Drew Burney

Yes.

Just in general.

Yeah.

For most people, yeah.

Now, here's the thing, though.

If you're deficient in magnesium, that might actually be an issue.

But, I mean, it's kind of hard to tell whether you're deficient in it or not necessarily.

I mean, there are a lot of people who are deficient in magnesium.

And so if that's why you're anxious and taking some magnesium, it will get you back to the baseline.

I don't think it's going to fix your anxiety.

But there's a lot of other reasons you might be anxious as well.

The problem with the magnesium story really, though, it's a plausible mechanism.

Don't get me wrong.

Like, again, if you're deficient in it or there's also two just neural mechanisms that use magnesium that where if there's not enough magnesium there, it could, in theory, produce more anxious states.

Sure.

But the problem is, is that the evidence that we have for it is just all over the map in terms of like study quality.

They're using different forms of magnesium.

It really depends on the type of magnesium you're taking, whether it can actually cross the blood brain barrier or not.

The evidence out there is very scant for this because of these methodological issues.

And so supplement companies have come out and they've said, oh yeah, that magnesium works because they point to one small poorly done study.