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Magnesium I’ve seen a few posts and commenting here suggesting magnesium to aid stuttering and wanted to share my experience. For background, I’m 20 and I’ve stuttered since I was about 6. It’s genetic as far as I know as I have a great uncle who stuttered and I never had anything happen to cause it. For the last two months I’ve taken 250mg of magnesium citrate daily and the difference is ridiculous. I’m literally finding myself having to re-train myself how to have a conversation because I can contribute to them now. Before I’d only contribute short sentences or yeah and mhms, or just small talk because I knew a block would stop me from saying what I really wanted to say. But now I can talk much smoother and everything just rolls off the tongue easier. It’s worked so well that my issue now is actually figuring out what to add to a conversation. Before I wouldn’t bother but now I can actually respond back with a similar experience or follow up with a question. Introducing myself also used to be an absolute nightmare and I dreaded seeing new people at work or meeting mutual friends because I knew I was gonna block when saying my name. But lately I’ve been able to say my name and introduce with no issue. I’m certain this has to do with magnesium easing anxiety. And while my general anxiety is still somewhat there I take it that my stuttering was caused by a kind of subtle subconscious anxiety that the magnesium was enough to solve. I still have brief moments of repetition or blocking, notably with the letter P or B, but the reduction in blocking is insane. I strongly encourage everyone here with a lifelong stutter to at least give magnesium a shot. Either citrate or glycinate, and give it anywhere from at least 2-3 weeks to see it’s effect on anxiety.