I have been running magnesium citrate for two months and the honest summary is that the effect is smaller than the internet suggests and real.
I have started logging dose, time, and sleep because otherwise the anecdote is just a mood.
Most of the popular protocols are borrowed from clinical populations and applied to healthy people without comment.
What the mineral class does pharmacologically does not require the subjective effect to be large to be real.
Loose evidence is not the same as no evidence and people overcorrect in both directions.
Form matters for absorption more than dose past a point.
Posting to be argued with, mainly.
Loose evidence and no evidence are different, and people overcorrect in both directions.
Same here.
Underdosing and tolerance are indistinguishable from the inside, and everyone picks the flattering explanation. Currently on magnesium citrate myself.