Glycine vs Magnesium Taurate for sleep
Short answer: For sleep, more users report improvement with Magnesium Taurate — 94% of 36 reports, versus 87% of 255 for Glycine.
Glycine has 392 meta-analyses and 620 randomized trials on PubMed; Magnesium Taurate has 82 and 210.
Based on 695 reports about Glycine and 145 about Magnesium Taurate. Not medical advice.
| Glycine Supplement | Magnesium Taurate Supplement | |
|---|---|---|
| Users say it helped | 70%helped299 reports · high confidence | 86%helped62 reports · medium confidence |
| Verdict | Mostly positive | Mostly positive |
| Research | AResearch: Strong | AResearch: Strong |
| Meta-analyses / RCTs | 392 / 620 | 82 / 210 |
| Mainly used for | ||
| Sleep % reporting improvement | 87% (255) | 94% (36) |
| Anxiety % reporting improvement | 78% (60) | 95% (21) |
| Mood % reporting improvement | 87% (39) | 100% (6) |
| Energy % reporting improvement | 94% (17) | 50% (2) |
| Focus % reporting improvement | 62% (13) | 75% (4) |
| Common side effects | vivid dreams, drowsiness, fatigue, brain fog | brain fog, vivid dreams, drowsiness, tired but |
| Typical dose reported | 2 g / daily | 3 g / daily |
In studies using high-throughput metabolomics, several blood amino acids appear to be consistently associated with the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes Care, 2016 ↗“2 grams with 200mg magnesium before bed gives me crazy good sleep. Crazy vivid dreams.”
This review confirms that the quality of literature is substandard for physicians to make well-informed recommendations on usage of oral magnesium for older adults with insomnia. However, given that oral magnesium is very cheap and widely available, RCT evidence may support oral magnesium supplements (less than 1 g quantities given up to three times a day) for insomnia symptoms.
BMC Complement Med Ther, 2021 ↗“I used Taurine in the form of magnesium taurate for a really bad bout of OCD ... It was a game changer for me.”
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