I have been running magnesium citrate for six weeks and the honest summary is that the effect is smaller than the internet suggests and real.
Sample size, blinding, and who paid for it. Those three questions kill most of the confidence in most of these threads.
What surprised me is how much of the perceived benefit was routine and attention rather than pharmacology.
Anyone got a paper worth reading on this rather than a write-up of a paper?
How long before you can reasonably say something is or is not doing anything?
What is the first thing you would read if you were starting from zero? Stomach upset was my main issue with magnesium citrate too.
Is a baseline blood test really necessary before starting something like this?
Loose evidence is not nothing, but a washout either side is the only reason to trust your own take.