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9/7/2010
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Some medicines, including some anticancer drugs, may deplete magnesium levels1
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What Benefits Does An Enteric Coating Provide?

Illustration of the enteric coating on Slow-Mag® Magnesium Supplement Tablets

(Actual tablet is white.
Color used for illustration
purposes only.)
  • The enteric coating allows Slow-Mag® Tablets to pass through the gastric juices of the stomach unchanged thereby reducing the chance of stomach upset.

  • Instead, Slow-Mag® Tablets pass through the stomach to release magnesium in the small intestine.

1 National Institute of Health, "Magnesium: What Is It?" Office of Dietary Supplements, NIH website: http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/magnesium.asp.