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Osteoporosis treatment or strontium citrate?
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: May 1 5:50pm | Replies (239)Comment receiving replies
I'm curious how much strontium are you taking? It seems supplement companies are offering anywhere from 250mg to 750mg as a suggested dose. Natural intake of strontium from food and perhaps water is estimated to be 1-5mg per day. Some folks say that the problems with strontium meds side effects all came about because the strontium med was in the form of strontium ranelate. The ranelate being an unnatural substance.
Dr Alan Gaby a nutritionally oriented md that I respect has offered that taking 50 times or more the normal amount of any trace mineral has the potential for serious side effects. Check out what can happen with selenium or manganese. He says there is not enough evidence to know whether the problems experienced with the strontium ranelate product were due to the strontium or the ranelate or both. So he does not feel that enough is known to use high dose strontium citrate for our bones. He laments that low dose strontium citrate has not been studied, thinking it might have some real bone benefits even at low doses like 2-5mg. And at that dose it probably would not "artificially" alter the DXA scan.
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Thanks @awfultruth. I am taking 340mg of Strontium Citrate, half the AlgaeCal recommended amount. This is more than 50 times the normal amount found in food, so according to Dr Alan Gaby it may be detrimental. Maybe I should lower the amount that I am taking. I think I saw it somewhere in Great Bones that if you stop taking Strontium you get a rebound of weakened bones.
The question is does Strontium Citrate strengthen bones. If it does, does it matter whether it's Calcium or Strontium that helps? We don't know.
I also wonder about the other minerals that I am taking. It seems that there are recommendations to get your minerals from food. I know I would have trouble getting 1200 mg of Calcium just from food, since I can't tolerate milk. There is so much contradiction about whether we should drink milk at all. My endo said that he has a patient who drinks a lot of milk and has wonderful bones.
My endo wanted me to keep taking the Strontium and told me not to increase my Tymlos. Unfortunately, he is the only one here that I can see. Maybe I should try to set up a phone consultation with Dr McCormick. Does anyone have his contact information?