Magnesium Glycinate Improved Sleep in 155-People Study

I love your no BS straight to the point intro. ❤

Best start of a video, ever.

Brad has been doing this lately - dropping the bomb in the first second then laying down the back up science. I like this style.

I get plenty of magnesium in my diet (well over 100% RDA) but find magnesium glycinate supplements at night still make a noticeable improvement to my sleep quality

Really like the quick reveal. The new editing (phone screen on the side-look) format is also nice

Dear Brad (and readers!), I’m Julius Schuster, the main author of the study you discussed and I was really excited to see it featured here! I conducted this research in Hanover, Germany, as part of my PhD on nutritional interventions and their effects on sleep and mental health. Thanks for your balanced and thoughtful summary! It’s great to see such nuanced science communication reaching a wide audience. As mentioned in the beginning, the effect sizes are small, but the essence is captured in this video: Some participants benefited in particular, especially those reporting lower magnesium intake. No changes were seen in other parameters, yet the supplement was very well tolerated with virtually no side effects. Of course, there are many ways future research could be refined, for example by including objective sleep measurements, detailed meal records, or testing different magnesium forms. Still, quantity matters: my goal was to conduct a large, decentralized trial, and this became one of the largest studies in this field so far. The study was also conducted and published entirely independently, without commercial funding, thanks to the freedom my professor provided. We also recently published a study on a standardized saffron extract (Safr'Inside), which showed comparable improvements in sleep and additional mild benefits for mood and perceived stress: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590142725000102 Such interventions may only have modest effects, but given their minimal side effects, they represent a great low-risk approach to supporting sleep and mental well-being. We are currently in the final stage of another study on time-restricted eating, focusing on whether avoiding late meals can improve sleep, self-reported mental well-being and affect salivary cortisol in people who tend to eat late and report poor sleep quality: https://drks.de/search/en/trial/DRKS00036635 I’m looking forward to publishing these results soon. Thanks again and let me know if you have any questions about these studies. Best regards, Julius

You rule for starting with the answer. Will watch the entire video because of it.

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Subscribed after hearing the first sentence. That is how all videos should start. Thank you.

Having the supplement stated right in the beginning makes me want to watch the video even more.