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Calcium and Vitamin D for bone density
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Jan 29 8:02am | Replies (340)Comment receiving replies
AlgaeCal is not the best thing out there. ConsumerLab did not give them a passing grade because they still have too much lead in the medication and also does not contain as much magnesium as it says on the label. It is overpriced for what it is. Better to take boron, vitamin D3, vitamin K2 (mk4, mk7), and magnesium. If you need calcium, there are much better brands out there. Oyster shell is a good source of calcium. It is not expensive at all. ConsumerLab (if you don't know) is a consumer watchdog company that tests supplements to be sure they are what they say they are, they don't contain toxins, they are as strong as they say they are, and they open up in the body. Some pills just don't open up in the body and are therefore not absorbed. I had some turmeric that was like that once. At any rate, you can find ConsumerLab online - I have posted their information here many times. Membership is a little under $40 a year last time I checked. They have all the information on supplements and also hundreds if not thousands of peer-reviewed journal submissions discussing the merits and problems with various vitamins, minerals, etc. Well worth the money! AlgaeCal has been on their NOT APPROVED list for a couple years now. They took some of the lead out - but it still over the legal limit. Who wants lead in their calcium anyway?
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FYI, I found Consumer Lab. Thank you. Also, I agree about AlgaeCal.
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Hi @criss and parrotqueen, I use AOR brand's Ortho Bone. This company from Canada, was recommended to me by Kathleen McChesney (hope I have that right) here on Connect. She also does tons of research. I found this product to be great except it doesn't have enough Boron so I take more. I like that it doesn't have Strontium in it. Parrotqueen, If you check it out on your site that you mention, could you please let me know your opinion please? And, could you please send that website again? Amazon sells their products however I wasn't able to findtheir Ortho Bone on their site. I know AOR was behind a few months ago and I haven't checked again on Amazon for this particular one which I feel is the best. I prefer to buy from the company if it's not more expensive than Amazon and it wasn't. I have a hard time trusting some sellers on Amazon when it comes to ingestibles in regard to how they store and ship. Are they stored at the right temperature? For how long? Shipped at right temperatures in Summer?
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