“Most doctors start with fiber and MiraLAX. Almost no one explains what happens to stool while it sits in your colon. This is what I tell my own patients.”
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Read this before you take anything like senna, fiber, MiraLAX, etc.
| Compared on | Top pickVila | Other magnesium brands |
|---|---|---|
| Magnesium forms* | 72 gut, 5 absorbed | 1usually oxide |
| Elemental magnesium | 1000mgper daily serving | Variesoften 200 to 400mg |
| Softens hard stool | citrate & oxide | this part it does |
| Reaches the colon muscle | up to 80% absorbs | only about 4% absorbs |
| Softens + wakes the muscle | softens only |
*Based on the supplement facts panel. Most magnesium products list a single form, usually oxide or citrate.
TLDR: There are two jobs here. Soften the stool, and get the muscle moving. Most magnesium only does the first one 👇
Hard stool is the reason nothing moves.
Two of the seven forms stay in your gut. They pull water into the stool and soften it.
The others help your colon actually squeeze.
Fiber can't do that. It just adds bulk behind it. Laxatives can't either. They just do a bring water into the colon and hope things start working.
Your colon is a muscle. It squeezes to move things along.
When it slows down, stool sits. The longer it sits, the more water your body pulls out of it. That is why it turns hard.
Five of the seven forms get into your blood and reach that muscle. Softening alone is not enough. Something has to push.
Each form gets in a different way.
One form on its own gets stuck in a queue. Seven forms use seven doors, so more of it gets through.
Water to the stool. Magnesium to the muscle. Same daily dose.
You have probably tried magnesium oxide. About 200mg, in a tablet full of filler.
Only about 4% of it gets into your blood. The rest sits in your gut and softens.
So it does half the job. The muscle never gets any. You were closer than you think. You just had half the formula.
Senna forces your colon to squeeze. It does not soften anything.
So you are squeezing a muscle against something hard. That is what hurts.
Over time the muscle gets weaker. One pill becomes two, then four, then six. Read the box. It says do not use it for more than a week.
This is a mineral. There is nothing to build a tolerance to.
Straining is what swells the veins around your rectum.
Then going hurts, so you hold it in. Holding it in makes the stool harder.
Cream calms the swelling for a night. Then you strain again and it comes back. Soft stool means no straining.
Less than 1% of your magnesium is in your blood.
The rest is in your bones, muscles and nerves. Your body takes from those to keep your blood level looking normal.
So the test reads fine while you are low everywhere else. Normal labs do not mean you are fine.
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