Magnesium for Social Anxiety Reduction
Magnesium has weak anxiety evidence, most relevant where intake is low.
Overview
Verdict
How It Works
Dosing & Protocol
Typical dose
- Recommended dose
- 200-400mg elemental daily
- Expected timeframe
- 4-8 weeks
Protocol
- form
- Not applicable
- duration
- Not applicable
- co factor
- Evidence is insufficient. The general anxiety literature is real but modest: a systematic review of magnesium for subjective anxiety found suggestive but low-quality evidence, with trials typically using 150-400 mg/day over 4-12 weeks and the clearest effects in people with low magnesium status or mild anxiety. No trial has examined social anxiety disorder, performance anxiety or fear of negative evaluation. This matters because social anxiety involves specific cognitive mechanisms - anticipatory processing, self-focused attention, post-event rumination and safety behaviours - that a mild anxiolytic effect does not address, and because social anxiety disorder is frequently severe and impairing while the magnesium effect size in general anxiety is small.
- titration
- Not applicable
- starting dose
- Not applicable as an established treatment for social anxiety disorder
Evidence
What the studies say
No studies are yet linked to both Magnesium and Social Anxiety Reduction.
Safety
Caveats
Effects likely limited to those with inadequate intake.
Less likely to help if
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