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100% People have such a hard time understanding this, never mind peoples doctors telling them to take X amount and NEVER specifying elemental vs compound weight.Weird, I looked them up and can't find a chelated version nor can I find a way their dosages can equate to 900mg.
As a side note, everyone should make sure they looking at the figure that indicated chelated magnesium. For example, glycinate is often 11 or 20 ish % magnesium with the rest of it being the salt. Another example is 2000mg Magnesium L-Threonate is 144mg Magnesium(elemental)/actual.
I try to explain it like a Pepperoni Pizza. Yes it's a pepperoni pizza but it's NOT made of 100% pepperoni is it?
Case in point as Knight9 said:
so 2,500mg of magnesium bisglycinate and you are getting 250mg elemental magnesium.