On pills

This weekend's piece of 'health journalism' from BBC News online asks the question "Magnesium: Can this 'miracle mineral' really help us sleep?". My rhetorical question in response to the editors and curators on duty: "Do you think this piece really gives a proper answer ?"

Its ingredients: 

1 The managing director of UK firm making magnesium citrate pills; 

2: Kirsten Jackson aka ‘The IBS Dietitian’ a dietitian specialising in irritable bowel syndrome who has written  "Take Control of Your IBS – a step by step guide that actually works", published, as Kirsten says "by Bloomsbury (the people who published Harry Potter!)"

3: An new user of magnesium tablets, Katie Curran, who happens to be in PR for Debenhams, and was previous an 'influencer' for Boohoo. 

4: Some unnamed pro-magnesium influencers and their claims. 

5: Kristen Stavridis, "Nutritionist, Recipe Creator, Creator of The Gut Health Programme"