Thanks for the comments. Good info. As for the types of supplements, it's Magnesium Citrate, Zinc Picolinate, and Ester-C Vitamin C, all made by Solgar if this means anything. I've heard about the glycinate type of magnesium, will check it out. About copper, I haven't got a clue about my levels. I take the zinc (and everything) mid-day, with a meal. So, you're saying I should be taking it before going to sleep. Will try that and see if it will affect my night-movies (a.k.a. dreams). About the dreams, they're so vivid and surreal, like Dali's paintings or those weird AI images, but moving and with intricate plots relating to my life/places/people/relationships. It's amazing what the brain can create. And it's not drug-induced (unless my magnesium has something else in it!).
Get well soon too man, COVID or not, being sick/injured is no fun!
Thanks, it's mild, only these joint pains are a bit annoying atm.
Zinc is best absorbed uncombined, there's little to none problem when taken with Mg and Vitamin C, but over the course of a day you feed plenty of nutritients to your system that reduces Mg and Zn uptake, like Iron, Copper, Phosphate. Vitamin-C is the least problematic, it gets broken down very early in the digestion process. Just throw in the Mg-Glycinate in the morning, if you want to add more Mg.
Solgar has good reputation, afaik, and there's nothing mixed in to mess with bioavailability. A bad example is Copper+Zinc from the drugstore/supermarket front, or Calcium without Magnesium and Vitamin K2, to name a few.
I do B-Complex (with little B12), Thiamin (B1) and Ginseng, Bromelain, Mg in the morning, Mg at noon, Zinc at night. Sometimes a little B3 (10mg) and B6 (12mg) 4 hours apart to compensate for the much of B1 i have to take against the fatigue, ACE every 3rd day or so.
This keeps my engines running, my hair colored and my muscles/joints free of pain.
The dreaming is a miracle to me. I get very wild and intense dreams from B6, when i took 25mg a day, as well from Supps supporting Serotonine levels (can't remember the name).