MAGNESIUM LACTATE — bound to lactic acid

Gentle, well tolerated and used in clinical settings for exactly that reason. Lactate is a normal product of your own metabolism, not something foreign being introduced, and magnesium bound to it tends to be easy on people who struggle with other forms. A quiet inclusion that does real work.

MAGNESIUM TAURATE — bound to taurine

Taurine is an amino acid found in high concentration in the heart, the brain and skeletal muscle, and it is one of the most common ingredients in the sports supplement aisle in its own right. Binding magnesium to it gives this formula a carrier that is doing something on both ends rather than just delivering the mineral.

MAGNESIUM GLUCONATE — bound to gluconic acid

Among the gentlest forms available, which is why it appears in food fortification and in products made for sensitive stomachs. Gluconic acid is a simple sugar acid that your body handles without difficulty. It rounds out the nine and adds one more route in.

VITAMIN B6 — 3.4 mg

B6 is a cofactor in more than a hundred enzyme reactions, including the ones that build the neurotransmitters tied to mood and sleep. It is the traditional partner to magnesium. What matters as much as its presence is the amount. Plenty of magnesium and B6 products run 25, 50 or even 100 mg of pyridoxine, and sustained high intake carries a real nerve related risk. 3.4 mg covers the job and stops there.