Long time lurker, first time poster. I'll start off by saying that everything I've ever read about the connection between magnesium and libido says that magnesium will improve libido. I've never been able to find anything to suggest it could seriously lower your libido, but that's what my experience has been.
I'm a 41 year old man and I've been testing taking magnesium supplements over the course of the last couple years. Each time I will change nothing else in my routine to eliminate any other causes, but the result is always after 2-3 days my libido is basically non existent. Most recently I've been using a magnesium citrate powder that I mix with water. The reason I'm so determined to make it work for me is because it does actually give me a couple great benefits such as: eliminates my mild restless leg syndrome (this isn't a huge benefit to me but does suggest I'm magnesium deficient I think), greatly reduces my anxiety, reduces facial flushing, and lastly it gives me much better results from working out. Regarding the last one, I workout 4 times a week typically. Normally I'm a classic hardgainer but the magnesium does help to give me some mass.
But again, the huge tradeoff is I lose my sex drive. If I stop taking the magnesium my libido comes back full force in about 3 days. My normal baseline libido is pretty solid.
I'm wondering if I should be taking something else with the magnesium to counteract the loss of libido? I only take 350mg a night when I'm on it, which I think is a pretty reasonable amount.
Has anyone else had this experience with magnesium? I've tried oxide, citrate, ionized, glycinate ,etc. In the past I've also tried supplementing zinc and also vitamin D by themselves. These both also kill my libido but that seemed to make sense because they're aromatase inhibitors and I've read that can really affect a certain percentage of men. But again, I've never read about magnesium having this effect. I'm just at a loss. Not sure if magnesium is just so calming that it makes my body no longer care about sex or what. One last thing is in addition to the loss of libido there is also a noticeable physical change to my penis. It shrinks and becomes very flimsy. Almost like no bloodflow is going down there. It does go back to normal though when I stop the magnesium.
If anyone has any info or suggestions I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks
I'm a 41 year old man and I've been testing taking magnesium supplements over the course of the last couple years. Each time I will change nothing else in my routine to eliminate any other causes, but the result is always after 2-3 days my libido is basically non existent. Most recently I've been using a magnesium citrate powder that I mix with water. The reason I'm so determined to make it work for me is because it does actually give me a couple great benefits such as: eliminates my mild restless leg syndrome (this isn't a huge benefit to me but does suggest I'm magnesium deficient I think), greatly reduces my anxiety, reduces facial flushing, and lastly it gives me much better results from working out. Regarding the last one, I workout 4 times a week typically. Normally I'm a classic hardgainer but the magnesium does help to give me some mass.
But again, the huge tradeoff is I lose my sex drive. If I stop taking the magnesium my libido comes back full force in about 3 days. My normal baseline libido is pretty solid.
I'm wondering if I should be taking something else with the magnesium to counteract the loss of libido? I only take 350mg a night when I'm on it, which I think is a pretty reasonable amount.
Has anyone else had this experience with magnesium? I've tried oxide, citrate, ionized, glycinate ,etc. In the past I've also tried supplementing zinc and also vitamin D by themselves. These both also kill my libido but that seemed to make sense because they're aromatase inhibitors and I've read that can really affect a certain percentage of men. But again, I've never read about magnesium having this effect. I'm just at a loss. Not sure if magnesium is just so calming that it makes my body no longer care about sex or what. One last thing is in addition to the loss of libido there is also a noticeable physical change to my penis. It shrinks and becomes very flimsy. Almost like no bloodflow is going down there. It does go back to normal though when I stop the magnesium.
If anyone has any info or suggestions I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks