Magnesium: Practical Tips for Practitioners
Practical tips for Practitioners: A short class with Camille Freeman (1 NPCE)
Recorded in December 2025
About this class:
Most clinicians agree that magnesium is a useful addition to the supplement tool kit. However, deciding when to recommend Mg and which forms are appropriate can be complicated. Which form is best to support sleep vs cramps? Which chelates are appropriate when a client has constipation or loose stools? Does threonate live up to the claims? What about kidney health and medication interactions? In this focused, one-hour session, we sorted through pharmacokinetic differences among the different forms of magnesium, GI tolerability, bioavailability, and practical dosing strategies. We also reviewed safety considerations, lab clues, and how to set expectations with clients. The goal is simple: help you choose the right form, at the right dose, for the right person, without trial-and-error guesswork.
By the end of this session, you'll be able to:
Differentiate common magnesium forms by absorption, GI effects, and best-fit indications
Select dosing ranges and timing strategies for goals such as sleep, constipation, cramps, migraine support, and metabolic health
Identify key safety considerations, including renal function, and interactions (e.g., antibiotics, bisphosphonates, thyroid meds)
Interpret practical markers (history, diet recall, labs where appropriate) to decide when magnesium is likely to help and when to consider alternatives
Register for the Workshop
You'll receive the recorded class, slides, reference list and an optional quiz for 1 NPCE
Meet Camille Freeman, DCN
She/her
Camille Freeman has been in practice as a nutritionist and herbalist for almost twenty years, with a specialty in menstrual health and fertility. Now, she focuses on offering mentorship and continuing education for highly trained herbalists and nutritionists through her business, Bloom & Grow.
Camille is also a former professor at the Maryland University of Integrative Health, where she taught physiology, pathophysiology, and mindful eating for many years. Camille believes that growing a practice with integrity and empathy while making a living is possible and that doing so provides an exciting and slightly terrifying opportunity for personal expansion.
Camille started her herbal studies with an apprenticeship with Monica Rude of Desert Woman Botanicals in Gila, NM in 2001. She then earned an MS in Herbal Medicine from MUIH under Simon Mills, James Snow and Kevin Spelman, followed by a second MS in Physiology and Biophysics from Georgetown University and a doctorate in Clinical Nutrition from MUIH.
She has had the opportunity to speak and teach throughout the country, including at the American Herbalists Guild Symposium, the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, the California School of Herbal Studies, the National Association for Nutrition Professionals conference, and more.
She lives in the Shenandoah Valley, where she enjoys wandering through the mountains with her two homeschooled children and loosely keeping the weeds under control in her herb & flower gardens.
Bloom & Grow Nutrition, LLC is accredited by the Board for Certification of Nutrition Specialists℠ (BCNS℠) to provide Nutrition Professional Continuing Education (NPCE) credits for Certified Nutrition Specialists® (CNS®). Bloom & Grow designates this activity/material for a maximum of 1 NPCE Credits.
