Best Calcium Supplement?

My oncologist specifically told me to take K Cal magnesium. I’m not sure if it’s citrate or phosphate, but I’ve had no problems at all with it.

@trixie5141 My endocrinologist did not have a preference for type of calcium. I take calcium citrate because it's easier for me to digest. My endocrinologist prefers that I get as much calcium as I can from food so I try to monitor that throughout the day. If I'm under the 1200mg recommendation then I take one calcium tablet with a meal. That's 350mg as my doctor said not to take more than 400mg at a time.

I also do my best to consume high calcium foods to meet my requirements but find I sometimes need to supplement that intake. Thanks for sharing that intake should be limited to 400mg at a time.

Thanks for your response.

I have been taking calcium citrate via food etc & have a pretty thorough list of how much calcium is in particular foods & fluids. Much better than taking straight calcium & wondering what it is doing to my body. Actually getting calcium this way forces me to eat better also!

My doctor recommended Calcium Carbonate 1000 mg which is available at Safeway labeled ultra strength antacid tablets. Since you chew the tablets into small pieces before swallowing more of it gets digested then hard calcium pills. This replaced Vitamin D/calcium pills I use to take because the proportion was wrong for my needs. Getting about 15 tests identified my deficiencies. I have never had so many tests.
I take two tablets per day.

Hi,
I have been taking Calcium Citrate 600 mg for couple of months

Today I came across the below video which is very informative and have decided it’s better to monitor Calcium via food intake so can avoid supplements

The wellness manufacturer where I shop - a long relationship with them and amazing integrity in their R&D - discovered a mineral problem about a decade ago (it can be researched, was in the news) - in that minerals crystallize in the small intestine without some protective process. It’s too much to type here (you can ask me for the research), but the bottom line is they discovered a way to do a protection of the mineral molecules that copies how plants do it by God’s design. And it has two patents on it; to this date…another way has not happened.

It causes the minerals to be ten times more absorbent, according to that patent research.

I think I am a testimony of its effectiveness. Although I was bummed that I broke my hip last year…it was not a fragility break (missed the rung on a ladder with an 18 pound box that I hung on to because contents were breakable and I am 76). It was a clean break, only needed pins, graduated from everything early - even got kicked out of PT because I “didn’t need it anymore” and life carried on. All the medical people from the hospital to the end of the six weeks were amazed.

I am certain that better usable calcium played a part in that. And this whole ordeal of seeing there work has made me really skeptical about anything on the store shelf. They tested 250 name brand supplements in that research and all of them had this problem of crystallizing minerals AND turning into free radicals - destroying any anti oxidants around them. 🙁

Thanks @joyboudreau. I take red algae calcium which is supposed to be easy to digest and it doesn't bother me. I did have a fragility fracture 3 months ago that hasn't healed. I wonder if you could share again the name of the calcium that you take?

Vitality Calcium Complete manufactured by Melaleuca.
https://www.melaleuca.com/productstore/supplements/calcium-complete

The research doesn’t show on the non member page above ☹️ Melaleuca is an inexpensive online membership based shop club. Not putting products on a shelf saves billions. And this method prevents the need for storage - all products are manufactured monthly.