Magnesium L-Threonate is the Form of Mg for Memory, Concentration & Focus

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 30 November 2023

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Summary

Magnesium comes in many different forms. Today, I want to cover magnesium threonate or magnesium L-threonate.

This is a specific type of magnesium. Threonate transports magnesium across the blood-brain barrier to the hippocampus.

The hippocampus is involved in memory, learning, focus, and concentration. People typically take magnesium L-threonate when they want to support the brain.

A magnesium deficiency can lead to various issues related to the brain and throughout the body.

Benefits of magnesium L-threonate:

• It may help reduce worry and anxiety (especially when trying to sleep)

• It may help decrease neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration

• It’s a calcium regulator and antagonist

• It helps maintain and support the blood-brain barrier

• It can act as an antioxidant

• It helps support BDNF

• It may help with androgenic alopecia

If you want to use magnesium to support the brain, I would use magnesium threonate. To support other issues like cramping or fatigue or to support the heart, I would take magnesium glycinate. Magnesium citrate can be helpful as well, especially to help prevent kidney stones.

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0:00.0	Magnesium comes in many different forms, like nine different forms,
0:03.6	glycinate, citrate.
0:05.2	Today we're going to talk about magnesium 3nate.
0:08.2	This is a very specific type of magnesium
0:10.8	where this th three innate molecule transports magnesium across the blood
0:16.6	brain barrier specifically to the hippocampus which is involved in memory
0:22.1	learning focus concentration which is involved in memory, learning, focus, concentration, everything cognitive, as well as
0:28.0	the cerebral cortex which is involved in a lot of higher level processing of the brain.
0:32.6	And the main reason why someone would use this type of magnesium versus other types is they
0:37.3	want to improve something about the brain because all these other forms don't necessarily
0:41.8	penetrate the blood-brain barrier. So let's talk about some of the benefits.
0:46.0	Magnesium is generally involved in making ATP, which is the energy currency of the body.
0:52.4	And so since the brain uses 20% of all of your
0:57.4	ATP and it only comprises 2% of the actual weight it's kind of an ATP hog.
1:04.5	And so if there's a magnesium deficiency and you can't make enough ATP, you're going to get
1:09.5	brain fog, you can have confusion, you can have all sorts of problems with your neurons and also a very specific
1:16.2	problem with the neurotransmitter called Gaba which is an inhibitory
1:20.5	neurotransmitter that calms things down.
1:23.0	It buffers anxiety, right?
1:25.1	It keeps you nice and relaxed.
1:27.1	And if you're deficient in magnesium,
1:28.6	you don't have enough gabba,
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