Not a doctor, but I’ve been taking magnesium glycinate and boron recently. I sleep a lot better with the magnesium and the boron seems to help with building muscle mass

Iodine overrated, selenium underrated.

Definitely look into oil of oregano it has changed my life

Lugol’s iodine is great. Look into boron supplementation as well.

I've played around with cultivating L. reuteri in yogurt to bolster the gut microbiome

Noticed a slight improvement in sleep quality

Stopped because cultivating it was too time consuming and I sleep well enough

Learning from other posts in this thread

I don't take any supplements at the moment. If you eat sea food I wouldn't be too worried about iodine, but you can get that tested if you are. Depending on where you are in the world, you might not be getting enough of it.

As for magnesium, due to the nutrient depletion of our soils, the animals we eat might not be getting enough magnesium from the plants they eat. I usually recommend magnesium citrate or magnesium glycinate because of their better absorbtion. The glycinate form can cause drowsiness and is best taken at night, the citrate form can cause loose stools. You can test magnesium in blood but it's not very reliable since this is a predominantly intracellular mineral, the recommended test is a magnesium red blood cell test.

As a carnivore, I would simply experiment and test only if I have concerns or am curious.

Has anyone tried magnesium l-theonate (Magtein) as their primary magnesium supplement?

I'm not a doctor or researcher, but i have experimented on myself. For science right? 😁 A few drops of Lugol's iodine 5% solution in my drinks helped me a lot with being tired a lot and cold weather doesn't bother me like it did. I took NAC in mega doses during covid. It did something to my perception, well no more brain fog. Magnesium L-threonate helped me a lot with deeper sleep. Chromium and vanadium helped control junk food cravings. Astaxanthin is the latest one I've tried and it just keeps that healthy feeling going. Of course we need ALL essential nutrients and solitary or even multi supplements tend toward the "your missing this ONE (subset of) thing(s) " side of the unbalanced equation of panacea... The quick fix... In reality, it's all about maintenance intake of nutrients with occasional therapeutic dosing to correct properly diagnosed deficiency. Diet alone, may be insufficient to acquire ALL of the essential nutrients, but eating higher up on the food chain helps to mitigate the systemic risk of nutrient depletion in our soils and food supply. I've been thinking about trying shilajit for the fulvic acid, humic acid and trace mineral content.

for iodine you really should get your pee tested using dosing challenges and use actual lugols... 225mcg is nothing... i have full strength lugol's and i can dose 5 drops (20mg/drop 15% KI3 so 3mg/drop or 15mg) but i already started on this years ago and i skipped the tests by piling on salt to allow my kidneys to rapidly eliminate any excess anything

what you get with iodine is it loosens up the buildup of fluoride and bromides that have built up due to water and stuff like fire retardants in plastics, and these cause symptoms of anxiety and sleepiness, respectively, unless you eliminate that garbage fast... so in other words, yeah, if you are toxic with halides you need to be really careful, but 225mcg is nothing, you will get as much as that by eating cod fish steaks a couple times a week

the magnesium, glycinate is one of the best, the chelate is also good, but anything that is mostly carbonate or citrate is not well absorbed, and this problem is worse if you have IBS, it is the slowest absorbed... citrate is better than carbonate but neither are easily absorbed

if you feel you have symptoms of magnesium deficiency, likely you are also suffering calcium deficiency because there is a rate limit between those two (the kidneys eliminate calcium when there isn't enough magnesium) and further, magnesium is eliminated if you don't have enough boron... look into boron supplementation, doesn't cost very much, at pharmacies you can buy little ounce sachets of it, put one of those in a gallon of water and drink 25-50ml (1-2oz) of that per day - the only thing i can mention about being careful with boron is that it can dramatically increase your appetite, but it definitely fixes Ca/Mg deficiency if you have it

"I've warmed up to the idea" thats the problem. Go to the gym