I haven't found any evidence magnesium feed candida. Instead, people with CRC are very low in magnesium and need this supplement.
Jorge.

How about magnesium bicarbonate?//www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=385262

i have a random question on Magnesium....

What is the correlation of magnesium to the brain? I discovered today that taking some Liquid Magnesium Chloride helped alleviate this weird feeling ive been getting in my head. Its like a pulsating/tremoring/tight feeling i get quite often, and I seem to have been medicating this problem by eating Sugar and it would clear up, but without consequences. I would most likely get sinus pressure and cough up a lot of mucus.

That's an interesting thought about the alkalinity.

But, Epsom Salts (which are magnesium sulfate) mixed in water are pH 5.5, according to Wikipedia, which is an acidic pH, not an alkaline one. And Epsom Salts always give me a candida flare up.

I'm quick to respond negatively to things taken on a completely empty stomach, if washed down with a lot of liquid, candida-wise. So maybe I'll experiment with different forms of magnesium on different days, in the morning on empty stomach, with full glass water, to see how each does for me. Some forms of mag are more acidic than others (I just looked that up on Science sites), so we'll see if it's the mag itself that causes the flare ups, or the acidicy or lack therof of the form of mag used.

You too? Wow, I'm not alone in this, although who knows if this is only true for some candida sufferers rather than everyone with candida.

Have you noticed whether it makes any difference what molecular form (citrate versus sulfate versus gluconate, etc) you swallow, or do they all give you the same problems after you swallow it?

Yet another study on Magnesium worsening candida is here:

One of the first sentences in this study is:

"added magnesium but not calcium was required for exponential growth of Candida albicans yeast cells"

Exponential growth of Candida, from magnesium? Ugh.

The study's purpose was to check the effect of calcium, rather than magnesium, on candida, and they inadvertently found this result about magnesium, it seems.

http://www.mendeley.com/research/effect-calcium-ion-uptake-candida-albicans-m...

OH MY GOD! This stupid mineral taking thing has also worsened my Candida !
I will explain: started taking RESTORE , a mineral, supposedly ground breaking new soil -based supp said to really heal Leaky Gut through some new method.
You can check out Dr Mercola interview of the scientist who created it.
Worsening candida was the VERY FIRST thing I noticed with taking this.
Other mineral supps in the past (Basica Activa Alkalising minerals - I always noticed increased estrogen dominance effects from that (and we all know about Candida and its' fake estrogen mimicking!
Anyway, I just want to know WHY oh WHY???
Terrible eye twitching, thrush...
All from the RESTORE product.
What a pain.
Thought at one point the advice they have on the website (take MAG MALATE 1250 mg ) , WITH the supplement would have sorted out the twitch BUT NO!
Thrush still bad.
Come on someone what are we to do?
Not take minerals when we know we're severely depleted ????
When I first took the Mag Malate 1250mg , honestly the sensation of magnesium flowing through me was SO AWESOME it was almost drug -like!
I thought I'd found the answer - so disappointed.
Yet another one of the false trails in this whole healing game.
Maybe the likes of Dr L.Wilson and his belief that all has to be done through diet is the sad truth.
But no, he does have recommendations for certain amounts of mineral supplementation... I've read him saying that...
Please someone out there in cyberspace,
please God, let the right person with the answer read and respond!