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Hi adriane.puetz,
Why would you be looking at supplements instead of the real thing like sardines,kippers or cheese or some other good dietary source?

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Because I'm female I naturally have to worry about getting enough calcium to build and maintain strong bones. It's important to take calcium supplements for any female. Being that I'm highly athletic, I'd appreciate knowing that the calcium supplements I'm taking are the best out there.

Any recommendations or comparisons are greatly appreciated.

Hi adriane.puetz,
I better warn my mother, she's female, 83 years of age, walks 6 Kilometres each morning and has never taken a supplement in her life, her mother lived to 96 without supplements, her sister 101, dad's mother 92 and her mother 100 all without any supplements and my two Grandmothers had 10 kids each, oh, I forgot to mention they also were good athletes.

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A few years, there is a product called Viactive. It's a chewable chocolate tasting calcium supplements. It's a bit pricey for me so I stopped using it.

Yeah now there are lots of chewable calcium,,,,, which we can have it easily,,,,,,



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Hi Adriane,

I think there are a few sarcastic replys here. But the truth is, chewable calcium in not all that great. first of all they have to add sugar to make it taste nice. Nowadays, they would probably add that nasty POISON aspartame.

Obviously you know about health or you would not be looking for some calcium. It is about Quality of life, that is why we take supplements. If you are 83 and never taken supplements, that not a ligit argument against supplementation. I used to work in a vitamin factory. Tablets are hard to dissolve. Especially calcium. Pressurize a mineral and you get a rock. It will probably end up in the toilet.

We used to always push capsuled minerals because the powder is released in less than 15 minutes. and there is a lot more surface area to be digested.

I work in a lava mine now, but I cam across a mineral called angstrom liquid calcium. I found it on google with the key word angstrom liquid calcium. The chemistry struck a memory I had while in basic chemistry class. If it was smaller than the human cell, it could go in easier. Don't know what you know about cells, but it made sense to me.

Best of luck, finding a calcium that works for you

Hi Lifedream,

"If you are 83 and never taken supplements, that not a ligit argument against supplementation."
Let us discuss this a little further, Okinawan elders are the longest lived people in the world Ref. The Okinawa Program. - A twenty five year study by Dr Bradley J. Willcox MD,MSc, Dr Craig Willcox PhD, Dr Makoto Suzuki MD,PhD, and guess what none of the centenarians took supplements.Okinawans men get about 625mg and women about 400mg per day in their diets, which would be equivalent to 900 mgs for men in a 2,000 calorie diet, 730 for females, the Okinawans also would have ingested an unmeasured amount of calcium from their water supply because the soil is calcium rich.

Women reach 99% of peak bone mass by twenty two years of age and after that you are only trying to slow down bone loss, calcium intake is important for sure to help arrest this.

A typical American diet yields about 800mgs of calcium daily, and I believe people are eating less calcium today than what they were eating 50 years ago where every family had a back yard garden that included good sources of calcium such as beans, and often a backyard cow, or goat.

Over consumption of calcium supplements can be dangerous, no one has ever got into trouble, that I am aware og by dietary sources of calcium, but they certainly have with supplements. The Massai in Africa ingest about 5000 mgs of calcium daily, about ten times what the Americans ingest without any problems Ref, the same study as quoted earlier. These three research scientists recommend 1200mg to 1,500mg per day for women 11 to 23 years of age, men the same and 1000mg for women over 25years, lactating or pregnant women should also get 1200 to 1500mgs, including what you are getting in your diet.

Hypercalcemia achieved by supplementation causes severe problems such as lax muscle tone, constipation , large urine volumes, nausea and ultimately death, and I neglected to mention the possible link with kidney stones which are mostly composed of calcium oxalate.

I have a patient now so I have to go, so sensible advice would be to get some tests done by your doctor and see if you need supplements, don't listen to salesmen/women.

Cheers