If you are needing to take in both ascorbic acid as well as magnesium, but need much more ascorbic acid than magnesium, as in my case, you might consider taking magnesium ascorbate. Instead of buying magnesium ascorbate, you can just mix magnesium hydroxide and ascorbic acid to make magnesium ascorbate.
Before I find this out, I was taking in magnesium bicarbonate water, which I make by mixing carbonated water with magnesium hydroxide (plus shaking a lot), and I was also taking ascorbic acid (aka vitamin C) in water solution. This was more complicated as I was having to make my own DIY magbi water. I also seem to notice that I might be ingesting too much bicarbonates, which I suspect, but in the midst of confirming, is causing a lot of urination, again (Yes, I had complained about taking too much magnesium chloride causing me to urinate a lot - due to the accumulated acidic load, which the kidney had to excrete through urination). I'm thinking that too much base intake through bicarbonates could cause the same thing.
I simply mixed ascorbic acid and magnesium hydroxide in water in the ratio of 7:1.16 to produce a clear solution of magnesium ascorbate. The tartness of ascorbic acid is gone, and the taste is flat but tolerable. Magnesium ascorbate is only 6 percent magnesium though, so it isn't for everybody. But was perfect for my needs, since I'm needing to take plenty of vitamin C, much more than magnesium, and it just so happens the ratio suits my needs.
The downside to not taking vitamin C as ascorbic acid is that with ascorbic acid, there are 2 hydrogen ions available to do vitamin's anti-oxidant/pro-oxidant roles, while with ascorbate there is only 1 hydrogen ion available. I have to double my use of ascorbic acid when converting it to an ascorbate form.
The reaction:
2 C6H8O6 + Mg(OH)2 = C12H14MgO12 + 2H2O
I really don't know how effective magnesium ascorbate is, as I've been using it for a day. I'm now just trying to see if without the bicarbonate form of magnesium, I could see less urination. I'll have to wait at least 3 days to let the putative excess bicarbonates excrete through the kidneys with urine excretion.
@Travis what do you think?
Before I find this out, I was taking in magnesium bicarbonate water, which I make by mixing carbonated water with magnesium hydroxide (plus shaking a lot), and I was also taking ascorbic acid (aka vitamin C) in water solution. This was more complicated as I was having to make my own DIY magbi water. I also seem to notice that I might be ingesting too much bicarbonates, which I suspect, but in the midst of confirming, is causing a lot of urination, again (Yes, I had complained about taking too much magnesium chloride causing me to urinate a lot - due to the accumulated acidic load, which the kidney had to excrete through urination). I'm thinking that too much base intake through bicarbonates could cause the same thing.
I simply mixed ascorbic acid and magnesium hydroxide in water in the ratio of 7:1.16 to produce a clear solution of magnesium ascorbate. The tartness of ascorbic acid is gone, and the taste is flat but tolerable. Magnesium ascorbate is only 6 percent magnesium though, so it isn't for everybody. But was perfect for my needs, since I'm needing to take plenty of vitamin C, much more than magnesium, and it just so happens the ratio suits my needs.
The downside to not taking vitamin C as ascorbic acid is that with ascorbic acid, there are 2 hydrogen ions available to do vitamin's anti-oxidant/pro-oxidant roles, while with ascorbate there is only 1 hydrogen ion available. I have to double my use of ascorbic acid when converting it to an ascorbate form.
The reaction:
2 C6H8O6 + Mg(OH)2 = C12H14MgO12 + 2H2O
I really don't know how effective magnesium ascorbate is, as I've been using it for a day. I'm now just trying to see if without the bicarbonate form of magnesium, I could see less urination. I'll have to wait at least 3 days to let the putative excess bicarbonates excrete through the kidneys with urine excretion.
@Travis what do you think?