Liquid Calcium Magnesium Reviews

Liquid calcium magnesium is an easy way to supplement your intake of magnesium rich foods. While not forgetting that foods are in fact the best sources of magnesium, it can be tough to get all you need at times. If you do choose to use a supplement, liquid magnesium supplements would likely be absorbed better than solid magnesium supplements. Also, if you are already taking calcium supplements, it is vital that you add magnesium to the mix. An imbalance on the side of calcium can deprive your body of its needed magnesium.

Plenty of companies make liquid calcium magnesium, and the ratios of calcium to magnesium vary. Many go with the 2 parts calcium to one part magnesium formula. I myself am more inclined to favor something closer to 1:1, which is similar to the Japanese diet.

Let’s start with a smaller brand:

Angstrom Liquid Calcium Magnesium Supplement

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This is not a widely know brand, yet has the richest blend of magnesium to calcium, actually 2:1 (2 parts magnesium, one part calcium). They also claim to be strict about not placing additives or flavorings in their product. They also say their product is “cell ready,” meaning it doesn’t need to go through the digestion process that tablet or capsule supplements require – and that it can be in “every cell in your body within 10 minutes.” They don’t say how this is different from every other manufacturer of liquid calcium magnesium, though. Nor do they specify whether they use magnesium citrate, magnesium chloride, or yet another form of magnesium. Still, worth visiting their website at angstrom-mineral.com to have a look for yourself.

Bluebonnet Liquid Calcium Magnesium

Bluebonnet Liquid Calcium Magnesium

This has the advantage of being one of the most widely available, as well as one of the lowest priced, supplements of this category out there. They offer strawberry flavor, mixed berry, orange, and vitamin d enhanced blends, among others. They use magnesium citrate, and their biggest sales point is that they don’t make you gag. Straight magnesium is not the tastiest thing out there, and so these flavorings help you wash it down. Others can claim that makes it less pure, but even the purest magnesium won’t help you if you can’t stomach the thought of drinking it. The ratio is 2:1 calcium to magnesium, just the opposite of the above, but the one that is most commonly suggested. Bluebonnet is found on Amazon, as well as elsewhere, from $11 and up.

Tropical Oasis Calcium Magnesium

Tropical Oasis Calcium Magnesium

The advantage of Tropical Oasis, according to the reviews, is that it’s the best tasting (even if a bit chalky) and more effective than other brands. With 720 mg of magnesium citrate and 1200 mg of calcium, as well as vitamin d and creamy orange flavoring, they strive to be the upper end product that tastes good. Priced at $19 to $29 (check both Amazon and their website), it looks like a fairly safe option if you want to spend the extra money and are concerned about taste.

Floradix Liquid Calcium-Magnesium w/ Zinc

Floradix liquid calcium magnesium with zinc

Floradix contains 186 mg magnesium and 155 mg calcium per serving, as well as 3.5 mg of zinc. At a price  in the $20-$25 range, it is made with both magnesium gluconate and citrate. The ratio is almost a 1:1 ratio for magnesium and calcium, yet there is nothing that distinguishes it from the others here except for the use of glutamate forms of magnesium, which have different effects on the body, and the addition of zinc.

Target-Mins Liquid Calcium Magnesium

Target Mins Calcium Magnesium

Liquid Target-Mins Calcium-Magnesium is focused on this formula with an added Vitamin D3 Complex. The “unique Target-Mins delivery system for increased effectiveness of mineral supplementation.” In their words, “First, we use a complex of free form amino acids combined for increased absorption. Second, we use not only a 2 to 1 ratio of Calcium to Magnesium, but we also use a 2 to 1 ratio of Calcium to Phosphorus. In a clinical study at Creighton University by Dr. Haney, it was demonstrated that for every 1,000 mg of Calcium consumed as a supplement, your body requires 500 mg of added Phosphorus for proper utilization. Third, we add vitamin D3, which has been shown to support proper regulation of the body?s Calcium/Phosphorus ratio and activate osteoblast function to support healthy bone structures.” That answers most of my questions. The magnesium comes in the form of magnesium citrate, aspartate, alpha-ketoglutarate, and taurinate. The price is around $28, but can be had more cheaply at Amazon.

Liqumins Cal/Mag/Zinc Liquid Supplement

Liqumens Calcium Magnesium Liquid Supplement

Liqumens specializes is easy-to-drink liquid supplements. This one comes with an exotic pina-colada flavor, which suits the milkiness of magnesium. It has a 2:1 ratio of calcium to magnesium (1200 mg to 600 mg), but also includes phosphorous , zinc and several other ingredients. Very favorable reviews on Amazon, with a price similar to the others – in the $20 to $29 range.

I am sorry that I haven’t provided any link for these, though they are easily found by searching Google or Amazon. I just don’t want to link to products that I am not personally familiar with. Several of the above look interesting to me, but I get plenty of magnesium through my diet here in Japan. If I wasn’t, I would be tempted to try a liquid calcium magnesium drink, though one with at least as much magnesium as calcium.

Transdermal Magnesium Oil

Magnesium oil is sometimes called “transdermal magnesium therapy.”

In a sense, this is a new way to supplement the magnesium your body needs. Yet, in another sense, it is a very Original Epsom bath in Surreyold way. Epsom salts were discovered when the town of Epsom in the south of England became famous for its bath waters many centuries ago. It wasn’t too long before people learned to boil down the water to extract the “salts” for their own use. The active ingredient in the salts was magnesium sulfate.

Epsom salt baths and poultices have since been used to treat everything from sore feet, muscle pain and skin blemished to asthma. Unlike oral magnesium supplements, epsom salts and transdermal magnesium have a long history of use.

This is what led me to look at transdermal magnesium oil.

First off, though, this magnesium oil is actually magnesium chloride rather than the magnesium sulfate used in epson salts – and is a much more effective delivery of magnesium. Yet, what research there is has shown that transdermal application has real potential. Dr. Norman Shealy, MD, Ph.D. is a neurosurgeon who specializes in pain treatments. His research showed positive results achieved with transdermal magnesium supplements in pain treatment and headaches. In addition, the transdermal application completely avoided the common problem of diarrhea that is encountered when using oral supplements. (Not to mention the real question of the additives that are used with many oral supplements, which may be dangerous themselves.) In his research, the patients used either foot baths or spray-on applications over the whole body.

Positive results reported from transdermal magnesium include reduced anxiety, better sleep, reduced tooth decay, smoother skin, reduced muscle pain and more (most of which are explained elsewhere in this website).

Why magnesium chloride instead of the magnesium sulfate found in epsom salts?

One answer is that magnesium sulfate is rapidly excreted from the body by the kidneys, making many of the benefits of epsom salts short-lived. On the other hand, magnesium chloride, which is found in unrefined sea salt, is much more easily metabolized by the body.

There are many positive reports from doctors and people who use transdermal magnesium, and I am rather swayed by it myself. Still, the skeptic in me wants to see what government agencies say, which tends to take a very restrictive and conservative view toward these things. Unfortunately, all I could come up with was the FDA saying that transdermal application was considered a “new” treatment.

Still, since the very same agency already recognizes the value of magnesium therapy in many areas, the only question is whether transdermal is a viable option in addition to dietary sources of magnesium. Scouring various forums shoes that people are really delighted with the results. Remarkably, I have not seen any negative reports from users at all.

I will report on my own experience, and happy to share with others here. Are you using transdermal magnesium? For what? How is it working?

If you would like to try for yourself, this company (Ancient Minerals) provides a great source of magnesium oil and bath supplements.

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