Magnesium Supplements in Pakistan

Herbiotics says the 2600 mg on its glycinate powder refers to the total weight of the magnesium glycinate compound, not pure elemental magnesium. The NIH gives magnesium as elemental magnesium too: an extra-strength Rolaids tablet, it says, provides 55 mg elemental magnesium.

• The NIH says small studies have found magnesium in the aspartate, citrate, lactate and chloride forms is absorbed more completely than magnesium oxide and magnesium sulfate. Its fact sheet does not discuss glycinate.
• The NIH lists magnesium oxide among the forms most commonly reported to cause diarrhoea, with carbonate, chloride and gluconate.
• Herbiotics says on its product page that magnesium glycinate is more easily absorbed and gentler on the stomach than magnesium oxide. That is the maker’s claim; we found no health authority that makes it.
• Route2Health’s Magnesium Glycinate 850 mg combines magnesium oxide with a magnesium amino acid chelate, so it is not glycinate alone.

Herbiotics says a 10 g scoop of its glycinate powder provides approximately 300 to 400 mg of elemental magnesium, so a single scoop can reach above the NIH’s 350 mg adult limit and the EFSA’s 250 mg limit.

• Warning: Bisphosphonates for osteoporosis, such as alendronate: the NIH says magnesium can reduce their absorption, and advises taking magnesium at least 2 hours before or after them.
• Warning: Tetracycline and quinolone antibiotics, such as doxycycline and ciprofloxacin: the NIH says to take these at least 2 hours before or 4 to 6 hours after a magnesium supplement.
• Diuretics: the NIH says long-term loop and thiazide diuretics can increase magnesium loss in urine, while potassium-sparing diuretics such as spironolactone reduce it.
• Proton pump inhibitors for acid, such as esomeprazole: the NIH says that taken for long periods, typically more than a year, they can cause low magnesium.
• High-dose zinc: the NIH cites one study in which very high doses of zinc from supplements (142 mg a day) interfered with magnesium absorption.

From the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements magnesium fact sheet for health professionals, updated 6 January 2026.

We don’t list magnesium sulphate injections: they are DRAP-registered drugs, not supplements.

When we searched DRAP’s drug registry on 5 November 2026, none of these brands was listed as a registered drug. Nutrifactor, Herbiotics and MediGreen say their products are enlisted with DRAP; DRAP’s Health & OTC product index was unavailable when we tried to check on 4 and 5 November 2026. Under S.R.O. 1688(I)/2026 of 6 October 2026, DRAP notified food supplements in pharmaceutical dosage forms as therapeutic goods under the DRAP Act, 2012.