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Anyone else doing OsteoStrong and AlgaeCal with Strontium?
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Sep 29, 2025 | Replies (42)Comment receiving replies
to @karenolivia47
congratulations with your results on improving bone density without prescribed drugs ! I think it is a dream of many participants of this forum, and mine included.
Taking strontium for OP gives hopes to avoid serious negative effects of OP drugs such as jaw necrosis or untypical hip fractures.
Can you please inform what dose of strontium you are taking? I am seriously thinking about this road too, and have bought Strontium caps 750 mg (Life Extension), however in available most cited research by Meunier et al. 2004) patients were given 2 g. See below.
file:///C:/Users/lasti/Downloads/file_up_NEJM_04_350_459p.pdf
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Oh, I see where the confusion is after I went back and read your note. You are looking at European studies of a different formulation of strontium--strontium ranelate. It was eventually taken off the market there; not sure why. But strontium citrate is available here over the counter in different osteoporosis products. AlgaeCal Strontium is one of those. Some folks worry that it will upward skew the DEXA numbers but it's only estimated to be about 10%. My numbers improved even taking into account the skew. I'm old--78. I thought about it before taking it. I'd already had a fracture of the thoracic spine. For the improvement I've had with absolutely no treatment side-effects, I don't care if it lights my bones up like a Christmas tree!
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The AlgaeCal Strontium citrate dosage is 680 mg/day. I take it at night. I'm thrilled that my numbers have improved but having a hard time understanding why my ARNP endocrinologist is still pushing Reclast in spite of it. You are definitely right about the scary side-effects. Even though supposedly they are fairly rare, if you are the one that ends up with long bone fracture, horrid aches and pains or jaw osteonecrosis that isn't much comfort! I started OsteoStrong 15 months ago about the same time as the AlgaeCal so I have no idea if one was more efficacious than the other.