When I started waking up in the middle of the night with Leg cramps several times a week, I started looking for what I could do to alleviate that. The answer, endorsed by my doctor, seemed to be regular stretching exercises along with potassium and magnesium supplements. That has worked well enough that I rarely get woken up by cramps anymore. All this means that I've been taking magnesium supplements for a while now. The effects are long-range and subtle enough that I'm not sure how to fairly review a new brand of magnesium supplement. So I'm going to fall back on one subjective reaction as well as comparing two objective measurements - ingredients and price - with my regular brand.
The subjective reaction is simple. I switched to the Mountain Top tablets nine days ago and haven't had a cramp since. So they seem to be doing the job I need them for just fine. As for price, the generic brand I last bought at the supermarket cost $2.74 for 100 tablets at 250 milligrams each for a price of .0274 cents per tablet. Mountain Top's price is $9.18 for 300 capsules at 300 milligrams each for a price of .0306 cents per capsule. Given the extra 50 milligrams per capsule as well as the fact that those capsules are gluten-free, non-gmo, and Vegan, the price difference seems negligible to me and Mountain Top's brand seems the way to go.
As to the ingredients, I don't have the background to accurately assess the differences between the two brands except to note that Mountain Top's list is shorter than the generic brand's and doesn't include the trace ingredients that the generic brand does. Here's the generic brand's ingredient list: magnesium oxide, calcium carbonate, microcrystalline cellulose, croscarmellose sodium, and 2% or less of: citric acid, magnesium stearate, stearic acid, and talc. The ingredient list for Mountain Top's magnesium is: magnesium oxide, hypromellose, mcc, magnesium stearate, and silicon dioxide.
All in all, given the minimal price difference and the seemingly better quality of the Mountain Top capsules, I'll go with their brand in the future rather than with the cheapest generic
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