"Taking daily magnesium supplements can lower your risk of muscle cramps, improve energy, treat insomnia and constipation, regulate your blood sugar and blood pressure, and strengthen your bones. Like many other nutritional supplements, it's best to take magnesium with food, as doing so can prevent nausea. However, there are also certain foods that you should avoid eating right before or after taking this supplement."
"In particular, spinach can affect your ability to absorb magnesium properly. Because this leafy green contains high levels of oxalates, which bind to magnesium and other minerals during the digestion process, it can reduce the amount of magnesium your body is able to soak-up. The oxalic acid in spinach can also affect calcium absorption, while the phytates in spinach can reduce absorption of magnesium, iron, and zinc supplements."
Daily magnesium supplements offer benefits including reduced muscle cramps, improved energy, treatment for insomnia and constipation, blood sugar and blood pressure regulation, and stronger bones. Magnesium is best taken with food to prevent nausea. Spinach contains high levels of oxalates and phytates that bind magnesium, calcium, iron and zinc during digestion, reducing mineral absorption. Spinach is also a natural magnesium source, so combined intake may raise total magnesium. Excessive magnesium can cause nausea, diarrhea, fatigue, low blood pressure and arrhythmia. Large amounts of raw spinach can cause oxalate buildup; avoid eating spinach immediately before or after supplements and consult a doctor about dosing.
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