Because There's More to Bone Health than just Calcium....

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BECAUSE THERE'S MORE TO BONE HEALTH THAN JUST CALCIUM....

 

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Understanding Calcium Supplements --Daily Requirements

You should not try to fulfill your daily calcium requirements with a

supplement.

 

Your diet will already provide you with a portion of the RDI, (based on dietary

calcium), and you should rely on a high quality supplement to provide the

remainder. This encourages a more beneficial ratio of calcium to magnesium

consumption.

 

Dosage

 

Due to the high solubility of Floradix Calcium Magnesium, its dosage is

able to be much lower than most other supplements while still providing

the same utilizable amount of calcium, in many cases even more!

 

This kind of solubility is created through the form of the supplement

(liquid) and the forms of calcium (lactate and gluconate).

 

Liquid vs. Solid

 

The average person's body will only dissolve 20% of most solid supplements and

will eliminate the remaining 80% possibly causing

constipation, gas and bloating

A liquid solution does not need to be dissolved, so approximately 98% of the

elemental amount will be available for absorption.

 

Rates of Absorption

Calcium in supplements occurs in a compound form. The component that

calcium is bound to is called the compound or " form " of calcium and the

calcium itself is called " elemental " .

 

The less soluble the compound is, (citrate is less than lactate is less than

gluconate) the more elemental calcium is available but the lower the absorption

rate.

 

For example, the same amount of calcium gluconate contains less elemental

calcium than citrate, but is absorbed at a higher rate because gluconic acid is

more soluble than citric acid.

 

Dietary calcium is absorbed at an average rate of 10-30% and most calcium

supplements are absorbed at rates anywhere between 4% and 45% depending on the

forms of calcium used.

 

Floradix Calcium Magnesium provides the highest rate of absorption possible with

a combination of calcium lactate and gluconate, which boast absorption rates of

45% and 50% respectively.

 

Calcium Compounds--

Of the four top selling calcium compounds on the market:

 

Calcium Carbonate-- is inorganic, insoluble in liquid, requires stomach

acid and vitamin D for absorption and its absorption rate plateaus after

approximately 500mg.

 

Calcium Citrate-- is organic and soluble but when taken in large enough

quantities in liquid to have a positive impact on your health, its taste

is very bitter. However, it is a good choice for use in a solid

supplement.

 

Calcium Lactate and Gluconate-- are organic, have a pleasant taste and

are both highly soluble in liquid form.

 

Most importantly, they do not rely only on " active transport " sites, located at

the beginning of the small intestine, for absorption.

 

These sites are vitamin D dependent and are limited as to the amount of calcium

that they can take in. Only a soluble calcium compound, such as calcium lactate

or gluconate, can also take advantage of the independent " passive diffusion "

sites in the more alkaline environment at the end of the small intestine.

 

These sites allow absorption regardless of stomach acid levels, age, gender,

nutrition or hormone status and are limited only by intestinal transit time.

Highly soluble throughout the entire digestive tract, these are extremely

bioavailable forms of calcium .

 

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