Episode notes
You've seen the bottle. But when researchers run real placebo-controlled trials and pool the data, does magnesium actually do anything for sleep — and if so, which form, when, and how much?
We go through the meta-analysis everyone quotes, including the part nobody mentions: the headline seventeen-minute figure comes from fifty-five people, not the hundred and fifty-one you'll see cited.
SOURCES:
Mah & Pitre, BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, 2021
Magnesium bisglycinate RCT, Nature and Science of Sleep, 2025
Written and fact-checked by Brent Burgess. Narration uses a synthetic voice model of his own voice.
This episode is general education and is not medical advice. Sleep problems can have serious underlying causes — talk to your doctor before changing medication, supplements, or treatment.