Stop Shopping for Magnesium. Shop for the Second Word.

Magnesium never arrives on its own. It's always bound to a partner compound, and the partner decides how much your body keeps. The NIH puts it plainly: forms that dissolve well in liquid absorb well, and the cheap forms sit at the bottom of that list.

Oxide wins on exactly one metric: it crams the biggest printed number onto the cheapest pill. That's why it owns the bargain shelf, and why the big number on the front of the bottle is the least useful thing on it.

The NIH sets a daily limit on magnesium from supplements, and your multivitamin, electrolyte powder, and stress formula all count toward it. Food doesn't, and doesn't need to.

That's the quiet math error in many routines: three products that each carry magnesium, plus a fresh capsule on top. The plan's third step is simply doing that math once.

Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic Press both split the well-absorbed forms by intended use. Some suit the daytime, some suit winding down, and one is genuinely best when constipation is the actual goal.

The plan pairs each form with its hour. It also lists the milligram numbers to look for on the label, all on one page. That's the part worth having in your hand at the shop, not on a screen you half-remember.